Keosd connection error

Question

I recently migrated over to EOS v1.0.1 and started nodeos as per usual, specifying my --config-dir which contains my previous config.ini.

nodeos -e -p eosio --config-dir ~/eosio-wallet

Nodeos starts producing blocks normally, but when I try to connect with cleos, I get the following output and error;

"/usr/local/bin/keosd" launched
Unable to connect to keosd, if keosd is running please kill the process and try again.

My config.ini, without comments, is as follows;

http-server-address = 127.0.0.1:8888
access-control-allow-origin = *
access-control-allow-credentials = false
wallet-dir = "."
unlock-timeout = 3600
producer-name = eosio
enable-stale-production = true
plugin = eosio::http_plugin
plugin = eosio::chain_api_plugin
plugin = eosio::history_api_plugin
plugin = eosio::wallet_api_plugin
plugin = eosio::producer_plugin

How can I restart or kill keosd? I've tried killall keosd and pgrep keosd, but the process doesn't seem to be running. Calling keosd itself outputs; 422033ms thread-0 main.cpp:52 main ]

~/contracts/eos/libraries/appbase/application.cpp(304): Throw in function appbase::abstract_plugin &appbase::application::get_plugin(const string &) const
Dynamic exception type: boost::exception_detail::clone_impl<boost::exception_detail::error_info_injector<std::runtime_error> >
std::exception::what: unable to find plugin: eosio::chain_api_plugin

Answer 1

You can provide both nodeos and keosd urls with
cleos -u http://localhost:8888 --wallet-url http://localhost:8889 your commands

• -u sets nodeos url
• --wallet-url is for keosd

To change default keosd port (8889 here), set http-server-address value in wallet config (~/eosio-wallet/config.ini)

Answer 2

I have experienced the same issue.

you don't use wallet's config.ini

that config file may be keosd's default config file.

And don't use eosio::chain_plugin_api in wallet's config

using nodeos default config file

config.ini can be found at the following locations:

Mac OS: ~/Library/Application Support/eosio/nodeos/config

Linux: ~/.local/share/eosio/nodeos/config

ref. https://developers.eos.io/eosio-nodeos/docs/configuration-file

Answer 3

It's clear that you start nodeos and keosd with the same port. Let's specify other port for keosd.

The following is an example for you: ./keosd --http-server-address=localhost:8899

Answer 4

From your config, it looks like you're binding keosd to an IP address 127.0.0.1:8888 (EOS default as well) and trying access that using a hostname localhost. Try accessing using the IP 127.0.0.1 instead. For example, start the node:

$ nodeos -e -p eosio --plugin eosio::chain_api_plugin \
--plugin eosio::history_api_plugin

In a separate terminal session, run:

$ cleos -u http://127.0.0.1:8888 --wallet-url http://127.0.0.1:8889 wallet create

"/usr/local/bin/keosd" launched
Creating wallet: default
Save password to use in the future to unlock this wallet.
Without password imported keys will not be retrievable.
"PW5HtJaAwPQt65dF6mkanXFDC4q4gQh2rdD6wbnv35QPwWiGKJTAR"

Answer 5

Try the following steps to kill keosd

Find PID of the running keosd process

ps -ef | grep keosd

Kill it

kill -9 <pid>

//replace <pid> with value returned by the first command

Run keosd in a specified port(8900)

keosd --http-server-address=127.0.0.1:8900