geth attach command shows error Fatal Unable to attach to remote geth

Question

I am trying to run get attach to attach to another node running on my system. But when I run it, I am getting the following error:

Fatal: Unable to attach to remote geth: dial unix /home/user/.ethereum/geth.ipc: connect: no such file or directory

Answer 1

Seems like the geth.ipc file is not present in the path mentioned in your command. 

If you have initialized the genesis block correctly then you should have the file in ./data directory. Anyways you can find it like this:

locate geth.ipc

It will show the location and then use that location

geth attach ipc:/<path to file>/geth.ipc console

Comments

I am not getting the location by using the above command.

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I am not getting any output for locate Geth

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Hello @ I am Kunal Kishore,

The geth.ipc file is located in your datadir. Your datadir is where you specified in starting your private net using geth command. For example,

geth --datadir ./privatechain

The geth.ipc will be located in ./privatechain/geth.ipc.

Hope it is helpfull!!

Thank You!!

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Hello,

//I am not getting any output for locate Geth

While running in geth console, you can use the web3 library to get block information:

> var blockNumber;

undefined
> var blockInfo;

undefined

> web3.eth.getBlockNumber(function(e, r) { blockNumber = r; });

undefined
> blockNumber;

2515149
> web3.eth.getBlock(blockNumber, function(e, r) { blockInfo = r; });

undefined
> blockInfo

{   difficulty: 1319089762,    extraData: "0xd58301070d8650617269747986312e32332e30826c69",    gasLimit: 4700036,  gasUsed: 0,    hash: "0xf9c495b5e5bcd3935aa4a6fd5a43009de29ca7d7be77d4b7cc4c68b8704bc422",  logsBloom: "0x00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000", miner: "0x94cd009bbba97f30a36845e2025edf7544d62439",    mixHash: "0xb8794a6d1b777f8c6fdf509f04896642f67dab82dc872ae9cbe9bcbf85172972",  nonce: "0x264c013815697c2f",    number: 2515149,    parentHash: "0x0d2b4185aec34d8963b4c0b8fa7abb8604e1452bcb7f7f7d7a75a3d1cfd85f92",  receiptsRoot: "0x56e81f171bcc55a6ff8345e692c0f86e5b48e01b996cadc001622fb5e363b421",  sha3Uncles: "0x1dcc4de8dec75d7aab85b567b6ccd41ad312451b948a7413f0a142fd40d49347",  size: 537,    stateRoot: "0xc3810c2e763669a6e0219c78990c92b91c634d23810f4bd67144c4d76b9cfe6e",  timestamp: 1516811780,    totalDifficulty: 7642933628775356,    transactions: [],    transactionsRoot: "0x56e81f171bcc55a6ff8345e692c0f86e5b48e01b996cadc001622fb5e363b421",  uncles: []  }

Here is the example transaction info retreival:

> web3.eth.getTransaction('0xaebaf7e8207c417f6bb7920f3820e5220738d6825b6f577e3c3d0736d3c95b49', function(e, r) { if (e) console.log(e); else res = r; });

undefined
> res

{   blockHash: "0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",  blockNumber: null,   from: "0x0a78c28257b40d5076ea180bc6a9e4c597c5ea98",   gas: 90000,   gasPrice: 40000000000,   hash: "0xaebaf7e8207c417f6bb7920f3820e5220738d6825b6f577e3c3d0736d3c95b49",  input: "0x",   nonce: 32,   r: "0x902f7a7b7c3e4ebcab47014f9c3b81858cdc4b90ef36d9630adaf30b47ec370f",  s: "0x6f09e7d66dc2146afa108322f433c12b629eadd149e1e113669b6bd2e0cd467e",  to: "0xb8ac544e818d01a9533c9556d572d8366b91d6c1",   transactionIndex: 0,   v: "0x2a",   value: 200000 }

Hope it helps!!

Thank you!!

Answer 2

please check from root,

sudo -i

geth attach