Jim, thanks a lot for building the test version! Unfortunately, the problem still occurs. Again I tried with no firewalling going on whatsoever, but alas, to no avail. It keeps saying 'connecting...' in red, and it remains at 0 connections. I will PM you the new debug logs.

@Kazimir

Thanks for the logs - it is exactly the same error as before.

Googling for the error, there is also this mention of the same error using Tomcat:
http://tomcat.10.n6.nabble.com/Tomcat-6-0-18-startup-Permission-Denied-Error-listen-failed-initializing-endpoint-td2107716.html

Do you have Norton anti-virus or 360 on your PC ?

If you look at the last post on that url the OP states that simply shutting down the Norton firewall was not sufficient, he had to uninstall it entirely. Seems a bit drastic but then Norton is pretty invasive.

edit: Also, check that you don't have something else that is using port 8333 using netstat. Maybe you have some other bitcoin related software sat on that port. That might give a similar error.

Hell no, none of that crap on my system

Only thing that I normally have running is a firewall. But I completely closed that (not just disabled but actually closed the thing entirely).
I think I kept the previous version of MultiBit somewhere (before I updated to 0.4.14). I will restore that and see if that still works (never had any problems with it before).

I'll check for anything else occupying port 8333 as well, but I doubt it (got no other networking background stuff running).

@Jim: I restored version 0.4.6 (the one I used previously), and guess what, it worked! I assumed it had to do with Java, since a while ago I uninstalled Java (which was an old version at the time), and just recently installed the latest version of Java instead. But now with this new Java, the old 0.4.6 still works OK.

Just in case it helps for comparison, I will also PM you the logs of 0.4.6 (which connected successfully). Note that this was with the firewall ENabled.

Also checked if anything was messing with port 8333, but there wasn't.

If you still have previous MultiBit versions available between 0.4.6 and 0.4.14, I can help you pinpoint the problem by binary searching the first version where this problem shows up?

Sure Jim, anytime, happy to help solving this bug!

And yes, I can still access my coins (even without network support I could theoretically export my private keys and access them otherwise). But 0.4.6 still works fine for me, no problem there.

Hi Jim, I'm just reading thru that Google document and I found the mnemonic chapter. What algorithm are you going to use? It would be nice to have the same algo for exporting the seed into the mnemonic across the clients. Right now I'm implementing into the token Electrum's mnemonic algo, but mostly because there's no other known standard (or is it?): https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/blob/master/lib/mnemonic.py

Let me know if you're considering something else or are you going with the same mnemonic style.

I absolutely agree, although I don't think that mnemonic algorithm itself should be a part of BIP32. Maybe Thomas will be able to knock up some BIP draft with the algorithm and the listing of the words. I don't think it needs to be too much official anyway.

I have started on the fiat currency support - in the beta code the wallet balance info appears in both BTC and the fiat currency that is in the first row of the ticker.

Screen shot:



The layout worked better with the gold coins icon removed so I have ripped it out.
I still have a fair amount to do yet.

Looks really good