How to solve the exception with socket and PrintWriter constructor

Question

I am working on a socket communication program and everything works fine on my computer until my boss moved my code to his computer. The following is the client code.
The client program terminate with exception "Couldn't get I/O for the connection to local host." I have no idea how to solve the problem because there is no way out if the two statements (socket constructor and PrintWriter) fail.
/*the program shall close connections and exit if the user clicks 'e'.*/
public class LocalClient extends JPanel implements KeyListener {
Socket localSocket = null;
PrintWriter out = null;
BufferedReader in = null;
char fromServer = ' ';
public LocalClient() {
try {
localSocket = new Socket("a029243.cs.uregina.ca", 4444);
out = new PrintWriter(localSocket.getOutputStream(), true);
} catch (UnknownHostException e) {
System.err.println("Don't know about local host.");
System.exit(1);
} catch (IOException e) {
System.err.println("Couldn't get I/O for the connection to
local host.");
System.exit(1);
addKeyListener(this);
}//end of constructor
/*the component needs to be focused in order to respond to user input */
public boolean isFocusTraversable() {return true;}
public void keyPressed(KeyEvent evt) {
public void keyReleased (KeyEvent evt) {
public void keyTyped(KeyEvent evt) {
System.out.println("key typed is called ");
char fromClient=evt.getKeyChar();
if (fromClient!= ' ') {
if (fromClient=='e')
try {
out.close();
localSocket.close();
System.exit(1);
} catch (IOException e)
{System.out.println("connection closed");}
else {
System.out.println("Client: " +
fromClient);
out.println(fromClient);
out.flush();}
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
JFrame frame1=new JFrame();
Container contentPane=frame1.getContentPane();
LocalClient lc = new LocalClient();
contentPane.add(lc);
frame1.pack();
frame1.setSize(50,50);
frame1.setVisible(true);
}//end of main
} //end of class

Answer 1

Add e.printStackTrace() or System.out.println(e) to the catch block of the IOException. The IOException has a message about what went wrong.