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One of the ports XBMC is trying to use is in use by another process.
from your log:
18:50:58 T:2895528640 ERROR: JSONRPC Server: Failed to bind serversocket
If you are running sabnzb / Squeezebox they use port 9090 and will cause this error.
You need to change the port numbers on sabnzb or squeezebox to something other than 9090.
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Thanks for your help... but I'm afraid I have no idea what sabnzb or Squeezebox is. I don't think I have ever installed these things (at lest I don't remember doing so!) and I don't know how to change the port numbers on these things.
Is there a way to get a list of everything on my system that is using these port numbers?
It would also be great to know what it was about this line in the log that led you to this conclusion (I can't find any mention of port 9090 or anything else you have mentioned in the log file)... if I understood that I would be better able to sort things out myself next time!
XBMC is a great piece of software, but it has to be said that when it doesn't work right it's practically impossible for anyone without a PhD in Advanced Techicity to fix things!
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For me it was Mobile Mouse server
I'm a lurker, not a fighter!
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It was Mobile Mouse for me too!
Thanks
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I am having this same/but different problem. I currently have a Mac Mini (Mac OSX 10.8.2 w/Server) connected to my tv directly. I am using XBMC in conjunction with SickBeard and SABNZBD to automate my downloading process for all my weekly tv shows.
The problem is that when i go to XBMC-System-System-Input Devices-Allow Start of XBMC using remote, and select either the regular Apple Remote OR (Multi-remote Harmony) they only work Outside of XBMC. I can push the "menu" key on either of them from the Apple Desktop and XBMC opens up. However neither of the remotes work once inside of XBMC to control the menus.
I have tried the
sudo lsof -i -P | grep -i "listen"
....command to take a look at what services are using what ports but i dont know what port the "Remote Communication Server" is supposed to be using in the first place.
Here is the info i get back from terminal...
SABnzbd TCP localhost:9091 (LISTEN)
SABnzbd TCP localhost:9095 (LISTEN)
Python TCP *:8081 (LISTEN)
XBMCHelpe TCP *:1057 (LISTEN)
XBMCHelpe TCP *:8080 (LISTEN)
XBMCHelpe TCP localhost:9090 (LISTEN)
XBMC TCP *:8089 (LISTEN) (note:This one i manually changed to 8089 under the webserver option in xbmc)
XBMC TCP *:1913 (LISTEN)
Any help would be appreciated, I dont know all that much about port communication. Thanks
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juicer
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2018-01-10, 00:57
(This post was last modified: 2018-01-10, 01:37 by juicer.)
raising the dead with this post but I get the same error at startup. warnign disappears then all is good. can't seem to figure where the conflict for port is
jim@jim2 ~ $ sudo lsof -i -P | grep -i "listen"
[sudo] password for jim:
dnsmasq 1005 nobody 5u IPv4 19717 0t0 TCP jim-HP-Compaq-dc7900-Small-Form-Factor:53 (LISTEN)
smbd 1271 root 34u IPv6 20881 0t0 TCP *:445 (LISTEN)
smbd 1271 root 35u IPv6 20882 0t0 TCP *:139 (LISTEN)
smbd 1271 root 36u IPv4 20883 0t0 TCP *:445 (LISTEN)
smbd 1271 root 37u IPv4 20884 0t0 TCP *:139 (LISTEN)
dropbox 2225 jim 88u IPv6 24817 0t0 TCP *:17500 (LISTEN)
dropbox 2225 jim 89u IPv4 24818 0t0 TCP *:17500 (LISTEN)
dropbox 2225 jim 129u IPv4 24810 0t0 TCP localhost:17600 (LISTEN)
dropbox 2225 jim 134u IPv4 24813 0t0 TCP localhost:17603 (LISTEN)
kodi.bin 2447 jim 25u IPv4 25063 0t0 TCP localhost:65007 (LISTEN)
kodi.bin 2447 jim 28u IPv6 26341 0t0 TCP ip6-localhost:9090 (LISTEN)
kodi.bin 2447 jim 37u IPv4 26382 0t0 TCP 127.1.2.3:45678 (LISTEN)
kodi.bin 2447 jim 39u IPv4 25043 0t0 TCP *:1026 (LISTEN)
kodi.bin 2447 jim 54u IPv4 25080 0t0 TCP localhost:8630 (LISTEN)
cupsd 6666 root 10u IPv6 2854164 0t0 TCP ip6-localhost:631 (LISTEN)
cupsd 6666 root 11u IPv4 2854165 0t0 TCP localhost:631 (LISTEN)
kodi.bin 7626 jim 38u IPv4 2938861 0t0 TCP *:1582 (LISTEN)
kodi.bin 12378 jim 32u IPv4 724572 0t0 TCP *:1914 (LISTEN)
kodi.bin 12378 jim 42u IPv4 724580 0t0 TCP localhost:9090 (LISTEN)
kodi.bin 24502 jim 38u IPv4 1677449 0t0 TCP *:1993 (LISTEN)
kodi.bin 25305 jim 38u IPv4 1802586 0t0 TCP *:1410 (LISTEN)
kodi.bin 26962 jim 38u IPv4 2007748 0t0 TCP *:1711 (LISTEN)
kodi.bin 31948 jim 40u IPv4 4468516 0t0 TCP *:1096 (LISTEN)
kodi.bin 32360 jim 39u IPv4 4546194 0t0 TCP *:1383 (LISTEN)
jim@jim2 ~
any eagle eye see a problem?
RESOLVED: Don't quite understand the competition but disabling dropbox at startup resolved the competition with KODI