2011-03-05, 14:08
HenryFord Wrote:Try with "netstat" (as mentioned) to find out what service actually is using the desired port. Maybe CP has also a problem bounding you to "0.0.0.0" (which it shouldn't have, but I assume that could come from python as well)? Try to input your LAN-IP for the desired adress of CP.
It is always handy to know what connections and ports are open.
If you try to use a port which is actually currently in use on windows, that will break things. This makes the mentioned "first time it works" very strange to me - the only thing I could think of leading to this is either
a) CP starts with your machine and by launching it again you will get the error-message (but this would make CP at least accessible - did you actually try to view CP before you tried to launch it? Maybe it is already running)
b) a Windows-Service that checks on something and after a short while dies away and frees the port again. With "Try&Error" on your side, that could mean that everytime you tried to start it, the port was blocked. But after extracting enough time had passed so the port is free again. But that really shouldn't happen.
Please just check via netstat - you will find out, what is going wrong.
@dazpayne: The Screener-Quality-Preset is actually for exactly that purpose.
I ran netstat and there is nothing running on port 5000. I also tried numerous other ports, all with the same result.
Sometimes I get coachpotato to run after a complete new "install", so get a fresh one from the zip file. But then it runs for a while, I can add movies etc.. It even finds some. Then after 1 or several restarts, it breaks down again.
I am clueless what is going on.