My output is similar to yours. I get the same error when trying to make a credit card payment though.

dh-anarres@li-166:~$ gearmand -d --pidfile=$LJHOME/temp/gearmand.pid -p 17096
dh-anarres@li-166:~$ cat $LJHOME/temp/gearmand.pid
6699
dh-anarres@li-166:~$ netstat -A inet -a -n -p | grep 17096
(Not all processes could be identified, non-owned process info
will not be shown, you would have to be root to see it all.)
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:17096 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 6699/perl
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:54655 127.0.0.1:17096 ESTABLISHED 8304/perl
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:54654 127.0.0.1:17096 ESTABLISHED 10458/perl
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:54656 127.0.0.1:17096 ESTABLISHED 8329/perl
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:17096 127.0.0.1:54654 ESTABLISHED 6699/perl
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:17096 127.0.0.1:54655 ESTABLISHED 6699/perl
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:17096 127.0.0.1:54656 ESTABLISHED 6699/perl
dh-anarres@li-166:~$ ps auxww | grep -i gearmand
afuna 2953 0.0 0.1 46420 704 pts/4 S Jul18 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/gearmand
1009 6235 0.0 1.4 46560 7792 ? SN 18:24 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/gearmand -d --pidfile=/dreamhack/8082-pauamma/dw/temp/gearmand.pid -p 17082
1028 6699 0.0 1.5 46456 7892 ? SN 21:01 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/gearmand -d --pidfile=/dreamhack/8096-anarres/dw/temp/gearmand.pid -p 17096
1028 6704 0.0 0.1 7448 972 pts/10 SN+ 21:03 0:00 grep -i gearmand