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When starting my local nodeos instance...
$ nodeos
I get the following error message...
1533876ms thread-0 http_plugin.cpp:323 plugin_startup ] start listening for http requests
1533877ms thread-0 http_plugin.cpp:330 plugin_startup ] http service failed to start: Address already in use
1533878ms thread-0 main.cpp:133 main ] Address already in use
How can I resolve this issue?
The issue is that the port required by nodeos, port 8888 by default, is already being used by another running process. It's likely that you're running a keosd process, from starting a previous instance of nodeos. If you're on a Mac, you can find existing keosd processes using...
$ ps -ax | grep keosd
And then kill any running keosd processes using...
$ kill -9
Or just change the port and run $ nodeos --http-server-address=127.0.0.1:9989 if you want multiple nodeos instances. --p2p-listen-endpoint=localhost:9998 should also be running on a unique port.
You are probably already running another nodeos, you can do a killall nodeos and try again.
It could also be that you have a different process running on default port 8888, in that canse you can access your config.ini file and change the port.
