Ethereum wallet hung on creating wallet contract

[Gunna01]

Updated Ethereum Wallet to v9.0

Attempted to create a wallet contract, accepted the required ether\gas price, entered my password and the amount was deducted from my balance and now it has hung for over 15 hours creating the wallet contract. It's also stopped processing transactions but my wallet is in sync. My last 2 transactions have 0 of 12 confirmations but checking the TXID from 15 hours ago has many block confirmations

Closing the wallet and reopened has not resolved the issue.

Transaction for the creation is on the block chain and has many block confirmations

edit: After closing and reopening ALL my listed transaction now appear as greyed out and have 0 of 12 confirmations despite previously been marked as complete

[alexchuvand]

I have the same issue on Ethereum Wallet v9.0 in the Rinkeby test network. I created 2 accounts. I have tried to transfer ether between accounts but it keeps being unsuccessful. The number of confirmations stays at 0 for 2-3 min, then the transaction disappears. The attempt to create a wallet contract is stuck as well.

[jameszuroske]

I also have the same issue on v9.0 on the main network.

I tried both creating a wallet contract and deploying a contract. The wallet contract is stuck on creating... and the other contract is stuck on executing with 0 out of 12 confirmations even though etherscan.io showed 47 confirmations at 20 mins.

Also tried closing and reopening the wallet.

[Gunna01]

So not an isolated issue. I've stopped using my wallet until this gets resolved and would recommedn others do the same. How can we view wallet contracts outside Ethereum Wallet?

[Klop89]

I am having the same problem.

https://github.com/ethereum/mist/issues/3012

Nobody here that can resolve the syncing issue?

[Klop89]

@gluk256

https://www.myetherwallet.com/

You can import your wallet to here. I haven't tried it yet. Need to read into it.

[Gunna01]

Where are the devs. Why has no one responded who can fix the issue?

[cross]

I'm also having this problem. Ethereum wallet 0.9.0 on Mac. I sync'd/loaded the full chain with geth manually, so the full U/I would show up. And, days/weeks earlier created a main account. But, I'm unable to create a wallet contract. When I click "Add Wallet Contract" in the main (Wallets) interface, it will let me set a name, and i'm selecting a single owner contract, but then the main windows just shows it creating. I left one for a few hours, then later based on other google results of other people reporting similar problems, tried another one. But, I now have two contracts stuck saying "Creating ..."

Has anyone found a way to deal with this? I have experience with numerous other coins (Bitcoin/Litecoin/Dogecoin, etc) but ethereum is new, and the client and interface is different and seems to not be working for me...

[Z-IDDQD]

I also created a contract on the wallet, it took 2 hours, he did not created - with the balance written off funds, after application restart win 10 x64 Wallets 0.9.0 - there is neither account nor the funds that have written off the transaction. how to restore to create a contract of wallet or return the funds?

Made the import of all came the contract works, BUT AFTER RESTARTING the APP DISAPPEARS - have to import again!!! application is run with the - --node-datadir - as the disk is already not enough space!! Also when you click on the backup key is not transferred to the directory specified --node-datadir and looking for the user folder path!!

[Z-IDDQD]

PS: where the developers they will give comments and make corrections?

[ralibrandi]

Having the same issue here. Ethereum Wallet v0.9.0 on Windows 10. Nothing in the log to hint at what might be wrong. Transaction is visible on Etherscan but wallet UI still shows it as "Creating" ever since it was created 2 days ago.

[cross]

I eventually did find the one contract I created that had made it to the blockchain. Most of the attempts I'd made at wallet contracts never even prompted me for the gas/value information. But, one did a few weeks ago, and despite never showing up in the app properly, made it to the blockchain.

After a couple of attempts I was able to import it with the client. It took hours for it to eventually show up as other than gray ("Importing..."), but hours later after I'd thought it moot, I saw that it had completed. Hopefully, it will stay there after app restart.

[arisAlexis]

having the same issue. tried to import wallet in another client again the same not working. contract is visible on etherscan

[paperbag-zz]

Anyone knows if this is getting fixed? I have the same issue, after a week of "creating" a wallet, I tried another one, but that is hung up as well.

[anilbx]

I am facing same issue. is there anybody who know the reason behind this ? i have tried three times but facing same issue. also block syncing is too slow. although its completed but still contract creation stuck.

[vess28]

I am also having this issue. Tried everything to fix it without any luck.

[ipaxos]

I am having the same issue. 0 of 12 confirmations

[Uncivilization]

also creating* great way to support a currency, feels me with confidence that I have x amount in a wallet. That can't sync correctly most times and a wallet I paid for just saying "creating"

[AndrewDonelson]

Having same issue in v0.9.1 and now v0.9.2 - Been stuck for like 5 days. This issue has really gone almost 2 months without a dev response? No wonder ETH is stuck around $300!

[Uncivilization]

great I now have missing tokens, but they're on my address but not in the wallet. How do they expect ethereum to go up if little things like this are putting me off.

[Uncivilization]

I fixed all my problems using Mist. Sync'd until it stopped 99% closed and restarted the Mist app, let it start loading again. Left it without clicking launch app. Let the forever ending "downloading blockchain" get to over 6mil. Closed the app and opened again, it launched to app fully sync'd.

All transactions etc started to show up. THEN

I Added my missing contract wallet by checking my Eth address with https://etherscan.io then importing the created address of the one I created.

I'm now sync'd, have contract wallet and see tokens correctly.

If this helps please send Eth 0xf85AED7bE64C131F919EE7CC304B7ce716dD3C00

[Runner1940]

errr, same issue here with v0.9.2, the answer above just confused me more. Anyone please help.

[Runner1940]

I also went to put money on the ethereum site and it wanted me to put in my coinbase info, which I did thinking it would pull money from there to put onto the ethereum wallet and instead I just bought more ethereum which just added to my coinbase account, so confused.

[jbrindle]

I cannot get either a create or an import like @Uncivilization to work, it just sits whether it is synced or not. I am afraid of transferring anything into the wallet for fear that I will not be able to use it later.

[Gunna01]

I've updated to 9.2 and the issue remains. Disappointing so ditching this wallet and highly recommend others do as well. Purchased a hardware wallet and transferred funds out.

[swen002]

Same here - gas happily accepted/reduced and that's all the fun - Creating ... few hours now. Was stupid enough to try twice... Ethereum Wallet 0.9.2

[gandra]

the same issue with Mist ver 0.9.2 on Mac.

Here is the log:

INFO [11-10|16:43:01] Starting peer-to-peer node               instance=Geth/v1.7.2-stable-1db4ecdc/darwin-amd64/go1.9
INFO [11-10|16:43:01] Allocated cache and file handles         database=/Users/gandra/Library/Ethereum/testnet/geth/chaindata cache=1024 handles=1024
INFO [11-10|16:43:04] Initialised chain configuration          config="{ChainID: 3 Homestead: 0 DAO: <nil> DAOSupport: true EIP150: 0 EIP155: 10 EIP158: 10 Byzantium: 1700000 Engine: ethash}"
INFO [11-10|16:43:04] Disk storage enabled for ethash caches   dir=/Users/gandra/Library/Ethereum/testnet/geth/ethash count=3
INFO [11-10|16:43:04] Disk storage enabled for ethash DAGs     dir=/Users/gandra/.ethash                              count=2
INFO [11-10|16:43:04] Initialising Ethereum protocol           versions="[63 62]" network=3
INFO [11-10|16:43:04] Loaded most recent local header          number=1729633 hash=5c07ec…a88172 td=2630668671660353
INFO [11-10|16:43:04] Loaded most recent local full block      number=1729633 hash=5c07ec…a88172 td=2630668671660353
INFO [11-10|16:43:04] Loaded most recent local fast block      number=1729633 hash=5c07ec…a88172 td=2630668671660353
WARN [11-10|16:43:04] Failed to journal local transaction      err="no active journal"
WARN [11-10|16:43:04] Failed to journal local transaction      err="no active journal"
INFO [11-10|16:43:04] Loaded local transaction journal         transactions=2 dropped=0
INFO [11-10|16:43:04] Regenerated local transaction journal    transactions=2 accounts=1
WARN [11-10|16:43:04] Blockchain not empty, fast sync disabled 
INFO [11-10|16:43:04] Starting P2P networking 
INFO [11-10|16:43:06] UDP listener up                          self=enode://eb648ac5dee6feea27c0f2644c363ca48f97eebec68fc76e04476c74fc8f0bf89b891338e61fa44119d614d0e0b41e3f2b989ff7f523cfa3d1a4a11a484c649e@[::]:30303
INFO [11-10|16:43:06] RLPx listener up                         self=enode://eb648ac5dee6feea27c0f2644c363ca48f97eebec68fc76e04476c74fc8f0bf89b891338e61fa44119d614d0e0b41e3f2b989ff7f523cfa3d1a4a11a484c649e@[::]:30303
INFO [11-10|16:43:06] IPC endpoint opened: /Users/gandra/Library/Ethereum/geth.ipc 
INFO [11-10|16:44:31] Submitted contract creation              fullhash=0x90fdc0727ce8bc64fb10d2a0f8b8e2decd9b8487cb1a1daac3c7822d14a077ff contract=0x4A97c33AddbAa8E5746AFBEB2404e2fcA3302449

[evertonfraga]

Hi everyone, hang on, the fix is on its way.

The issue is: when using the light client, it currently does not return the address of the created wallet on getTransactionReceipt RPC call.

This pull request (https://github.com/ethereum/mist/pull/3265) aims to fix that, and from preliminary tests, it works well. Now I'm tweaking the Wallet code to account for this change.

[bliekp]

Same problem here. I can see on the network that the contract was created but in the Ethereum Wallet app (Windows 10, x64) it still is 'busy' creating it... restarting the client doesn't help.

No response here from devs doesn't help in growing confidence in this coin...

[gandra]

After the two days Mist is still in hang mode: https://giphy.com/gifs/26u4ktdvQbRrMeJCE/fullscreen

[gorshenev]

Anyone knows if this is getting fixed?

[gandra]

Still in hang mode ... busy creating: http://www.giphy.com/gifs/26u4lOtRo7c3Qu1LG

[fv5olFHIsR]

I have the same problem, TWO wallets STUCK on creating and another contract that is confirmed on etherscan (has over 50 confirmations) i see as pending 0 of 12 confirmations in Ethereum Wallet, this is broken?

[NimbusToken]

Same... two contracts stuck while testing.

[sshumakov]

As a workaround, I switched to test network, canceled contract creation and switched back to main network.

[pjdouillard]

Thx sshumakov, that fixed my issue too of 'Creating...' that never finishes.

[B-raw]

Hi all - good news is that the latest version of Mist (0.9.3) fixed this problem immediately for me.

https://github.com/ethereum/mist/releases/tag/v0.9.3

🎉

[evertonfraga]

@B-raw correct! 0.9.3 aims to fix that.

[rafaelcarsetimo]

0.9.3 Hang here at contract creation.

[fogonthedowns]

This is a bad user experience. I'm going to learn go because this is too frustrating

[bliekp]

I have switched to a HW-wallet, a Ledger Nano S. Mist basically sucks tbh....

I mean, I do appreciate the effort people put into it... but it needs to be improved a lot to make this workable for the masses...

[fogonthedowns]

@bliekp I just wish there was documentation on smart contract deployment, in something other than Mist or Javascript. This is such a frustrating experience!

[temirov]

In Solo Network, Mist 0.9.3, that fixed it for me:

geth attach
> miner.start()

[fogonthedowns]

@temirov how do you determine when you are on the 'solo network'?

[temirov]

It says so in UX after I have selected this network from Develop menu:

[mhannigan]

Same Problem creating wallet contract. It's been going for two days. I wish I could at least find a way to cancel it so it wouldn't be so distracting.

[MungiRumba]

Yeah, my experience with Mist and Ethereum Wallet has been incredibly difficult. I agree with bliekp that it needs to be vastly improved to work for your average bear.

My wallets are also hanging for days instead of being created. What is the fix?

[datduong]

I'm having the same problem. The wallet is taking forever to be created.

[Boterick]

Same problem here also, but on Rinkeby Test Network. I have a need to create and test a number of wallets with contracts before committing to live, but now have three stuck at creating... tried restarting on live and Rinkeby, with and without Geth, always synchronising, but no luck. This has all happened since I synced using Geth from command prompt. Mist run on its own prior to that took weeks to sync, but when it did, I created one wallet without incident. Now I cannot create any. This has all been with Mist 0.9.3.

[burkesquires]

+1 Having the same issue

[ismailmayat]

Same thing here this is with 0.9.3