# ERROR    awx.main.utils Publish Exception: ZMQError('Operation cannot be accomplished in current state')

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-awx-main-utils-publish-exception-zmqerror-operation-cannot-be-accomplished-in-current-state/22188>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** awx\
**Created:** [August 2, 2016, 10:31am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-awx-main-utils-publish-exception-zmqerror-operation-cannot-be-accomplished-in-current-state/22188 "2016-08-02T10:31:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Arun\_John\_Varughese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Arun\_John\_Varughese](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Arun_John_Varughese)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 10:31am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-awx-main-utils-publish-exception-zmqerror-operation-cannot-be-accomplished-in-current-state/22188/1 "2016-08-02T10:31:09Z")

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Hi,  
I am currently testing Ansible Tower using a trial license.

And, I get the following error:

Live events: error connecting to Tower server… in the UI after hovering the mouse pointer over the red dot at the top right section in the interface.

Also I get to see the following error from the /var/log/tower/tower.log file

2016-08-02 05:12:02,616 ERROR awx.main.utils Publish Exception: ZMQError(‘Operation cannot be accomplished in current state’); retry=3  
Traceback (most recent call last):  
File “/lib/python2.7/site-packages/awx/main/socket.py”, line 136, in publish  
File “/var/lib/awx/venv/tower/lib/python2.7/site-packages/zmq/sugar/socket.py”, line 399, in send\_json  
return self.send(msg, flags)  
File “zmq/backend/cython/socket.pyx”, line 574, in zmq.backend.cython.socket.Socket.send (zmq/backend/cython/socket.c:5434)  
File “zmq/backend/cython/socket.pyx”, line 621, in zmq.backend.cython.socket.Socket.send (zmq/backend/cython/socket.c:5196)  
File “zmq/backend/cython/socket.pyx”, line 181, in zmq.backend.cython.socket.\_send\_copy (zmq/backend/cython/socket.c:2035)  
File “zmq/backend/cython/checkrc.pxd”, line 21, in zmq.backend.cython.checkrc.\_check\_rc (zmq/backend/cython/socket.c:6248)  
raise ZMQError(errno)  
ZMQError: Operation cannot be accomplished in current state

port 8080 has already been opened for this server.

Any idea what could be the issue ?

Regards,

AJV

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**Author:** ![Arun\_John\_Varughese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Arun\_John\_Varughese](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Arun_John_Varughese)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 2:15pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-awx-main-utils-publish-exception-zmqerror-operation-cannot-be-accomplished-in-current-state/22188/2 "2016-08-02T14:15:28Z")

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Update:

The firewall for port 8080 has already been opened.

And, I am not able to view any service that runs on port 8080, which could be the issue.

Regards,  
AJV

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**Author:** ![sgocloudtech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@sgocloudtech](https://forum.ansible.com/u/sgocloudtech)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2018, 10:57am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-awx-main-utils-publish-exception-zmqerror-operation-cannot-be-accomplished-in-current-state/22188/3 "2018-11-19T10:57:23Z")

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Hello,  
I am experiancing the same issue on Redhat 6.X and Tower version 3.0.4.  
There are no hints or leads when I search in Google.

Did you manage to resolve the issue? How did you do it? Any Leads/Clues??