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I use sabnzbd 0.4.6.for a while now. Since yesterday I can not log in. I get the message:      SABnzbd needs a free tcp/ip port for its internal web server.
   Port 8080 on localhost was tried , but it is not available.
   Some other software uses the port or SABnzbd is already running.

   Please restart SABnzbd with a different port number.

   Press Startkey+R and type the line (example):
       "C:\Program Files\SABnzbd\SABnzbd.exe" --server localhost:8081

   If you get this error message again, please try a different number.

Either sabnzbd was already running, another program is using the port 8080, or a firewall/antivirus is blocking sabnzbd from using the port.

Did you try using port 8081 like the message says?

Regarding SABnzbd itself saying "or SABnzbd is already running.": I would think SAB itself should be able to detect whether SAB is already running. On linux a "ps -ef | grep -i sabnzbd" is enough. I guess there's something like that on Windows, or win32process.EnumProcesses.

Another way to detect: SAB could connect to it's own port (8080) to see if it gets a SAB response. That last method could also be useful for situations where someone can't connect to it's SAB

exact same problem with port 8080 over here. I didn't make any changes to the system and suddenly it doesn't work anymore