balena cli version 11.35.16 won't login on on window 10

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Hey team,

When I was trying to log in on the cli via web authorization. I got the following error:

PS C:\Windows\system32> balena -v
11.35.16
PS C:\Windows\system32> balena login
 _            _
| |__   __ _ | |  ____  _ __    __ _
| '_ \ / _` || | / __ \| '_ \  / _` |
| |_) | (_) || ||  ___/| | | || (_) |
|_.__/ \__,_||_| \____/|_| |_| \__,_|


Logging in to balena-cloud.com
? How would you like to login? Web authorization (recommended)
Opening web browser for URL:
https://dashboard.balena-cloud.com/login/cli/http%253A%252F%252F127.0.0.1%253A8989%252Fauth
Error: listen EACCES: permission denied 0.0.0.0:8989
    at Server.setupListenHandle [as _listen2] (net.js:1263:19)
    at listenInCluster (net.js:1328:12)
    at Server.listen (net.js:1415:7)
    at Function.listen (C:\Program Files\balena-cli\client\node_modules\express\lib\application.js:618:24)
    at createServer (C:\Program Files\balena-cli\client\build\auth\server.js:17:24)
    at Object.exports.awaitForToken (C:\Program Files\balena-cli\client\build\auth\server.js:27:29)
    at Object.exports.login (C:\Program Files\balena-cli\client\build\auth\index.js:21:21)
PS C:\Windows\system32> balena login

As seen above this is version 11.35.16. I was able to log in via credentials but I wanted to report the bug. This is using the installer version: balena-cli-v11.35.16-windows-x64-installer.exe

Thanks,
-Thomas

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Thanks for the report. We’ll have a look and come back to you

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Hi Thomas. This might be caused by another program already using port 8989. Do you get the same error after restarting your computer? Would you mind running the command: netstat -aon | find /i "listening" and paste the results here, that will tell us if something is using the port already.

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Hey @codewithcheese,

I couldn’t run your command because I think I messed up the find tool when I installed git for windows. But I ran the first program and searched the output in sublime there was something listening. Just opened my browser to localhost:8989 and found the offender.

It turns out that: https://sonarr.tv/ runs on that port.

I shut it down and the login process worked without issue.

Thanks for getting to the bottom of this.

-Thomas

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Hey @codewithcheese,

I just wanted to say, that I just updated the cli and by my surprise the port used to login had changed. I doubt it was because of my little problem. But still AWESOME!

But thanks to the whole Balena team. You guys always see to be 2 steps ahead. With this small change you just made my life easier.

-Thomas