lnd: Force closed channel stuck in pending channels forever

Background

I have a force closed channel on pending channels for more than 1 month by now. This is what it looks like when calling for pendingchannels, take a look at blocks_til_maturity: -1175.

The channel was with another node I own and that node pendingchannels doesn’t show anything, also the closing tx was confirmed normally…

Can’t say if the funding channel amount was returned since I was not aware of this issue after a long time, but listchaintxns shows no tx with that amount nor block height.

Other force closed channels actually don’t get stuck on pendingchannels after reaching the maturity block but not this one.

"pending_force_closing_channels": [
        {
            "channel": {
                "remote_node_pub": "0292e8060da527f77be1db34a2a9f0b0baf158094e7424970806d5c9f90f4db312",
                "channel_point": "253e3d087561b14fb36faba68e674a71de2d68114f9dfe463a71e0b7b0c7f555:0",
                "capacity": "70143",
                "local_balance": "68876",
                "remote_balance": "0"
            },
            "closing_txid": "89efef5cc0e2b2e7d9f430ca970bef66ea031b359f986e7e14d71c0d2b1ebb75",
            "limbo_balance": "68876",
            "maturity_height": 530840,
            "blocks_til_maturity": -1175,
            "recovered_balance": "0",
            "pending_htlcs": [
            ]
        }
    ],

Your environment

version of lnd: “version”: “0.4.2-beta commit=b0288d46773ac6d45e5dc4d5e6a80dd3034d0b9f”
version of btcd: version 0.12.0-beta

I attach the log after restarting the node (which I’ve done several times).

lnd_log-2.txt

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 6 years ago
Comments: 28 (19 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

@Roasbeef Any workaround how to unstuck my 0.16 BTC? Closing tx has already thousands of confirmation, but I don’t know how fix it.

slush0 on Jul 29, 2018

I’m affected by this, too. Have one pending channel with “-1371” blocks_til_maturity.

However, I remember this happen in times of misconfiguration of my node, when lnd probably got skipped some block updates. So the cause is most likely fixed already, but the channel is still pending and funds locked in limbo. Closing tx has already over 1000 confirmations, but my lncli listchaintxns doesn’t see such tx.

slush0 on Jul 20, 2018

any progress on this? :S

frico21 on Jul 19, 2018