Pending Channel stucks

[orangedmind]

Hello, I tried to open a channel a couple of weeks ago and selected the low fee option. As the mempool was quite full the funding transaction was denied and never processed. Now the channel still stucks in the status "Pending Open" and I have not yet found a way to get rid of it.

Please find attached an extract of the lightning-cli listpeers command.

Any ideas? log.txt

[SimonVrouwe]

Fees are pretty low lately, so low fees that should not be a problem. I am not sure if lightningd keeps trying to broadcast the funding transaction forever. Maybe check lightning-cli listpeers 0384d37ce01a3950be609156dcbd3ebcad6a8107b11d796890521fde06508dfc4d debug to see what is going on.

The log should contain something like bitcoin-cli sendrawtransaction ... with an exit status.

[wtogami]

The mempool was empty many times during the past few weeks. This suggests that lightningd is not retransmitting transactions. If so I would consider that a bug.

[zerofeerouting]

It's possible that you've tried to open the channel with a transaction carrying such a low fee that it was rejected by all nodes (due to the congested mempool). You might want to rebroadcast the transaction.