Getting "connection refused" error on MacOS?

[victor-marino]

Hi there.

I'm trying to use this great little tool for the first time, but unfortunately I'm running into issues.

I'm on a 2020 M1 MacBook Pro, running MacOS Ventura 13.4.

I first installed it through regular pip. But just in case that was the issue, I uninstalled it, installed pipx as recommended, and went ahead and reinstalled the wrapper way. It didn't make any difference, as I seem to be getting the same error.

I have set the path to the right database file by adding export KEEPASSXCCLI2_NONAME_DB=/path/to/db.kdbx to my .zshrc file, which is correctly being picked up as I do get prompted for the database password on first run as expected. It's the only database I have, and it's only locked with a password.

However, once I enter the password, I'm always getting this output, regardless of the command I was trying to run:

➜  ~ kpowg ls
Password:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/XXXXXX/.local/pipx/venvs/keepasxcli-wrapper/lib/python3.11/site-packages/keepasxcli_wrapper/client.py", line 91, in call_server
Serving database  stopped.
    connection.connect(self.pid_file)
ConnectionRefusedError: [Errno 61] Connection refused

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/XXXXXX/.local/bin/kpowg", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(attr())
             ^^^^^^
  File "/Users/XXXXXX/.local/pipx/venvs/keepasxcli-wrapper/lib/python3.11/site-packages/click/core.py", line 829, in __call__
    return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/Users/XXXXXX/.local/pipx/venvs/keepasxcli-wrapper/lib/python3.11/site-packages/click/core.py", line 782, in main
    rv = self.invoke(ctx)
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/Users/XXXXXX/.local/pipx/venvs/keepasxcli-wrapper/lib/python3.11/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1066, in invoke
    return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/Users/XXXXXX/.local/pipx/venvs/keepasxcli-wrapper/lib/python3.11/site-packages/click/core.py", line 610, in invoke
    return callback(*args, **kwargs)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/Users/XXXXXX/.local/pipx/venvs/keepasxcli-wrapper/lib/python3.11/site-packages/keepasxcli_wrapper/client.py", line 248, in attr
    entries = c.call_server(f'{FILTERED_ENTRIES} {entry}').splitlines()
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/Users/XXXXXX/.local/pipx/venvs/keepasxcli-wrapper/lib/python3.11/site-packages/keepasxcli_wrapper/client.py", line 98, in call_server
    raise RuntimeError("Can't create db and connect to server")
RuntimeError: Can't create db and connect to server

Any idea of what the issue might be?