# The Guide where your Lightning close-transaction can't get the channel closed

**URL:** <https://community.umbrel.com/t/the-guide-where-your-lightning-close-transaction-cant-get-the-channel-closed/15096>\
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**Created:** [February 4, 2024, 2:26am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/the-guide-where-your-lightning-close-transaction-cant-get-the-channel-closed/15096 "2024-02-04T02:26:24Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 18, 2024, 4:50am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/the-guide-where-your-lightning-close-transaction-cant-get-the-channel-closed/15096/25 "2024-07-18T04:50:06Z")

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@jlu @Hakuna  
Hi mates, thanks for getting back to me.  
I don’t think the channel is closing because I can see transaction I made for opening the channel and my fund is sitting there in a wallet

I’m running on Raspi4 , Umbrel OS 0.5.4

So to give you a background of my issue, my node was offline, tried to restore the lightning, everything worked and force closed, except one channel which I have 1 mil sat sitting there, the channel state is waiting close but it shows 0 inbound and outbound(see attached)

 ![IMG_1585](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/getumbrel/original/2X/f/f9f634b8cacd1b8839c7b4918b71b74348de0c0e.jpeg)  
 ![IMG_1586](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/getumbrel/original/2X/0/0cbe50ea33807619516132456baa375bf74eac06.png)

The remote peer seems to be also offline for couple months.

I followed this instruction:

> [@Restored wallet - two channels won't close](https://community.umbrel.com/t/restored-wallet-two-channels-wont-close/4672/4):
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> Was this ever resolved? I have the same issue

I managed to install the chantools but running into this error when I try to force close:

error parsing channel point: invalid channel point format: [ed76e2777c449526cfc581c63a9226a71e0854c362984b0391cb4a2012d69b7e]

I can’t find the channel on LND but the channel point redirects me to the initial transaction which I initiated to open the channel and as I said I can see the 1 mil sats sitting there in a wallet:

> **[The Mempool Open Source Project®](https://mempool.space/tx/ed76e2777c449526cfc581c63a9226a71e0854c362984b0391cb4a2012d69b7e)**
>
> Explore the full Bitcoin ecosystem with The Mempool Open Source Project®. See the real-time status of your transactions, get network info, and more.

I have no idea what is going on and how can I recover my fund!

I really appreciate if you could assist me

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