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@ -118,3 +118,35 @@ Access `bitcoin-node` through ssh
nixops ssh operator@bitcoin-node
```
If you haven't changed your nixops path, replace `nixops` with the path to the nixops you built from source. For example: `/nix/store/wa6nk3aqxjb2mgl9pkwrnawqnh9z1b9d-nixops-1.6.1pre0_abcdef/bin/nixops`
FAQ
---
* **Q:** When deploying or trying to SSH into the machine I see
```
bitcoin-node> waiting for SSH...
Received disconnect from 10.1.1.200 port 22:2: Too many authentication failures
```
* **A:** Somehow ssh-agent and nixops don't play well together (see also https://github.com/NixOS/nixops/issues/256), if you have a few keys already added to your ssh-agent. Killing and restarting the ssh-agent should fix the problem. Also make sure you don't have something like
```
Host *
PubkeyAuthentication no
```
in your ssh config.
* **Q:** When deploying to virtualbox for the first time I see
```
bitcoin-node> Mar 19 09:22:27 bitcoin-node systemd[1]: Started Get NixOps SSH Key.
bitcoin-node> Mar 19 09:22:27 bitcoin-node get-vbox-nixops-client-key-start[2226]: VBoxControl: error: Failed to connect to the guest property service, error VERR_INTERNAL_ERROR
bitcoin-node> Mar 19 09:22:27 bitcoin-node systemd[1]: get-vbox-nixops-client-key.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
bitcoin-node> Mar 19 09:22:27 bitcoin-node systemd[1]: get-vbox-nixops-client-key.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
bitcoin-node> error: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/nix/store/6zyvpi0q6mvprycadz2dpdqag4742y18-python2.7-nixops-1.6pre0_abcdef/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nixops/deployment.py", line 731, in worker
raise Exception("unable to activate new configuration")
Exception: unable to activate new configuration
```
* **A:** This is issue https://github.com/NixOS/nixops/issues/908. The machine needs to be rebooted. You can do that by running `nixops deploy` with the `--force-reboot` flag once.
* **Q:** I'm deploying to virtualbox it's not able to connect anymore.
* **A:** Maybe the IP address of the box changed. Run `nixops deploy --check` to update nixops with the new IP address.
* **Q:** The clightning service is running but when I try to use it (f.e. by running `lightning-cli getinfo` as user operator) all I get is `lightning-cli: Connecting to 'lightning-rpc': Connection refused`.
* **A:** Check your clightning logs with `journalctl -eu clightning`. Do you see something like `bitcoin-cli getblock ... false` failed? Are you using pruned mode? That means that clightning hasn't seen all the blocks it needs to and it can't get that block because your node is pruned. If you're just setting up a new node you can `systemctl stop clightning` and wipe your `/var/lib/clightning` directory. Otherwise you need to reindex the Bitcoin node.
* **Q:** My disk space is getting low due to nix.
* **A:** run `nix-collect-garbage -d`