Bromine error - Could not get handle to remote scheduler: Connection refused to host: 127.0.0.1

I pulled my hair out for a day trying to get this solved.

But first, a bit of zen: When I am stuck on a problem that seems intractable, I find it good to walk away from it, sleep on it, and then the next day, debug it some more and read the solutions I've already gone through but did not get me to the solution previously.

The error I kept getting was the following: Scheduler would not start with the error in the title of this blog. I tried running start.sh to check what the error was and that worked fine. WTF!!

The solution was something stupid that I had done.

I needed to enter a static IP address and first used network manager to try to do it which did not work. I ended up just editing the interfaces file to get the static IP address configured.

However, during the time I was messing around with network manager, my /etc/hosts file was written to with an IP address

The following line was added to the /etc/hosts file:

10.41.16.38 test-P5Q-VM #Added by NetworkManager

I just had to delete the line from /etc/hosts and then the scheduler started working.

Zen works. I say this not as a devotee as I am not one. I would like to be but I am not even close. My mind wanders so easily. It takes all my willpower just to get this post finished without moving to something else in between.