Rails - May 2006 - WEBrick initialisation problem

I am new to Ruby so I thought the best way to get into it would be to 
follow the ONLamp "Rolling with Ruby on Rails" intro. I followed the 
instructions to the letter and everything work just great, very 
impressive:-).

A couple of days later when I went back to it I got the following 
message when trying to start the WEBrick server.

U:\RoRProjects\cookbook>ruby script\server => Booting WEBrick...
=> Rails application started on http://0.0.0.0:3000 => Ctrl-C to
shutdown server; call with --help for options
[2006-05-03 08:52:40] INFO  WEBrick 1.3.1
[2006-05-03 08:52:40] INFO  ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i386-mswin32]
[2006-05-03 08:52:40] WARN  TCPServer Error: Bad file descriptor -
bind(2)
u:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/utils.rb:73:in `initialize'': Bad file
descriptor - bind(2) (Errno::EBADF)
        from u:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/utils.rb:73:in
`create_listeners''

I have tried totally uninstalling (ruby, rails, MySQL) and then 
reinstalling but with no success. Obviously something has changed in the 
environment that it is running in but I cannot recall anything that has 
been done that would be of significance. I submitted this to the Ruby 
mailing list and Eric Hodel suggest I try the following:

U:\ruby>ruby -rsocket -e "TCPServer.new ''localhost'',
3000"

which proved there''s nothing already running on port 3000. Any 
suggestions would be gratfuly received.


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See if another Webrick instance is running on port 3000. 
See the following tutorial to shutdown:
http://kriskhaira.com/blog/138/how-to-shut-down-an-unknown-webrick-server

I think this wud help

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> See if another Webrick instance is running on port 3000.
> See the following tutorial to shutdown:
>
http://kriskhaira.com/blog/138/how-to-shut-down-an-unknown-webrick-serve
r
> 
> I think this wud help
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I''m running under Windows XP and there are no ruby processes running. I
have since loaded a VM with the bare minimum and it runs OK, so it must
be something about the PC''s environment but there are no other web
servers running so I am at a lost as to what can cause it. I have tested
to prove port 3000 is not in use.