# Manage.py issue

**URL:** <https://forum.dimagi.com/t/manage-py-issue/5442>\
**Category:** Developers\
**Created:** [June 22, 2018, 12:47pm UTC](https://forum.dimagi.com/t/manage-py-issue/5442 "2018-06-22T12:47:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![anas.bhih](https://dimagi.b-cdn.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e9a140/32.png) [@anas.bhih](https://forum.dimagi.com/u/anas.bhih)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2018, 12:47pm UTC](https://forum.dimagi.com/t/manage-py-issue/5442/1 "2018-06-22T12:47:52Z")

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hello 🙂

i have a problem anytime i execute a command starts with ./manage.py  
i get the error

restkit.errors.RequestError: socket.error: [Errno 111] Connection refused

i believe that there's a problem with the couchdb but i'm not sure

please help

thanks

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**Author:** ![anas.bhih](https://dimagi.b-cdn.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e9a140/32.png) [@anas.bhih](https://forum.dimagi.com/u/anas.bhih)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2018, 12:44am UTC](https://forum.dimagi.com/t/manage-py-issue/5442/2 "2018-06-23T00:44:59Z")

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the issue was docker not running in the background 😃

i ran the command

$ ./scripts/docker up -d postgres couch redis elasticsearch kafka

and it worked just perfect