Send ether doesnt work

[Zaz12]

I have some ether in my Mist Etherbase and with the old version it was no problem to send them. Now in the new wallet the ether is still shown but when i want to send them nothing happens. The sending box opens, i confirm with my password, box closes, no transaction, no message, nothing. but still the same amount of ether in my wallet.

Using Linux. Any idea? thx

[jacogr]

Same here on OS X - two versions of the OS, both running 0.5.2.

There is a serious issue here. I'm sure it will be fixed ASAP.

[alexvandesande]

We haven't been able to replicate the issue. Has anyone been able to do it or is this a system specific bug?

[Zaz12]

finally i got my ether out. seems it just work with the fastest and most expensive transaction fee...would be nice to have a notification for that ;)

[jacogr]

@alexvandesande I have the issue on both my machines with different OS versions. Honestly, it seems to be related to the time thing - when opening Mist everything is happy and then it just starts falling behind in blocks. (.i.e. 20s ago, 40s ago, 1min ago, etc.) Geth runs fine, can interact with it via the API fine.

Nothing I can do to fix - but can replicate, I don't have a way of using Mist currently, both machines fail to work. (And yes, time is synced to time servers)

PS: When finally exiting Mist, get a 'eth_sendTransaction' timeout (only shows up right at exit time)

[alexvandesande]

@jacogr yes, you need to be in sync to be able to send transactions. Or better yet, you can send transactions and they will likely be accepted, but you won't see that until you sync

[jacogr]

@alexvandesande I know that, however something broken from 0.5.0 onwards. With 0.4.0 no issues, with 0.5.2 I cannot send any ether.

Geth is fine, it runs, it keeps up to date. Mist however opens up fully synced (or starts syncing when opened and geth was not running), UI opens fine and then just stops getting any new blocks, falls behind and never works. i.e. it is broken on both my machines, i.e. it is not a specific local occurence.

I've had to resort to slapping together my own lil walllet via RPC calls just so I can move Ether around.

All the basics are checked - timeserver in place (europe.apple, closest, I'm in South Africa), geth runs happily, Mist however, not working at all. (And eth_sendTransaction never works, it always times out - only visible when the app is actually closed, it never reports back otherwise)

[professor-cowboy]

Hey @Jacogr are you still having this issue? I'm having this same problem.

I'm using Ubuntu 15.10 (most recent)

When i load up Mist it syncs, has peers. It doesn't stay synced though, and doesn't update past the last block that was loaded on startup.

@alexvandesande you still haven't found this issue? Is there any kind of error log, or something we could give you to help you find the issue?

This happens both when I load it up clean, and also when I have a geth node running in the background already. Geth continues to stay up to date, while Mist doesn't update the block past starting up.

[jacogr]

Sadly, yes.

On both my machines. Been tracking all the related issues and there really doesn't seem to be any movement apart from relating this to user error, having to restart Mist, rebooting, re-syncing from scratch, etc. (Believe me, been there, done that, it is just horribly broken and there doesn't seem to be related commits yet)

I've resorted to building a bare-bones wallet that connects to my local Geth (or Parity) instance so I'm actually able to send funds around.

[jalubin]

Having this exact same issue as well on Mac OS X. Can't move my ether at all using Mist. About to write a script to move ether using command line.

[Tudd]

I have exactly the same problem on Mac OS X, I downloaded the last version of Mist but I can't send ether from my main account. The transaction is confirmed but my balance doesn't move. I tried to participate at the DAO since 3 days unsuccessfully and it will be soon too late :( What can I do ?

[alexvandesande]

@Tudd @jalubin are you unable to send ether to any account or just the DAO contract? If that's the case, I encourage you to increase the amount of gas sent. When the confirmation window appears, look for a blue underlined number and click it to edit it. Change it to at least 100,000 more, maybe 300k gas should be more than enough. It could be related to lack of gas.

[Tudd]

@alexvandesande I'm unable to send ether to any account. I tried also to put 300k gas and also to reduce the amount of ether. Unsuccessfully Mist doesn't stay synced ... I don't understand

[alexvandesande]

The wallet won't send if you are not synced. Can you describe better the issue you are having with sync?

On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 3:31 PM, Tudd notifications@github.com wrote:

@alexvandesande https://github.com/alexvandesande I'm unable to send ether to any account. I tried also to put 300k gas and also to reduce the amount of ether. Unsuccessfully Mist doesn't stay synced ... I don't understand

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[Tudd]

When I access to my account after the synchronisation process, a count of past time from the last block immediately starts (.i.e. 20s ago, 40s ago, 1min ago, ... 20 min.). The indication about the last block doesn't evolve

[alexvandesande]

Would you say this describes the same behavior as your issue? https://github.com/ethereum/meteor-dapp-wallet/issues/152

[Tudd]

Yes, it's similar

[Tudd]

I didn't try to send ether with the previous versions of Mist, my last version was the 6.2. I downloaded the last version for the DAO

[sime]

I attempted three times to send ether and wasn't successful until the fee was set to the maximum.

The UI doesn't give enough feedback that the transaction is "gone", and that it could be related to a low fee.

[jdc4429]

Tried sending ETH for the first time today. Same issue as everybody else. Will not send unless you pick the max amount of gas. Notes going back 3 weeks on here, why is this not fixed yet? No notification, just drops the transaction. Bad enough not being able to update the blockchain in a reasonable period of time, now have to deal with this. Better get your act together.

[alexvandesande]

The latest errors might be related to a estimate gas function that was broken on geth 1.4.4 This will be gone on the next version that includes geth 1.4.5

[undersun1]

I am having the same issue - the ONLY way I was able to send ether was by shutting the program down and opening it again, and send the ether IMMEDIATELY upon opening the wallet. Hope this helps...

[undersun1]

I tried to send again, and this time, I get 12 confirmations, but the ether never leaves my account! This is really frustrating...

[MaximoMax]

Exact same problem here (except the very last comment from undersun1), also with Mist 0.5.2 as well as 0.7.3 on Ubuntu 14.04 (32bit) and 16.04 (64bit) both, all combinations. If it helps: I did have a clock sync issue recently (due to Dualboot with Windows), messing around with manually set time, but resolved it, shouldn't be causing it anymore. Its now synced at boot. Also, I have a softlink set for the blockchain directory in Ubuntu to an external, truecrypt encrypted drive. And my Ubuntus are encrypted with the native LVM-encryption. Also, I suffered from this bug (resolved): https://github.com/ethereum/mist/issues/75, but that seems purely graphical. Located in Germany, GMT +2, currently (hardware clock is of course kept in UTC).

UPDATE: I have two Radio Alarm Clocks that seem to be exactly in sync, so they seem correct, but my Ubuntu system time seemed to be about 0.3 seconds out of sync with them, so I used sudo ntpdate -u ntp.ubuntu.com. Now it seems to be exactly 1 second behind, even though I used hwclock --hctosys Though hwclock seems in snyc with UTC. How odd is that? I guess its a clock related issue then after all.. My computer is a couple of years old, maybe weak clock battery??

[luclu]

@MaximoMax FYI I moved the (hijacking) conversation to #898.

[MaximoMax]

Great, thank you! That way everyone here can stay updated if anyone comes up with a fix here, without having to follow the unrelated problem.

[luclu]

@/all do you still encounter this issue as of verision 0.8.1?

[MaximoMax]

I cant check right now, havent installed the new version yet, but will around 27.7., I'll report then.

[tjayrush]

@luclu Yes. I am using 0.8.1 on Mac 10.10.5. Until recently, the Send always worked well. Since two days ago, it has not worked once. It opens send window, it takes my password, and then the send window just hangs. When I close the send window, I get a red message saying "Method 'eth_sendTransaction' not allowed." I tried entering 300,000 for gas in the send window. I tried sliding the 'fastest' slider to the right. No luck. Can't get any sends to work.

I then did this: close Mist. Open command line and started 'geth' with no parameters. Opened 'Ethereum-Wallet' (instead of Mist) and tried the send again. This time the send window closed immediately (under 'Mist' it would hang) and it gave an error message about insufficient gas. Then I simply tried it again, and it went through.

Hope this helps.

[MaximoMax]

Sorry, forgot to comment back on the question: Yes, now it works without a hitch. I had upgraded 0.8.1 from 0.7.3 recently, didn't pay attention if that solved it, but I believe so. So it seems solved with 0.8.1 or earlier.

[luclu]

Thank you @tjayrush and @MaximoMax.

@tjayrush the error 'eth_sendTransaction' not allowed could be triggered if you are using eth (<=1.2.9) as backend. This will be fixed in the upcoming 0.8.2 release.

I will close this issue for now. Feel free to add anything meaningful to this discussion.

[tjayrush]

I haven't been using Mist since. I'll go back to using Mist and report only if problem reappears.

[Lucif666]

I had exactly the same issue in Ubuntu 14.04. Using Ethereum Wallet 0.8.2 with geth 1.5.0. Perfectly synced (using NTP), incoming transactions no problem. But when I tried to send ether to some address, even choosing max. fee and 350 000 gas always ended up with message "Transaction from account_x to address_x couldn't be successfully executed", and balance returned back. Tried 3 times with no success. Transactions didn't even appear in "pending" on blockchain. Then out of the blue, 20 minutes later, balance dissapeared from the account. And all 3 transactions were executed.

[luclu]

@Lucif666 could you kindly open a new issue on this - so this thread won't be necrobumbed? You can copy your comment's text over there.

[Lucif666]

@luclu I wanted to do that just now. But when I tried the same thing as yesterday, it works without problems now. No clue what was the hiccup yesterday (and it wasn't me, I think)...

[stevenericspector]

I'm getting a Method Not Found error whenever I try to send coins from my Mist wallet to any address and with any amount of gas. I'm using 0.8.2. I also have a wallet that vanished when I upgraded from 0.8.1 that I had not backed up, but i've pretty much written that one off at this point :-1:
Is there a fix for this?

[luclu]

@stevenericspector please open up a new issue. I will lock this thread for now.

[...] could you kindly open a new issue on this - so this thread won't be necrobumbed?