Hello,
I have tried restarting, powering down, uninstalling all app then reinstalling bitcoin and lightning apps and then restarting and now when I go into the bitcoin app it just says Starting…
I tried going into ~/umbrel/app-data/bitcoin/data/bitcoin but i only see bitcoin.conf and umbrel-bitcoin.conf so I am not sure else else to start the sync process again
Thanks for you help!
In my case the solution was reflashing Umbrel OS on a new SD card.
OK great thank you very much, did that affect your wallet balances at all?
Nope, the data is stored on the separate SSD. I had it all back. I kept the old SD card, just in case. But wasn’t necessary.
Thank you Ill try reflashing the SD card, thanks!
Hope it solves your issue!
Hi, I reflashed my sd card with Umblre but it still says Starting
Is there anything else I can do?
Have you tried restarting it from your terminal using ssh? But sounds weird, I had the issue but after reflashing it worked like a charm. Well, Specter can’t connect yet but I guess that’s another issue… I don’t know if the recent updates have anything to do with it.
Hi thanks for the help. I used Putty to sudo reboot but it still just says starting on the bitcoin app, so not sure if there is anything else that I can do to get it back working
Check the bitcoind log, after completing the ssh login to umbrel: tail -f /home/umbrel/app-data/bitcoin/data/bitcoin/debug.log
When I go to that directory location there is no debug log
That’s different. Every instance of bitcoind I have ran creates this file. Can you check /home/umbrel/.bitcoin and see if the debug.log is there. I always manually link the bitcoin data directory to /home/umbrel/.bitcoin since I store the bitcoin data on a separate drive and check the log fairly often.
I tried checking but I dont see the .bitcoin folder
It sounds like bitcoind isn’ t running.
Shell command: sudo docker ps | grep bitcoind
How are you using umbrel? Running on Pi or Home or Ubuntu?
If it is a new installation I would delete/rename the current umbrel directory and try installing/flashing a new instance of umbrel.
Should I run this command?
I am using it on a Pi, I just reflashed the SD card to try and get Bitcoin to start syncing
How do I delete the current directory? Also doesnt that happen when I reflash the SD card?
Yes, deleteing the umbrel directory happens on reflash of the SDcard. Deleting the directory was a suggestion, if you chose not to reflash. You can use the command if bitcoin fails to complete startup with the new flash.
OK I ran that command to restart bitcoind I checked the app page and it still says Starting
i also have the same problem, i even bought a new SD card, same.
Its a bit crazy
Yes I still havent found a solution even after updating to the newest OS and it still says Starting
Hello! Same situacion here. I have a BTC+ LN node mounted on a Raspi 4. The node worked fine until a while ago. Then I got stuck in the BTC startup (starting…). Reinstall the SD, and now update the OS to version 1.0 (which is excellent). But it cannot start the node. I need help. What I can do? Thank you