I have two Core Lightning channels that failed

BTC wallet was 120132 is now 119653 so maybe it closed something.

Thanks Paul will get back after sometime.

It looks like the “close” command won’t work with the peer ID since there are multiple channels. I know the short channel ID is missing in the UI, but if you run this (replacing the peer ID with the one that has channels):

lightning-cli -k listpeerchannels id=1234567890abcdef

Do you see anything in the output for either “channel_id” or “short_channel_id”? If so, try using one of those in the lightning-cli close 1234567890abcdef 10 command (replacing the ID with either of those two values if they were in the output).

The clip I sent u that u added the red arrow and reposted it has a channel id, they both have them or do I need to redo that whole process and use step 4 to get it?

This is what I got.




Cool, from there I can see the two channel IDs:

and:

Copy each of those and replace them into the close command:

lightning-cli close 1234567890abcdef 10

If those don’t have any errors, hopefully their statuses will turn from pending open to pending close (I don’t recall the exact status names). If so, they should go away automatically after a few days, if it treats them like a unilateral channel closure.

Both said

Timed out, forcing close.

“type”: “unilateral”

I’ll just wait. Thanks Paul

That’s what you want to see, I think (at least it is for a normal unilateral closure – this one is a little different). If it goes normally, then you should see the channels go away after a few days. If not, then we’ll have to figure out how to run that dev-forget-channel command that was saying it “is developer-only”.

This is on the CLN side. I wonder if we can force close from LND side.

You can try. The issue is that they never opened though, so closing them is a problem.

Hello Paul well I waited awhile and the LND closed the channel pending it said no funding as reason. At the CLN it shows the 2 channel still as pending. I redone the channel deletes as before but it said no channel with them ID’S found. When I check it still says waiting for unilateral close. Let me know if u find any info.

Thanks
Wayne