Electrum does not listen on any ports for its JSON RPC

I did everything that was documented, including:

$ electrum daemon
$ electrum setconfig rpcport 7777
$ electrum load_wallet

I restarted, I tried the latest git version as well, but it just simply does not listen on anything besides the given payserver_address. I double checked with ss -tunlp, and it is only listening to one port, which is exactly that, but no RPC.

That said, when I type

$ electrum daemon -d
$ electrum getconfig rpcport

then I do get back 7777, but I get connection refused to it when I try to connect to it using, say, curl.

There is ~/.electrum/daemon_rpc_socket, so could it be the case that it uses UNIX socket files instead? ~/.electrum/daemon also has the content ('unix', '/home/user/.electrum/daemon_rpc_socket', 1652435742.997301), so it must be. Any ideas as to why, or how to make it listen on 127.0.0.1:7777?

[SomberNight]

Indeed by default the daemon uses unix sockets, you can do:

$ electrum setconfig rpcsock tcp

Alternatively, if you set both rpchost and rpcport, then it switches to tcp automatically. I’ve now relaxed this requirement in https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/commit/641c3e23a4aa6d4c6464c2d990a8eef0c02f7eb7 so that it’s enough to set rpcport.

[odiferousmint]

Thank you for your responses and help! 😃 Now I can get to work!