[Bug]: Error: listen EADDRINUSE: address already in use 127.0.0.1:9292

[ceri-waterscreative]

Please confirm that you have:

• [x] Searched existing issues to see if your issue is a duplicate. (If you’ve found a duplicate issue, feel free to add additional information in a comment on it.)
• [x] Reproduced the issue in the latest CLI version.

In which of these areas are you experiencing a problem?

Theme

Expected behavior

Since the latest verson.. (3.76.2) the CLI doesn't some to shutdown cleanly anymore - after I close down my terminal,, the node.js instance still shows within Task Manager, whenever I attempt to start a new instance of shopify theme dev I get the error shown in the title.

I have to kill the process in task manager before I can start another.

Actual behavior

CLI Shows an error of..

Error: listen EADDRINUSE: address already in use 127.0.0.1:9292 at Server.setupListenHandle [as _listen2] (node:net:1937:16) at listenInCluster (node:net:1994:12) at node:net:2203:7 at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:90:21)

Verbose output

Verbose output

2025-03-24T15:16:26.027Z: Sending "Admin" GraphQL request: mutation themeFilesUpsert($files: [OnlineStoreThemeFilesUpsertFileInput!]!, $themeId: ID!) { themeFilesUpsert(files: $files, themeId: $themeId) { upsertedThemeFiles { filename __typename } userErrors { filename message __typename } __typename } }

With variables: { "themeId": "gid://shopify/OnlineStoreTheme/177992204665", "files": [ { "filename": "layout/password.liquid", "body": { "type": "TEXT", "value": "{{ content_for_header }}{{ content_for_layout }}" } } ] }

With request headers:

• User-Agent: Shopify CLI; v=3.76.2
• Keep-Alive: timeout=30
• Sec-CH-UA-PLATFORM: win32
• Content-Type: application/json

to https://cw-sellor-test.myshopify.com/admin/api/2025-01/graphql.json Error: listen EADDRINUSE: address already in use 127.0.0.1:9292 at Server.setupListenHandle [as _listen2] (node:net:1937:16) at listenInCluster (node:net:1994:12) at node:net:2203:7 at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:90:21)

Reproduction steps

1. Setup the CLI with version 3.76.2 and node version 23.0.9
2. Run shopify theme dev, now close the terminal
3. Run it again

Operating System

Windows 11

Shopify CLI version (shopify --version)

3.76.2

Shell

Git Bash

Node version (run node -v if you're not sure)

23.9.0

What language and version are you using in your application?

N/A

[ceri-waterscreative]

I haven't run into this issue for a while now, so I wonder if it was specific to myself 🤷

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