Error: This wallet has no available keys (code -4)

chaihahaha commented at 4:45 am on February 23, 2021: none

I created a new empty encrypted wallet and used walletpassphrase to unlock it and used importprivkey to import my private key. Then I found that I still cannot create a new address. After entering getnewaddress, I get the error message “Error: This wallet has no available keys (code -4)”.

I expected that I can create a new address.

‘Create a new receiving address’ is greyed out.

I used Bitcoin Core v0.21.0 downloaded from bitcoin.org, I got the error message in the console of Bitcoin Core GUI.

Windows 10.0.19042, Intel i7-4720HQ, HDD

chaihahaha added the label Bug on Feb 23, 2021

jarolrod commented at 6:33 am on February 23, 2021: member

Confirming that I can replicate this issue on master. System: macOS 11.1

Steps I took to Replicate:

Create a new Encrypted wallet with Make Blank Wallet option selected. This option means that the wallet starts out with no private keys and you can add them in later with importprivkey or sethdseed
Go over to console and unlock wallet with walletpassphrase "123" 60
In console, run: importprivkey <priv_key> "label"
Run getnewaddress -> get error: Error: This wallet has no available keys (code -4)

While importprivkey leads to this error, I can still populate the wallet with a key using sethdseed then subsequently create a new address.

jarolrod commented at 7:17 am on February 23, 2021: member

I can also replicate using bitcoind and bitcoin-cli on master, the debug log says I already have this key in pubkey and already have the script. This is the same issue as outlined in https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/16711. Still cannot create a new address with getnewaddress after importing the private key

hebasto commented at 7:39 am on February 23, 2021: member

@chaihahaha @jarolrod

What is the result of the getwalletinfo command?

jarolrod commented at 7:47 am on February 23, 2021: member

@hebasto After importing a valid private key with importprivkey the keypoolsize is 0:

 0{
 1  "walletname": "new-wallet",
 2  "walletversion": 169900,
 3  "format": "bdb",
 4  "balance": 0.00000000,
 5  "unconfirmed_balance": 0.00000000,
 6  "immature_balance": 0.00000000,
 7  "txcount": 0,
 8  "keypoololdest": 1614066198,
 9  "keypoolsize": 0,
10  "keypoolsize_hd_internal": 0,
11  "paytxfee": 0.00000000,
12  "private_keys_enabled": true,
13  "avoid_reuse": false,
14  "scanning": false,
15  "descriptors": false
16}

after running sethdseed, it successfully populates with a private key:

 0
 1{
 2  "walletname": "new-wallet",
 3  "walletversion": 169900,
 4  "format": "bdb",
 5  "balance": 0.00000000,
 6  "unconfirmed_balance": 0.00000000,
 7  "immature_balance": 0.00000000,
 8  "txcount": 0,
 9  "keypoololdest": 1614066274,
10  "keypoolsize": 1000,
11  "hdseedid": "114871bad9b02312f198bbd5ebd852ae0614b855",
12  "keypoolsize_hd_internal": 1000,
13  "paytxfee": 0.00000000,
14  "private_keys_enabled": true,
15  "avoid_reuse": false,
16  "scanning": false,
17  "descriptors": false
18}

hebasto commented at 7:51 am on February 23, 2021: member

I can also replicate using bitcoind and bitcoin-cli on master…

This issue should be posted in the main repo, I think.

jarolrod commented at 8:10 am on February 23, 2021: member

This can be closed in favor of https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/21275

MarcoFalke closed this on Feb 23, 2021

bitcoin-core locked this on Aug 16, 2022

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