<p>Many commands block the daemon from responding to requests, and during startup you'll not get responses while the node is initializing. </p>

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2018-05-05T22:36:30.457Z
actually the bitcoind was restarting continuously in background due to error, once the error was fixed, everything worked.
lost111in
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Claris
<p>Whenever I try running some command like:
bitcoin-cli getinfo
The prompt just hangs and does not return anything, similar to SQL interface if you do not enter semicolon.
Running only "bitcoin-cli" returns the help screen but running any command just hangs and need to press CTRL+C to get back.</p>

<bitcoind><bitcoin-cli>
bitcoin-cli not working
lost111in
# bitcoin-cli not working

(Asked by: username_0 on 2018-05-05)

Whenever I try running some command like:
bitcoin-cli getinfo
The prompt just hangs and does not return anything, similar to SQL interface if you do not enter semicolon.
Running only "bitcoin-cli" returns the help screen but running any command just hangs and need to press CTRL+C to get back.

**Tags:** bitcoind, bitcoin-cli


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2018-05-05. Score: 2 | Accepted answer

Many commands block the daemon from responding to requests, and during startup you'll not get responses while the node is initializing.

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: actually the bitcoind was restarting continuously in background due to error, once the error was fixed, everything worked.  

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