It appears you're behind a firewall or your port has been blocked.
You may want to try pointing to a trusted node: https://moneroworld.com
I have recently opened up a Monero Wallet, and was 95% through syncing the entire blockchain, and now the daemon refuses to start. I'm doing this to retrieve a Monero token I sent to this new wallet.. maybe I should have left it in the exchange :/ I have tried starting from the CLI, with the same result
The daemon.log says: Error: Couldn't connect to daemon: 127.0.0.1:18081 2017-12-02 02:36:18.013 8484 ERROR net.http contrib/epee/include/net/http_client.h:444 Unexpected recv fail Error: Couldn't connect to daemon: 127.0.0.1:18081
The bitmonero log says: 2017-12-02 02:36:02.638 11664 INFO global src/cryptonote_core/cryptonote_core.cpp:323 Loading blockchain from folder C:\ProgramData\bitmonero\lmdb ... 2017-12-02 02:36:02.822 8484 INFO logging contrib/epee/src/mlog.cpp:148 New log categories: *:WARNING,net:FATAL,net.p2p:FATAL,net.cn:FATAL,global:INFO,verify:FATAL,stacktrace:INFO,logging:INFO,msgwriter:INFO 2017-12-02 02:36:18.013 8484 ERROR net.http contrib/epee/include/net/http_client.h:444 Unexpected recv fail 2017-12-02 02:36:18.014 8484 ERROR msgwriter src/common/scoped_message_writer.h:102 Error: Couldn't connect to daemon: 127.0.0.1:18081
It appears you're behind a firewall or your port has been blocked.
You may want to try pointing to a trusted node: https://moneroworld.com