Cypher-shell "Connection to the database terminated."

Neo4j 3.5.24 on linux. on-prem installation.
cypher-shell is throwing below error, trying to connect from the same host.

Connection to the database terminated. This can happen due to network instabilities, or due to restarts of the database

from neo4j.conf

Bolt connector

dbms.connector.bolt.enabled=true

dbms.connector.bolt.tls_level=DISABLED

dbms.connector.bolt.listen_address=0.0.0.0:7687

able to connect from browser