Topic: [SOLVED] Unable to bind to port 8333 - Bitcoin Won't Start! (Read 9136 times)

Except that 8333 is the VMWare web based admin interface port number. But other than that, no major applications use that number. 

Have you seen my post where i said it was solved and quoted the solution?
It's here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.110241

Also, after restarting the problem went away.

If you can't bind to port 8333 it means that some program on your computer is currently running in that spot (only one program can use a port at a time).

As 8333 is a rather large and rare number with no obvious uses other than BitCoin, I would say that there is a bitcoin.exe program currently running on your machine.

Can you check your system tray (in the lower right hand corner)?  Minimized BitCoin clients don't normally show as a running application, they do show up as a gold coin in the tray though.

Check Task Manager (the "processes" tab) for bitcoin.exe?  Or more than one? (since you managed to launch a second one with the no-bind option)

The "netstat" command that someone gave earlier is a good way to list all the networking programs currently running on your system, although the command they listed doesn't work on windows machines.  This may be a little too much of "lifting up the hood of your computer", but if you drop to cmd prompt (you may need to search for it in start menu, right-click the icon, and say "run as administrator"), and then run the command "netstat -a -b -p tcp" (without the quotes), then you will get a big dump of everything your computer is doing on the internet.  It's a long list, but you are looking for a code ending in ":8333" on the left (in the second column) and on the next line (in brackets) is the name of the exe (that you should be able to find on the "Processes" tab of Task Manager)

As for just leaving this alone and potentially running two copies of BitCoin on the same machine (at least until you reboot)... I'm not sure how it would work.  I don't see how two clients could access the same bitcoin wallet at the same time.  So umm I'm not exactly sure what's going on in your computer, at least if it looks like it's still all working for you.

Just wondering, but did you open task manager and check to see if bitcoin.exe was running?

Can someone post a walkthrough of how to get this started.

I have Bitminter running at the same time and Tenebrix says that it cannot bind to port 8333 because bitcoin is already running...can I not run both at the same time?

Thanks! that saved me one un-necessary restart of my machine. 

You can also pass -nolisten so that it won't try to listen on a port at all.

netstat -tanp | grep -w 8333

Thanks!

Damn it, i hate restarts.   And i hate windoze for that same reason...

restart computer? that's what i do if i get that error.

Hi, since yesterday whenever i try to start the Bitcoin client i get this message:
Unable to bind to port 8333 on this computer.  Bitcoin is probably already running.

No, bitcoin isn't running, not even bitcoind.

This is my debug.log entry from my last try.
Bitcoin version 0.3.21-beta
OS version Windows NT 6.1 (build 7600), 64-bit edition
System default language is 152 Portuguese_Portugal.1252
Language file locale/pt_PT/LC_MESSAGES/bitcoin.mo (Portuguese)
Default data directory C:\Users\XXXXX\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin
Unable to bind to port 8333 on this computer.  Bitcoin is probably already running.
DBFlush(false) db not started
StopNode()
DBFlush(true) db not started
Bitcoin exiting

The problem existed with bitcoin previous version. I just updated it to see if it would go away, but no luck.

Do any of you guys have any idea to solve this?

Thanks!