Every developer has seen this at 2 AM:
Error: listen EADDRINUSE: address already in use :::5173
The usual workflow? Open a terminal, run netstat or lsof, copy the PID, run kill -9. Simple enough — until you grab the wrong PID and accidentally terminate a critical database daemon, a Docker proxy, or a core OS service. Suddenly your machine...
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