shesek/lightning-charge:standalone - unable to start

[jaro2k]

I'm searching for advise..
I'm running bitcoin node and c-lightning in separate containers and I'm trying to get them integrated with lightning-charge running in third container.
All 3 containers are on the same host.

following the document from this project I have mapped:
/etc/lightning -> /root/.lightning
and I mounted /root/.lightning file-system from c-lightning container to the lightning-charge container.

When container starts it throws the following error:

Using lightningd directory mounted in /etc/lightning... waiting for RPC unix socket... bin/docker-entrypoint.sh: line 71: inotifywait: command not found

Starting Lightning Charge
Lightning client connection error { Error: connect ENOENT /etc/lightning/lightning-rpc
at PipeConnectWrap.afterConnect [as oncomplete] (net.js:1191:14)
errno: 'ENOENT',
code: 'ENOENT',
syscall: 'connect',
address: '/etc/lightning/lightning-rpc' }
events.js:183
throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
^

Error: connect ENOENT /etc/lightning/lightning-rpc
at PipeConnectWrap.afterConnect [as oncomplete] (net.js:1191:14)

[shesek]

It seems like lightning charge was unable to find the c-lightning rpc socket in /etc/lightning/lightning-rpc. Was your c-lightning node already running when you started the lightning charge container?

Lightning charge should normally wait for the c-lightning socket file to appear if its not there when starting up (to support starting charge while c-lightning is still warming up), but there was a bug preventing this from working, which was causing the error you were seeing. 43973f4 should fix this, I'll be releasing this in v0.4.12 soon.

[shesek]

0.4.12 is released and available on docker hub, can you try again and verify this fixed the issue?

[jaro2k]

thank you! I managed to move on slightly.. but there is still a problem..
I mounted filesystem from bitcoin container to mount-point: /etc/bitcoin
and filesystem from lightning container to mount-point: /etc/lightning as instructed in documentation..

This is the output from container startup:

Using lightningd directory mounted in /etc/lightning...
Starting Lightning Charge
undefined:1
{ "jsonrpc": "2.0", "id" : "1", "result" :

SyntaxError: Unexpected end of JSON input
at JSON.parse ()
at Interface.LightningClient.rl.on.line (/opt/charged/node_modules/clightning-client/index.js:60:29)
at emitOne (events.js:116:13)
at Interface.emit (events.js:211:7)
at Interface._onLine (readline.js:280:10)
at Interface._normalWrite (readline.js:422:12)
at Socket.ondata (readline.js:139:10)
at emitOne (events.js:116:13)
at Socket.emit (events.js:211:7)
at addChunk (_stream_readable.js:263:12)
at readableAddChunk (_stream_readable.js:250:11)
at Socket.Readable.push (_stream_readable.js:208:10)
at Pipe.onread (net.js:601:20)

Maybe I'm doing something fundamentally wrong..

[shesek]

Which version of c-lightning are you running?

Also, note that you don't need to mount in the bitcoin's datadir if you're mounting lightning's.

[jaro2k]

v.0.7.0
the issue before you helped me with was caused by the fact that I had incorrect mount-point /etc/lightning set so your assumption was correct when you asked me whether c-lightning is up and running. It was up but it was not accessible.
I believe my mounting-point is correct now.. but since then I'm getting this issue.
I can removed /etc/bitcoin to make it more correct.

I need to say that this containers are running on top of NAS from QNAP and I'm mounting the file-system of c-lightning as a share:
/etc/lightning -> /share/docker/c-lightning-1 Read/Write

am I able to turn some level of debug logging via Environment-params ? maybe I can find out more that way..

[shesek]

I'm not aware of any specific issues that should prevent charge from working with c-lightning v0.7.0, but would it be possible to update to the latest version (v0.7.3) and see if the issue persists? There were lots of major improvements and bug fixes since v0.7.0, so you should probably update anyway :)

[jaro2k]

It works! :)
issue was gone ones c-lightning got upgraded from 0.7.0 to 0.7.3, see output:

curl $CHARGE/info
{"id":"02ca4c46faa50b2d961f4ad2e9d00c90826077b6a282b71079a88cb29a34b8c84a"...}

@shesek, thank you so much for your support and your effort.. I'm happy to join your LN node.. you can find me at: 02ca4c46faa50b2d961f4ad2e9d00c90826077b6a282b71079a88cb29a34b8c84a@178.143.52.84:9735

issue can be closed. Cheers!

[robertclarkson]

@jaro2k I'm trying to do this as well. Is there any chance you'd share your docker-compose.yml? Any help much appreciated