Simple echo MCP server fails to start with `mcp.run()`

[sirianni]

Describe the bug
Unable to start MCP server

To Reproduce

from mcp.server.fastmcp import FastMCP

mcp = FastMCP(
 "Echo Server",
 port=9000,
 debug=True,
 log_level="DEBUG",
)


@mcp.tool()
def echo(text: str) -> str:
 """Echo the input text"""
 return text


if __name__ == "__main__":
 mcp.run()

$ uv run mcp_server.py 
[03/20/25 16:31:00] DEBUG Using selector: EpollSelector 
<---HANG--->

$ curl http://localhost:9000
curl: (7) Failed to connect to localhost port 9000 after 0 ms: Could not connect to server

Expected behavior
Server starts

Additional information

Stack trace on SIGINT

 File "/home/sirianni/src/example/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/anyio/_backends/_asyncio.py", line 2303, in run
 return runner.run(wrapper())
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 File "/home/sirianni/.local/share/uv/python/cpython-3.12.9-linux-x86_64-gnu/lib/python3.12/asyncio/runners.py", line 118, in run
 return self._loop.run_until_complete(task)
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 File "/home/sirianni/.local/share/uv/python/cpython-3.12.9-linux-x86_64-gnu/lib/python3.12/asyncio/base_events.py", line 678, in run_until_complete
 self.run_forever()
 File "/home/sirianni/.local/share/uv/python/cpython-3.12.9-linux-x86_64-gnu/lib/python3.12/asyncio/base_events.py", line 645, in run_forever
 self._run_once()
 File "/home/sirianni/.local/share/uv/python/cpython-3.12.9-linux-x86_64-gnu/lib/python3.12/asyncio/base_events.py", line 1961, in _run_once
 event_list = self._selector.select(timeout)
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 File "/home/sirianni/.local/share/uv/python/cpython-3.12.9-linux-x86_64-gnu/lib/python3.12/selectors.py", line 468, in select
 fd_event_list = self._selector.poll(timeout, max_ev)
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 File "/home/sirianni/.local/share/uv/python/cpython-3.12.9-linux-x86_64-gnu/lib/python3.12/asyncio/runners.py", line 157, in _on_sigint
 raise KeyboardInterrupt()
KeyboardInterrupt

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/home/sirianni/src/example/mcp_server.py", line 18, in <module>
 mcp.run()
 File "/home/sirianni/src/example/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/mcp/server/fastmcp/server.py", line 154, in run
 anyio.run(self.run_stdio_async)
 File "/home/sirianni/src/example/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/anyio/_core/_eventloop.py", line 74, in run
 return async_backend.run(func, args, {}, backend_options)
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 File "/home/sirianni/src/example/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/anyio/_backends/_asyncio.py", line 2302, in run
 with Runner(debug=debug, loop_factory=loop_factory) as runner:
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 File "/home/sirianni/.local/share/uv/python/cpython-3.12.9-linux-x86_64-gnu/lib/python3.12/asyncio/runners.py", line 62, in __exit__
 self.close()
 File "/home/sirianni/.local/share/uv/python/cpython-3.12.9-linux-x86_64-gnu/lib/python3.12/asyncio/runners.py", line 70, in close
 _cancel_all_tasks(loop)
 File "/home/sirianni/.local/share/uv/python/cpython-3.12.9-linux-x86_64-gnu/lib/python3.12/asyncio/runners.py", line 199, in _cancel_all_tasks
 to_cancel = tasks.all_tasks(loop)
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 File "/home/sirianni/.local/share/uv/python/cpython-3.12.9-linux-x86_64-gnu/lib/python3.12/asyncio/tasks.py", line 59, in all_tasks
 scheduled_tasks = list(_scheduled_tasks)
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 File "/home/sirianni/.local/share/uv/python/cpython-3.12.9-linux-x86_64-gnu/lib/python3.12/_weakrefset.py", line 64, in __iter__
 with _IterationGuard(self):
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
KeyboardInterrupt

[sirianni]

Nevermind. I assumed MCP was HTTP/REST and I lacked understanding of the stdio vs. sse transports.