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Rebalance continually fails with: "Temporary Channel Failure"

Open davterra opened this issue 4 years ago • 3 comments

Two channels open. Both have roughly 600k sats in outbound, and trying to rebalance 300k sats from A to B.

I've tried numerous times, both leaving fee undefined, and by putting in various small numbers for fee.

It always finds a route, but the rebalance fails with the error "Temporary Channel Failure"

davterra avatar Sep 03 '20 15:09 davterra

One of the channels in the route seems to not have enough capacity. Have you tried the advanced rebalancing? It tends to work better

apotdevin avatar Sep 05 '20 14:09 apotdevin

I have the same problem and just can't get any further.

DocBrown101 avatar Nov 28 '20 11:11 DocBrown101

Getting this error a lot, even in cases like these:

2021-07-12 19:49:59 info [THUB]: {
    "evaluating": [
        "\u001b[90m69x1x1\u001b[39m ★ ★ ★ ★",
        "\u001b[92mFOO\u001b[39m 112233. Fee rate: 0.00% (3)",
        "\u001b[90m64x3x0\u001b[39m",
        "\u001b[92mGOO\u001b[39m 445566. Fee rate: 0.00% (3)",
        "\u001b[90m69x1x0\u001b[39m"
    ]
}
2021-07-12 19:50:04 info [THUB]: {
    "failure": "TemporaryChannelFailure at 644x3x0 from FOO"
}

where FOO and GOO are two well connected nodes (both with each other as well as with my node), with a decent rebalance target and fees much higher than the fee rates described, and yet TemporaryChannelFailure comes up repeatedly.

What exactly does this error mean? Is this a temporary network failure due to downtime, or not enough liquidity? How can I use this information to attempt a successful rebalance?

yuvadm avatar Jul 12 '21 19:07 yuvadm