Hi, my umbrel suddenly cannot open any new lightning channels. After filling out the address and the amount of sats, I get: “Unable to conneect to peer, soks connect tcp xx.xx unknown error general SOCKS server failure” I read somewhere, that it might be related to the port, but I could previousl…

Have you tried to restart your Umbrel? Sorry if it’s obvious.

Hi, thanks for the reply! I restarted multiple times and uninstalled RTL, nothing helped so far.

I have the same issue. Error when opening a channel: Unable to connect to peer, socks connect tcp [ABCDEFG].onion:9735: unknown error host unreachable. My node: 100% synchronized, up to date, has been running for a few weeks, channels were possible before. I tried: shutting down; restarting, …

Thanks for replying. The V3_onion_private_key is has a size of 99, so I do not seem to have the same problem. I also replied in the thread linked in your reply.

Then is not this issue. I don’t think is necessary to delete that file then.

The issue still remains that I cannot open a channel in Lightning. Someone opened a channel to me (in a channel swap), but I cannot complete the swap on my end :frowning: After the investigation using SSH, I did a final shut down of the umbrel node from within the web interface. Currently, I can n…

After reflashing I could access my umbrel. After restarting my umbrel from the web interface, it was behaving normally (e.g. displays the $ equivalent of my sats). Still stuck with being unable to open channels: Unable to connect to peer, socks connect tcp [ABZEDFG]:9735: unknown error host unrea…

I was able to open a channel now. I have no idea what has changed since my last post.

Hi, I also have this problem and I have been stuck in opening channels for about a week please help thank you

Suddenly cannot open new Channels

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DarthCoin July 10, 2021, 8:49am 5

check this one maybe can help.

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