can't recover electrum wallet with seed

[wudelrudel]

Hi electrum community,

I am trying to recover my electrum wallet with my seed. However, in the GUI variant the button stays grey no matter what I enter and I cannot continue. Running electrum from terminal trying to create a recovered wallet via

electrum recover

instantly gives

Error: Invalid seed

I am pretty much sure (well as sure as one can be) that my seed is correct, I checked that all the words of my seed are in both

https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/blob/master/lib/wordlist/english.txt

and in my local

/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/electrum/wordlist/english.txt

I am using electrum version 2.5.1, on Ubuntu 14.04, installed via
sudo pip install https://download.electrum.org/Electrum-2.5.1.tar.gz

what could I be doing wrong?
thanks for your help

[ThomasV]

There is no "electrum recover" command; the relevant command is called "electrum restore".

You probably made a mistake with your seed;
The fact that words are in the list is not sufficient to ensure that a seedphrase is valid.

[wudelrudel]

There is no "electrum recover" command; the relevant command is called "electrum restore".

You probably made a mistake with your seed;
The fact that words are in the list is not sufficient to ensure that a seedphrase is valid.

oops my bad. of course I meant restore. However, I really think my seed is correct and I might be experiencing some weird letter count check error in electrum.

Consider or please try to reproduce the following: I can generate a wallet with the first 13 words of the word list plus space and the first letter of the 14th word, 13 alone will not work.

Code:

Password (hit return if you do not wish to encrypt your wallet):
seed:abandon ability able about above absent absorb abstract absurd abuse access accident account a
Recovering wallet...
1FaLeLoxz3ip9BbEA8jJPfFTNAo5ec9MbN
1MvKgyJpCcsAxgkkZCc4GuCZeMwsB9ns24
1FZ7EKRatNJ34AKUqzye92xUHDeMtYLMR5
17U2rJkKNZaHNsG6S2WBcr6sRrEPUnkZ92
1AocKeNbQMwieaUVrePmqhEuZ4zG86Mqr3
12Dq1GBvL15P1XGkxGofASbfjnbUFVPpwd
1Lkynnwd7DmxmZ9uwaosjYkwjJUe6H5mSX
1LhVG9nsHUafhyZpPnCkmXzj5bRfEQbDNL
16aAAtbqk2yUebF6SWYx4Sp4Kp43oRnZPV
1KhNhW5XtfRSEAxNDfrHNpErRNS9LoJiXH
1Cz4xNuVeoBjQJNhRAfR7sjFQSwSKbxX3E
12NN2PHZ7ZTKxbDGxTadzkBdWJEHS3nQzu
1JYG8ACegMMg3VCePRmi5u787vSHT7wtpq
1B9rjFu5ANLyd8P55oJ6TGia561x9C2fsv
1ATibp4An19swAoTsxyRamqi1cPJsyBYmJ
1NQvhFoKqnvFSCQ5nUwPikCjWbZ7LnFNAt
1HbJ36TCq1qqZ9MYtAdY2cLmtsbjcXHJka
13MEnGB8CotzkLsvQnWL1qUdSfS7uZ3ipH
1BCAoxQsCczPd9jeRs4KAR5gE1xQAJfKxg
16b1mrkieZPyNKcSmbFfhaffzrtRmNGJad
1GxtwWwyQbXuiDxNsLiDz9Qa4jdD9SDhGC
1MtfDgeXx12TPiVQ2xSyobY4VcpeucfyyX
1MikCnKR3ZFymYb1GFtXQed2jWYKNarXDA
1KeLrk7jUSnqJL3ZXuoDdLqsyQG1YntMpR
1LqaS4UXAq6cw2odHx2VhxKF49tLtPhqip
1Kj8iGnjXC6supBjfTnQUY4HS96HJdvSeG
Warning: Found no history for this wallet