Multiple nodes on the same machine. KMD still uses the default data folder

General
1

Hi there!

So I recently installed algorand node and algorand devtools through the Debian install. I managed to correctly create two nodes (MainNet and TestNet). However even though for TestNet everything seems to be in order, kmd folder is in
$ALGORAND_DATA/.algorand/testnet-v1.0/kmd-v0.5

Commands like “goal wallet list” seems to be working fine on both nodes however the actual data for both is on the MainNet folder.

Is this supposed to happen?

2

All goal commands use the data folder $ALGORAND_DATA by default, unless a different folder is specified using the -d flag.

3

Right. Maybe I can be more specific hold on.

My directory structure is like this:

MainNet data folder is /var/lib/algorand
TestNet data folder is /var/lib/algorand-testnet

The former contains the structure .algorand/ → testnet-v1.0/kmd-v0.5/ and mainnet-v1.0/kmd-v0.5/
while the latter doesn’t even contain .algorand/.

What I’m saying is that the information for wallets on the TestNet node still lives inside MainNet data folder which I think it’s weird.

4

It is a bit strange that you have a subfolder .algorand inside /var/lib/algorand.
The fact that is contains both mainnet-v1.0 and testnet-v1.0 seems to indicate that at some point your started a node on /var/lib/algorand/.algorand both for testnet and mainnet (and you changed the genesis in between).

Does /var/lib/algorand-testnet contain genesis.json? If not, this means it is not a real data directory for Algorand?

What I would do is the following, check the list of wallets and the status for each folder, i.e., something like:

goal node status -d /var/lib/algorand
goal node status -d /var/lib/algorand/.algorand
...
goal wallet list -d /var/lib/algorand
goal wallet list -d /var/lib/algorand/.algorand
...

and for each wallet listed above, check the list of accounts:

goal account list -d /var/lib/algorand -w WALLET_NAME
...
5

I’ll uninstall everything, do a fresh install and keep you posted.

EDIT: Everything is working as expected now. I created the folder for the second node and then started both and created wallets for both. Every node folder has its own kmd folder correctly separated.

I must have messed up something the first time. Thank you very much for your help!