Topic: Need help with my testnet bitcoind for cli (Read 224 times)

Maybe because you used -datadir=.../Bitcoin/testnet3 instead of just used -datadir=.../Bitcoin and because in both directories /Bitcoin/testnet3 and /Bitcoin/testnet3/testnet3 have the same wallets folder, then there is a possibility that a conflict have occur when the client reads the wallet file.

Have you ever tried running bitcoind testnet using datadir=.../Bitcoin instead and using the same bitcoin.conf file used by the Mainnet. I guess it will work out as you want (running normally as when you run the Mainnet).

What are the args that you use with bitcoin-cli?
Because if --datadir or --conf arg aren't provided, it'll assume that you're using the default path and the bitcoin.conf file in it.
For example: if you launch bitcoind --datadir= ; bitcoin-cli should also be run with --datadir=.

If you need to keep things tidy, you can just set every arg including the datadir in a dedicated bitcoin.conf file and set it to both bitcoind and bitcoin-cli with --conf= arg.

Better yet, if you want to minimize the usage of args, you can even put that bitcoin.conf file in bitcoin's default datadir,
then you can just launch bitcoind/bitcoin-cli without any args and it should load configurations on that bitcoin.conf file.

Bitcoin.conf file article: github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/bitcoin-conf.md#configuration-file-path

Thank you for all your answers. What I did is come back to the original path and modify the config file to make it working. Now wallets are loaded with the flag -walletdir=.../testnet3/wallets.

I still don't know why it doesn't work before but now it works. I'm still strugling with bitcoin-cli because he doesn't want to read config file in PATH. Rather than bitcoind is running correctly into this path...


I hope to find the problem soon. Thanks again everyone for your answer.

So the previous testnet setup had those wallets loaded?

Anyways, have you received errors when loading wallets?
If none and the setting.json file shows the wallet's name or path, then that wallet should now automatically load in the next session.

It should have the a json-encoded list of loaded wallets below that warning message, like this:

Since it's empty for some reason, Bitcoin Core wont automatically load any of the wallets in the "/wallets" directory .
Refer only to the settings.json in the data directory that you've been using which is still in: .../Bitcoin/testnet3/tesnet3:

Yes there are.
Each wallet.dat are into its folder:

wallets/FirstTestWallet:
wallet.dat

wallets/FirstTestnetWallet:
wallet.dat

wallets/TestOPReturnWallet:
wallet.dat

wallets/ord:
wallet.dat

wallets/test_cli:
wallet.dat         wallet.dat-journal


And there are into testnet3/wallets and testnet3/tesnet3/wallets

My point is really this. The structure seems to be the same as on the mainnet where I can load them (mainnet wallets not testnet ones)

It looks like you don't have a wallet file that can be loaded, even the default wallet ("") is not loaded to the client. So I assume you won't find any wallet.dat in the /Volumes/Crucial X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3/testnet3/wallets directory at all. If the wallet file doesn't exist, then you need to create a new one using createwallet command. It will automatically be loaded to the client after you execute the command.

The file settings.json is replicated into /Volumes/Crucial X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3 and /Volumes/Crucial X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3/testnet3.

The settings.json file contains:


{
    "_warning_": "This file is automatically generated and updated by Bitcoin Core. Please do not edit this file while the node is running, as any changes might be ignored or overwritten."
}



I reproduce the last log above.

Let me know if you need anything else to have more info.



2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Bitcoin Core version v27.99.0-015ac13dcc96 (release build)
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Script verification uses 7 additional threads
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Using the 'x86_shani(1way,2way)' SHA256 implementation
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Using RdSeed as an additional entropy source
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Using RdRand as an additional entropy source
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Default data directory /Users/galois/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Using data directory /Volumes/Crucial X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3/testnet3
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Config file: /Volumes/Crucial X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3/bitcoin.conf
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Config file arg: [test] printtoconsole="1"
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Config file arg: [test] rpcallowip="127.0.0.1"
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Config file arg: [test] rpcbind="127.0.0.1"
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Config file arg: [test] rpcport="18332"
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Config file arg: [test] testnet="1"
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Command-line arg: datadir="/Volumes/Crucial X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3"
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Command-line arg: testnet=""
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Command-line arg: txindex="1"
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Using at most 125 automatic connections (285 file descriptors available)
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Using 16 MiB out of 16 MiB requested for signature cache, able to store 524288 elements
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Using 16 MiB out of 16 MiB requested for script execution cache, able to store 524288 elements
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z scheduler thread start
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Binding RPC on address 127.0.0.1 port 18332
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Using random cookie authentication.
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Generated RPC authentication cookie /Volumes/Crucial X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3/testnet3/.cookie
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Starting HTTP server with 4 worker threads
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Using wallet directory /Volumes/Crucial X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3/testnet3/wallets
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z init message: Verifying wallet(s)…
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Using /16 prefix for IP bucketing
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z init message: Loading P2P addresses…
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Loaded 22415 addresses from peers.dat  71ms
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z init message: Loading banlist…
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z SetNetworkActive: true
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Script verification uses 7 additional threads
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Cache configuration:
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z * Using 2.0 MiB for block index database
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z * Using 56.0 MiB for transaction index database
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z * Using 8.0 MiB for chain state database
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z * Using 384.0 MiB for in-memory UTXO set (plus up to 286.1 MiB of unused mempool space)
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z init message: Loading block index…
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Assuming ancestors of block 000000000001323071f38f21ea5aae529ece491eadaccce506a59bcc2d968917 have valid signatures.
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Setting nMinimumChainWork=000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000c59b14e264ba6c15db9
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Opening LevelDB in /Volumes/Crucial X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3/testnet3/blocks/index
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Opened LevelDB successfully
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Using obfuscation key for /Volumes/Crucial X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3/testnet3/blocks/index: 0000000000000000
2024-03-21T12:25:18Z LoadBlockIndexDB: last block file = 243
2024-03-21T12:25:18Z LoadBlockIndexDB: last block file info: CBlockFileInfo(blocks=377, size=77285114, heights=2582462...2582883, time=2024-03-18...2024-03-21)
2024-03-21T12:25:18Z Checking all blk files are present...
2024-03-21T12:25:23Z Initializing chainstate Chainstate [ibd] @ height -1 (null)
2024-03-21T12:25:23Z Opening LevelDB in /Volumes/Crucial X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3/testnet3/chainstate
2024-03-21T12:25:23Z Opened LevelDB successfully
2024-03-21T12:25:23Z Using obfuscation key for /Volumes/Crucial X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3/testnet3/chainstate: 15c231132368eddf
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z Loaded best chain: hashBestChain=0000000001413dd752ecefeb8cd5d84fe3fb2fc8b5f9f6fc5ee3e927d63ee3e3 height=2582883 date=2024-03-21T09:53:33Z progress=0.999821
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z Opening LevelDB in /Volumes/Crucial X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3/testnet3/chainstate
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z Opened LevelDB successfully
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z Using obfuscation key for /Volumes/Crucial X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3/testnet3/chainstate: 15c231132368eddf
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z [Chainstate [ibd] @ height 2582883 (0000000001413dd752ecefeb8cd5d84fe3fb2fc8b5f9f6fc5ee3e927d63ee3e3)] resized coinsdb cache to 8.0 MiB
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z [Chainstate [ibd] @ height 2582883 (0000000001413dd752ecefeb8cd5d84fe3fb2fc8b5f9f6fc5ee3e927d63ee3e3)] resized coinstip cache to 384.0 MiB
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z init message: Verifying blocks…
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z Verifying last 6 blocks at level 3
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z Verification progress: 0%
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z Verification progress: 16%
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z Verification progress: 33%
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z Verification progress: 50%
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z Verification progress: 66%
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z Verification progress: 83%
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z Verification progress: 99%
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z Verification: No coin database inconsistencies in last 6 blocks (3224 transactions)
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z  block index           14582ms
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z Opening LevelDB in /Volumes/Crucial X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3/testnet3/indexes/txindex
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z Opened LevelDB successfully
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z Using obfuscation key for /Volumes/Crucial X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3/testnet3/indexes/txindex: 0000000000000000
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z Setting NODE_NETWORK on non-prune mode
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z block tree size = 2582900
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z nBestHeight = 2582883
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z initload thread start
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z txindex thread start
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z torcontrol thread start
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z txindex is enabled at height 2582883
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z txindex thread exit
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z Loading 0 mempool transactions from disk...
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z Imported mempool transactions from disk: 0 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 expired, 0 already there, 0 waiting for initial broadcast
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z AddLocal([2a02:a03f:65fc:3900:d3:ed27:d3be:fce4]:18333,1)
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z initload thread exit
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z Discover: IPv6 en0: 2a02:a03f:65fc:3900:d3:ed27:d3be:fce4
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z AddLocal([2a02:a03f:65fc:3900:3128:fcaf:af7e:67bf]:18333,1)
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z Discover: IPv6 en0: 2a02:a03f:65fc:3900:3128:fcaf:af7e:67bf
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z Bound to 127.0.0.1:18334
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z Bound to [::]:18333
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z Bound to 0.0.0.0:18333
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z Loaded 2 addresses from "anchors.dat"
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z 2 block-relay-only anchors will be tried for connections.
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z init message: Starting network threads…
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z net thread start
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z msghand thread start
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z init message: Done loading
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z dnsseed thread start
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z addcon thread start
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z opencon thread start
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z Waiting 300 seconds before querying DNS seeds.
2024-03-21T12:25:26Z New block-relay-only v1 peer connected: version: 70016, blocks=2582896, peer=0
2024-03-21T12:25:26Z New block-relay-only v1 peer connected: version: 70015, blocks=2582896, peer=1
2024-03-21T12:25:26Z Leaving InitialBlockDownload (latching to false)
2024-03-21T12:25:27Z New outbound-full-relay v1 peer connected: version: 70016, blocks=2582896, peer=2
2024-03-21T12:25:41Z UpdateTip: new best=0000000000001d479ec743b442d19ca113a8bb515657375e5bc73bb427589b58 height=2582884 version=0x24000000 log2_work=75.721318 tx=74493222 date='2024-03-21T10:13:35Z' progress=0.999844 cache=1.4MiB(10376txo)
2024-03-21T12:25:41Z UpdateTip: new best=000000000005f611289a6a6b9c25e48a88c6345971a66f93597b021e6c02305a height=2582885 version=0x20006000 log2_work=75.721318 tx=74494054 date='2024-03-21T10:33:36Z' progress=0.999868 cache=1.7MiB(12475txo)
2024-03-21T12:25:41Z UpdateTip: new best=0000000000000014aa6098952b4f6305d22f403ffe1c367f1aced9595049ba87 height=2582886 version=0x20006000 log2_work=75.721327 tx=74494316 date='2024-03-21T10:34:33Z' progress=0.999869 cache=1.7MiB(12646txo)
2024-03-21T12:25:42Z UpdateTip: new best=00000000000000281c1641f68b6c2434b5e82b31a910e76f99f5d95d9b136e91 height=2582887 version=0x27000000 log2_work=75.721337 tx=74494894 date='2024-03-21T10:45:18Z' progress=0.999882 cache=1.8MiB(13913txo)
2024-03-21T12:25:42Z UpdateTip: new best=000000000000000794b75c5810e374fd09dd9a4a57c9acabd448906ad8af05eb height=2582888 version=0x2d108000 log2_work=75.721347 tx=74495471 date='2024-03-21T10:53:25Z' progress=0.999891 cache=2.1MiB(14848txo)
2024-03-21T12:25:42Z New outbound-full-relay v1 peer connected: version: 70016, blocks=2582896, peer=3
2024-03-21T12:25:42Z New outbound-full-relay v1 peer connected: version: 70016, blocks=2582896, peer=4
2024-03-21T12:25:42Z UpdateTip: new best=00000000000000188c9c97985ec2f55f5f6bec62d64c6398c8f5febdddc48ac3 height=2582889 version=0x20400000 log2_work=75.721356 tx=74495570 date='2024-03-21T11:08:55Z' progress=0.999909 cache=2.1MiB(14996txo)
2024-03-21T12:25:42Z UpdateTip: new best=0000000000000001fca621083c80470ee09dafbd8c004d3ac6c2137a04d0e14e height=2582890 version=0x20800000 log2_work=75.721366 tx=74495576 date='2024-03-21T11:09:41Z' progress=0.999910 cache=2.1MiB(15003txo)
2024-03-21T12:25:43Z UpdateTip: new best=000000000015113b2f8571b60a0083f78cb63dfb58a8a97ed7fb2b01f21a6d56 height=2582891 version=0x20000000 log2_work=75.721366 tx=74497178 date='2024-03-21T11:29:42Z' progress=0.999934 cache=2.4MiB(18049txo)
2024-03-21T12:25:43Z UpdateTip: new best=000000000000000a32bf07228860ccfbbc151604895d80b0c6421fd8c80d5aed height=2582892 version=0x20600000 log2_work=75.721376 tx=74497691 date='2024-03-21T11:36:27Z' progress=0.999942 cache=2.6MiB(19052txo)
2024-03-21T12:25:44Z UpdateTip: new best=0000000022c6cf5f7d952fcef00187b65f602f7dd19437addbb0be705329b5f5 height=2582893 version=0x20000000 log2_work=75.721376 tx=74498416 date='2024-03-21T11:56:29Z' progress=0.999966 cache=2.7MiB(20552txo)
2024-03-21T12:25:44Z UpdateTip: new best=00000000000000245745b0c766f31eefb68659815497e00b7e9b1cd055b68800 height=2582894 version=0x20200000 log2_work=75.721385 tx=74498439 date='2024-03-21T11:58:16Z' progress=0.999968 cache=2.7MiB(20576txo)
2024-03-21T12:25:44Z UpdateTip: new best=000000000000000ecac067910bd15815af4eec6c548104da35e3ceade9c5427c height=2582895 version=0x264a8000 log2_work=75.721395 tx=74498931 date='2024-03-21T12:03:26Z' progress=0.999974 cache=2.9MiB(21240txo)
2024-03-21T12:25:44Z New outbound-full-relay v1 peer connected: version: 70016, blocks=2582896, peer=5
2024-03-21T12:25:44Z UpdateTip: new best=000000000000001938c3292b75d0135886a215b123ee409e80bde56e13e50e5c height=2582896 version=0x20800000 log2_work=75.721404 tx=74499797 date='2024-03-21T12:17:47Z' progress=0.999991 cache=3.0MiB(23166txo)
2024-03-21T12:25:46Z P2P peers available. Skipped DNS seeding.
2024-03-21T12:25:46Z dnsseed thread exit
2024-03-21T12:26:00Z New outbound-full-relay v1 peer connected: version: 70015, blocks=2582896, peer=6
2024-03-21T12:26:01Z New outbound-full-relay v1 peer connected: version: 70016, blocks=2582896, peer=7
2024-03-21T12:26:02Z New outbound-full-relay v1 peer connected: version: 70016, blocks=2582896, peer=8
2024-03-21T12:26:02Z New outbound-full-relay v1 peer connected: version: 70016, blocks=2582896, peer=9
2024-03-21T12:29:27Z New block-relay-only v2 peer connected: version: 70016, blocks=2582896, peer=10

Why don't you just share the debug.log? At least everyone here can figure out what the problem is, and If I may know where the settings.json (testnet) is located? Is it right in the X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3/testnet3 folder or is it instead in the X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3 folder?

It seems like the problem is the settings.json file. It is automatically generated by Bitcoin Core and in testnet no wallets are produced but in mainnet I have all wallets. 

Ok, thanks for the first flag!

But for the loadwallets why? I never used it and everything worked well testnet as well as mainnet.
Is it only the dual dash you think?

If you want to use /Volumes/Crucial\ X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3 dir as your testnet dir;
You should use: bitcoind --datadir=/Volumes/Crucial\ X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin --testnet instead.
Since it's set to -testnet, it will automatically create a "/testnet3" folder in the specified -datadir.

Wallets have to be manually loaded and set to be loaded on startup if you prefer,
Use the command: $ bitcoin-cli --datadir=/Volumes/Crucial\ X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin --testnet loadwallet "walletname" true
Set to "false" if you don't want it to load in the next session.

Ok thanks for your answer. It works for the RPC command.

But I still don't see my wallets loaded I don't understand why:


2024-03-20T14:20:00Z Using wallet directory /Volumes/Crucial X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3/testnet3/wallets
2024-03-20T14:20:00Z init message: Verifying wallet(s)…
2024-03-20T14:20:00Z Using /16 prefix for IP bucketing
2024-03-20T14:20:00Z init message: Loading P2P addresses…
2024-03-20T14:20:00Z Loaded 6497 addresses from peers.dat  19ms



$ bitcoin-cli -testnet -datadir=/Volumes/Crucial\ X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3 listwallets   
[
]



Don't have any ideas about why.

It doesn't work because you didn't write the command line arguments correctly. Before the RPC command you must provide -datadir=/Volumes/Crucial\ X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3 argument.
To be able to access the wallet, you must first write a specific wallet file by adding the -rpcwallet= argument before the RPC command.

So what you should do is

and you must always provide -rpcwallet=, if the RPC request is regarding one of the wallets you own

Code:

$ bitcoin-cli -testnet -datadir=/Volumes/Crucial\ X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3 -rpcwallet= getwalletinfo

Hello everyone,

I post a message here cause I'm bothering to struggle too much with my bitcoind testnet and need some help to understand what's happening.

Before everything was working good. I updated the last version Bitcoin Core version v27.99.0-015ac13dcc96 and now a lot of issues with my testnet node...

So where to begin?

I'm on MacOS (LTS) and I'm using an external hard disk to store everything.

PATH=/Volumes/Crucial\ X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin

I first struggled with config cause my `bitcoind` can't apply [test] section I don't know why. So, I'm using ./testnet3/bitcoin.conf.


# Testnet bitcoin.conf
printtoconsole=1
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
testnet=1
[test]
rpcport=18332
rpcbind=127.0.0.1


I'm running the node with: bitcoind -datadir=/Volumes/Crucial\ X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3 -txindex=1 -testnet

I copied blocks and indexes into ./testnet3/testnet3 ^^' cause apparently if ./testnet3 is the datadir it will create a testnet3 nested folder.

The cookie file is into ./testnet3, but when I launch bitcoin-cli it told me:

$ bitcoin-cli -testnet -conf=/Volumes/Crucial\ X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3/bitcoin.conf help                     
error: Could not locate RPC credentials. No authentication cookie could be found, and RPC password is not set.  See -rpcpassword and -stdinrpcpass.  Configuration file: (/Volumes/Crucial X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3/bitcoin.conf)


This is the first problem quite important.

BUT a second problem: my wallets stored into ./testnet3/wallets AND ./testnet3/testnet3/wallets are not opened by the node:

2024-03-20T11:55:06Z Using wallet directory /Volumes/Crucial X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3/testnet3/wallets
2024-03-20T11:55:06Z init message: Verifying wallet(s)…
2024-03-20T11:55:06Z Using /16 prefix for IP bucketing

 
It verifies wallets but nothing after...

If I launch the node in mainnet, from PATH (./) wallets are well opened. I don't uderstand why, what happen and no idea about how to solve it.

I can give any additional required details about this to try to solve it ^^'

Thank you in advance for your consideration