<p>I finished installing Bitcoin on a raspberry pi a couple days ago and have a problem. Everything worked fine yesterday (I was able to run bitcoin-cli commands just fine) but now whenever I run &quot;bitcoind -daemon&quot; (It says Starting Bitcoin Core), and then run &quot;bitcoin-cli getblockchaininfo&quot; (Or any other bitcoin-cli command), it gives me the error message in the title of this post.</p>
<p>I have a bitcoin.conf file that contains:</p>
<pre><code>server=1
rpcuser=&lt;username&gt;
rpcpassword=&lt;password&gt;
</code></pre>
<p>Please help :)</p>

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2023-07-10T15:46:56.813Z
Is Bitcoin Core (`bitcoind`) still running?
Pieter Wuille
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2023-07-10T16:05:58.277Z
How would I check if it is? I'm very new to this sorry.
NeonTears
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2023-07-10T16:09:01.257Z
For example, do new log lines appear (e.g. look with `tail -f ~/.bitcoin/debug.log`) or is the process still around (e.g. look if any output appears with `ps ax | fgrep bitcoind`).
Pieter Wuille
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2023-07-10T16:13:56.713Z
It is telling me that `/home/node/.bitcoin` disk space is too low, but I have a 2TB externally connected SSD.
NeonTears
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2023-07-10T16:48:38.223Z
Sounds like your home directory isn't on that external HD.
Pieter Wuille
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2023-07-10T17:09:00.503Z
Should I simply mount the home directory where my ssd is mounted? (`/mnt/bitcoin`)?
NeonTears
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2023-07-10T17:37:24.257Z
That's up to you, and perhaps more a question for a sysadmin site than this one.
Pieter Wuille
<bitcoin-core><bitcoind><json-rpc><bitcoin-cli>
timeout on transient error: Could not connect to the server 127.0.0.1:8332
NeonTears
# timeout on transient error: Could not connect to the server 127.0.0.1:8332

(Asked by: username_0 on 2023-07-10)

I finished installing Bitcoin on a raspberry pi a couple days ago and have a problem. Everything worked fine yesterday (I was able to run bitcoin-cli commands just fine) but now whenever I run "bitcoind -daemon" (It says Starting Bitcoin Core), and then run "bitcoin-cli getblockchaininfo" (Or any other bitcoin-cli command), it gives me the error message in the title of this post.
I have a bitcoin.conf file that contains:
server=1
rpcuser=
rpcpassword=

Please help :)

**Tags:** bitcoin-core, bitcoind, json-rpc, bitcoin-cli

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Is Bitcoin Core (`bitcoind`) still running?  
> **username_0**: How would I check if it is? I'm very new to this sorry.  
> **username_1**: For example, do new log lines appear (e.g. look with `tail -f ~/.bitcoin/debug.log`) or is the process still around (e.g. look if any output appears with `ps ax | fgrep bitcoind`).  
> **username_0**: It is telling me that `/home/node/.bitcoin` disk space is too low, but I have a 2TB externally connected SSD.  
> **username_1**: Sounds like your home directory isn't on that external HD.  
> **username_0**: Should I simply mount the home directory where my ssd is mounted? (`/mnt/bitcoin`)?  
> **username_1**: That's up to you, and perhaps more a question for a sysadmin site than this one.  

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