[OSM-dev] Can't connect to local PostgreSQL database with osmosis

Tue Jan 19 15:50:48 GMT 2010

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 14:10, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> Could it be some strange ipv6 issue where one of the applications tries to
> talk to localhost through ipv6? I am by no means an ipv6 expert but I have
> had strange things like this happen to me.

That turned out to be the issue, running:

    ifconfig lo down
    sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=1
    ifconfig lo up

Made everything work, thanks!