Electrum: Electrum can't open up

[danpatins]

OS am using kali linux.
Am not able to open electrum GUI ,Either from applications or terminal,my OS is upto date. As i was trying a few tweaks, trial & error i opened 'electrum -w update' from terminal which opens electrum well.
From terminal i get this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/electrum", line 323, in
d.init_gui(config, plugins)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/electrum/daemon.py", line 283, in init_gui
self.gui.main()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/electrum_gui/qt/__init__.py", line 200, in main
if not self.start_new_window(path, self.config.get('url')):
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/electrum_gui/qt/__init__.py", line 157, in start_new_window
wallet = self.daemon.load_wallet(path, None)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/electrum/daemon.py", line 220, in load_wallet
wallet = Wallet(storage)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/electrum/wallet.py", line 1757, in __new__
wallet = WalletClass(storage)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/electrum/wallet.py", line 1661, in __init__
Deterministic_Wallet.__init__(self, storage)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/electrum/wallet.py", line 1409, in __init__
Abstract_Wallet.__init__(self, storage)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/electrum/wallet.py", line 104, in __init__
self.load_keystore()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/electrum/wallet.py", line 1680, in load_keystore
self.keystores[name] = load_keystore(self.storage, name)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/electrum/keystore.py", line 610, in load_keystore
raise BaseException('wallet format requires update')
BaseException: wallet format requires update

Any help i'll appreciate.

[SomberNight]

Have you managed to resolve this?
Seems to me, that the wallet file (storage) format had a related change in 2.7.0. Maybe the upgrade failed for your wallet? You should (have) be(en) able to restore from seed words.

[danpatins]

it failed completely,i can't restore from seed coz UI can't load.
https://imgur.com/a/a0wEu
Am now thinking of installing the OS.

[bauerj]

Before doing that you can try to rename your wallet file ~/.electrum/wallets/default_wallet to e.g. ~/.electrum/wallets/default_wallet.bak, then start Electrum again.

[SomberNight]

Or, start Electrum with the -w flag so it does not try to open that wallet.
e.g. electrum -w ~/.electrum/wallets/asdasd

[SomberNight]

Also, please update to the latest release, and try with that, if you haven't already.

[danpatins]

It worked by renaming to .bak then created standard wallet again. Thanks bauerj & sombernight for your help.

[calhroub]

Hi. I am having the same issue but on Mac OS X El Capitan. Currently Even when updating to the latest Electrum 3.1.3 I keep getting this error:

Cannot load wallet (1):
Wallet format requires update.
Cannot find keystore for name x1/
https://i.imgur.com/DsRyCeg.png

It was working fine until last night when I was trying to import an old Dark Wallet seed and private keys of a multi-sig address created from 3 stealth addresses... Any idea how to fix this, would be appreciated. Thanks.

I just realized "ecdsa closed this on Feb 8". I'll try to create a new issue...