On Wed, 2022-11-30 at 21:51 -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > Attempting to log in to Google account. Process hangs for some minutes, > then complains that it can't access 127.0.0.1.8888. Any idea what's > going on? (Fedora 35, reasonably current) As to your question in the subject line: 127.0.0.1 is every device's way to refer to itself. It's the equivalent of you referring to yourself as "me." 8888 is port eighty-eight thousand and eighty-eight, which has no defined standard use anywhere. In other words, it's free for anything to use it for whatever they want to, there's no exclusive purpose assigned for it. In essence you're trying to connect to yourself. Or, the error message could be coming from Google, and it's having some failure in trying to connect to something within itself. Essentially, you can't connect to anything else at that address but yourself. But you could be going through something at that address to something else. That thing you're going through could be a webproxy, a virtual private network (a VPN), a virtual machine, possibly some others I can't think of at the moment. We haven't really got enough information about your system to narrow things down beyond just tossing ideas in your direction. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.80.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Nov 8 15:48:59 UTC 2022 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
