Wallets not automatically loaded #31832

Is there an existing issue for this?

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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

pid=/run/bitcoin/bitcoind.pid
nodebuglogfile=1
datadir=/var/bitcoin
loglevel=info
proxy=127.0.0.1:9050
testnet4=1

[testnet4]
walletdir=/var/wallet

server=1
rpcuser=satobox
rpcport=8332
rpcconnect=127.0.0.1
rpcauth=satobox:c7eadc9121b2af62e92df69f1$3eecb49b2600f152f728a9f66ab38028e8c710a04ea06c69e4a2f291e7d6eee3

my wallet dir:

ls -l /var/wallet/
total 28
drwx------ 2 64874 64874  4096 Feb 10 08:19 Wallet-01
drwx------ 2 64874 64874  4096 Feb  9 14:55 Wallet-02
drwx------ 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:

# bitcoin-cli listwallets
[
]

I have to load them manually:

bitcoin-cli loadwallet "Wallet-01"

# bitcoin-cli listwallets
[
  "Wallet-01"
]

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

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.

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.

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).

thanks for the suggestions:

the following command:

bitcoin-cli loadwallet "Wallet-01" true

make a wallet automatically loaded