Majority of channels go offline and never come back....until reboot

Thanks for the comment and the great guide. Yes, after going hybrid, things work perfectly.

Yes, indeed, closing and reopening the channels with lots of changes it can help.
Yes LND 0.15 is waited, but I am not so sure that we will see big improvements right now. Maybe a 20% reduction but no more.

This just happened to me, after changing color in terminal I did a reboot (not sure if I had to), and out of 50 channels only 13 came back, I did uninstall all apps and all channels got back on even without rebooting, you saved me PHEW!!

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I had this exact same issue as well. Looking at ‘top’ the tor process was going insane on CPU and mem. The only app that I have installed besides RTL is the Samourai Dojo - and I let the run to remix which uses tor as well.

I will see if this issue doesn’t resurface as long as I am avoiding using Samourai.

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All,

I have the same issue - and I am thoroughly convinced it is a TOR issue.


tor | Aug 16 16:15:34.000 [notice] Tried for 120 seconds to get a connection to [scrubbed]:9736. Giving up. (waiting for circuit)
tor | Aug 16 16:15:35.000 [notice] Tried for 120 seconds to get a connection to [scrubbed]:9735. Giving up. (waiting for circuit)
tor | Aug 16 16:15:35.000 [notice] Tried for 120 seconds to get a connection to [scrubbed]:9735. Giving up. (waiting for circuit)
tor | Aug 16 16:15:35.000 [notice] Tried for 120 seconds to get a connection to [scrubbed]:9735. Giving up. (waiting for circuit)
tor | Aug 16 16:15:35.000 [notice] Tried for 120 seconds to get a connection to [scrubbed]:9735. Giving up. (waiting for circuit)
tor | Aug 16 16:15:35.000 [notice] Tried for 120 seconds to get a connection to [scrubbed]:9735. Giving up. (waiting for circuit)

tor_server_1 | Aug 16 15:41:18.000 [notice] Your system clock just jumped 4817 seconds forward; assuming established circuits no longer work.
tor_server_1 | Aug 16 15:42:30.000 [notice] No circuits are opened. Relaxed timeout for circuit 104 (a Hidden service: Uploading HS descriptor 4-hop circuit in state doing handshakes with channel state open) to 60000ms. However, it appears the circuit has timed out anyway.

I don’t know yet how to address tor through the command line. There may be a solution is providing tor with guidance.

Thank you for your views.

Best, m

Small update:
I closed a few channels - including 5satoshi (very strange fee structure, automatic fee setting?) , sphinxrouting-fceb9955a9 (300+ channels, including many 20k sats channels) - and suddenly my node seems stable again.
Also Terminal Web score jumped by several 100 places up…

Conclusion - it seems node stability can be impacted by connected nodes - something for LND developers to build resilience against…

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