title: neo4j-shell "connection refused" error
body: <p>I'm running 2.0.0 M06 on a Mac (ML)</p>
  
  <p>Neo4j is running and the web console works fine. But when I try to connect via Neo4j-shell it fails. Everything was fine on Wednesday, but after attempting a Postgres install (part of the MusicBrainz Neo4j project) this problem came up:</p>
  
  <pre><code>sneedham-pd:neo4j-community-2.0.0-M06 username$ **bin/neo4j start**
  Using additional JVM arguments:  -server -XX:+DisableExplicitGC -Dorg.neo4j.server.properties=conf/neo4j-server.properties -Djava.util.logging.config.file=conf/logging.properties -Dlog4j.configuration=file:conf/log4j.properties -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled
  Starting Neo4j Server...WARNING: not changing user
  process [694]... waiting for server to be ready..... OK.
  http://localhost:7474/ is ready.
  
  sneedham-pd:neo4j-community-2.0.0-M06 username$ **bin/neo4j-shell -v**
  ERROR (-v for expanded information):
      Connection refused
  java.rmi.ConnectException: Connection refused to host: 172.16.31.31; nested exception is: 
      java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
      at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPEndpoint.newSocket(TCPEndpoint.java:619)
      at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPChannel.createConnection(TCPChannel.java:216)
      at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPChannel.newConnection(TCPChannel.java:202)
      at sun.rmi.server.UnicastRef.invoke(UnicastRef.java:128)
      at java.rmi.server.RemoteObjectInvocationHandler.invokeRemoteMethod(RemoteObjectInvocationHandler.java:194)
      at java.rmi.server.RemoteObjectInvocationHandler.invoke(RemoteObjectInvocationHandler.java:148)
      at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy1.welcome(Unknown Source)
      at org.neo4j.shell.impl.AbstractClient.sayHi(AbstractClient.java:206)
      at org.neo4j.shell.impl.RemoteClient.findRemoteServer(RemoteClient.java:63)
      at org.neo4j.shell.impl.RemoteClient.&lt;init&gt;(RemoteClient.java:55)
      at org.neo4j.shell.impl.RemoteClient.&lt;init&gt;(RemoteClient.java:43)
      at org.neo4j.shell.ShellLobby.newClient(ShellLobby.java:165)
      at org.neo4j.shell.StartClient.startRemote(StartClient.java:289)
      at org.neo4j.shell.StartClient.start(StartClient.java:167)
      at org.neo4j.shell.StartClient.main(StartClient.java:119)
  Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
      at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
      at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:339)
      at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:200)
      at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:182)
      at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:391)
      at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:579)
      at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:528)
      at java.net.Socket.&lt;init&gt;(Socket.java:425)
      at java.net.Socket.&lt;init&gt;(Socket.java:208)
      at sun.rmi.transport.proxy.RMIDirectSocketFactory.createSocket(RMIDirectSocketFactory.java:40)
      at sun.rmi.transport.proxy.RMIMasterSocketFactory.createSocket(RMIMasterSocketFactory.java:146)
      at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPEndpoint.newSocket(TCPEndpoint.java:613)
      ... 14 more
  
   -host      Domain name or IP of host to connect to (default: localhost)
   -port      Port of host to connect to (default: 1337)
   -name      RMI name, i.e. rmi://&lt;host&gt;:&lt;port&gt;/&lt;name&gt; (default: shell)
   -pid       Process ID to connect to
   -c         Command line to execute. After executing it the shell exits
   -file      File containing commands to execute. After executing it the shell exits
   -readonly  Connect in readonly mode
   -path      Points to a neo4j db path so that a local server can be started there
   -config    Points to a config file when starting a local server
  
  Example arguments for remote:
      -port 1337
      -host 192.168.1.234 -port 1337 -name shell
      -host localhost -readonly
      ...or no arguments for default values
  Example arguments for local:
      -path /path/to/db
      -path /path/to/db -config /path/to/neo4j.config
      -path /path/to/db -readonly
  </code></pre>