# Stuck in initialization **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [March 13, 2018, 9:16am UTC](https://bisq.community/t/stuck-in-initialization/5024 "2018-03-13T09:16:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Magnum](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/magnum/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@Magnum](https://bisq.community/u/Magnum)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2018, 9:16am UTC](https://bisq.community/t/stuck-in-initialization/5024/1 "2018-03-13T09:16:46Z")
Hi I’m new to Bisq and need some advice on how to resolve my problem. I’m stuck on the splash screen with “Initializing”, “P2P network peers: 12”. Here’s how I got there: Installed Bisq, started it up and got the UI. Transferred coins to Trade Wallet. Coins never show up in Bisq. I check the wallet online and the coins are there. Wait a couple of hours. Restart Bisq, Wait more hours. All the time Bisq is showing “Initializing” in bottom right corner. Read this forum and someone suggested deleting SPV chain. I do that and I’m stuck on the splash screen as described above. What I’ve tried: Restarting Bisq. Waiting overnight. Restarting computer. Turning off firewall completely. Testing Tor browser. Nothing seems to change anything. For info: I’m on a Mac and I have the seed words for the Trade wallet. I would appreciate it a lot, if someone could suggest what to do to resolve this issue. Thx ---
**Author:** ![alexej996](https://bisq.community/user_avatar/bisq.community/alexej996/32/491_2.png) [@alexej996](https://bisq.community/u/alexej996)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2018, 10:19am UTC](https://bisq.community/t/stuck-in-initialization/5024/2 "2018-03-13T10:19:46Z")
After deleting SPV chain file you need to restart twice as far as I know. You can always copy your data directory somewhere safe and delete it so Bisq starts as it is being run for the first time. Then you could restore your wallet in Bisq with the seed words or simply restore it in a wallet like Electrum with those seed words. ---
**Author:** ![Magnum](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/magnum/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@Magnum](https://bisq.community/u/Magnum)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2018, 11:18am UTC](https://bisq.community/t/stuck-in-initialization/5024/3 "2018-03-13T11:18:26Z")
Thx, I already restarted many times. I’ll try to do what you suggest, but I was just going through the log and saw this error repeating all the time: > Mar-13 10:11:57.328 [NioClientManager] INFO o.b.c.PeerGroup: [192.168.0.23]:8333: Peer died (0 connected, 0 pending, 1 max) > Mar-13 10:11:57.329 [PeerGroup Thread] INFO o.b.c.PeerGroup: Peer discovery took 4.643 μs and returned 0 items > Mar-13 10:11:57.329 [PeerGroup Thread] INFO o.b.c.PeerGroup: Waiting 129746 msec before next connect attempt to [192.168.0.23]:8333 > Mar-13 10:12:06.608 [AbstractTimeoutHandler timeouts] INFO o.b.c.PeerSocketHandler: [192.168.0.23]:8333: Timed out > Mar-13 10:12:06.609 [AbstractTimeoutHandler timeouts] INFO o.b.c.PeerGroup: [192.168.0.23]:8333: Peer died (0 connected, 0 pending, 1 max) > Mar-13 10:12:06.609 [PeerGroup Thread] INFO o.b.c.PeerGroup: Waiting 10000 msec before next connect attempt to [127.0.0.1]:8333 > Mar-13 10:12:18.065 [PeerGroup Thread] INFO o.b.c.PeerGroup: Attempting connection to [127.0.0.1]:8333 (0 connected, 1 pending, 1 max) > Mar-13 10:12:18.066 [NioClientManager] INFO o.b.n.NioClientManager: Connected to /127.0.0.1:8333 > Mar-13 10:12:18.067 [NioClientManager] INFO o.b.core.Peer: Announcing to /127.0.0.1:8333 as: /bitcoinj:0.14.4/Bisq:0.6.7/ > Mar-13 10:12:23.066 [AbstractTimeoutHandler timeouts] INFO o.b.c.PeerSocketHandler: [127.0.0.1]:8333: Timed out > Mar-13 10:12:23.067 [AbstractTimeoutHandler timeouts] INFO o.b.c.PeerGroup: [127.0.0.1]:8333: Peer died (0 connected, 0 pending, 1 max) > Mar-13 10:12:23.068 [PeerGroup Thread] INFO o.b.c.PeerGroup: Peer discovery took 5.185 μs and returned 0 items > Mar-13 10:12:23.068 [PeerGroup Thread] INFO o.b.c.PeerGroup: Waiting 57665 msec before next connect attempt to [127.0.0.1]:8333 > Mar-13 10:13:20.734 [PeerGroup Thread] INFO o.b.c.PeerGroup: Attempting connection to [127.0.0.1]:8333 (0 connected, 1 pending, 1 max) > Mar-13 10:13:20.735 [NioClientManager] INFO o.b.n.NioClientManager: Connected to /127.0.0.1:8333 > Mar-13 10:13:20.736 [NioClientManager] INFO o.b.core.Peer: Announcing to /127.0.0.1:8333 as: /bitcoinj:0.14.4/Bisq:0.6.7/ > Mar-13 10:13:25.735 [AbstractTimeoutHandler timeouts] INFO o.b.c.PeerSocketHandler: [127.0.0.1]:8333: Timed out > Mar-13 10:13:25.736 [AbstractTimeoutHandler timeouts] INFO o.b.c.PeerGroup: [127.0.0.1]:8333: Peer died (0 connected, 0 pending, 1 max) > Mar-13 10:13:25.736 [PeerGroup Thread] INFO o.b.c.PeerGroup: Peer discovery took 2.949 μs and returned 0 items > Mar-13 10:13:25.736 [PeerGroup Thread] INFO o.b.c.PeerGroup: Waiting 86497 msec before next connect attempt to [127.0.0.1]:8333 > Mar-13 10:14:09.327 [PeerGroup Thread] INFO o.b.c.PeerGroup: Peer discovery took 5.961 μs and returned 0 items > Mar-13 10:14:09.328 [PeerGroup Thread] INFO o.b.c.PeerGroup: Waiting 42906 msec before next connect attempt to [127.0.0.1]:8333 > Mar-13 10:14:52.904 [PeerGroup Thread] INFO o.b.c.PeerGroup: Attempting connection to [127.0.0.1]:8333 (0 connected, 1 pending, 1 max) > Mar-13 10:14:52.905 [NioClientManager] INFO o.b.n.NioClientManager: Connected to /127.0.0.1:8333 > Mar-13 10:14:52.904 [PeerGroup Thread] INFO o.b.c.PeerGroup: Peer discovery took 4.094 μs and returned 0 items > Mar-13 10:14:52.905 [NioClientManager] INFO o.b.core.Peer: Announcing to /127.0.0.1:8333 as: /bitcoinj:0.14.4/Bisq:0.6.7/ > Mar-13 10:14:52.905 [PeerGroup Thread] INFO o.b.c.PeerGroup: Waiting 28324 msec before next connect attempt to [192.168.0.23]:8333 > Mar-13 10:14:57.905 [AbstractTimeoutHandler timeouts] INFO o.b.c.PeerSocketHandler: [127.0.0.1]:8333: Timed out > Mar-13 10:14:57.905 [AbstractTimeoutHandler timeouts] INFO o.b.c.PeerGroup: [127.0.0.1]:8333: Peer died (0 connected, 0 pending, 1 max) > Mar-13 10:14:57.906 [PeerGroup Thread] INFO o.b.c.PeerGroup: Peer discovery took 4.619 μs and returned 0 items > Mar-13 10:14:57.906 [PeerGroup Thread] INFO o.b.c.PeerGroup: Waiting 23322 msec before next connect attempt to [192.168.0.23]:8333 > Mar-13 10:15:21.229 [PeerGroup Thread] INFO o.b.c.PeerGroup: Attempting connection to [192.168.0.23]:8333 (0 connected, 1 pending, 1 max) > Mar-13 10:15:21.230 [NioClientManager] WARN o.b.n.NioClientManager: Failed to connect with exception: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused > at sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.checkConnect(Native Method) > at sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.finishConnect(SocketChannelImpl.java:717) > at org.bitcoinj.net.NioClientManager.handleKey(NioClientManager.java:64) > at org.bitcoinj.net.NioClientManager.run(NioClientManager.java:122) > at com.google.common.util.concurrent.AbstractExecutionThreadService$1$2.run(AbstractExecutionThreadService.java:66) > at com.google.common.util.concurrent.Callables$4.run(Callables.java:122) > at org.bitcoinj.utils.ContextPropagatingThreadFactory$1.run(ContextPropagatingThreadFactory.java:49) > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) ---
**Author:** ![Magnum](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/magnum/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@Magnum](https://bisq.community/u/Magnum)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 3:40pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/stuck-in-initialization/5024/4 "2018-03-14T15:40:11Z")
Ok. I backed up the data directory and deleted the original. Now Bisq starts up. How do I import my old trade wallet? ---
**Author:** ![alexej996](https://bisq.community/user_avatar/bisq.community/alexej996/32/491_2.png) [@alexej996](https://bisq.community/u/alexej996)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 9:19pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/stuck-in-initialization/5024/5 "2018-03-14T21:19:45Z")
Maybe @ManfredKarrer can look at your log above to investigate the issue. > [@Magnum](#): > > How do I import my old trade wallet? Just restore the wallet from the seed words as I mentioned above. ---
**Author:** ![Magnum](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/magnum/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@Magnum](https://bisq.community/u/Magnum)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2018, 12:00pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/stuck-in-initialization/5024/6 "2018-03-15T12:00:34Z")
Ok, I restored the wallet. It still says it has a balance of 0 and when I check an external source it shows that I have coin in the wallet. Why is it not reflected in Bisq? BTW: The log still contains the same error as posted earlier, so I guess it’s not related to the initialization issue, but is general error. Also it still says “Initializing” with the bar going back and forth in the bottom right corner. ---
**Author:** ![ManfredKarrer](https://bisq.community/user_avatar/bisq.community/manfredkarrer/32/26_2.png) [@ManfredKarrer](https://bisq.community/u/ManfredKarrer)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2018, 1:12pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/stuck-in-initialization/5024/7 "2018-03-15T13:12:03Z")
Can you send me the log file? I PM u my email. Also the tx id and address where u have sent the funds.