Cannot transmit raw bitcoin transaction

Question

I'm using the testnet and as far as i can tell im doing everything right but it just wont send. The coins are old with more than 170 confirms now, the unspent output has a total of 4. I'm sending 3 to another address in my wallet and 0.5 to another address in my wallet with 0.5 as a tx fee.

When I sign it I get a hash and 'Complete:True' at the end but when I send it i get error: {"code":-22,"message":"TX rejected"}.

Here is a copy of the transaction:

{
"txid" : "de46aedbe1a2c494de1ae59f81817828b8e5cc7d9165de88c0912689e497dfeb",
"version" : 1,
"locktime" : 0,
"vin" : [
    {
        "txid" : "7fc9def2f3e52cd6ffaef52f44648c9170fef3e05ccc356a5280fbea447e9f7a",
        "vout" : 0,
        "scriptSig" : {
            "asm" : "3045022100a38d7099f34d80341d4b83ecd5f7869c30d5ab0b494999eb59308a2689e213d902201f8a3405c5444094051780e428f2ce7e94c094537cd137b848907c10264d635901 025446e16d127120ac9be07998024e63d897763ea7b5a9d08bc22790bfbe55b717",
            "hex" : "483045022100a38d7099f34d80341d4b83ecd5f7869c30d5ab0b494999eb59308a2689e213d902201f8a3405c5444094051780e428f2ce7e94c094537cd137b848907c10264d63590121025446e16d127120ac9be07998024e63d897763ea7b5a9d08bc22790bfbe55b717"
        },
        "sequence" : 4294967295
    }
],
"vout" : [
    {
        "value" : 2.00000000,
        "n" : 0,
        "scriptPubKey" : {
            "asm" : "OP_DUP OP_HASH160 95565025383b3a15b44f3aceecb0b720ef25ee47 OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG",
            "hex" : "76a91495565025383b3a15b44f3aceecb0b720ef25ee4788ac",
            "reqSigs" : 1,
            "type" : "pubkeyhash",
            "addresses" : [
                "mu8aNmqV5ZGVNCrvUCxA64xEKDMEjfxYFe"
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "value" : 0.50000000,
        "n" : 1,
        "scriptPubKey" : {
            "asm" : "OP_DUP OP_HASH160 40d3392408f0c97de32139b4dead0736e6f2b05d OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG",
            "hex" : "76a91440d3392408f0c97de32139b4dead0736e6f2b05d88ac",
            "reqSigs" : 1,
            "type" : "pubkeyhash",
            "addresses" : [
                "mmRiaNorzMBgLfCHDar5okg7j1QjYMb526"
            ]
        }
    }
]

}

Answer 1

According to blockexplorer.com your output has a total of 9.9999 (and not 4) btc. If you own both vout addresses for this transaction, using only 2,5 of them in your raw transaction leaves a 7,4999 btc fee for the miners, which is insanely high.

According to bitcoin 0.9 release notes there is a mechanism now in place that:

Reject insanely high fees by default in 'sendrawtransaction'

so that could be the reason that your transaction is being rejected. Try adding one more vout to your raw transaction and see if it works.