Unable to stop Metro Bundler correctly [Windows]

[MoKhajavi75]

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Environment

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Environment:
  OS: Windows 8.1
  Node: 8.11.2
  Yarn: 1.7.0
  npm: 6.1.0
  Watchman: Not Found
  Xcode: N/A
  Android Studio: Version  2.3.0.0 AI-162.3871768

Packages: (wanted => installed)
  react: 16.3.1 => 16.3.1
  react-native: 0.55.4 => 0.55.4

UPDATE:

E:\React Native\AirFreight>react-native -v
react-native-cli: 2.0.1
react-native: 0.56.0

E:\React Native\AirFreight>react-native info
Scanning folders for symlinks in E:\React Native\AirFreight\node_modules (25ms)

  React Native Environment Info:
    System:
      OS: Windows 8.1
      CPU: x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4710HQ CPU @ 2.50GHz
      Memory: 13.07 GB / 15.92 GB
    Binaries:
      Yarn: 1.7.0 - C:\Program Files (x86)\Yarn\bin\yarn.CMD
      npm: 6.1.0 - C:\Program Files\nodejs\npm.CMD
    IDEs:
      Android Studio: Version  2.3.0.0 AI-162.3871768

Description

I use npm start to start developing and when I want to stop my work, I use Ctrl + c to stop it (I use this way for a year). That was ok but it's been a while that i can't use npm start:

ERROR Metro Bundler can't listen on port 8081

I've run EVERY command I found on the net such as netstat -abon | findstr ":8081" to find the process but no result.

By the way, I tried new port and use react-native start --port=8082 but again, after using Ctrl + c OR closing the cmd, I can't use that port again. I used 8082, 8083 and 6969 but I think it's not the correct way to stop that!

Reproducible Demo

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[react-native-bot]

Can you reproduce the issue on the latest release, v0.56?

[MoKhajavi75]

@hramos

[hramos]

@MohamadKh75: #20633 (comment)

[MoKhajavi75]

@hramos i upgraded to 0.56 and bug exists.

[hramos]

Can you update your post? It still says 0.55.4, you can re-run react-native info to get updated numbers.

[MoKhajavi75]

@hramos i tried react-native info but i didn't see the RN version there so i added react-native -v - Updated!
Could you please remove the Old Version tag?

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