# Electrs stuck at "connecting to Electrs server..."

**URL:** <https://community.umbrel.com/t/electrs-stuck-at-connecting-to-electrs-server/21037>\
**Category:** Support and Troubleshooting\
**Created:** [January 20, 2025, 5:26pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/electrs-stuck-at-connecting-to-electrs-server/21037 "2025-01-20T17:26:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Don911](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Don911](https://community.umbrel.com/u/Don911)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2025, 6:12pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/electrs-stuck-at-connecting-to-electrs-server/21037/7 "2025-08-17T18:12:00Z")

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I have the same issue. I have tried both Electrs and Fulcrum and they both show “Running” but also “Connecting to Electrs server…”. If I try to enable them in sparrow, I get the message “Connection failed: Socket Error (SOCKS server general failure)”. I have tried to uninstall/reinstall Electrs but it didn’t help. I’m running Umbrel on a RPi 4 with 8GB of RAM and I have tried both with local network and over Tor. My Bitcoin node is fully synced and I have waited 48h for Electrs and Fulcrum (separately) to sync. But I have not seen a progress bar as others have mentioned here. Any ideas how to get this to work?

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