getbalance API call returns incorrect values with account parameter

[pentarh]

In some reason my wallet accounting broken. I have total 0.1 BTC on wallet and getbalance without params returns correct value.

But when I provide account to this api call (i.e. empty account), it returns incorrect values - greater than overall balance or even negative.

-rescan and -updatewallet - both didn't help. It show absolutely unreal values in listaccounts balances.

[user@localhost ~]$ bin/bitcoind getinfo
{
"version" : 80500,
"protocolversion" : 70001,
"walletversion" : 10500,
"balance" : 0.10000000,
"blocks" : 258337,
"timeoffset" : -1,
"connections" : 8,
"proxy" : "",
"difficulty" : 112628548.66634709,
"testnet" : false,
"keypoololdest" : 1327805721,
"keypoolsize" : 101,
"paytxfee" : 0.00000000,
"errors" : ""
}
[user@localhost ~]$ bin/bitcoind getbalance
0.10000000
[user@localhost ~]$ bin/bitcoind getbalance ''
-20231.03669102
[user@localhost ~]$ bin/bitcoind listaccounts
{
"" : -20231.03669102,
"acc_" : 0.00000000,
"acc_" : 50.00000000,
"acc_" : 0.00000000,
"acc_" : 7.00000000,
"acc_" : 50.00000000,
"acc_" : 5905.00000000,
}
==RAW HTTP==
<--- getbalance[ no params ]
POST / HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: bitcoin-json-rpc/v0.8.5-beta
Host: 127.0.0.1
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 43
Connection: close
Accept: application/json
Authorization: Basic *************

{"method":"getbalance","params":[],"id":1}
------>
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 15:15:18 +0000
Connection: close
Content-Length: 42
Content-Type: application/json
Server: bitcoin-json-rpc/v0.8.5-beta

{"result":0.10000000,"error":null,"id":1}

<--- getbalance[ "" ]
POST / HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: bitcoin-json-rpc/v0.8.5-beta
Host: 127.0.0.1
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 45
Connection: close
Accept: application/json
Authorization: Basic *****************

{"method":"getbalance","params":[""],"id":1}
------>
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 15:16:15 +0000
Connection: close
Content-Length: 47
Content-Type: application/json
Server: bitcoin-json-rpc/v0.8.5-beta

{"result":-20231.03669102,"error":null,"id":1}

[gmaxwell]

Getbalance is returning the default account "", if you want all accounts use the argument "*". It's possible for an account to have a negative balance if you've spent more from it than you have assigned to that account.

[pentarh]

I didn't assigned anything to accounts. This was done automatically by regular bitcoin-qt usage.

How can I recalculate balances?

[gmaxwell]

Just use the move command to move the funds from the accounts back to "".

[pentarh]

Thanks. This helped. But anyway I didn't use "move" ever. This mess in accounts appeared by itself.

[gmaxwell]

Assigning labels to addresses in the gui attributes their funds to the various accounts.

[pentarh]

Right. But seems it do it wrong.

[Diapolo]

Should accounts match the label everytime? They don't match for me either...

[gavinandresen]

bitcoind accounts and Bitcoin-Qt labels are not designed to be consistent with each other. Use one or the other, not both at the same time.

[Diapolo]

@gavinandresen Well it's at least intersting to have accounts, with names I never set by using Bitcoin-Qt, no? I have no clue about the concept of labels, just asking :).

[laanwj]

No, they don't need to match. For historical purposes labels and accounts use the same underlying information in the database but in different ways. I guess that should be changed some day, but doing that and keeping backwards compatibility (neither losing your labels nor accounts) will at least require a lot of testing.

[bitcoinbrisbane]

Im getting the same error. I have never used labels, always accounts. This seems to return the total inputed. Not taking into account any sends.

[luke-jr]

Are you using sendfrom/sendmany with the account names in question?

[bitcoinbrisbane]

Thanks for getting back. I just did a send from(account name) and it sent from different addresses in the wallet. Not just the one associated with the account name.