Rescan is already done and cannot be updated. It returned error: Couldn't retrieve block
Author: OvertormentCreated Dec 17, 2020Updated Sep 11, 2026
LabelsbugwalletnotificationsneutrinoP2
Background
This started happening last 1 or 2 months, got this at least 3 times:
lncli newaddress np2wkh
[lncli] rpc error: code = Unknown desc = Rescan is already done and cannot be updated. It returned error: Couldn't retrieve block 0000000000000000000b515f5a042d5de0555fa78daa61de7b2e9f1a1c0cbb59 from networkYour environment
lncli version
{
"lncli": {
"commit": "v0.11.0-beta-59-ge4764a67cc415627e9196265f5c5bfe8ea5d388a-dirty",
"commit_hash": "e4764a67cc415627e9196265f5c5bfe8ea5d388a",
"version": "0.11.0-beta",
"app_major": 0,
"app_minor": 11,
"app_patch": 0,
"app_pre_release": "beta",
"build_tags": [
],
"go_version": "go1.13"
},
"lnd": {
"commit": "v0.11.0-beta-59-ge4764a67cc415627e9196265f5c5bfe8ea5d388a-dirty",
"commit_hash": "e4764a67cc415627e9196265f5c5bfe8ea5d388a",
"version": "0.11.0-beta",
"app_major": 0,
"app_minor": 11,
"app_patch": 0,
"app_pre_release": "beta",
"build_tags": [
],
"go_version": "go1.13"
}
}- which operating system
Linux lnd2 4.15.0-112-generic #113-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jul 9 23:41:39 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux neutrino- any other relevant environment details
Steps to reproduce
just happens periodically
Expected behaviour
more reliably refetch block if you could not fetch it..?
Source: lightningnetwork/lnd