error connecting to localhost 127.0.0.1 in apt-get and all front-ends I have for it
 

I am using LinuxMint, an Ubuntu derivative, and am experiencing some trouble with apt-get. It gives me an error saying that I cannot get the archives and my connection to 127.0.0.1 was refused.

ex:

Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/poo...untu1_i386.deb Could not connect to localhost:4001 (127.0.0.1). - connect (111 Connection refused)

I have tried ssh x@127.0.0.1 (substituting another user for x), and that seems to work fine. It seems to be limited to just apt-get. I could really use some help.

I will try to remember to check this thread, but if you think you can fix this, please e-mail me at sehku17@gmail.com

not sure about LinuxMint, but are there any firewalls up and running? iptables? What does /etc/apt/sources.list specify? Did you try running apt-get update?

there are no firewalls up now and it still won't work. originally I had firewalls, but not on that port.
The etc/apt/sources.list lists the appropriate sources. apt-get update gives me the same type of error.

Failed to fetch http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/repo/di...tion-en_US.bz2 Could not connect to localhost:4001 (127.0.0.1). - connect (111 Connection refused)

cat sources.list

## UBUNTU REPOSITORIES
## -------------------
##
## Feisty (Ubuntu 7.04)
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty main restricted universe multiverse
##
## Proposed Updates
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-proposed main restricted universe multiverse
##
## Bug Fixes
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-updates main restricted universe multiverse
##
## Security Updates
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-security main restricted universe multiverse
##
## Backports
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-backports main restricted universe multiverse


## LINUX MINT REPOSITORIES
## -----------------------
##
## Cassandra (Linux Mint 3.0)
deb http://www.linuxmint.com/repository cassandra/
##
## Romeo (Linux Mint Unstable)
## deb http://www.linuxmint.com/repository romeo/


## OTHER REPOSITORIES
## ------------------
##
## Canonical (RealPlayer10, Opera, DesktopSecure etc...)
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu feisty-commercial main
##
## Medibuntu (Codecs and extra applications)
deb http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/repo/ feisty free non-free



thanks for posting, though