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Brand new Raspberry Pi mainnet node following this walkthrough:
https://medium.com/@meeDamian/bitcoin-full-node-on-rbp3-revised-88bb7c8ef1d1
When I run this command:
bitcoin-cli -rpcuser=username -rpcpassword=password -rpcport=8332 getblockchaininfo
I receive the error:
error: Could not connect to the server 127.0.0.1:8332
When I tail debug.log, the node appears to be fully sync'd and picking up new blocks
My bitcoin.conf file is:
#is required for Fail2Ban
logips=1
#magic RBP optimizations
maxconnections=40
maxuploadtarget=5000
upnp=1
server=1
rpcuser='username'
rpcpassword='password'
rpcport='8332'
walletrbf=1
My apologies if my formatting is bad here, couldn't figure out how to get the .conf to paste as a block of text. Thank you for any ideas on what I'm doing wrong!
1I guess checking your debug.log in your Bitcoin datadir ~/.bitcoin may give you some answers – Jonas Schnelli – 2019-02-14T06:45:37.733
1I think having single quotes in the values for
rpcuser,rpcpassword, andrpcportin your bitcoin.conf file is causing problems. Try removing those quotes and restart bitcoind. – Andrew Chow – 2019-02-14T17:40:44.2331The single quotes were it -- thanks so much! – user97315 – 2019-02-15T03:29:51.267