mlaffoon

Thanks for the follow-up.

It did try, but ultimately, I had to restart the process manually.

2026-02-03T12:59:15.112674Z  WARN devolutions_gateway::service: Failed to bind tcp://0.0.0.0:8181; retrying in 10s error="failed to bind TCP socket: 
Address already in use (os error 98)" count=10

I'm assuming the issue is your number 2.

A previous devolutions-gateway process didn’t fully exit and is still holding the socket

Our gateways are purpose-built virtual servers, with no additional services installed.

sudo ss -ltnp 'sport = :8181'

State              Recv-Q             Send-Q                         Local Address:Port                         Peer Address:Port             Process
LISTEN             0                  64                                   0.0.0.0:8181                              0.0.0.0:*                 users:(("devolutions-gat",pid=3045022,fd=22))

sudo lsof -nP -iTCP:8181 -sTCP:LISTEN

COMMAND       PID USER   FD   TYPE   DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
devolutio 3045022 root   22u  IPv4 10113238      0t0  TCP *:8181 (LISTEN)

Came in this morning to find both of our gateways offline, with the following message in the logs:

2026-02-03T12:59:25.114904Z ERROR devolutions_gateway: Failed to start error="failed to bind listener: tcp://REDACTED:8181 -> tcp://0.0.0.0:8181: failed to bind TCP socket: Address already in use (os error 98)"

Any hints on where to look for the root cause?

Thanks!

Gateway Version

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devolutions-gateway_2025.3.3-1_amd64.deb

System Info

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OS: Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS x86_64

Host: VMware Virtual Platform None

Kernel: 6.14.0-37-generic

Uptime: 21 days, 16 hours, 18 mins

Packages: 838 (dpkg), 5 (snap)

Shell: bash 5.2.21

Resolution: 1280x768

Terminal: /dev/pts/0

CPU: Intel Xeon Gold 5220R (4) @ 2.194GHz

GPU: 00:0f.0 VMware SVGA II Adapter

Memory: 376MiB / 7941MiB

Thanks for the tip, but GitLab is like a locally hosted github (and can be accessed via HTTP(s)), so there are many different folders for projects and repos.

It would be great if this could be made to access locally hosted GIT repos, such as GitLab: https://about.gitlab.com/