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Fatal: Failed to create the protocol stack: mkdir <HOME>: The system cannot find the path specified. #16437

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cyberyarek opened this issue Apr 4, 2018 · 2 comments
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Fatal: Failed to create the protocol stack: mkdir <HOME>: The system cannot find the path specified. #16437

cyberyarek opened this issue Apr 4, 2018 · 2 comments

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@cyberyarek
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If you are on Windows and happen to have an environment variable HOME to set to something else than the default then geth will give you the above error.

The solution is to create $HOME\AppData and $HOME\AppData\Roaming folders.

Good luck.
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Technically this is an error on Windows: geth should use USERPROFILE instead of HOME.

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fjl commented Nov 27, 2018

Related PR: #17786

@fjl fjl closed this as completed in f7f6a46 Feb 19, 2019
kiku-jw pushed a commit to kiku-jw/go-ethereum that referenced this issue Mar 29, 2019
@hackmod @kiku-jw
eth, node: use APPDATA env to support cygwin/msys correctly (ethereum…
01ef169 
…#17786)

This changes default location of the data directory to use the LOCALAPPDATA
environment variable, resolving issues with remote home directories an improving
compatibility with Cygwin.

Fixes ethereum#2239 
Fixes ethereum#2237 
Fixes ethereum#16437
hackmod added a commit to Ethersocial/go-ethersocial that referenced this issue Apr 14, 2019
@hackmod
eth, node: use APPDATA env to support cygwin/msys correctly (ethereum…
ef8c08a 
…#17786)

This changes default location of the data directory to use the LOCALAPPDATA
environment variable, resolving issues with remote home directories an improving
compatibility with Cygwin.

Fixes ethereum#2239
Fixes ethereum#2237
Fixes ethereum#16437
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