Electrum 2.0 release

[jackbox]

Just downloaded Electrum 2.0.2 from the official website and download was stopped by Avast reporting a trojan (Win32:GenMalicious-BQF[Trj]), see image below.

Anybody else had this?

http://screencast.com/t/YATAshhXJrO

I think a false positive. I am using with a Trezor so not much risk also since the private keys cannot be exported unless I am stupid and reveal my seed somehow. I scanned the Windows installer with Defender and it reported no viruses.

[emrebey]

is there a changelog?

what's new w/ 2.0.2? just updated.

[btchris]

is there a changelog?

what's new w/ 2.0.2? just updated.

The release notes are included in the downloads (and are in your install directory), or available online here: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES

The two issues mentioned in the release notes for 2.0.2:

• https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues/1066
• https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues/1054

[onealfa]

Anywhere is explained in detail, how to use electrum 2.0 now with LEDGER WALLET (based on  BTCHIP)?

Also could not start  GREENBITs with LEDGER WALLET   either ( as was announced)
Any1 had a better luck?

[Mitchell]

onealfa, HW-1 (and thus Ledger and BTCHIP) didn't make it into this release. You will have to build from source to get support for them.

[Mitchell]

Will it have to wait until a 3.0 release or a 2.1 release?

I don't know, sorry.

[arorts]

Hi,

I keep getting this message "Timed out while waiting for the magic character" after trying to send out BTC with Electrum 2.0. Yes, I did enter the right passhprase/PIN and fee amount.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

[stingleword]

Hi,

I keep getting this message "Timed out while waiting for the magic character" after trying to send out BTC with Electrum 2.0. Yes, I did enter the right passhprase/PIN and fee amount.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Sounds like your connection to the Electrum server had a problem. Try closing and relaunching Electrum (or going to the Network options page and manually selecting a different server).

(I am not an Electrum developer)

[arorts]

Hi,

I keep getting this message "Timed out while waiting for the magic character" after trying to send out BTC with Electrum 2.0. Yes, I did enter the right passhprase/PIN and fee amount.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Sounds like your connection to the Electrum server had a problem. Try closing and relaunching Electrum (or going to the Network options page and manually selecting a different server).

(I am not an Electrum developer)

Thanks.
This version seems to remain viciously buggy though:

 I didn't notice any server connectivity. It was showing as in sync and there didn't seem to be any apparent time out. It actually immediately popped after entering my PIN and all the inputs needed in the Send tab...

In fact, changing the server and restarting didn't make any difference at all. If I tried to send again, it'd show either this:

"<class 'trezorlib.messages_pb2.PublicKey'>, expected (<class 'trezorlib.messages_pb2.Success'>,)"

Or this other error:

"Tag had invalid wire type"

Or this:

 "Unexpected end-group tag"

None minimally user friendly or at least a bit more explanatory.  

Now my Bitcoin is stuck...  :-/

[ThomasV]

Hi,

I keep getting this message "Timed out while waiting for the magic character" after trying to send out BTC with Electrum 2.0. Yes, I did enter the right passhprase/PIN and fee amount.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Sounds like your connection to the Electrum server had a problem. Try closing and relaunching Electrum (or going to the Network options page and manually selecting a different server).

(I am not an Electrum developer)

Googling the error message shows that it is related to Trezor.

[arorts]

Hi,

I keep getting this message "Timed out while waiting for the magic character" after trying to send out BTC with Electrum 2.0. Yes, I did enter the right passhprase/PIN and fee amount.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Sounds like your connection to the Electrum server had a problem. Try closing and relaunching Electrum (or going to the Network options page and manually selecting a different server).

(I am not an Electrum developer)

Googling the error message shows that it is related to Trezor.

Ok. Mytrezor.com seems to be flawless and Trezor works great there. Perhaps it's the Trezor plug-in component for Electrum? The version I got was from the Electrum github and it seems to include Trezor support so not sure who actually developed that component. Where would it be the best place to report this?

(Edit: BTW, I found something else that might be an actual Electrum issue with 2.0 version --> I was able to hit Broadcast button twice (because I thought I hadn't clicked my mouse strong enough). There was no UI feedback at all the first time so then I just clicked on "Close" button afterwards only to find out that there were two tiny "Please wait..broadcasting" windows hidden in the background. So it seems that the wallet is not graying out/blocking duplicate broadcasting attempts correctly and secondly, the windows were very very tiny so I barely realized they were stacking up on top of each other...

I think this happened in the midst of an Internet connectivity issue I had....Hope this helps troubleshoot this additional issue I found).

[jjacob]

I run Ubuntu and the version I have from "Ubuntu Software Center" is Electrum 1.9.7
When will the latest version be available in the official ubuntu packages?

[nachoig]

I run Ubuntu and the version I have from "Ubuntu Software Center" is Electrum 1.9.7
When will the latest version be available in the official ubuntu packages?

It seems the package is just imported from Debian's repositores, so the answer is: never.

But it seems very easy to install it yourself,, you would just need to run these commands:

Code:

sudo apt-get install python-qt4 python-pip

Code:

sudo pip install https://download.electrum.org/Electrum-2.0.2.tar.gz

https://electrum.org/#download

[jjacob]

It seems the package is just imported from Debian's repositores, so the answer is: never.

But it seems very easy to install it yourself,, you would just need to run these commands:

Code:

sudo apt-get install python-qt4 python-pip

Code:

sudo pip install https://download.electrum.org/Electrum-2.0.2.tar.gz

https://electrum.org/#download

People might not regularly check for latest versions. 
I was under the impression that this was one of the advantages of using linux. Centralized updation of all software so that you don't have to worry about security risks / using outdated software.

[nachoig]

It seems the package is just imported from Debian's repositores, so the answer is: never.

But it seems very easy to install it yourself,, you would just need to run these commands:

Code:

sudo apt-get install python-qt4 python-pip

Code:

sudo pip install https://download.electrum.org/Electrum-2.0.2.tar.gz

https://electrum.org/#download

People might not regularly check for latest versions.  
I was under the impression that this was one of the advantages of using linux. Centralized updation of all software so that you don't have to worry about security risks / using outdated software.

No, Debian sucks a lot about packaging system and packaging policies about applications. They'll never update because this is their policy.

The big problem on Linux distros in general is because there isn't a separation between the system level and applications level. This is worsened because of the stupid policy of dynamic-compilingg, so if you your application needs a newer library, bye bye. Don't wait for official repos, do it yourself.

[nomnomnom]

Hi,

I keep getting this message "Timed out while waiting for the magic character" after trying to send out BTC with Electrum 2.0. Yes, I did enter the right passhprase/PIN and fee amount.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

[...]

Thanks.
This version seems to remain viciously buggy though:

 I didn't notice any server connectivity. It was showing as in sync and there didn't seem to be any apparent time out. It actually immediately popped after entering my PIN and all the inputs needed in the Send tab...

In fact, changing the server and restarting didn't make any difference at all. If I tried to send again, it'd show either this:

"<class 'trezorlib.messages_pb2.PublicKey'>, expected (<class 'trezorlib.messages_pb2.Success'>,)"

Or this other error:

"Tag had invalid wire type"

Or this:

 "Unexpected end-group tag"

None minimally user friendly or at least a bit more explanatory.  

Now my Bitcoin is stuck...  :-/

I get the same , the last release which works fine for me is 2.0b3

I tried to do a git bisect, and the last commit which works solid here is: 5ee4a87f29bfa1d5e9a24affd6fcacdb2dc95ce5
and the problem seems to start with 18d16ba82c8c0a543b71d88c654a3a53d8956281

But the problem is sporadic with 18d16ba82... (can work multiple times in a row until it fails).
If there is this error message at startup:

Code:

BaseException: Duplicate master public key

it seems to work, if not I get those random weird errors.

But current git seems much worse and kinda always fails here...

Maybe something makes Trezor run into a timeout here and then weird stuff happens?:
https://github.com/trezor/python-trezor/blob/master/trezorlib/transport.py#L116

No idea how to further debug this problem :/

[nomnomnom]

Hi,

I keep getting this message "Timed out while waiting for the magic character" after trying to send out BTC with Electrum 2.0. Yes, I did enter the right passhprase/PIN and fee amount.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

[...]

Thanks.
This version seems to remain viciously buggy though:

 I didn't notice any server connectivity. It was showing as in sync and there didn't seem to be any apparent time out. It actually immediately popped after entering my PIN and all the inputs needed in the Send tab...

In fact, changing the server and restarting didn't make any difference at all. If I tried to send again, it'd show either this:

"<class 'trezorlib.messages_pb2.PublicKey'>, expected (<class 'trezorlib.messages_pb2.Success'>,)"

Or this other error:

"Tag had invalid wire type"

Or this:

 "Unexpected end-group tag"

None minimally user friendly or at least a bit more explanatory.  

Now my Bitcoin is stuck...  :-/

I get the same , the last release which works fine for me is 2.0b3

I tried to do a git bisect, and the last commit which works solid here is: 5ee4a87f29bfa1d5e9a24affd6fcacdb2dc95ce5
and the problem seems to start with 18d16ba82c8c0a543b71d88c654a3a53d8956281

But the problem is sporadic with 18d16ba82... (can work multiple times in a row until it fails).
If there is this error message at startup:

Code:

BaseException: Duplicate master public key

it seems to work, if not I get those random weird errors.

But current git seems much worse and kinda always fails here...

Maybe something makes Trezor run into a timeout here and then weird stuff happens?:
https://github.com/trezor/python-trezor/blob/master/trezorlib/transport.py#L116

No idea how to further debug this problem :/

I just noticed, if I create a new wallet from my Trezor the issue goes away and it works fine. 
The only real difference between the wallet file seems to be that nextaccount is called nextaccount2 now.
So if someone has this problem  try to create a new wallet...

[BTCKaeufer]

Hi ThomasV,

I have Electrum 2.0.3 running on Windows as well as Trezor.

When I wanted to set up a new wallet in Electrum based on Trezor it did not work. Then I have seen that I need to install a Trezor wallet plugin. I did not manage to do this.

My question/request for you would be: Couldn't Electrum already come with the Trezor plugin as a default? For an average user everything else is too complicated. This would significantly enhance the value of Electrum.

Thank you!

PS: When I want to download Electrum 2.0.4 as a Windows installer (https://electrum.org/#download), it always downloads the 2.0.3 setup exe.

[jackbox]

Hi ThomasV,

I have Electrum 2.0.3 running on Windows as well as Trezor.

When I wanted to set up a new wallet in Electrum based on Trezor it did not work. Then I have seen that I need to install a Trezor wallet plugin. I did not manage to do this.

My question/request for you would be: Couldn't Electrum already come with the Trezor plugin as a default? For an average user everything else is too complicated. This would significantly enhance the value of Electrum.

Thank you!

PS: When I want to download Electrum 2.0.4 as a Windows installer (https://electrum.org/#download), it always downloads the 2.0.3 setup exe.

2.0.3 installer for Windows includes the Trezor plugin and by default it is on. Just set up a new hardware wallet and select Trezor with your Trezor plugged in. It should work.

[BTCKaeufer]

Hi,

Thank you for your help. It works when Trezor is plugged in.

Suggestion to improve Electrum: When choosing the Trezor hardware wallet option, open up a message that says to plug in the Trezor instead of letting Electrum crash, if Trezor is not plugged in.

Thank you!