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ETHERBASE password issue #161
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Hi, if you can't recall the password, i can't help you :| |
I don't recall making one or being prompted to make one. I have two other ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Hi, if you can't recall the password, i can't help you :| — I don't recall making one or being prompted to make one. I have two other |
How did you create the etherbase account? All methods to create an account will ask you for a password. If not, please explain how you created the etherbase account. To be sure, when you tried NONE and EHTERBASE did you type in "NONE" and pressed enter, or did you leave the password empty and pressed enter? The latter is what you should try if you did not already. |
It might be that you created this account in your node when you played with it before you ever ran mist? |
I got the Wallet from GitHub, extracted it to my desktop. When I opened On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 11:39 PM, bas-vk notifications@github.com wrote:
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I will check that out. Whenever, I run software on Ubuntu, I do get a On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 2:25 AM, Fabian Vogelsteller <
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I assume you had already a node pre-installed. Why youre asked for the OS password i don't know. Maybe the way you installed your previous geth node. Please re-open when you find something like a bug in Mist |
I did not have a node installed at all...I ran the wallet a few days before On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 3:10 AM, Fabian Vogelsteller <
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Can you try this "y\r\n" or just "y" |
that didn't work. On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 4:13 AM, Fabian Vogelsteller <
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I think I have had the same issue both on my Windows OS and my Linux OS (Ubuntu 15.10). So, when I start Mist for the first time it asks for an "account password". Ok, I add a password and carefully write it down and save it. Then, when I open Mist after syncing for the first time the Etherbase account is already there. But the password that I used as an "account password" does not work for sending funds from Etherbase. Thus, the funds are locked in there eternally unless you can figure this out. Looks like a dangerous bug. I can imagine many users haven't imported their pre-sale wallets yet, but what will happen if they do and then run into the same bug and are never able to move their funds out of Etherbase? Please reply quite urgently if possible. |
@bitcoinmeetups please make sure to try out these tips: #669 |
Ok luclu, I have tried out the tips. I have tried to unlock the wallet using geth, checked keyboard-layout and I am already running the latest version of Geth and Mist. It did not work. And, mind you, I had exactly the same problem on my Windows OS as well. If this is a bug, it's the most dangerous bug I have ever seen. The password we generate when starting Mist the first time is supposed to be the Etherbase password, right? |
Are there any non-alphanumeric character you used? |
No, lots of digits but only alphanumeric ones. |
Almost everything TopRawMan says applies to my case as well as far as I can see. I always carefully write down my passwords and it is so unlikely that I would make a typo error both on Mist on Ubuntu and Mist on Windows which have been installed completely separately of course. The other Mist accounts I can unlock, just not the Etherbase one, neither on Linux or Windows. |
The password we generate when starting Mist the first time (account password) is supposed to be the Etherbase password, right? Just double checking. |
yes, you are right. Could you please try this service (it's client side in your browser; github-code is linked): |
How do I know that it's safe? Are you a core developer luclu? Are you the guy that was hired recently? Are you 100% sure that myetherwallet.com is trustworthy? Sorry but I have to ask for everyone's sake. |
+1 for your security mindfullness! |
Yes, that's the thing. If I remember correctly there were some similar Bitcoin related services a few years back and they turned out to be dodgy. Let me think a bit, I will try to update as soon as possible. |
I was able to replicate the error yet another time. I removed the keystore, re-started Mist and was then prompted to make an account password. I did so and exited Mist. Opened Geth. Tried to open the account with the password I generated minutes earlier and which I carefully wrote down. Incorrect password message. |
So far this issue has only occurred with the Etherbase account. Other accounts I have generated have not had any password issues. |
Another +1 for isolating this! I will try to reproduce this. What OS are you running? |
I'm having the same issue. I don't remember ever being prompted to create a password for my etherbase wallet. I just installed the wallet software and let it sync for a while and then it was ready to go. I moved 1 ETH to this wallet to test and now when I try to withdraw it asks me for a password. But I never created one in the first place. I'm very adamant about storing every password I create for any site or software I use so I know if I was prompted to create one I would have written it down or stored it in my LassPass account. |
I am having same issue. I never made a password and now after 1 week of syncing with mist wallet I am asked for a password to transfer almost 6 eth coins from my etherbase main account. I am also concerned that the above post by ryancharleston has not been answered 7 days later. Does anybody take this problem seriously? I just lost 6 ether coins to this bug. Please fix so I can get the eth out! |
@ryancharleston @Bitbobb please try to open your wallet's @ryancharleston If the
Please try out the recommendation on the top of this post - you will find a more detailed description in this issue: #669 |
Indeed, I agree it is the onboarding process which is confusing : I finally 2016-06-13 13:20 GMT+02:00 Luca Zeug notifications@github.com:
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Ran geth with the unlock command and took a screen shot. It looked like it was asking for a password. Maybe I can reverse the secret3 protocal to figure out my password. |
Can any respond to this bug? I will try again the unlock command. What am I supposed to expect. It did something and then I was prompted for password then geth started running and loading blockchain it looks like. I need response please. What was purpose of unlock cammand and what do I do after executing it? Thanks |
I was unable to unlock it with myehterumwallet.com BTW thanks |
@Bitbobb good to hear, are there any special characters? What is your passwords length? |
length: 9 |
oh sorry I read you were able to unlock 😥
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No worries I read it that way too and I wrote it. ahah. We are human!!! |
Dear luclu, |
No worries @Bitbobb! Glad you solved it. |
For the future, if affected please create a new issue so this doesn't get necrobumped. |
This thread has been automatically locked because it has not had recent activity. Please open a new issue for related bugs and link to relevant comments in this thread. |
I don't recall entering a password prior to depositing Ether into the etherbase account. Have made other account with passwords. Now that I'm trying to withdraw from Etherbase into other accounts, I am stuck without having made a password for the the etherbase(or so that's how I recall it.)
Armando
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