Zui fails to launch zed on port 9867

[SpindlesDev]

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Describe the bug Trying to launch Zui or Brim resulted in Connection Error. I looked through troubleshooting page and had stumbled into the issue when looking at the logs where it reported the following error

{
	"level": "error",
	"ts": 1684836220.2359428,
	"logger": "httpd",
	"msg": "Listen error",
	"error": "listen tcp 127.0.0.1:9867: bind: An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions.",
	"stacktrace": "github.com/brimdata/zed/pkg/httpd.(*Server).Start\n\t/home/runner/work/zed/zed/pkg/httpd/server.go:42\ngithub.com/brimdata/zed/cmd/zed/serve.(*Command).Run\n\t/home/runner/work/zed/zed/cmd/zed/serve/command.go:119\ngithub.com/brimdata/zed/pkg/charm.path.run\n\t/home/runner/work/zed/zed/pkg/charm/path.go:11\ngithub.com/brimdata/zed/pkg/charm.(*Spec).ExecRoot\n\t/home/runner/work/zed/zed/pkg/charm/charm.go:63\nmain.main\n\t/home/runner/work/zed/zed/cmd/zed/main.go:68\nruntime.main\n\t/opt/hostedtoolcache/go/1.19.9/x64/src/runtime/proc.go:250"
}

After checking with TCPView to confirm nothing was running on that way I had attempted to manually launching zed with higher permission which failed, after which I had tested on another port which worked. I had attempted to change mainDefaults via pkg.lake.port in package.json in a few different locations to have it launch zed automatically but to no avail. I know this is most likely a single user case issue, but could possibly be prevented with random port solution mentioned in #2040 but if that isn't an option maybe a way to manually specify a port to use instead would be possible?

Edit: After figuring out another issue I was having it could possibly be from the Windows 10 22H2 update. Ran into another issue that came from the update with SSLKEYLOGFILE variable causing programs to have OPENSSL_Applink issue. Will attempt to see if it replicates in a VM on 22H2 or just an issue with current Windows install

To Reproduce Unknown as many things have changed on computer since I last used Zui...

Expected behavior Zed to be able to launch and communicate with Zui

Screenshots

Desktop Info

• OS: Windows 10 Pro 22H2
• OS Version: 10.0.19045 Build 19045
• Zui Version: 1.1.0

[philrz]

@SpindlesDev: Thanks for reporting and circling back with the additional theory about root cause. We've thought about this class of problem before and both the "random port" and "manually select a port" approaches have been considered. We'll look at adding at least one of those soon so users won't be as stuck when this kind of thing happens in the future.