# Lightning node not starting properly (Sync and still in the process of starting)

**URL:** <https://community.umbrel.com/t/lightning-node-not-starting-properly-sync-and-still-in-the-process-of-starting/16504>\
**Category:** Bitcoin and Lightning\
**Created:** [April 21, 2024, 6:11am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/lightning-node-not-starting-properly-sync-and-still-in-the-process-of-starting/16504 "2024-04-21T06:11:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Sanja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@Sanja](https://community.umbrel.com/u/Sanja)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2024, 6:11am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/lightning-node-not-starting-properly-sync-and-still-in-the-process-of-starting/16504/1 "2024-04-21T06:11:13Z")

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Hello Everyone !

My Pi5 restarted, and after that I updated Umbrel OS to 1.1.  
After that I had issues with my bitcoin apps, including node.  
I managed to get them running, but my lightning node looks like is stuck.

When I select recover channels I get a message:  
Lightning Node is currently syncing.

When I try to close the channels I get:

Unable to close channel, server is still in the process of starting  
lightning\_app\_1 | /v1/lnd/channel/close  
lightning\_app\_1 | LndError: Unable to close channel  
lightning\_app\_1 | at ClientReadableStream. (/app/apps/backend/services/lnd.js:194:20)  
lightning\_app\_1 | at ClientReadableStream.emit (node:events:513:28)  
lightning\_app\_1 | at ClientReadableStream.\_emitStatusIfDone (/app/node\_modules/grpc/src/client.js:234:12)  
lightning\_app\_1 | at ClientReadableStream.\_receiveStatus (/app/node\_modules/grpc/src/client.js:211:8)  
lightning\_app\_1 | at Object.onReceiveStatus (/app/node\_modules/grpc/src/client\_interceptors.js:1277:15)  
lightning\_app\_1 | at InterceptingListener.\_callNext (/app/node\_modules/grpc/src/client\_interceptors.js:568:42)  
lightning\_app\_1 | at InterceptingListener.onReceiveStatus (/app/node\_modules/grpc/src/client\_interceptors.js:618:8)  
lightning\_app\_1 | at /app/node\_modules/grpc/src/client\_interceptors.js:1033:24  
lightning\_app\_1 | ::ffff:10.21.0.4 - - [Sat, 20 Apr 2024 12:42:22 GMT] “DELETE /v1/lnd/channel/close HTTP/1.1” 500 69 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/124.0.0.0 Safari/537.36”

I can see my BTC wallet and my lightning wallet.

First I left it for some 7hours, but nothing happened.  
Does anyone know what is happening ?  
Thanks 🙂

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**Author:** ![Sanja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@Sanja](https://community.umbrel.com/u/Sanja)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2024, 11:03am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/lightning-node-not-starting-properly-sync-and-still-in-the-process-of-starting/16504/2 "2024-04-28T11:03:21Z")

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Hello Everyone !

Did not manage to get lightning node back online. Only made it worse.  
So I did a wallet restoration on Blixt wallet. On-chain funds are back, but still waiting for funds from channel. The automated fee is a bit low, so need to wait some time, or just do a RFB.