Well, the unix sysadmin skills took over while waiting… Here’s the scoop. I made sure the service was stopped and then hunted for the file I needed.
Here’s the solution should you need to do this in an emergency:
On the umbrel home server do the following:
cd ~/umbrel/app-data/lightning/data/lightning$
cp settings.json vi settings.json.orig
and then edit the settings file with your fav editor. I use vi.
vi settings.json
and find the error, make the correction, force save the file, and exit.
Restart the application from the gui and see if it comes back to life.
Proceed with caution and don’t go here unless you must.
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