I just had my umbrel (installed in a notebook throught ubuntu - linux) in a restarting looping and it didn’t restore the apps. I used it for a lightning node and sudently my bitcoins disapeared from lightning node wallet. It took me hours to figured out what happend and this may happen to you as well. As I tried to re-install the umbrel, it didn’t work either, and after several trials I decided to try to backup my wallet so maybe I could not lose all my bitcoins. The first thing I did was to find where the data was in the ubuntu. That was easy, all the data is in root in a folder called umbrel. The important thing I did was to rename this folder to “umbrel backup 1” so when I would attempt to re-install umbrel I would not override the data where my bitcoins where. Then I started to re-install umbrel and it did not went thru, leaving a message and here is why umbrel was in that loop: The TOR connection was active and it does not allow umbrel to close or to start. The solution I looked for in chatGPT:
- Open the ubuntu terminal
- copy this to stop TOR connection: sudo service tor stop
- press enter
- then copy this to not allow TOR connection to start automatically when you power on your computer: sudo systemctl disable tor
- press enter
- the last thing is to verify if your commands where validated by copying this in terminal: sudo service tor status
- the answer should show that you did well.
After that umbrel returned, but all the apps where lost (maybe because my attempt to re-install umbrel). As soon as I re-installed the apps my bitcoin wallet was there, intacted, with my nodes I had stablished.
I hope I could help some one that went through the same trouble.