>
> 2010-04-08 17:30:41 ISTLOG: could not receive test message on socket for
> statistics collector: Connection refused
> 2010-04-08 17:30:41 ISTLOG: disabling statistics collector for lack of
> working socket
>
> I remember having the same problem last week and after debugging found that
my loopback wasn't working.
Can you check if ping 127.0.0.1 is working if not start the loopback
interface.
Thanks,
Sivakumar.K