Unable to connect to peer, server is still in the process of starting

Support and Troubleshooting
1

I am trying to open my first channel with this node and am getting this error in both Lightning node: “Unable to connect to peer, server is still in the process of starting”

Ride the lightning error when opening channel: “Server is still in the process of starting”

This is after my pi has been online for more than a week. So I have since shutdown, and restarted to see if that helps, but it does not.

I can open both the bitcoin node app and the lightning node app in umbrel and everything looks OK, I even have funds waiting in the lightning app to open channels with, but I am stuck.

Umbrel logs are here: https://pastebin.com/bKPDTE1z

Please can someone let me know if something is blatantly wrong as I am having so many problems and struggling to get things to work out of the box.

2

Looks like you are out of memory. Try deleting some apps you don’t necessarily need now and try again.

3

I only have a few apps installed and want to use them all. Where did you see that it is out of memory in the logs? What is normal amount of apps for a raspberry pi 4?
I tried again this morning, still same error saying the server is starting, but its been up since yesterday

4

I just noticed it says free: 126M. But you have 8GB, that should be more than enough for the apps you’re running… I would try to remove apps like mempool and see if it helps just to rule out the memory issue.

5

I removed mempool, but still have the same error.

Screenshot 2022-10-18 at 13-53-48 Lightning Node — Umbrel
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From the logs:

Screenshot 2022-10-18 at 13-56-24 Umbrel

I am about to give up on umbrel to be honest…so frustrating

6

I’ve got this exact same issue. Running latest OS 0.5.2 and LND 0.15.3-beta. Has been working well as a lightning node for many months, and now useless. Please can someone from Umbrel figure this out? Just get error in the logs:

2022-10-29 20:18:59.527 [ERR] RPCS: [/lnrpc.Lightning/ConnectPeer]: server is still in the process of starting

7

Ah, actually this started working again for me after an hour or so. I didn’t do anything.

8

I also updated to the latest version of Umbrel, and I still have exactly the same issue. I cannot open any channels, error still says “Server is still in the process of starting”.

9

I see my LND version is: 0.15.1-beta

Does anyone know how to update this? Maybe this is causing the problem I am having…anyone?

10

Hello! Did you solved it? I had to restore from the backup file and the transactions were not submitted due to this. I can’t recover my funds as all the channels are pending to be closed and I can’t add any peer due to this.

11

Running the following command has now finally allowed me to see the update button, and update LND to the latest version:

sudo rm -rf ~/umbrel/repos/https—github-com-getumbrel-umbrel-apps-git

Once that is done, I ran:

sudo ~/umbrel/scripts/repo update.

This time I get no more errors. After rebooting I am finally able to perform updates in the GUI.