CRITICAL:xml-rpc:[16]: Error occur when starting the server daemon: [Errno 98] Address already in use

Hello Kayode Odusote,

It seems that you are running two server at a time.

When you run server it occupy port address that might not be used by another process so it will give you ERROR "xml-rpc:[16]: Error occur when starting the server daemon: [Errno 98] Address already in use".

If you want to run two server at a time then both server having different port addresses.

Hope it will help you.

Thanks for the prompt answer. I guessed that must have been the case but I assumed that I had deleted the server installed earlier in /var/lib/openerp5 when I deleted the directory. Searching for openerp-server-5.0.12 returns not found. Obviously somewhere in the system reference to the server exists. Attempts to stop with sudo openerp-server-5.0.12 stop gives a not found error.

So how can I totally remove the server-5.0.12 earlier installed completely and use only the recently installed stable server-5.0.6?

I was able to remove the server-5.0.6 and client-5.0.6 but "openerp-server" continues to try to connect to openerp-server-5.0.12 even after attempts to purge it as shown below:

kayodu@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get remove openerp-server-core-5.0.12
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package openerp-server-core-5.0.12
kayodu@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get remove openerp-server-5.0.12
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package openerp-server-5.0.12
kayodu@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get remove openerp-server
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package openerp-server is not installed, so not removed
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  python-libxslt1 linux-headers-2.6.32-21 libnet-ssleay-perl makepasswd
  libgfortran3 libdate-calc-perl libcarp-clan-perl libhippocanvas-1-0 ttf-lyx
  python-numpy blt linux-headers-2.6.32-21-generic python-tk libtiff-tools
  python-matplotlib-data libhttp-server-simple-perl
  libcrypt-openssl-random-perl libwww-mechanize-perl libblas3gf tcl8.5
  liblapack3gf libcrypt-passwdmd5-perl tk8.5 python-matplotlib
  libio-socket-ssl-perl python-hippocanvas libbit-vector-perl
  libnet-libidn-perl
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
kayodu@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg --purge openerp-server-5.0.12
dpkg: warning: ignoring request to remove openerp-server-5.0.12 which isn't installed.
kayodu@ubuntu:~$ openerp-server
[2010-09-10 08:40:25,878] INFO:server:version - 5.0.12
[2010-09-10 08:40:25,879] INFO:server:addons_path - /var/lib/openerp5/openerp-server-5.0.12/bin/addons
[2010-09-10 08:40:25,879] INFO:server:database hostname - localhost
[2010-09-10 08:40:25,880] INFO:server:database port - 5432
[2010-09-10 08:40:25,881] INFO:server:database user - kayodu
[2010-09-10 08:40:25,881] INFO:objects:initialising distributed objects services
[2010-09-10 08:40:26,500] INFO:web-services:starting XML-RPC services, port 8069
[2010-09-10 08:40:26,501] INFO:web-services:starting NET-RPC service, port 8070
[2010-09-10 08:40:26,502] INFO:web-services:the server is running, waiting for connections...

Can anyone tell me what is going on and how can I uninstall/purge this server and reinstall the stable 5.0.6?

I seemed to have solved the problem by deleting the .openerp-serverrc and the .openerprc files.