Mist does not start anymore? Error: connect ECONNREFUSED

Question

Most recently, I get the following error after executing mist:

CONNECT to IPC PATH: /home/santi/.ethereum/geth.ipc
CONNECT to IPC PATH: /home/santi/.ethereum/geth.ipc
NODECONNECTOR ERROR { [Error: connect ECONNREFUSED
/home/santi/.ethereum/geth.ipc]
  code: 'ECONNREFUSED',
  errno: 'ECONNREFUSED',
  syscall: 'connect',
  address: '/home/santi/.ethereum/geth.ipc' }
Node type:  geth
Network:  main
Start node from /usr/share/mist/resources/node/geth/geth
Stopping nodes...
Starting geth node...
UNCAUGHT EXCEPTION { [Error: spawn EACCES] code: 'EACCES', errno:
'EACCES', syscall: 'spawn' }
Stopping nodes...

In my laptop works just executing mist without the need of executing geth first... any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Answer 1

Executable flag

You have to make the node executable, so mist can run it. Try:

sudo chmod a+x /usr/share/mist/resources/node/geth/geth 

Run geth manually

You can also install an run geth manually and after that running mist will allow mist to connect to the running geth instance.

geth --ipcpath=~/.ethereum/geth.ipc

If you don't know how to install geth on your system, you could simply symlink it to your $PATH, like:

sudo chmod a+x /usr/share/mist/resources/node/geth/geth 
sudo ln -s /usr/share/mist/resources/node/geth/geth /usr/bin/geth

This allows you to execute geth directly. Also see this discussion for using system wide geht installation first.

Answer 2

Mist opens only with geth running on the background

Answer 3

I had the same problem. I had to set exec rights on geth. Execute this once and try again:

sudo chmod +x /usr/share/mist/resources/node/geth/geth