Hello everyone. I had a really bad luck some days ago. Internet went down in the whole area. I was updating Lightning Node, LNDg and NoLooking when this happened. Since the connection is not going to be restored anytime soon, I had to move my Pi to my friend’s house. I managed to start it up. …

I finally solved it. I think it was also due to my friend’s router or the ethernet cable he gave me. Basically, I shut down umbrel, shut down my friend’s router, changed AC wall adapter for the router, changed ethernet cable, started the pi/umbrel again. Everything started correctly again, except…

you should try to shutdown the Umbrel and turn it on again. Also check if your Bitcoin node is 100% sync?

Yes, I have already tried it with no success. However, I managed to unlock at least the lightning wallet app. I used this command via ssh: sudo ~/umbrel/scripts/app restart lightning It seems the app managed to update and start. I was able to access it through the umbrel dashboard/gui. For a …

I was using Umbrel Automatic Channel Recovery and was able to recover satoshi without a recent backup channel file. It, however, will force close all of your existing channels. https://twitter.com/umbrel/status/1562099972547690501 Is your Bitcoin node 100% synced now? Anyway, I suggest you would …

Indeed, the Bitcoin Node is 100% synced. Thank you for pointing that guide! I will keep it as last option for now. If I perform a recovery, the last automatic backup should be date 1st May (not too long ago). I will keep this thread updated. Thank you again.

Just an additional question: did you really mean that all existing channels would be force-closed after a recovery, or maybe there is a possibility that only those opened after the last backup date will be closed?

For me, all channels were force closed. I don’t think we have an option to selective close some channels.

Lightning apps (lnd, lndg, etc...) stuck in "starting"

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robo May 7, 2023, 8:08pm 8

this may be related problem… Upgrade LND stuck at "starting" v 0.16.2

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