# Errors Trying to open a new Lightning Channel

**URL:** <https://community.umbrel.com/t/errors-trying-to-open-a-new-lightning-channel/448>\
**Category:** Support and Troubleshooting\
**Created:** [May 3, 2021, 11:07am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/errors-trying-to-open-a-new-lightning-channel/448 "2021-05-03T11:07:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![CElston](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.umbrel.com/celston/32/276_2.png) [@CElston](https://community.umbrel.com/u/CElston)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 11:07am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/errors-trying-to-open-a-new-lightning-channel/448/1 "2021-05-03T11:07:46Z")

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Trying to open a new lightning channel and I keep getting this error:

Unable to connect to peer, socks connect tcp 10.21.21.11:9050-\>91.228.214.95:9735: unknown error general SOCKS server failure

Thoughts?

UPDATE: I was able to open a channel to another Umbrel Node from this community. But I couldn’t open a channel to a few other well known nodes.

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**Author:** ![Robvb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Robvb](https://community.umbrel.com/u/Robvb)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 2:28pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/errors-trying-to-open-a-new-lightning-channel/448/2 "2021-05-03T14:28:23Z")

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I have the same problem, I cannot add a new peer with RTL app because of the same error.

UPDATE: Problem solved itself after waiting a couple of minutes…

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**Author:** ![Abolfazl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Abolfazl](https://community.umbrel.com/u/Abolfazl)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2023, 3:00pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/errors-trying-to-open-a-new-lightning-channel/448/3 "2023-04-13T15:00:16Z")

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Hi, no one has yet answered I have this problem and I don’t know what to do please daht