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I asked this question on AskUbuntu and was told to post it here.

https://askubuntu.com/q/1373657/1519292

I am trying to follow the Mastering Bitcoin tutorial. After compiling Bitcoin Core, and changing the datadir to my external hard drive in the config file, I get the following error any time I try a Bitcoin-cli command:

error: Could not locate RPC credentials. No authentication cookie could be found, and RPC password is not set. See -rpcpassword and -stdinrpcpass. Configuration file: (/media/XXXX/f1ebcea0-6304-4580-9ce2-1416dc0be49f/BlockchainData/bitcoin.conf)

When I search the forums, the only solution to this error is that Bitcoind was not running, but I confirmed that it is running. I suspect it has something to do with my hard drive permissions or admin level, but everything seems to be set up properly.

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  • Share your complete bitcoin.conf file contents assuming you are trying this on testnet, else share relevant things from config file
    – user103136
    Commented Nov 5, 2021 at 19:18
  • datadir=/media/XXXX/f1ebcea0-6304-4580-9ce2-1416dc0be49f/BlockchainData is the only thing i have in it
    – JC43
    Commented Nov 5, 2021 at 20:01
  • Save this in bitcoin.conf apart from datadir: rpcport=8332 rpcuser=SOMEUSERNAME rpcpassword=SOMEPASS and use bitcoin-cli datadir=/media/XXXX/f1ebcea0-6304-4580-9ce2-1416dc0be49f/BlockchainData -getinfo
    – user103136
    Commented Nov 5, 2021 at 21:37
  • This did not solve the issue. I resorted to re-formatting my drive and got a larger home drive. Thank you for the help though.
    – JC43
    Commented Feb 2, 2022 at 1:57

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Since you are probably starting the daemon with a non-standard data directory, you'll need to specify the datadir every time you use the bitcoin-cli command, like this:

bitcoin-cli -datadir=/mnt/bitcoin YOUR_COMMMAND

Source: https://howchoo.com/bitcoin/run-bitcoin-full-node-raspberry-pi

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  • I already re-formatted my hard drive, thank you for the help though
    – JC43
    Commented Feb 2, 2022 at 1:57

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