error trying to import private key

[wuzamarine]

I am in a special situation where I need to import my private key credentials and basically restore a wallet to bitcoind. bitcoind is running and I do have an rpc user/pass and server=1 in the bitcoind.conf, but no matter what I do, when I try and import the key I get the following error.

root@coined:/home#  bitcoind importprivkey "5JxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxHjdCia9dt7" "root"
error: {"code":-4,"message":"Error adding key to wallet"}

[Justin00]

Did you unlock wallet first ?

[wuzamarine]

Did you unlock wallet first ?

No, there is no password or encryption to unlock. Unless bitcoind throws a lock on by default I don't know about.

[wuzamarine]

Did you unlock wallet first ?

No, there is no password or encryption to unlock. Unless bitcoind throws a lock on by default I don't know about.

nope

root@coined:/home# bitcoind walletpassphrase "" 1000
error: {"code":-15,"message":"Error: running with an unencrypted wallet, but walletpassphrase was called."}

[Justin00]

was looking on google quickly.. any chance the key is imported alrdy ?

[wuzamarine]

was looking on google quickly.. any chance the key is imported alrdy ?

It did import something, at one point the label 'dude' appeared (the label I was using) but the address was different and so was the private key. It's as though bitcoind said "well, you obviously want an address, no clue what you are doing with this one, we'll just make one up for you".

I have not been able to reproduce the step since with a new label 'dude2'.

Trying a different server now, maybe it's a local issue.

[davidpbrown]

I think there's something about the qt or daemon that requires the .conf file exists with rpc port, otherwise it doesn't import.

Check that in ~/.bitcoin or wherever for your OS, that there is a bitcoin.conf and that it contains detail of the form:

rpcuser=wuzamarine
rpcpassword=randomstringhereaosudhaiosdubaohbnqld
rpcport=8332
daemon=1

[Localbtcbuyer]

Can you just import into another client (blockchain.info, or maybe multibit), then send to your address?

[davidpbrown]

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/How_to_import_private_keys

> Bitcoin-QT does not enable its RPC interface by default. To enable it:

>   Close Bitcoin-QT and restart it with bitcoin-qt -server.

[kroleg]

to solve this problem you should unlock your wallet first

[softron]

Try using another wallet like electrum

[roslinpl]

indeed. Try to import those keys into another client...
seems strange if you did everything like it is explained above..

let us know what happend.

importing private keys is always a bit stressing isn't?

[softron]

Try
 
importprivkey <privkey> [label]