I try to open a channel with you Paul but my CLN still stuck on pending with 9peers confirmed. I can’t find my funded transaction in mempool.
What can I do to unstuck on pending status?
The number of peers listed is a red herring.
Check if the transaction has been broadcasted to the network, and if so has it been mined yet. Open the channel detals, and copy the value from “Funding ID”. Paste that into Mempool to look up the transaction.
Do you get the same if you check with the Mempool service (as opposed to mempool.space)?
Hi Paul,
I’m not sure how to access the Mempool service. I only did check the mempool.space.
What operating system are you running Core Lightning on?
I already created SSH follow your video tutorial.
You can install the Mempool service via the Start9 registry (same place you installed Core Lightning from).
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@oldguy reported a similar problem recently on this thread here. Basically, the transaction to open the channel was never sent to your Knots node (or it got filtered out). This appears to be a bug with Core Lightning. Unfortunately, I’m not sure you’ll be able to regain the sats you have locked up in those channels (perhaps oldguy can confrim whether or not he was able to get the sats back in his case).
My recommendation at this point (since the problem has happend to multiple forum members now) is to not open channels from Core Lightning. Instead, create a LND node, and open a chanel back from your LND node back to your Core Lightning node (via the Ride the Lightning service). If that succeeds, then open a channel from your LND node out to the larger network, and send sats out from it to open inbound liquidity. This will create a path for your mining rewards to flow from Ocean, into your LND node, and from there into your Core Lightning node (without needing to open any channels from Core Lightning which might experience the bug)
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I wonder if it would be worth a edit in your original video you did and place a ‘card’ warning new users to the apparent issues with CL. It might help people avoiding this ‘trap’ ?? Like you say…first Wayne and now this OP and I think @FouBaar …track record is expanding and not in a good way. The LND/Core setup works flawlessly.
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Hi Paul,
Would you be willing to make another video on how to LND to CLN and open channel issue!
Yes, I have been planning to for a while, but this has definitely bumped up the priority. I’ll try and get it recorded this weekend.
Hello everyone
As Paul said it is a bug that they r looking into. I want and did as Paul showed in my post “I have two Core Lightning channels that failed” it removed channels but they still show on my CLN page but r gone as channels. I then opened a channel from my CLN to my LND and Ocean is sending all my mining to it and I can move to my LND node as it should. It still says waiting for unilateral close but its closed if I try to close it now. I did wait until my LND node removed them from it as pending over there. Weird but not hurting me.
Wayne
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