Sending payment not working about raspibolt

[Stadicus]

Great to hear. I wouldn't give too much thought regarding the Explorer visualization. It's not very accurate and also contains stale information. It's nice, nontheless. :-)

[raindogdance]

Does this happen with all payments you are trying to send (edit: just saw that you tried different ones.. but were they all to the same destination node)? I had a similar issue with some certain nodes, the Blockstream node in particular (in the LND Slack was suggested that it is because they are running an older version of c-lightning, which causes the issue). Perhaps try to get/send a tip here: http://tip.bight.nl - the maintainer has a LND node.

Also, perhaps try lncli payinvoice <paymentrequest> instead?

[Dropin16]

It happens with Y'alls and Starblocks.

Tried http://tip.bight.nl without adding node infos or anything besides the amount of satoshis and got this message:
lncli sendpayment --pay_req=lnbc1u1pdtsqlcpp5sg7xe76q...............qp7jv8u9
[lncli] rpc error: code = Unknown desc = unknown network

Same Error when adding my own node's ID in the node description.

Tried lncli payinvoice <paymentrequest> and got the following:

{
"payment_error": "unable to route payment to destination: UnknownNextPeer",
"payment_preimage": "",
"payment_route": null
}

[raindogdance]

Oh, are you on testnet or mainnet? Starblocks is definitely testnet and Yalls has both versions (depending on their URL). "Unknown network" might suggest you are on testnet trying to pay a mainnet invoice?

[Dropin16]

I'll drop a part of the log in here in case it helps. Can always delete it if it doesn't help.

Mar 25 22:11:20 AURORA lnd[20662]: 2018-03-25 22:11:20.756 [INF] PEER: unable to read message from 34.201.11.250:46062: read tcp 192.168.1.130:9735->34.201.11.250:46062: use of closed network connection
Mar 25 22:11:20 AURORA lnd[20662]: 2018-03-25 22:11:20.756 [INF] HSWC: Removing channel link with ChannelID(eb16e993ccf7cc679c01198a2b5def9f322100b293abbc07cae566225046a4c6)
Mar 25 22:11:20 AURORA lnd[20662]: 2018-03-25 22:11:20.759 [INF] HSWC: ChannelLink(c6a446502266e5ca07bcab93b20021329fef5d2b8a19019c67ccf7cc93e916eb:0) is stopping
Mar 25 22:11:20 AURORA lnd[20662]: 2018-03-25 22:11:20.761 [INF] NTFN: Cancelling epoch notification, epoch_id=195
Mar 25 22:11:20 AURORA lnd[20662]: 2018-03-25 22:11:20.762 [INF] HSWC: ChannelLink(c6a446502266e5ca07bcab93b20021329fef5d2b8a19019c67ccf7cc93e916eb:0) has exited
Mar 25 22:11:21 AURORA lnd[20662]: 2018-03-25 22:11:21.126 [ERR] HSWC: unable to find links by destination unable to locate channel link bydestination hop id 022bc10a5df9d410edf883916e08e2ed35f5ea948d3e3e16c3e15fba6cbdd5287d
Mar 25 22:11:21 AURORA lnd[20662]: 2018-03-25 22:11:21.127 [ERR] CRTR: Attempt to send payment 1f75291ee123b8db41d46d1ab52195a90e7b0962b03bebae289d6d7de7599228 failed: UnknownNextPeer
Mar 25 22:11:22 AURORA lnd[20662]: 2018-03-25 22:11:22.209 [INF] HSWC: Sent 0 satoshis received -304 satoshis in the last 10 seconds (1.8446744073709553e+18 tx/sec)
Mar 25 22:11:22 AURORA lnd[20662]: 2018-03-25 22:11:22.447 [ERR] CRTR: Attempt to send payment 1f75291ee123b8db41d46d1ab52195a90e7b0962b03bebae289d6d7de7599228 failed: TemporaryChannelFailure
Mar 25 22:11:22 AURORA lnd[20662]: 2018-03-25 22:11:22.580 [INF] DISC: Broadcasting batch of 3 new announcements
Mar 25 22:11:23 AURORA lnd[20662]: 2018-03-25 22:11:23.806 [ERR] CRTR: Attempt to send payment 1f75291ee123b8db41d46d1ab52195a90e7b0962b03bebae289d6d7de7599228 failed: UnknownNextPeer
Mar 25 22:11:25 AURORA lnd[20662]: 2018-03-25 22:11:25.789 [ERR] CRTR: Attempt to send payment 1f75291ee123b8db41d46d1ab52195a90e7b0962b03bebae289d6d7de7599228 failed: UnknownNextPeer
Mar 25 22:11:27 AURORA lnd[20662]: 2018-03-25 22:11:27.825 [ERR] CRTR: Attempt to send payment 1f75291ee123b8db41d46d1ab52195a90e7b0962b03bebae289d6d7de7599228 failed: TemporaryChannelFailure
Mar 25 22:11:29 AURORA lnd[20662]: 2018-03-25 22:11:29.907 [ERR] CRTR: Attempt to send payment 1f75291ee123b8db41d46d1ab52195a90e7b0962b03bebae289d6d7de7599228 failed: UnknownNextPeer
Mar 25 22:11:31 AURORA lnd[20662]: 2018-03-25 22:11:31.976 [ERR] CRTR: Attempt to send payment 1f75291ee123b8db41d46d1ab52195a90e7b0962b03bebae289d6d7de7599228 failed: UnknownNextPeer
Mar 25 22:11:32 AURORA lnd[20662]: 2018-03-25 22:11:32.209 [INF] HSWC: Sent 0 satoshis received 0 satoshis in the last 10 seconds (1.2 tx/sec)
Mar 25 22:11:33 AURORA lnd[20662]: 2018-03-25 22:11:33.260 [ERR] CRTR: Attempt to send payment 1f75291ee123b8db41d46d1ab52195a90e7b0962b03bebae289d6d7de7599228 failed: UnknownNextPeer
Mar 25 22:11:34 AURORA lnd[20662]: 2018-03-25 22:11:34.571 [ERR] CRTR: Attempt to send payment 1f75291ee123b8db41d46d1ab52195a90e7b0962b03bebae289d6d7de7599228 failed: TemporaryChannelFailure
Mar 25 22:11:35 AURORA lnd[20662]: 2018-03-25 22:11:35.795 [ERR] CRTR: Attempt to send payment 1f75291ee123b8db41d46d1ab52195a90e7b0962b03bebae289d6d7de7599228 failed: TemporaryChannelFailure

[Dropin16]

Ooooh yes I'm on testnet. I'll try a Y'alls payment with your method.

Edit: Tiped mainnet instead of testnet. For clarification I'm on TESTNET

[raindogdance]

Are you sure you are on mainnet? You linked to your node on the Acinq explorer in the OP, and that explorer is definitely for testnet.

what do you get when you do lncli getinfo?
Does it say "testnet": false or "testnet: true?

[Dropin16]

I'm so sorry my brain had a fatal error when typing. I'm on testnet!

I get:

"identity_pubkey": "0366e4191c0271562700edfcfadca560c1a999b0b76731cf97eed1c5695bc418d9",
"alias": "AURORA",
"num_pending_channels": 2,
"num_active_channels": 3,
"num_peers": 6,
"block_height": 1289172,
"block_hash": "00000000de8de71b9e0d97b56a641d53ef59d4eab20dab2b74604d54731dde87",
"synced_to_chain": true,
"testnet": true,
"chains": [
    "bitcoin"
],
"uris": [
    "0366e4191c0271562700edfcfadca560c1a999b0b76731cf97eed1c5695bc418d9@85.1.111.22:9735"
],
"best_header_timestamp": "1522009807"

[Dropin16]

Tried Y'alls payment with lncli payinvoice <paymentrequest> and got no reaction like in the first post.

[raindogdance]

I'm afraid my knowledge is limited here. Hopefully someone with more understanding will chime in. The only thing that comes to mind to try is a good old client restart (sudo systemctl start lnd - you have to do that from the "admin" account, not the "bitcoin" one) and/or to open up a second ssh window, log in to your Pi and start a realtime log file: sudo journalctl -f -u lnd, while trying the sending command in the first window, and try to make sense of what is going on.
There is a lot of chatter in the log file though, so probably this won't make much sense... So I am hoping someone else will have a better idea.

[Stadicus]

As you are up and running and LND is synced to the chain, this is somewhat outside the scope this guide. I would suggest you

• ask in the LND slack channels (invite link on the lnd resources page)
• open an issue in the LND github repo, but make sure to document it thoroughly

[Dropin16]

I tried again today without restarting or anything with the command provided by the guide and it worked!

I noticed that my node has generated a 6. channel to "Ruphware++"
https://explorer.acinq.co/#/n/0366e4191c0271562700edfcfadca560c1a999b0b76731cf97eed1c5695bc418d9

The line seems to move outwords, may this be the reason why it works now?

Anyways thanks alot!