LND setup: unable to create partial chain control: status code: 401, response: ""

[ziperzuperzap]

Background

i was attempting to runn lightning on my node but dont know, and cant find a solution, to fix the issues the terminal tells me it has..

• [ERR] LTND: unable to create partial chain control: status code: 401, response: ""
• [ERR] LTND: Shutting down because error in main method: error creating wallet config: unable to create partial chain control: status code: 401, response: ""

Your environment

• LND version 0.14.1-beta
• ubuntu server 20.04.3 LTS 64-bit amd64 aarch64
  uname-a --> Linux ubuntu 5.4.0-1047-raspi Dynamic Commitment Fees #52-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux
• bitcoin core V22.0
• raspberry pi 4 8GB.ram

Steps to reproduce

dont know how to show u guys this.

butt if i do in the first terminal "$lnd" and in the second "$lncli unlock"
then the second terminal will say: "lnd successfully unlocked!"
but the first terminal will say
[INF] LTND: Version: 0.14.1-beta commit=v0.14.1-beta, build=production, logging=default, debuglevel=info
[INF] LTND: Active chain: Bitcoin (network=mainnet)
[INF] RPCS: RPC server listening on 0.0.0.0:10009
[INF] RPCS: gRPC proxy started at 0.0.0.0:8080
[INF] LTND: Opening the main database, this might take a few minutes...
[INF] LTND: Opening bbolt database, sync_freelist=false, auto_compact=false
[INF] LTND: Creating local graph and channel state DB instances
[INF] CHDB: Checking for schema update: latest_version=24, db_version=24
[INF] LTND: Database(s) now open (time_to_open=60.728977ms)!
[INF] LTND: We're not running within systemd
[INF] LTND: Waiting for wallet encryption password. Use lncli create to create a wallet, lncli unlock to unlock an existing wallet, or lncli changepassword to change the password of an existing wallet and unlock it.
[INF] LNWL: Opened wallet
[INF] CHRE: Primary chain is set to: bitcoin
[ERR] LTND: unable to create partial chain control: status code: 401, response: ""
[ERR] LTND: Shutting down because error in main method: error creating wallet config: unable to create partial chain control: status code: 401, response: ""
[INF] LTND: Shutdown complete

error creating wallet config: unable to create partial chain control: status code: 401, response: ""

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also some of the settings
~/.lnd/lnd.conf
[Application Options]
tlsautorefresh=true
restlisten=0.0.0.0:8080
rpclisten=0.0.0.0:10009
listen=127.0.0.1:9735
maxpendingchannels=5
color=XXXXXX
alias=XXXXXX

[Tor]
tor.active=true
tor.v3=true
tor.streamisolation=true

[Bitcoin]
bitcoin.active=true
bitcoin.mainnet=true
bitcoin.node=bitcoind

[bitcoind]
bitcoind.dir=/home/ubuntu/.bitcoin
bitcoind.rpcuser=XXXXXX
bitcoind.rpcpass=XXXXXX
bitcoind.zmqpubrawblock=tcp://127.0.0.1:28332
bitcoind.zmqpubrawtx=tcp://127.0.0.1:28333

---

~/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf
server=1
daemon=1
listen=1
txindex=1
blockfilterindex=1
disablewallet=0
dbcache=3000
onlynet=onion
proxy=127.0.0.1:9050
bind=127.0.0.1
zmqpubrawblock=tcp://127.0.0.1:28332
zmqpubrawtx=tcp://127.0.0.1:28333
rpcauth=XXXXXXX

Expected behaviour

i was expecting lnd to start syncing

Actual behaviour

lnd automatically closed..

[xraid]

has the IBD finished
bitcoin-cli getblockchaininfo

[ziperzuperzap]

has the IBD finished bitcoin-cli getblockchaininfo

yes it was finished

the problem was
bitcoind.rpcuser=NAME:a1$a1
instead of
bitcoind.rpcuser=NAME

...
now it works

[nickfarrow]

I think this error message needs a fix

2022-11-19 22:50:16.610 [ERR] LTND: unable to create partial chain control: status code: 401, response: ""
2022-11-19 22:50:16.610 [ERR] LTND: Shutting down because error in main method: error creating wallet config: unable to create partial chain control: status code: 401, response: ""
2022-11-19 22:50:16.611 [INF] LTND: Shutdown complete

Glad i found this issue!