walletpassphrase timeout doesn't work in bitcoin-qt #7316

issue dooglus opened this issue on January 8, 2016

dooglus commented at 8:36 AM on January 8, 2016: contributor
If I am running bitcoind then bitcoin-cli walletpassphrase $pass 5 will unlock my wallet for 5 seconds.

But if I am running bitcoin-qt then the same command will unlock my wallet indefinitely, and show an error in the debug.log:
```
GUI: QObject::startTimer: Timers can only be used with threads started with QThread
```
I built from the master branch, commit b1cf0058d9b3d3e218f1dc31ee688e5beb21f573.
jonasschnelli added the label GUI on Jan 8, 2016
jonasschnelli added the label Priority High on Jan 8, 2016
jonasschnelli commented at 8:53 AM on January 8, 2016: contributor

Tested and can confirm the issue. Marked a "Priority High" because this can leave a wallet unlocked while expecting it's locked... Fortunately this can only happen when running Bitcoin-Qt with -server and using walletpassphrase over the RPC server (not the GUI rpc console).
jonasschnelli commented at 10:26 AM on January 8, 2016: contributor

@dooglus: Thanks for reporting. Should be fixed with #7317 (#7318).
laanwj closed this on Jan 8, 2016
dooglus commented at 7:58 PM on January 8, 2016: contributor

Thanks for the quick fix. I was surprised to find my wallet still unlocked hours after I had unlocked it for a quick spend, but it's fine again now.
MarcoFalke locked this on Sep 8, 2021

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