clickhouse-client get error "Timeout exceeded while reading from socket" - clickhouse

Question

I'm newbie to clickhouse, I'm trying to create a clickhouse database on my unbuntu 18.04 remote server, I follow instruction to install click house from DEB package in this link: https://clickhouse.tech/docs/en/getting_started/install/#from-sources
after that when I run command clickhouse-client it shows something like this :
root#busmap-api-test:~# clickhouse-client
ClickHouse client version 20.3.5.21 (official build)
Connecting to localhost:9000 as user default.
Code: 209. DB::NetException: Timeout exceeded while reading from socket (127.0.0.1:9000)
Can someone help me to figure out what is the problem and how I can solve it?
Thanks,

Answer 1

Follow these steps to resolve the issue:
check that clickhouse-server-service started
service clickhouse-server status
check the server logs to find the possible reason
cat /var/log/clickhouse-server/clickhouse-server.err.log
if occured the error 'Address already in use':
{} <Error> Application: Net Exception: Address already in use: [::1]:9000
{} <Error> Application: Net Exception: Address already in use: 127.0.0.1:9000
need to switch CH-server to any other port by editing tcp_port-param in /etc/clickhouse-server/config.xml-file:
..
<tcp_port>9032</tcp_port>
..
restart CH-server service:
service clickhouse-server restart
and connect this way
clickhouse-client --port 9032

Answer 2

I actually had this problem too but I got it working with the default port.
The setting should be this way if you want to connect remotely and be able to use the loopback from localhost.
<listen_host>::1</listen_host>
<listen_host>0.0.0.0</listen_host>
This allows the loopback method to work (i.e clickhouse-client no args) on localhost to connect through the IPV6 route, and the remote connection (i.e clickhouse-client -h <hostname>) through the IPV4 connection.
My original problem was that i only used <listen_host>0.0.0.0</listen_host> in my config which meant theclickhouse-client no args would not work on localhost. And I could not get both to work by adding <listen_host>127.0.0.1</listen_host>