Wallets not automatically loaded #31832

1. 
   embetrix commented at 8:25 am on February 10, 2025: none

   Is there an existing issue for this?

   • I have searched the existing issues

   Current behaviour

   after starting bitcoind the wallets are not automatically loaded

   Expected behaviour

   the wallets should be automatically loaded

   Steps to reproduce

   My bitcoin.conf

    0pid=/run/bitcoin/bitcoind.pid
    1nodebuglogfile=1
    2datadir=/var/bitcoin
    3loglevel=info
    4proxy=127.0.0.1:9050
    5testnet4=1
    6
    7[testnet4]
    8walletdir=/var/wallet
    9
   10server=1
   11rpcuser=satobox
   12rpcport=8332
   13rpcconnect=127.0.0.1
   14rpcauth=satobox:c7eadc9121b2af62e92df69f1$3eecb49b2600f152f728a9f66ab38028e8c710a04ea06c69e4a2f291e7d6eee3
   

   my wallet dir:

   0ls -l /var/wallet/
   1total 28
   2drwx------ 2 64874 64874  4096 Feb 10 08:19 Wallet-01
   3drwx------ 2 64874 64874  4096 Feb  9 14:55 Wallet-02
   4drwx------ 2 64874 64874  4096 Feb  9 14:56 Wallet-03
   

   when I start bitcoind:

   /usr/bin/bitcoind -conf=/etc/bitcoin/bitcoin.conf

   Nothing shows up:

   0# bitcoin-cli listwallets
   1[
   2]
   

   I have to load them manually:

   bitcoin-cli loadwallet "Wallet-01"

   0# bitcoin-cli listwallets
   1[
   2  "Wallet-01"
   3]
   

   Relevant log output

   see above

   How did you obtain Bitcoin Core

   Compiled from source

   What version of Bitcoin Core are you using?

   master

   Operating system and version

   Ubuntu 24.04

   Machine specifications

   No response

2. 
   maflcko commented at 8:52 am on February 10, 2025: member

   If you want to have a wallet loaded on startup, you’ll have to set load_on_startup to True.

   To learn more about the loadwallet RPC, you can try help loadwallet.

3. maflcko added the label Questions and Help on Feb 10, 2025
4. maflcko added the label Wallet on Feb 10, 2025
5. 
   maflcko commented at 8:52 am on February 10, 2025: member

   Usually the issue tracker is used to track technical issues related to the Bitcoin Core code base.

   General bitcoin questions and/or support requests are best directed to the Bitcoin StackExchange or the #bitcoin IRC channel on Libera Chat, or one of the Bitcoin subreddits, or any other place that you feel is well suited.

6. 
   willcl-ark commented at 8:57 am on February 10, 2025: member

   In addition to @maflcko’s suggestion, another way to explicitly load wallets at startup is to use the -wallet=<path> startup option in your configuration (multiple times in your case, for multiple wallets).
7. 
   embetrix commented at 10:23 am on February 10, 2025: none

   thanks for the suggestions:

   the following command:

   bitcoin-cli loadwallet "Wallet-01" true

   make a wallet automatically loaded

8. embetrix closed this on Feb 10, 2025

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