I am facing errors at the first cup of Ejabberd. On my Mac(10.13.6) I installed "ejabberd-18.12.1-osx.app" and I have followed all instruction written in official website. (https://docs.ejabberd.im/admin/installation/#install-on-macos)
After installation was completed I noticed nothing significant and found error logs were generated as below.
2019-01-16 10:02:03.936 [error] <0.316.0>@ejabberd_listener:report_socket_error:417 Failed to open socket at [::]:5222 for ejabberd_c2s: address already in use
2019-01-16 10:02:03.937 [error] <0.315.0> Supervisor ejabberd_listener had child {5222,{0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0},tcp} started with ejabberd_listener:start({5222,{0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0},tcp}, ejabberd_c2s, [{ip,{0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0}},{max_stanza_size,262144},{shaper,c2s_shaper},{access,c2s},{starttls_required,...}]) at undefined exit with reason eaddrinuse in context start_error
2019-01-16 10:02:03.937 [error] <0.274.0> Supervisor ejabberd_sup had child ejabberd_listener started with ejabberd_listener:start_link() at undefined exit with reason {shutdown,{failed_to_start_child,{5222,{0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0},tcp},eaddrinuse}} in context start_error
2019-01-16 10:02:03.942 [critical] <0.81.0>@ejabberd_app:start:66 Failed to start ejabberd application: {error,{shutdown,{failed_to_start_child,ejabberd_listener,{shutdown,{failed_to_start_child,{5222,{0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0},tcp},eaddrinuse}}}}}
I exactly understand what "address already in use" means but netstat does not show any possession on this port. Also I never changed any of the server configuration. I tried to start server manually but same errors repeats.
Does this version of Ejabberd have bugs on Mac installation?
Many thanks in advance.
When ejabberd starts, it uses several ports (some for XMPP, others for additional ejabberd features, others for Erlang). Notice that some ports may be in IPv6:
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:42859 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:4560 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:epmd 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:5280 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp6 0 0 [::]:epmd [::]:* LISTEN
tcp6 0 0 [::]:xmpp-client [::]:* LISTEN
tcp6 0 0 [::]:xmpp-server [::]:* LISTEN
Maybe you have other previous ejabberd installation around there messing? Or other XMPP server?