# Wallets are synchronizing forever

**URL:** <https://community.umbrel.com/t/wallets-are-synchronizing-forever/4347>\
**Category:** Support and Troubleshooting\
**Created:** [October 28, 2021, 7:11am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/wallets-are-synchronizing-forever/4347 "2021-10-28T07:11:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
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**Author:** ![be\_lockay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c89c15/32.png) [@be\_lockay](https://community.umbrel.com/u/be_lockay)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 7:11am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/wallets-are-synchronizing-forever/4347/1 "2021-10-28T07:11:07Z")

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Bitcoin Core is 100% and running. Wallets stuck synchronizing. I haven’t connected any wallets yet, was waiting for the blockchain to be 100%. Can’t find anything with the same error logs as me. LndError: unable to get wallet balance? Any help appreciated.

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/getumbrel/original/2X/e/e25707aa41e00781b4c36a9ea3c1f271f636519e.png)

## Umbrel logs

Attaching to middleware, manager  
middleware | at callback (/app/node\_modules/grpc/src/client\_interceptors.js:847:24)  
middleware | ::ffff:10.21.21.2 - - [Thu, 28 Oct 2021 07:09:16 GMT] “GET /v1/lnd/transaction HTTP/1.0” 500 74 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10\_15\_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/93.0.4577.63 Safari/537.36”  
middleware |  
middleware | umbrel-middleware  
middleware | Unable to get wallet balance, failed to connect to all addresses  
middleware | /v1/lnd/wallet/btc  
middleware | LndError: Unable to get wallet balance  
middleware | at /app/services/lnd.js:69:18  
middleware | at Object.onReceiveStatus (/app/node\_modules/grpc/src/client\_interceptors.js:1210:9)  
middleware | at InterceptingListener.\_callNext (/app/node\_modules/grpc/src/client\_interceptors.js:568:42)  
middleware | at InterceptingListener.onReceiveStatus (/app/node\_modules/grpc/src/client\_interceptors.js:618:8)  
middleware | at callback (/app/node\_modules/grpc/src/client\_interceptors.js:847:24)  
middleware | ::ffff:10.21.21.2 - - [Thu, 28 Oct 2021 07:09:16 GMT] “GET /v1/lnd/wallet/btc HTTP/1.0” 500 66 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10\_15\_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/93.0.4577.63 Safari/537.36”  
middleware |  
middleware | umbrel-middleware  
manager | ::ffff:10.21.21.2 - - [Thu, 28 Oct 2021 07:09:16 GMT] “GET /v1/system/temperature HTTP/1.0” 200 2 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10\_15\_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/93.0.4577.63 Safari/537.36”  
manager |  
manager | umbrel-manager  
manager | ::ffff:10.21.21.2 - - [Thu, 28 Oct 2021 07:09:23 GMT] “GET /v1/system/dashboard-hidden-service HTTP/1.0” 304 - “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10\_15\_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/93.0.4577.63 Safari/537.36”  
manager |  
manager | umbrel-manager  
manager | ::ffff:10.21.21.2 - - [Thu, 28 Oct 2021 07:09:23 GMT] “GET /v1/system/info HTTP/1.0” 304 - “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10\_15\_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/93.0.4577.63 Safari/537.36”  
manager |  
manager | umbrel-manager  
manager | ::ffff:10.21.21.2 - - [Thu, 28 Oct 2021 07:09:23 GMT] “GET /v1/system/uptime HTTP/1.0” 200 3 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10\_15\_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/93.0.4577.63 Safari/537.36”  
manager |  
manager | umbrel-manager  
manager | ::ffff:10.21.21.2 - - [Thu, 28 Oct 2021 07:09:23 GMT] “GET /v1/apps HTTP/1.0” 304 - “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10\_15\_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/93.0.4577.63 Safari/537.36”  
manager |  
manager | umbrel-manager  
manager | ::ffff:10.21.21.2 - - [Thu, 28 Oct 2021 07:09:23 GMT] “GET /v1/apps?installed=1 HTTP/1.0” 304 - “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10\_15\_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/93.0.4577.63 Safari/537.36”  
manager |  
manager | umbrel-manager  
manager | ::ffff:10.21.21.2 - - [Thu, 28 Oct 2021 07:09:23 GMT] “GET /v1/system/update-status HTTP/1.0” 304 - “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10\_15\_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/93.0.4577.63 Safari/537.36”  
manager |  
manager | umbrel-manager  
manager | ::ffff:10.21.21.2 - - [Thu, 28 Oct 2021 07:09:25 GMT] “POST /v1/system/debug HTTP/1.0” 200 17 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10\_15\_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/93.0.4577.63 Safari/537.36”  
manager |  
manager | umbrel-manager  
manager | ::ffff:10.21.21.2 - - [Thu, 28 Oct 2021 07:09:26 GMT] “GET /v1/system/debug-result HTTP/1.0” 200 23 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10\_15\_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/93.0.4577.63 Safari/537.36”  
manager |  
manager | umbrel-manager  
manager | ::ffff:10.21.21.2 - - [Thu, 28 Oct 2021 07:09:27 GMT] “GET /v1/system/debug-result HTTP/1.0” 304 - “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10\_15\_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/93.0.4577.63 Safari/537.36”  
manager |  
manager | umbrel-manager  
middleware | ::ffff:10.21.21.2 - - [Thu, 28 Oct 2021 07:09:16 GMT] “GET /v1/bitcoind/info/sync HTTP/1.0” 200 88 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10\_15\_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/93.0.4577.63 Safari/537.36”  
middleware |  
middleware | umbrel-middleware  
middleware | LndUnlocker: Wallet failed to unlock!  
middleware | Unable to get payments, failed to connect to all addresses  
middleware | /v1/lnd/lightning/payments  
middleware | LndError: Unable to get payments  
middleware | at /app/services/lnd.js:69:18  
middleware | at Object.onReceiveStatus (/app/node\_modules/grpc/src/client\_interceptors.js:1210:9)  
middleware | at InterceptingListener.\_callNext (/app/node\_modules/grpc/src/client\_interceptors.js:568:42)  
middleware | at InterceptingListener.onReceiveStatus (/app/node\_modules/grpc/src/client\_interceptors.js:618:8)  
middleware | at callback (/app/node\_modules/grpc/src/client\_interceptors.js:847:24)  
middleware | ::ffff:10.21.21.2 - - [Thu, 28 Oct 2021 07:09:19 GMT] “GET /v1/lnd/lightning/payments HTTP/1.0” 500 60 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10\_15\_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/93.0.4577.63 Safari/537.36”  
middleware |  
middleware | umbrel-middleware

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**Author:** ![DarthCoin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.umbrel.com/darthcoin/32/1628_2.png) [@DarthCoin](https://community.umbrel.com/u/DarthCoin)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 5:28pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/wallets-are-synchronizing-forever/4347/2 "2021-10-28T17:28:09Z")

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After sync, Electrum server is indexing the blocks and compacting the databse. That takes several hours.  
Until is not finished the process, you will not be able to see txs and/or balance.  
Be patient and wait to finish.  
You can check the electrs logs by entering SSH and run these:  
`cd umbrel`  
`docker-compose logs electrs`

If you see that is still catching blocks, you need to wait until the last one. After that you will see a message `compacting database`. wait to finish it and then you will see all your wallets and access LN with RTL and Thunderhub.

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**Author:** ![bitbitbitzone](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.umbrel.com/bitbitbitzone/32/1705_2.png) [@bitbitbitzone](https://community.umbrel.com/u/bitbitbitzone)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2021, 1:11pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/wallets-are-synchronizing-forever/4347/3 "2021-11-19T13:11:46Z")

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Hi Darth,  
I stuck on this very problem.  
Node been up for a few weeks, all good, something went wrong  
after 0.4.7 update, and now I am stuck with Bitcoin Core 100% Synced and Running,  
and the 2 wallets ´Synchronizing´.

Following your advice, I´ve been patient… Been at least 2 days now  
I checked the Electra Logs like u suggest… Lots of …

unexpected message,unknown

and

electrs | [2021-11-19T12:04:40.790Z INFO electrs::daemon] waiting for RPC warmup: Loading block index…  
electrs | [2021-11-19T12:04:41.796Z INFO electrs::daemon] waiting for RPC warmup: Loading block index…  
electrs | [2021-11-19T12:04:42.799Z INFO electrs::daemon] waiting for RPC warmup: Verifying blocks…  
electrs | [2021-11-19T12:04:43.802Z INFO electrs::daemon] waiting for RPC warmup: Verifying blocks…  
electrs | [2021-11-19T12:04:44.806Z INFO electrs::daemon] waiting

Need full logs?  
Something up, or I need more of the patience?

Thanx in advance Darth

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**Author:** ![DarthCoin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.umbrel.com/darthcoin/32/1628_2.png) [@DarthCoin](https://community.umbrel.com/u/DarthCoin)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2021, 1:13pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/wallets-are-synchronizing-forever/4347/4 "2021-11-19T13:13:13Z")

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check logs for bitcoin too and lnd  
same command, only replace electrs with bitcoin and lnd

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**Author:** ![bitbitbitzone](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.umbrel.com/bitbitbitzone/32/1705_2.png) [@bitbitbitzone](https://community.umbrel.com/u/bitbitbitzone)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2021, 1:23pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/wallets-are-synchronizing-forever/4347/5 "2021-11-19T13:23:59Z")

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> [@DarthCoin](#):
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> `cd umbrel`  
> `docker-compose logs electrs`

oooofff… Lots of failed:general failure on the Bitcoin, and this on the lnd  
lnd | /data/.lnd/lnd.conf:7: unknown option: colour  
lnd | /data/.lnd/lnd.conf:7: unknown option: colour  
lnd | /data/.lnd/lnd.conf:7: unknown option: colour  
lnd | /data/.lnd/lnd.conf:7: unknown option: colour

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**Author:** ![DarthCoin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.umbrel.com/darthcoin/32/1628_2.png) [@DarthCoin](https://community.umbrel.com/u/DarthCoin)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2021, 1:26pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/wallets-are-synchronizing-forever/4347/6 "2021-11-19T13:26:53Z")

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You see? You answer yourself to the question: you put wrong line in your lnd.conf file.  
That’s why your LN node doesn’t start

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**Author:** ![bitbitbitzone](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.umbrel.com/bitbitbitzone/32/1705_2.png) [@bitbitbitzone](https://community.umbrel.com/u/bitbitbitzone)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2021, 1:30pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/wallets-are-synchronizing-forever/4347/7 "2021-11-19T13:30:36Z")

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Yes, I see it… ooofff  
How I fix Darth?

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**Author:** ![DarthCoin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.umbrel.com/darthcoin/32/1628_2.png) [@DarthCoin](https://community.umbrel.com/u/DarthCoin)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2021, 1:38pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/wallets-are-synchronizing-forever/4347/8 "2021-11-19T13:38:46Z")

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You fix it how you put it. Editing the lnd.conf file you edit it wrong.  
Put the correct color code in this format #5f1be8 or whatever other RGB color you want

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**Author:** ![bitbitbitzone](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.umbrel.com/bitbitbitzone/32/1705_2.png) [@bitbitbitzone](https://community.umbrel.com/u/bitbitbitzone)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2021, 2:22pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/wallets-are-synchronizing-forever/4347/9 "2021-11-19T14:22:48Z")

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> [@DarthCoin](#):
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> `cd umbrel`  
> `docker-compose logs electrs`

Got it, Thanx again Darth…

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**Author:** ![johnverman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/71e660/32.png) [@johnverman](https://community.umbrel.com/u/johnverman)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2021, 1:39pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/wallets-are-synchronizing-forever/4347/10 "2021-12-12T13:39:52Z")

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> [@bitbitbitzone](#):
>
> Hi Darth,  
> I stuck on this very problem.  
> Node been up for a few weeks, all good, something went wrong  
> after 0.4.7 update, and now I am stuck with Bitcoin Core 100% Synced and Running,  
> and the 2 wallets ´Synchronizing´.

Hi Darth,  
I have very same problem.  
I am stuck with Bitcoin Core 100% Synced and Running,  
Because I am very noob… please bear with me.

I tried below 2 or 3 times. (I think that might also be a problem)

_"Step 2 - execute the following command to rescan wallet’s UTXOs:_  
_`sed -i "s/\[Application Options\]/\[Application Options\]\nreset-wallet-transactions=true/g;" ~/umbrel/lnd/lnd.conf && sudo reboot`_  
_Step 3 - Wait some time so LND can rescan all wallet’s UTXOs. If it solve the issue, run this to stop it from rescanning on a future restart:_  
_`sed -i "s/reset-wallet-transactions=true//g;" ~/umbrel/lnd/lnd.conf && sudo reboot` "_

I have waited for several hours for each attempt.  
Now I am on Step2, still syncronizing.

so i tried debug log, and found

_middleware | umbrel-middleware_  
_middleware | Unable to get wallet balance, failed to connect to all addresses_  
_middleware | /v1/lnd/wallet/btc_  
_middleware | LndError: Unable to get wallet balance_

then i tried

_`cd umbrel`_  
_`docker-compose logs electrs`_

then I see

lots of…  
_electrs | [2021-12-12T12:46:54.665Z INFO electrs::daemon] waiting for RPC warmup: Verifying blocks…_  
_electrs | [2021-12-12T12:46:55.668Z INFO electrs::daemon] waiting for RPC warmup: Loading P2P addresses…_

I tried  
_`cd umbrel`_  
_`docker-compose logs bitcoin` & `docker-compose logs lnd`_

for bitcoin, I see some general failures such as below

_bitcoin | 2021-12-12T12:49:12Z Socks5() connect to 176.125.230.17:8333 failed: general failure_

for lng, i see lot of below…

_lnd | failed to load config: /data/.lnd/lnd.conf:40: malformed key=value (W[[Application Options])lnd | failed to load config: /data/.lnd/lnd.conf:40: malformed key=value (W[[Application Options])_

this may be relate to "Step 2 - execute the following command to rescan wallet’s UTXOs:  
`sed -i "s/\[Application Options\]/\[Application Options\]\nreset-wallet-transactions=true/g;" ~/umbrel/lnd/lnd.conf && sudo reboot`

should i not use “[Application Options]”? it seems weird to me.

I know this is even very hard to follow. I very much appreciate in advance, Darth.
