Django's LiveServerTestCase Always Fails Due to Conflicting Address… Despite Address Appearing Free

Question

I\'m currently working on cleaning my Django functional tests to use the LiveServerTestCase rather than bouncing selenium based tests off an instance of the development envi

Answer 1

This started happening to me when running subsequent tests after a previous one generated an internal server error. On a mac, use lsof to find the program using the port, and kill it. E.g.:

$ sudo lsof -i :8081
COMMAND    PID    USER   FD   TYPE            DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
firefox-b 1097 username    3u  IPv4 0x94495559c6dea35      0t0  TCP localhost:sunproxyadmin (LISTEN)

$ kill -9 1097