# Electrs fails, reinstallation does not help

**URL:** https://community.umbrel.com/t/electrs-fails-reinstallation-does-not-help/21834
**Category:** Support and Troubleshooting
**Created:** [March 16, 2025, 6:27am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/electrs-fails-reinstallation-does-not-help/21834 "2025-03-16T06:27:46Z")
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### Author: ![mi.scha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@mi.scha](https://community.umbrel.com/u/mi.scha)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2025, 6:27am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/electrs-fails-reinstallation-does-not-help/21834/1 "2025-03-16T06:27:46Z")

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Electrs never worked at my umbrel. Log shows:  
Caused by:  
electrs\_electrs\_1 | 0: bitcoin p2p failed to connect: 10.21.21.20:8443  
electrs\_electrs\_1 | 1: Connection refused (os error 111)  
electrs\_electrs\_1 | Starting electrs 0.10.9 on aarch64 linux with Config { network: Bitcoin, db\_path: “/data/db/bitcoin”, db\_log\_dir: None, db\_parallelism: 1, daemon\_auth: CookieFile(“/data/.bitcoin/.cookie”), daemon\_rpc\_addr: 10.21.21.20:8442, daemon\_p2p\_addr: 10.21.21.20:8443, electrum\_rpc\_addr: 0.0.0.0:50001, monitoring\_addr: 127.0.0.1:4224, wait\_duration: 10s, jsonrpc\_timeout: 15s, index\_batch\_size: 10, index\_lookup\_limit: None, reindex\_last\_blocks: 0, auto\_reindex: true, ignore\_mempool: false, sync\_once: false, skip\_block\_download\_wait: false, disable\_electrum\_rpc: false, server\_banner: “Umbrel Electrs (0.10.9)”, signet\_magic: f9beb4d9 }  
electrs\_electrs\_1 | [2025-03-16T06:02:35.665Z INFO electrs::metrics::metrics\_impl] serving Prometheus metrics on 127.0.0.1:4224  
electrs\_electrs\_1 | [2025-03-16T06:02:35.665Z INFO electrs::server] serving Electrum RPC on 0.0.0.0:50001  
electrs\_electrs\_1 | [2025-03-16T06:02:36.416Z INFO electrs::db] “/data/db/bitcoin”: 645 SST files, 0.000656588 GB, 0.000000021 Grows  
electrs\_electrs\_1 | [2025-03-16T06:02:36.600Z INFO electrs::db] closing DB at /data/db/bitcoin  
electrs\_electrs\_1 | Error: electrs failed

What can I do? I use libre-relay, it is fully synchronised since months and working fine. Can connect directly to libre-relay with sparrow. I tried to use electrumX or Fulcrum instead of electrs - nothing works.