geth attach command showing error bind address already in use

Question

When I run 

geth attach 

command, I am getting this following error:

Fatal: Error starting protocol stack: listen udp :30303: bind: address already in use

How to solve this?

Answer 1

Seems like there is already a geth instance running on your system. To solve this error, you have to terminate that process. 

Use this command to find the pid of geth:

ps -eaux | grep "geth"

Once you get the process id and kill that process using

kill -9 <pid>

 

Comments

Hey

please use this command geth attach ipc:\\.\pipe\geth.ipc