Pydev Remote Debugging Not Working (connection Refused)

I'm using Eclipse Luna Service Release 1 (4.4.1) with PyDev 3.9.0.201411111611 for Python 2.7 development, on an ArchLinux (Manjaro) machine. I have an external script to run my ap

Solution 1:

I had the same problem and eclipse was not able to get to the python debugger after I upgraded Aptana and pydev.

I had to open a firewall port on my Ubuntu 14.04 machine.

While this is not the best way, things started working again.

sudo ufw allow 5678

Builtin's were also being highlighted before I did this, now pydev is able to resolve such things as True, max and None.