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ligthningd cannot find bcli plugin #4107

Closed s-tikhomirov closed 4 years ago

s-tikhomirov commented 4 years ago

Issue and Steps to Reproduce

I upgraded clightning to 0.9.1 (from 0.8.0) on Ubuntu 18.04.5 following these instructions (download the tar.gz, check the signatures, unpack, copy the binaries to /usr/local/bin/). Now I encounter the following error:

$ lightningd
error starting plugin '/usr/local/bin/../libexec/c-lightning/plugins/bcli': opening pipe: No such file or directory

Indeed, there is no bcli plugin in the plugins directory. Where am I supposed to obtain it from?

I user Bitcoin Core 0.20.1, if this is relevant.

getinfo output

None, as clightning doesn't start.

s-tikhomirov commented 4 years ago

What's disappointing is that I can't return to the previously working version either: after I replaced the binaries back to 0.8.0, I get:

$ lightningd
lightningd: lightning_channeld: bad version 'v0.8.0-40-g899f5de
'
fiatjaf commented 4 years ago

The default plugins are in c-lightning's plugins/ directory. If you manually copied the binaries to somewhere you must also copy the plugin binaries to /usr/local/bin/../libexec/c-lightning/plugins/ or to your local lightning path (~/.lightning/plugins/).

s-tikhomirov commented 4 years ago

Oh, I misread the instructions. Fixed, thank you!