On Fri, 02 Dec 2022 03:10:44 +1030 Tim via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > Thanks for the explanation. What's going on is configuration of claws-mail for OAuth2 connection to gmail. At the end of the process one connects to Google (with Firefox) to provide an authorization password. At that point things go haywire with the 8888 address. It turns out that the system in question appears to have hardware problems, so that's probably the root issue. Regards. _______________________________________________ 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
