Is the p2pool software incompatible with the current version of novacoin or something?
Running the p2pool gives me this:
Cme@mycomputer:~/p2pool-11.4.3$ python run_p2pool.py
fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
2014-01-26 09:52:46.939552 p2pool (version 11.4.3)
2014-01-26 09:52:46.939911
2014-01-26 09:52:46.940105 Testing bitcoind RPC connection to 'http://127.0.0.1:8344/' with username 'bitcoinrpc'...
2014-01-26 09:52:46.965543 ...success!
2014-01-26 09:52:46.965719 Current block hash: ed546b552e694ef3b192325acb663258611bc00c7b7c48fafbe11c6fc3e01381
2014-01-26 09:52:46.965787 Current block height: 70799
2014-01-26 09:52:46.965832
2014-01-26 09:52:46.965911 Testing bitcoind P2P connection to '127.0.0.1:7777'..
(and it stalls here)
I'm running p2pool 11.4.3 and novacoind 0.4.4.6, both compiled from github / running on Ubuntu 13.04