Cannot access my etherum, need help please!

tweaver123 commented 1 year ago

Hey guys. I’m really basic when it comes to My understanding about ether but if someone could help me with some simple instructions to my problem I would really appreciate it. I bought ether in 2017 on my MacBook 2011 and store it using etherwall 2.4.0 because any news versions my mac cannot support. Now when I try access my ether it says: “Could not find geth. Please check geth path and try again”. Would somone please let me know how I can fix this please?

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almindor commented 1 year ago

There are a few things that jump out at me from what you posted:

I have an old 2009 mac book pro and I can run latest etherwall on it (in fact that's what I use to release it). That is your MacOS X version on that laptop. Is there no update you can apply? I know Apple has funky EOL policies though.
There are HTTP errors reported, unrelated to geth. I just checked and things seem ok for me, can you re-try please just to see if those HTTP errors still show? this could just be due to the old version of Etherwall however.
The geth data directory you circled seems wrong. I think it should point to a folder in the home of the current user (by default). Did you change this setting?
Geth is bundled in the .app itself, you can check yourself if the file is in there by right clicking the app and going into the folder strcuture.

As an alternative workaround you could try downloading latest Geth itself and going to settings to change the path to geth there. I suspect there's more going on here though.

Lastly, don't worry about losing access, your accounts are quite safe as long as you have the files intact (or another backup of course). The accounts can also be accessed by other wallets than Etherwall, including web ones so worst case scenario you could do that. Do be careful if you choose to go that route though, make sure whatever wallet you try to use is legitimate.

The accounts should be in the data directory, in your case this seems to be set wrong atm. but if you used it before it'll be there. On the MAC this should be in ~/Library/Ethereum (~ being the user's home folder)

tweaver123 commented 1 year ago

Hey Ales

In regards to your questions: 1) I have a mac book not a a Pro, which is on OS siera 10.12.6 and therefore the new Etherwall doesn't work on it as it requires 10.15 minimum from what I have discovered.

2) I have copied everything that come in in the logs at the bottom of the email for you to see.

3) Yes, when I was trying to fix the issue I think I changed the location without really knowing what I was doing and am unsure what the original location is.

4) Im not quite sure what you mean here, when I right click the etherwall app I get the following options:

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LOGS:

temporarily, but annoyingly - download bad state data.\r\n\r\nThis release is optional and only affects initial sync. The release was made mostly for completeness' sake rather than out of necessity.\r\n\r\nFor a full rundown of the changes please consult the Geth 1.10.25 release milestone.\r\n\r\n---\r\n\r\nAs with all our previous releases, you can find the:\r\n\r\n- Pre-built binaries for all platforms on our downloads page.\r\n- Docker images published under ethereum/client-go.\r\n- Ubuntu packages in our Launchpad PPA repository.\r\n- OSX packages in our Homebrew Tap repository.","reactions":{"url":" https://api.github.com/repos/ethereum/go-ethereum/releases/77312641/reactions ","total_count":37,"+1":27,"-1":0,"laugh":0,"hooray":0,"confused":0,"heart":10,"rocket":0,"eyes":0}} Checking to see if there is an already running geth... Etherwall starting Response error: unknown error HTTP Response parse error: illegal value HTTP Post reply: Response error: unknown error HTTP Response parse error: illegal value HTTP Post reply: Response parse error: illegal value HTTP Post reply: Connecting to main Etherwall server HTTP Post request: { }

HTTP Post request: { }

HTTP Post request: { "currencies": [ "BTC", "EUR", "CAD", "USD", "GBP" ], "version": 2 }

On Sun, 23 Oct 2022 at 16:16, Aleš Katona @.***> wrote:

There are a few things that jump out at me from what you posted:

I have an old 2009 mac book pro and I can run latest etherwall on it (in fact that's what I use to release it). That is your MacOS X version on that laptop. Is there no update you can apply? I know apples has funky EOL policies though.

There are HTTP errors reported, unrelated to geth. I just checked and things seem ok for me, can you re-try please just to see if those HTTP errors still show? this could just be due to the old version of Etherwall however.

The geth data directory you circled seems wrong. I think it should point to a folder in the home of the current user (by default). Did you change this setting?

Geth is bundled in the .app itself, you can check yourself if the file is in there by right clicking the app and going into the folder strcuture.

As an alternative workaround you could try downloading latest Geth itself and going to settings to change the path to geth there. I suspect there's more going on here though.

Lastly, don't worry about losing access, your accounts are quite safe as long as you have the files intact (or another backup of course). The accounts can also be accessed by other wallets than Etherwall, including web ones so worst case scenario you could do that. Do be careful if you choose to go that route though, make sure whatever wallet you try to use is legitimate.

The accounts should be in the data directory, in your case this seems to be set wrong atm. but if you used it before it'll be there. On the MAC this should be in ~/Library/Ethereum (~ being the user's home folder)

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almindor commented 1 year ago

Try setting the geth datadir path to ~/Library/Ethereum where ~ is replaced by /Users/<your-username>/

That should fix the datadir problem. You can also look into that folder to see if it exists and contains anything. It should have folders like geth/chaindata or geth/keystore in it.

tweaver123 commented 1 year ago

Hey Ales

I have done what you mentioned. But now it said this:

“Unable to establish IPC connection to geth”

so what should be the location for the geth path?

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On 23 Oct 2022, at 19:32, Aleš Katona @.***> wrote:

Try setting the geth datadir path to ~/Library/Ethereum where ~ is replaced by /Users//

That should fix the datadir problem. You can also look into that folder to see if it exists and contains anything. It should have folders like geth/chaindata or geth/keystore in it.

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almindor commented 1 year ago

Your geth path looks ok. I'd suggest downloading latest official geth and putting it somewhere then pointing etherwall to it.

Dňa nedeľa, 23. októbra 2022, tweaver123 napísal:

Hey Ales

I have done what you mentioned. But now it said this:

“Unable to establish IPC connection to geth”

so what should be the location for the geth path?

Sent from my iPhone

On 23 Oct 2022, at 19:32, Aleš Katona @.***> wrote:

Try setting the geth datadir path to ~/Library/Ethereum where ~ is replaced by /Users//

That should fix the datadir problem. You can also look into that folder to see if it exists and contains anything. It should have folders like geth/chaindata or geth/keystore in it.

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tweaver123 commented 1 year ago

Hey Ales

I did that already and it came up with the IPC error :(

On Sun, 23 Oct 2022 at 20:39, Aleš Katona @.***> wrote:

Your geth path looks ok. I'd suggest downloading latest official geth and putting it somewhere then pointing etherwall to it.

Dňa nedeľa, 23. októbra 2022, tweaver123 napísal:

Hey Ales

I have done what you mentioned. But now it said this:

“Unable to establish IPC connection to geth”

so what should be the location for the geth path?

Sent from my iPhone

On 23 Oct 2022, at 19:32, Aleš Katona @.***> wrote:

Try setting the geth datadir path to ~/Library/Ethereum where ~ is replaced by /Users//

That should fix the datadir problem. You can also look into that folder to see if it exists and contains anything. It should have folders like geth/chaindata or geth/keystore in it.

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almindor commented 1 year ago

Can you post the full log from the app as well as geth pls? I'm out atm but will look later.

Ales

Dňa nedeľa, 23. októbra 2022, tweaver123 napísal:

Hey Ales

I did that already and it came up with the IPC error :(

On Sun, 23 Oct 2022 at 20:39, Aleš Katona @.***> wrote:

Your geth path looks ok. I'd suggest downloading latest official geth and putting it somewhere then pointing etherwall to it.

Dňa nedeľa, 23. októbra 2022, tweaver123 napísal:

Hey Ales

I have done what you mentioned. But now it said this:

“Unable to establish IPC connection to geth”

so what should be the location for the geth path?

Sent from my iPhone

On 23 Oct 2022, at 19:32, Aleš Katona @.***> wrote:

Try setting the geth datadir path to ~/Library/Ethereum where ~ is replaced by /Users//

That should fix the datadir problem. You can also look into that folder to see if it exists and contains anything. It should have folders like geth/chaindata or geth/keystore in it.

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tweaver123 commented 1 year ago

Sure, here it is:

bail[hard]: Unable to establish IPC connection to Geth. Fix path to Geth and try again. Unable to establish IPC connection to Geth. Fix path to Geth and try again. Connecting to IPC socket /Users/Tom/Ethereum/geth.ipc Geth starting /Users/Tom/Ethereum/geth/geth/nodes/geth --syncmode=fast --cache 512 --datadir /Users/Tom/Ethereum --nousb --maxpeers=0 --nodiscover --nat=none Response parse error: illegal value HTTP Post reply: Response error: unknown error HTTP Response parse error: illegal value HTTP Post reply: Checking to see if there is an already running geth... Etherwall starting Response error: unknown error HTTP Response parse error: illegal value HTTP Post reply: Connecting to main Etherwall server HTTP Post request: { }

HTTP Post request: { }

HTTP Post request: { "currencies": [ "BTC", "EUR", "CAD", "USD", "GBP" ], "version": 2 }

On Sun, 23 Oct 2022 at 22:15, Aleš Katona @.***> wrote:

Can you post the full log from the app as well as geth pls? I'm out atm but will look later.

Ales

Dňa nedeľa, 23. októbra 2022, tweaver123 napísal:

Hey Ales

I did that already and it came up with the IPC error :(

On Sun, 23 Oct 2022 at 20:39, Aleš Katona @.***> wrote:

Your geth path looks ok. I'd suggest downloading latest official geth and putting it somewhere then pointing etherwall to it.

Dňa nedeľa, 23. októbra 2022, tweaver123 napísal:

Hey Ales

I have done what you mentioned. But now it said this:

“Unable to establish IPC connection to geth”

so what should be the location for the geth path?

Sent from my iPhone

On 23 Oct 2022, at 19:32, Aleš Katona @.***> wrote:

Try setting the geth datadir path to ~/Library/Ethereum where ~ is replaced by /Users//

That should fix the datadir problem. You can also look into that folder to see if it exists and contains anything. It should have folders like geth/chaindata or geth/keystore in it.

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almindor commented 1 year ago

@tweaver123 so this log was the app log. Can you also please show the "geth" log? (it should be in another tab under the logs tab)

For a workaround since this old Mac issue is hard to address, you should be able to use your account files with another wallet. Easiest would probably be a web wallet such as MyEthereumWallet. NOTE: be careful of course and check that the other wallets are safe.

You can import your keyfiles into any geth-compatible wallet and use it. They should be in the ~/Library/Ethereum/keystore folder.

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