Can restore wallet in Windows not in Linux?

[danny7007]

HI. Wierd thing happening here. I am able to restore my wallet in Windoes, but not in Linux.

I am using Electrum in Lubuntu, I have a green circle on the lower right, and I am trying to restore a wallet with what I am sure is the correct seed. (it works on Electrum in WIndows)

 I have tried to uninstall and reinstall Electrum a couple of times. Any ideas?

[mocacinno]

HI. Wierd thing happening here. I am able to restore my wallet in Windoes, but not in Linux.

I am using Electrum in Lubuntu, I have a green circle on the lower right, and I am trying to restore a wallet with what I am sure is the correct seed. (it works on Electrum in WIndows)

 I have tried to uninstall and reinstall Electrum a couple of times. Any ideas?

Let me see if i have this correct:
- you have an electrum seed
- you tried to restore your wallet using this seed, both on linux and windows
- on windows it works, on linux it doesnt, but you still see a green "dot" at the right bottom corner.

Can you go to the adresses-tab and verify if the adresses generated in linux differ from the ones generated in windows?

[danny7007]

Ah yes, incomplete info. In the Linux Electrum, after I enter the seed phrase and press enter, I immediately get an "invalid seed" message.

Since I do have access to the addresses in the Windows Electrum wallet, could I use an address to create/restore the wallet in the Linux Electrum? And other than the seed actually being invalid (which if it works in Windows suggests it is OK, what am I doing wrong?

[mocacinno]

Ah yes, incomplete info. In the Linux Electrum, after I enter the seed phrase and press enter, I immediately get an "invalid seed" message.

Since I do have access to the addresses in the Windows Electrum wallet, could I use an address to create/restore the wallet in the Linux Electrum? And other than the seed actually being invalid (which if it works in Windows suggests it is OK, what am I doing wrong?

strange problem... So electrum does run under linux, you're just not able to restore exactly the same seed as you managed to use to restore your wallet on windows..

Can you look at the following 2 things:
- do the electrum versions match between windows and linux? This shouldn't be a big issue since the seeds from most recent versions should be compatible
- can you create a new wallet with your linux electrum (just to try out if electrum works fine)

If the versions are the same, and the linux version does work (but you cannot use the seed from your main wallet), i'm a bit stumped. You could either ask ThomasV if he can help you, or you could probably try to generate a brand new wallet in linux and restore it in windows... Afterwards send the funds from the "broken" wallet to the "new" wallet... Other than that i'm kinda out of idears right now (it's friday evening, i'm not really thinking straight right before the weekend).

you did try to reboot your linux system and do a clean startup?

[Abdussamad]

Ah yes, incomplete info. In the Linux Electrum, after I enter the seed phrase and press enter, I immediately get an "invalid seed" message.

Are you copy pasting the seed from a text file by chance? It could be because Windows uses different characters for line endings than linux. Make sure there are no new lines when you enter the seed including after the seed words. It should be all one line.

Also, if I'm not mistaken, in recent electrum versions it doesn't say invalid seed. If the seed is invalid it just won't allow you to proceed to the next step. Are you sure you downloaded electrum from electrum.org?

[danny7007]

Are you sure you downloaded electrum from electrum.org?

That's what it was. I downloaded it from the Lubuntu software center, and also tries from the synaptic package manager too. They had Electrum version 1.9 something.

I just installed Electrum 2.6.4 and restored the wallet. Thanks for the help everybody!

[pooya87]

Are you sure you downloaded electrum from electrum.org?

That's what it was. I downloaded it from the Lubuntu software center, and also tries from the synaptic package manager too. They had Electrum version 1.9 something.

I just installed Electrum 2.6.4 and restored the wallet. Thanks for the help everybody!

glad your problem was solved but the problem was not because of where you downloaded the wallet, but it was because of the version of the wallet that you downloaded.

the seed was changed from 1.x to 2.x so your new seed which should be 13 words is not compatible with the old version (1.9.8 ) which was 12 words

[Abdussamad]

glad your problem was solved but the problem was not because of where you downloaded the wallet, but it was because of the version of the wallet that you downloaded.

Yep he was using the old version from his distro's repository.

I just installed Electrum 2.6.4 and restored the wallet. Thanks for the help everybody!

Thanks for letting us know what the problem was. It really helps people who search for help on stuff like this.