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Being asked for password to send from etherbase account on mist. Never made password
Node type: geth/eth OS: windows Network type: main Mist version: 0.6.2
Same as issue #161 which from my read seems to have been improperly closed since the respondant misunderstood the complainants merit of his claim. I am having the same problem that the man in issue 161 is having. His issue and another person was never resolved. I loaded mist. I was recomended to use 6.2 by dev untill the more stable release comes out after 7.3 or 7.4 or whatever since those were having problems. Anyway, I took many days of syning then bought some eth then tried to transfer 1 eth to the new jaxx wallet and it asked for a password. I NEVER MADE A PASSWORD for the main etherbase account. I do not have any other eth account and so now I cannot get the almost 6 rth out of mist. Please help.
using geth 1.3.6 sorry meant to include that. I was never asked for a password for anything on mist and it took my eth now asks for password to send eth. What is up with this. This is a big problem folks!
@Bitbobb did you ever see this onboarding screen?
This will popup and ask you for a password if there was no json-file in the %APPDATA%\Ethereum\keystore folder found. Unless you used geth-standalone issuing personal.newAccount this is most unlikely.
Also have a look at #161 were I answered you some minutes ago.
Did you copy/paste the files from c:\ethereum, put it to a second computer and just run it ? In this case a new adress will be auto generated without user interaction and unknown password. Money send to this adress will be trapped.
luclu, yes I did see that screen. And I have only one option for a possible password that I found since I posted this. And now when I entered this possible password the error message changed from wrong passoword to "couldn't connect to node, did it crash in the background?" Then after entering a ton of other possible passwords I kept getting wrong password for all of them. Then I went back to possible password and it now says wrong password for this entry as well. Something is deffinately going on. And luclu, I checked the link you provided in issue 161 and the link is dead. I think I found the real link elswhere and tried to enter my keystore file there and was asked for a password on it. Then when I entered the possible password it said not enough memory. Please advise.
I will look at the rest of your suggestions and the secret3 guide looks promising.
If I did in fact find the actual password and it still does not work I must have this bug that has been mentioned yes?
eisgold, no I did not import and run anything on a second computer by copy and paste
Hi there I am having the same issue. I downloaded version 0.7.5, chose the option 'Start using Ethereum' and then setup the password I always use. Now I am trying to create a contract and it's saying the password is wrong. Is there any way to change the password or start again without loosing what i converted from bitcoins to ether while setting up my mist wallet? Sorry im pretty new with this.
After a couple of tries i got an error saying: method send transation not allowed.
Would appreciate any help!
Thanks a lot in advance.
@sparda2 make sure to have funds in your etherbase account when you evoke or interact with contracts.
Hi @luclu, In theory I converted 10 Ether during the setup of my mist wallet and the transaction was completed using that popup window from ShapeShift that is opened with the wallet. However my balance in the mist wallet is still 0. Why is this? does it take some time to actually be reflected in my wallet? Thanks
Judging from the network stats on top - there seems to be a problem connecting to your geth node.
Also sendTransaction() is depreciated in version 0.7.5.
There seems to be some weirdness on your side. Do you run any external instance of geth you connect to? Also are you sure this is 0.7.5?
You can use a blockexplorer like etherscan.io to check your wallets balance in the meantime.
And this is the shifty window i got.. Sorry for not putting everything into one post.
And this is where i get the wrong password error:
What should i do?
@hiddentao could you have a lookt at this?
Instance of eth_sendTransaction: https://github.com/ethereum/mist/issues/808#issuecomment-226993555
Searching the code I found: ipcProviderBackend.js#L313
and this old doc-string: eth_sendTransaction.js#L11
I don't even want to close the wallet because i might not be able to log back in! Im new using this wallet so im not sure how it works. If i close it, will i be able to recover my password/account again if the password is still wrong? Also, is it supposed to show those 10 ether on my main account immediately after converted from btc? or they usually take some extra time to show? Thanks in advance
hold on... ive just tried again with no password and it's creating the contract... this feels a bit dodgy.
@frozeman Looks like eth_sendTransaction is being rejected here because it's part of a batch request. Can we change that to allow it go through? Can we not do the popup window asking for a password for it?
I will let you know once I have 7.5. installed. Everything is working fine for me now. Thank you! :)
Hi everyone, thanks for your replies. How about my 10 Ether? Where have they gone to? Is there any way I can revert the transaction and get them back to my blockchain btc account?
Is your mist wallet synced? It took me several days to get this done. I had to use --fast
I ask because it looks like your screenshot shows no peers or blocks have been connected to or processed yet. You would know if this happened because it will tell you the percentage of blocks that have been processed like a progress window. Once you have processed all the blocks up to when you did your transaction then your wallet should show your new balance of 10 ETH.
And no I do not think there is a way to reverse a transaction once it has been recorded on the blockchain.
Probably not. Do you guys know where to check the sync progress? I am using version 0.7.5 for mac. Also is it ok if i force the geth --fast while i have my mist window still open? I don't want to close it before i have got the ethers cleared in my account just in case i entered a wrong password and then when i try to reopen it, it doesn't work.
If you sent eth coin to your wallet address it should show up when your wallet syncs properly. You can verify this by looking at the block chain with a block explorer. To do this you will need to find the block explorer website for ether coins then type in your wallet address and do a search for that address. You will be able to see some results. If you see the 10 ether coins went to that address then you will be okay to open and close your wallet program. Just make sure you do not delete your file folder that contains the wallet specifically the uutu file i believe in keystore folder. As for why you are not getting connected to any peers is something I cannot help with since mine just connected automatically. Were you asked to allow the program to access the internet? perhaps you need to check fire wall? You might need to have others on this thread help you because I am an end user and my comments may not be correct. I am just sharing what worked for me.
That's cool.. I think i know now why it wouldn't sync. I tried doing the geth --fast sync and got an error because apparently my time was 1 min and a couple of seconds out of sync compared with internet servers. I checked my time settings and even though i had the option checked to automatically set the time from the internet, when i selected a different server it did update it and there was a difference of about a minute. After that I fired the geth --fast command again and it's now syncing. Will check what you said about my ethers in the block explorer and let you know. Thanks a lot.
Sweet I just checked the block page and it says i have the 10 ether in my wallet :) Sorry another question. How big is the file(s) i need to download? I only had 6gb free and the operation was aborted because i ran out of space.
Sorry I do not know this answer. Maybe @luclu can help you. I used several gb so more than 6 gb for sure. I wonder if this can be done on a flash drive. In other words can we put mist on a thumb drive and run it from there? I would rather do that than loose my computer space on my laptop. What would be the down side to this? Thanks
Oh don't worry. It's all synced now and I can see my balance already... only one thing... I transferred 10 Ether but now i have 9.96 Ether. is there a fee for using the wallet or something?
Sorry I don't know. It should show you a breakdown before you send where the fees are, etc. But yeah probably some kind of transfer fee or miners fee, fuel, gas, ???
@sparda2 As far as I can see on my computer the database for the main network uses 6.87 Gb and for Testnet 3.04 Gb. I know nothing about using a thumb drive. I'm a new user.
Please make sure to update to 0.8.1 as the error messages were broken in earlier versions and always fell back to the - often misleading - "wrong password" alert - regardless of the real error (#664).