Hi,

A few days ago, I did a Forward swap to the Lightning channel. About 28 hours later a “Swap refund” showed up for the whole amount (minus fees, it seems). I didn't understand why, but I left it at that. Today, I did a new Forward swap, for a lesser amount. This time it took only three hours before a Swap refund was once again initiated (by who? the “Boltz backend”?). That was two hours ago. At time of writing this “refund” isn't even confirmed on the Blockchain yet.

I'm in a bit of a fix - no funds left in the Lightning channel. What is going on? What should I do to have this not happen?

NOTE: I understand nothing whatsoever about Terminal commands and outputs.
 
Launching v.4.0.2 from the Terminal (Linux): no problem.
 
Updating in the Terminal ("Installation from Python sources") — everything as per previous versions. "Install dependencies", “Download package”, “Verify signature”, “Run without installing” and “Install with PIP”: all OK.
 
But! No response from the Desktop Configuration File and lauching from the Terminal then gave this:
 

Code:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/~~/.local/bin/electrum", line 83, in <module>
    from electrum.logging import get_logger, configure_logging
  File "/home/~~/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/electrum/__init__.py", line 15, in <module>
    from .util import format_satoshis
  File "/home/~~/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/electrum/util.py", line 49, in <module>
    import aiohttp
  File "/home/~~/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/aiohttp/__init__.py", line 6, in <module>
    from .client import BaseConnector as BaseConnector
  File "/home/~~/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/aiohttp/client.py", line 30, in <module>
    from yarl import URL
  File "/home/~~/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yarl/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from ._url import URL, cache_clear, cache_configure, cache_info
  File "/home/~~/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yarl/_url.py", line 56, in <module>
    @rewrite_module
  File "/home/~~/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yarl/_url.py", line 132, in URL
    _QUERY_PART_QUOTER = _Quoter(safe="?/:@", qs=True, requote=False)
  File "yarl/_quoting.pyx", line 192, in yarl._quoting._Quoter.__init__
TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'requote'

 
I then downloaded it from Sources and Binaries. After unpacking it, also here the Desktop Configuration File doesn't respond. The only way I can launch this version is by opening the Python 3 script file called “run_electrum” found in the unpacked directory. Which I find rather untraditional.
 
What's going on?

[Electrum's Twitter page]

I have just read on Electrum's Twitter page [https://twitter.com/ElectrumWallet] a recommendation to use electrum.blockstream.info as a server instead of having the server selected automatically.

Q1. What is this supposed to be good for? Occasionaly Electrum is slow synchronizing at launch, but otherwise, as far as I'm concerned, it's pretty much problem-free the way it's set-up.

Q2. Slight problem — this electrum.blockstream.info server is nowhere to be found in my server list...

[Can't install Electrum on Ubuntu]

My problem is pretty similar to that described here: Can't install Electrum on Ubuntu - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3232490.0
except that it's the latest version instead. Only once before did I come across a version that wouldn't install, I think I remember that it was 3.0.x, but then the following 3.0.y installed fine.

This time, the usual command

Code:

sudo pip3 install https://download.electrum.org/3.2.2/Electrum-3.2.2.tar.gz

in the Terminal results in:

Downloading Electrum-3.2.2.tar.gz (5.6MB): 5.6MB downloaded
Running setup.py (path:/tmp/pip-gu9a1hxq-build/setup.py) egg_info for package from https://download.electrum.org/3.2.2/Electrum-3.2.2.tar.gz
error in Electrum setup command: Invalid environment marker: python_version < "3.5"
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
error in Electrum setup command: Invalid environment marker: python_version < "3.5"
----------------------------------------
Cleaning up...
Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-gu9a1hxq-build
Storing debug log for failure in /home/~/.pip/pip.log

whereas re-doing

Code:

Install dependencies: sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools python3-pyqt5 python3-pip

ends up with:

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.

After trying all sorts for hours, I would have gone for the solution under that thread's post #7:

Can you just download the source and untar?

https://download.electrum.org/3.1.2/Electrum-3.1.2.tar.gz

Yes, downloading the source and running the downloaded python script directly from the download directory (I've aliased it all), does work just fine for me.  Very surprised though that I can't do a straightforward install of a Python application on my Ubuntu box.

but once I had downloaded and untar-ed Electrum-3.2.2.tar.gz, I got stuck, most likely because I hardly know anything about Linux — I just don't understand the line on the download page that says "In the electrum directory, run:

Code:

python3 electrum

Would anybody be so kind as to explain this to me?

Three Electrum installations: 2 Macs, 1 Ubuntu.

In Ubuntu, I found in the wallets directory — besides the real wallet file — a slew of Mb of files all named "[wallet name].tmp.1234", where 1234 is a sequence of four different digits. Those files go years back, and a new one gets apparently created every time I launch Electrum. In the Macs' wallets directory, there's no such files, only the wallet.

So the question is: is it OK to erase all those tmp files, and how can I prevent them from being created? Btw., the Mac GUI is my normal abode, and I am by no means a Linux expert.

Thanks,

Robert-the-Clutterfree

Hello,

I have Electrum installed on several computers using the same wallet/seed. I would now like to sell one of the computers.  If I delete the wallet file from this one machine, will it affect the equivalent wallet that also runs on the other two machines? Thanks, I just want to be sure I do the correct thing!

I've looked through the different threads after a search for "high fee", but I don't seem to get the answer I need.

I have just made a donation (= no haste going through the block chain) of ≈ €20,00 with the "Fee" slider set to the lowest position (= 25 blocks, I believe). Before I'd paid attention to what was going on I had paid ≈ €10,00 in fees. Which is obviously ridiculous. The transaction did go through pretty quick, though, much faster than expected and... needed.

One thread I found here suggests that setting the preferences to "Edit fees manually". Right now I have only "Use dynamic fees" and "Propose Replace-By-Fee = Always." In a case like this one, how can I know what's the right fee to apply while trying to avoid the transaction getting stuck forever (I've had this happen once, it took one whole month before it went through, a real hassle for both sides getting the BTCs back).

On the other hand, assuming that these €20,00, instead of a donation, were due as a payment for a commercial transaction (accompanied by a time limit, as is often the case), the €10,00 fee would still be ridiculous. What should I do to get both a reasonable processing time and a reasonable fee?

Last, this kind of problem does not seem to occur using online wallets like Paymium, WEX, SpectroCoin, HitBTC, BitPay: there's always some fee of sorts, but usually quite reasonable IMO; and processing is usually immediate, or almost. What's the difference with Electrum?

Hello,

I've been runnin Electrum 1.9.4 for a year and a half, and it's been working fine. 1.9.8, which I've just now upgraded to, also seems to be working OK. But I cannot get any version from 2 and above to run under Snow Leopard: it just refuses to launch. The Console tells me, if I understand it properly: "Reason: image not found". V.2.3.2 even did something to the Config file, so I had to recover it from a backup to reinitiate v. 1.9.8.

Any idea what I should do? Would it be useful to upgrade to 2.xx with this OS? If compiling the source is necessary, can someone explain to me how to do that?

Thanks,