That stack strace is from git-ssb-web which Patchwork tries starts automatically. The error ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:8008
I have seen happen when ssb-server picks a local IP to bind to, and then connecting to localhost/127.0.0.1 doesn't work. I am trying to figure out how to handle this.
As for the no profile pictures... Is Patchwork trying to load blobs from ssb-ws (port 8989)? It could be the same issue in that case. If you have connections
set in your ssb config I would suggest try removing that and then see if Patchwork works.
I think git-ssb-web needs to be updated to use a newer version of ssb-config, so it can get the correct host to connect to, which newer ssb-config sets automatically. #todo