Title: bitcoind hangs (no rpcuser message) Post by: Blinken on June 28, 2016, 12:00:39 PM When following the instructions for the non-Ubuntu daemon install it says I should see the following:
Code: bitcoind However, when I give the command bitcoind, the terminal hangs and does not appear to be doing anything. Title: Re: bitcoind hangs (no rpcuser message) Post by: hexafraction on June 28, 2016, 02:25:28 PM However, when I give the command bitcoind, the terminal hangs and does not appear to be doing anything. The most likely reason is that you already have your bitcoin.conf file configured with an RPC user and password, and thus you are not getting the error that you would get if it weren't configured. To check this, open ~/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf and verify that there is an rpcuser and rpcpassword line. Now, it's "hanging" because it's actually acting as an RPC server. Open a second terminal/tab/pty/tmux window/whatever and try issuing rpc commands (such as 'bitcoin-cli getblockcount', without quotes, which checks the process of blockchain sync). If you don't want to tie up a terminal for the server process, you can always start bitcoind with the command 'bitcoind -daemon' and then use 'bitcoincli stop' to stop the server gracefully. Title: Re: bitcoind hangs (no rpcuser message) Post by: achow101 on July 03, 2016, 11:41:23 PM You can no longer use the bitcoind command to send RPC commands to the RPC server. Instead you must use
Code: bitcoin-cli <cmd> Title: Re: bitcoind hangs (no rpcuser message) Post by: hexafraction on July 04, 2016, 12:28:22 AM You can no longer use the bitcoind command to send RPC commands to the RPC server. Instead you must use Code: bitcoin-cli <cmd> Thanks. I was using an old manpage I found online, combined with failing long-term memory. |