Weird WP -Cli Error Connection Refused

Question

I have a rather of wp-cli problem.

I am using wp-cli to import a db from my test server into my staging server and even though the import is successfully and everything seems to be working correctly on the staging server following the import....

The PROBLEM is..

before / after every wp-cli command is executed I get "Connection Refused" messages:

for example:

Connection refused
Connection refused
Connection refused
0 rows affected using SQL (in 0.005s).
Checking: wp_yoast_seo_links.language
Connection refused
Connection refused
Connection refused
0 rows affected using SQL (in 0.004s).
Checking: wp_yoast_seo_links.region
Connection refused
Connection refused
Connection refused
Connection refused

Connection refused
Connection refused
Success: The cache was flushed.
Connection refused
Connection refused

Attempt Solution
I tried to to us wp config create to make a new wp-config.php file in case the previous one was corrupted... but no luck.. error messages still persist.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

For anyone else who comes across this post... the above issue was caused by the w3-total-cache plugin being migrated between Test and Staging servers.

To fix the issue, I deactivate and exclude w3-total-cache tables from the Test server's db export, then I do the upload and import to Staging server, which has its own "local" copy of w3-total-cache installed.

poof, not more weird "connection refused" errors.