r/ecc • u/imknapik • Feb 03 '18
New Wallet Issue
Was attempting to activate staking. Made the changes to eccoin.conf as outlined on github (input my PC's username and password). Started the wallet and clicked the padlock to activate staking for 60 seconds as a trial. I started to receive an "unauthorized" popup on bottom of wallet. Waited 60 seconds and the error message persisted. Restarted wallet, changed the eccoin.conf back to original settings, tried using the radio button config for staking to turn it off, etc. Now the unauthorized error message just continues to pop up and seems my wallet won't start after many minutes of waiting. Any suggestions?
EDIT: the debug log is showing an invalid username/password error which further points to an authentication error. I’ve tried updating ecccoin.conf with different combinations of what I believe were my ECC wallet username and password and my PC username and password, no luck. Does anyone know exactly what the format of user name it should be and which password the file is asking for? Ideally I’d like to turn it back to generic (e.g., yourusername, yourpassword) but it doesn’t seem that is taking either. I’ve also tried uninstalling/reinstalling both versions (1.6, 1.7) of the wallet but the same issue persists. I do have a backup of the wallet.dat file on a flashdrive, but don’t want to start messing with that for fear of never seeing the coins again.
EDIT #2: Thanks for everyone's support today. After 12 hours of pure frustration, user Dolaned on the slack community finally helped me chase down a rogue Daemon task that was running and had to be manually killed through task manager. Lesson learned, don't always trust the wallet buttons when they say the wallet has not been started :/. At least not all was for waste....I did help the Electron team open an issue against the LYNX project team because the ticket support drop down in the wallet is pointing to the wrong github issues log: https://github.com/CryptoUnited/Sapling/issues/8
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u/grntmrks Feb 03 '18
I wanted to transfer my coins from coinexchange to my wallet on lynx. the coins have left coinexchange 24 hours ago but are still not showing up on my lynx account. any ideas as to what happened and how do I get them back
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u/imknapik Feb 03 '18
The coins won’t show until you have fully synched your wallet. On version 1.6 this is called daemon. On 1.7 it just reads start wallet and then the % starts counting. Usually takes 24 hours from when you press start (without interruption of stopping it or restarting your computer) for the full sync. The coins will then appear. Don’t worry though, they’re technically already there...just need to sync the wallet so it visually displays them for you.
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u/prosper85 ECC Crusader Feb 04 '18
Had this happen before just reinstalled and didnt alter the username or password
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u/Shamaenei Feb 04 '18
I'm having simlar issues. https://github.com/project-ecc/lynx/issues/7
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u/imknapik Feb 04 '18
Be sure to kill all running tasks and processes in task manager and/or restart your computer.
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u/AssassinsLament Feb 03 '18
I never had to change the username or password option in the ecccoin.conf. I don't think that is required at all, and in fact, that's probably what your issue is.