I recently opened 3 channels with 3 different nodes on the lightning terminal for my LND-node. Now i can’t see them anymore in Lightning terminal. I don’t have a backup from after i opened these three channels.
I thought maybe the channels were force closed, but the channel balances did not return to my onchain wallet. I used AutOpen functionality within Lightning Terminal to open the channels and had to transfer 10M satoshi to be able to make use of this functionality.
Before i try to recover these funds from the channels with chantools (or similar), if at all possible. I had another question: My node is visible/searchable within the lightning terminal Web userinterface. But if i go to https://mempool.space and enter my public node id, mempool does not find my LND node. I checked my 3 peers and they work fine as they do show up in mempool.space. I checked their active channels and none had channels (anymore) with me. It seems my node is not online.
Everything seems fine from the start9 perspective. Both LND and lightning terminal services pass all healthchecks.
Somebody has some tips what to do or where to look?
Background:
I did stop and start LND and lightning terminal services from the start9 installed services tab, but i am not sure if this was prior to opening the channels or afterwards. Is it possible that stopping and starting LND has negative consequences to the active lighting channels?
The first thing you could do to double check everything is use a third option like Ride the Lightning in order to look into the channels.
Channels don´t just disappear out of nowhere and if for some reason they were force closed, you will be able to see them in RTL as “Pending Force Close”.
You should keep in mind that if they were indeed force closed, you will not see the balance back in the LND On-Chain wallet until after some time. Usually this can could take up to two weeks or more depending on the time lock configuration the channel had when it was opened in the first place.
Hi Alvaro,
I checked with Ride the Lightning and can’t see the channels, also not as ‘Pending force close’ (see screenschot1). I see that i have 5 peers, 3 of these peers (PatBoy, EverNukenNode and Deenmo) are the nodes that i had channels with (see screenshot2).
Could it be that after stopping and starting my LND-node from the start9 server the ip-address of my node changed (like static versus dynamic ip address) and that this influenced my channels?
I don’t know how, but now my Node does pup up on https://mempool.space including my 3 channels. But still i don’t see these channels in lightning terminal or Ride the Lightning.
I updated LND to 0.19.3 from the marketplace. The version shows as 0.19.3-beta in Lightning Terminals as RTL.
But my 3 channels are still not there.
I restarted bitcoind and LND, but again no channels. I went trough the lnd.log file and saw these messages that may be of interest. For the 3 nodes i had channels with the log messages were all the same. I paste the log messages of one peer (EverNukeNode):
2025-09-12T10:06:17+02:00 2025-09-12 08:06:17.912 [INF] SRVR: New inbound connection from 172.18.0.1:60842
2025-09-12T10:06:17+02:00 2025-09-12 08:06:17.912 [INF] SRVR: Finalizing connection to 03bcadbf6d18681c99d6cae4364456196a0adcacc77aede921e6e40a38b12b69be@172.18.0.1:60842, inbound=true
2025-09-12T10:06:17+02:00 2025-09-12 08:06:17.925 [INF] MSGX: Starting Router
2025-09-12T10:06:17+02:00 2025-09-12 08:06:17.925 [INF] PEER: Peer(03bcadbf6d18681c99d6cae4364456196a0adcacc77aede921e6e40a38b12b69be): Negotiated chan series queries
2025-09-12T10:06:17+02:00 2025-09-12 08:06:17.925 [INF] DISC: Creating new GossipSyncer for peer=03bcadbf6d18681c99d6cae4364456196a0adcacc77aede921e6e40a38b12b69be
2025-09-12T10:06:18+02:00 2025-09-12 08:06:18.550 [ERR] PEER: Peer(03bcadbf6d18681c99d6cae4364456196a0adcacc77aede921e6e40a38b12b69be): resend failed: unable to fetch channel sync messages for peer 03bcadbf6d18681c99d6cae4364456196a0adcacc77aede921e6e40a38b12b69be@172.18.0.1:60842: unable to find closed channel summary
The last line says something about unable to find closed channel summary. Don’t know if this is of importance?
