[Locomotive-users] (persistent?) configuration problems

[Rich Morin]

I have a laptop (12" PB G4; OSX 10.4.8) that has had Locomotive
installed in the past, but I wanted to upgrade to the latest
and greatest, and now I find myself in a swamp.  Ignoring all
of my earlier attempts, here's what I did most recently:

  *  Removed the Locomotive2 app from /Applications.

  *  Emptied the trash.

  *  Downloaded Locomotive_2.0.8_Jan2007_1.dmg

  *  Dragged the Locomotive2 folder to /Applications

  *  Started up Locomotive.app

     At this point, my existing Locomotive projects show up,
     indicating that Locomotive "remembers" where they were.
     This makes me wonder what other configuration is sticky.

  *  Tell Locomotive to create a new app.

     It does this, selecting a Port number of 3003.

  *  Tell Locomotive to run the new app.

  *  Attempt to open http://localhost:3003 in Safari.  This
     fails with "Safari can't connect to the server.  Safari
     can't open the page "http://localhost:3003" because it
     could not connect to the server "localhost".

  *  Attempt to telnet to the server (telnet localhost 3003).
     This fails, as well:

       % telnet localhost 3003
       Trying ::1...
       telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused
       Trying 127.0.0.1...
       telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused
       telnet: Unable to connect to remote host

FWIW, MySQL is installed and the software firewall is off.  My
browser CAN find "http://localhost".

I'm not at all sure what to try next...

-r
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