LND sync to graph will not complete on 0.3.5, despite restarts and tor enable/disable

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LND is stuck at “Syncing to graph”, for over a week now. I have tried restarts, enabling and disabling tor (as discussed as the “solution” presented in this post), to no avail. Running 0.3.5. Bitcoin Core is up-to-date, on and synced. All other services (data, communication) working without problem.

Any ideas will be hugely appreciated!

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Hey @brightside , could you post the logs get that would give us much more insight to help you. Thanks!

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Funny, I had this as well before a year, when I started. Restarted some services and it was gone. I think I also did some restarts without success.

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Is this a new install on LND? You may just need to add a peer.

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Thanks @Rexter . I was under the impression after reading steps 6 & 7 in the instructions for “Opening my first channel” that the LND node needed to be synced first:

  1. Now hit Start and wait for CLN to sync up to the network. This may take a few hours.

  2. Once the Synced health check turns green (as below) you can proceed to the next step.

Are these instructions perhaps incorrect?

I don’t have any bitcoin to transfer to lightning at the moment. Just getting started exploring the bitcoin/lightning world via these services. Is having some “sats” in my node a prerequisite for connecting to my first peer?

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Thanks for the response @datamaycare - is there any risk of exposing sensitive data if I just copy/paste the logs as-is?

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No you don’t need any of that. The service should start and it should become green before you do anything on top of it. Especially sending funds.

But maybe the adding of a peer helps. But I’d say try uninstalling and re-installing first, before you do any of the other things, since you seem to be at the start of everything anyways.

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It’s good that you are being detail oriented. A lot of times the order of sequence is very important. Not exactly “incorrect,” but a little generic. If it can’t find a peer, it has no graph to sync to. It’s not always necessary to add a peer first. LND seems to be worse about this than CLN. Add a peer, and then wait for it to sync. No, you don’t need sats yet.