dev: connection error during dev instance install

I saw this transient connection error when doing an install of the dev instance on Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop.

(ol)mang@ubuntu:~/openlibrary$ python setup.py bootstrap
running bootstrap
reading config file config/install.ini
installing python dependencies
checking out git submodules ...
installing solr...
installing couchdb lucene...
setting up coverstore database
setting up openlibrary database
    starting infobase
    running OL setup script
    stopping infobase
    setting up openlibrary_ebook_count database
setting up couchdb
    starting couchdb
    creating databases
    stopping couchdb
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "scripts/setup_dev_instance.py", line 433, in <module>
    main()
  File "scripts/setup_dev_instance.py", line 430, in main
    task.run()
  File "scripts/setup_dev_instance.py", line 342, in run
    CouchDB().run_tasks(self.create_dbs, self.add_design_docs)
  File "scripts/setup_dev_instance.py", line 102, in run_tasks
    task(self)
  File "scripts/setup_dev_instance.py", line 346, in create_dbs
    couchdb.create_database("works")
  File "scripts/setup_dev_instance.py", line 116, in create_database
    if name in server:
  File "/home/mang/pyenvs/ol/lib/python2.6/site-packages/CouchDB-0.8-py2.6.egg/couchdb/client.py", line 93, in __contains__
    self.resource.head(validate_dbname(name))
  File "/home/mang/pyenvs/ol/lib/python2.6/site-packages/CouchDB-0.8-py2.6.egg/couchdb/http.py", line 377, in head
    return self._request('HEAD', path, headers=headers, **params)
  File "/home/mang/pyenvs/ol/lib/python2.6/site-packages/CouchDB-0.8-py2.6.egg/couchdb/http.py", line 419, in _request
    credentials=self.credentials)
  File "/home/mang/pyenvs/ol/lib/python2.6/site-packages/CouchDB-0.8-py2.6.egg/couchdb/http.py", line 239, in request
    resp = _try_request_with_retries(iter(self.retry_delays))
  File "/home/mang/pyenvs/ol/lib/python2.6/site-packages/CouchDB-0.8-py2.6.egg/couchdb/http.py", line 205, in _try_request_with_retries
    raise e
socket.error: [Errno 111] Connection refused
(ol)mang@ubuntu:~/openlibrary$ python setup.py bootstrap
running bootstrap
reading config file config/install.ini
installing python dependencies
checking out git submodules ...
installing solr...
installing couchdb lucene...
setting up coverstore database
setting up openlibrary database
    starting infobase
    running OL setup script
    stopping infobase
    setting up openlibrary_ebook_count database
setting up couchdb
    starting couchdb
    creating databases
    adding design docs
    stopping couchdb
setting up accounts...
    starting infobase
    openlibrary account is already present
    adding openlibrary to admin and api usergroups
    stopping infobase