Salt: Unable to bind socket, error: [Errno 98] Address already in use The ports are not available to bind.

[Comm4nd0]

Hi, i guess my question is, is the below output correct? i'm not able to restart the salt-master process. I've checked and it is running however surly i must be able to stop/start/restart the service.

salt-master restart --log-level=debug
[DEBUG ] Reading configuration from /etc/salt/master
[DEBUG ] Using cached minion ID from /etc/salt/minion_id: ubuntu
[DEBUG ] Configuration file path: /etc/salt/master
[INFO ] Setting up the Salt Master
[WARNING ] Unable to bind socket, error: [Errno 98] Address already in use
The ports are not available to bind

any ideas?

[cachedout]

It was not shutdown cleanly. You need to kill all salt-master processes before attempting to restart.

[Comm4nd0]

tried the below but didn't work. any ideas?

salt-master stop
[WARNING ] Unable to bind socket, error: [Errno 98] Address already in use
The ports are not available to bind

[rallytime]

@Comm4nd0 First, try this: ps aux | grep salt-master. Then, kill the salt-master processes that are still running. After that you should be able to start your master.

[Comm4nd0]

ps aux | grep salt-master
root 1133 0.4 0.7 142596 31096 ? Ss 01:32 0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/salt-master
root 1641 0.4 1.1 223484 49680 ? S 01:32 0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/salt-master
root 1642 0.0 0.6 224524 27320 ? Sl 01:32 0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/salt-master
root 1648 0.0 0.6 224524 27328 ? Sl 01:32 0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/salt-master
root 1651 0.0 0.5 142852 25192 ? S 01:32 0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/salt-master
root 1652 1.2 1.3 397356 57376 ? Sl 01:32 0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/salt-master
root 1668 1.5 1.3 397620 57688 ? Sl 01:32 0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/salt-master
root 1685 1.3 1.3 396988 57240 ? Sl 01:32 0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/salt-master
root 1686 1.2 1.3 396992 57260 ? Sl 01:32 0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/salt-master
root 1687 1.3 1.3 396992 57148 ? Sl 01:32 0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/salt-master
root 1688 0.0 0.6 519708 27512 ? Sl 01:32 0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/salt-master
root 3718 0.0 0.0 15952 2184 pts/14 S+ 01:33 0:00 grep --color=auto salt-master
root@ubuntu:/home/marco# salt-master stop
[WARNING ] Unable to bind socket, error: [Errno 98] Address already in use
The ports are not available to bind

didn't seem to work ether. starting lose faith in saltstack very quickly!

[Comm4nd0]

and these are the services i'm running...

root@ubuntu:/home/marco# service --status-all
[ + ] acpid
[ - ] anacron
[ + ] apache2
[ + ] apparmor
[ ? ] apport
[ + ] avahi-daemon
[ + ] bluetooth
[ - ] brltty
[ ? ] console-setup
[ + ] cron
[ + ] cups
[ + ] cups-browsed
[ - ] dbus
[ ? ] dns-clean
[ + ] friendly-recovery
[ - ] grub-common
[ ? ] irqbalance
[ + ] kerneloops
[ ? ] killprocs
[ ? ] kmod
[ - ] landscape-client
[ ? ] lightdm
[ ? ] networking
[ ? ] ondemand
[ ? ] pppd-dns
[ - ] procps
[ - ] pulseaudio
[ ? ] rc.local
[ + ] resolvconf
[ - ] rsync
[ + ] rsyslog
[ - ] salt-api
[ + ] salt-master
[ + ] salt-minion
[ + ] salt-syndic
[ + ] saned
[ ? ] sendsigs
[ ? ] speech-dispatcher
[ - ] sudo
[ + ] udev
[ ? ] umountfs
[ ? ] umountnfs.sh
[ ? ] umountroot
[ - ] unattended-upgrades
[ - ] urandom
[ - ] x11-common

[Comm4nd0]

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[thedrow]

@Comm4nd0 can you reformat the last post please?

[Comm4nd0]

i can't work it out.

I don't think it matters anyway, i've given all the info i can on this error. does anyone have any suggestions?

[Comm4nd0]

should the master say this?

The address of the interface to bind to:

interface: 0.0.0.0

[cachedout]

@Comm4nd0 Try killall salt-master

[rallytime]

Since we haven't heard anything here for a bit, I am going to close this issue. If you're still having troubles, please leave a comment and we will be happy to help. Thanks!

[hutchinsongit]

having this issue trying to start saltstack as well. i have interface: [private ip of master] configured in /etc/salt/master, and master: [private ip of minion] within /etc/salt/minion on the minion.

thoughts?

i've tried on the master, "salt-master" - hangs for about 5 - 10s, then errors out with the "unable to bind socket" error.

Thanks.

[AcidRobot]

I can confirm, killing the process fixed it ( I was having the same issue, rebooting the machine didn't work?)

# ps -aux | grep salt
root      2653  0.0  0.1 342288 30512 ?        S    Feb16   0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/salt-master -d
root      2654  0.0  0.1 424084 29768 ?        Sl   Feb16   0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/salt-master -d
root      2655  0.0  0.1 424084 30384 ?        Sl   Feb16   0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/salt-master -d

#kill 2653

cleared up all the other processes too

then

service salt-master restart

[banrieen]

In OpenSUSE, First:
ps aux | grep salt-master
Then;
sudo killall -9 salt-mast
After all:
salt-master --log-level=debug or
salt-master

[ptonni]

Trying to install on RHEL 6.4, Tried restarting salt-master , Killing all process to still the same error

[root@serv1 ~]# salt-master --log-level=debug
[DEBUG ] Reading configuration from /etc/salt/master
[DEBUG ] Using cached minion ID from /etc/salt/minion_id: serv1.vicomdemo.local
[DEBUG ] Configuration file path: /etc/salt/master
[WARNING ] Insecure logging configuration detected! Sensitive data may be logged.
[INFO ] Setting up the Salt Master
[WARNING ] Unable to bind socket, error: [Errno 98] Address already in use
The ports are not available to bind
[root@serv1 ~]#

[Dragonjana]

netstat -an | grep -i portnumber
Salt master port is used by some other process so you cant start the process until the other process is killed.