# Can't start counterparty-server

**URL:** <https://forums.counterparty.io/t/cant-start-counterparty-server/1348>\
**Category:** Server\
**Created:** [July 17, 2015, 10:50am UTC](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/cant-start-counterparty-server/1348 "2015-07-17T10:50:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gano](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ee59a6/32.png) [@Gano](https://forums.counterparty.io/u/Gano)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 10:50am UTC](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/cant-start-counterparty-server/1348/1 "2015-07-17T10:50:51Z")

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I try to start couterpaty-server , but can’t start.

What I did was…

```
$counterparty-server bootstrap
$counterparty-server start

```

accorting to tutorial.

but the server answered like below…

```
[INFO] Running v1.1.1 of counterparty-server. 
[INFO] Running v9.51.3 of counterparty-lib. 
[INFO] Acquiring lock. 
[INFO] Connecting to database. 
[INFO] Connecting to backend. 
[INFO] Starting API Server. 
[INFO] Resuming parsing. 
Killed

```

even though once in ten times… it moved correctly…

What is the problem?

※ I use Ubuntu14.04.

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**Author:** ![something](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/user_avatar/forums.counterparty.io/something/32/240_2.png) [@something](https://forums.counterparty.io/u/something)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 11:34am UTC](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/cant-start-counterparty-server/1348/2 "2015-07-17T11:34:45Z")

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Can it connect to back end Bitcoin Core? Is Bitcoin Core running? Is it btcdrak’s addrindex version?

Edit: you mentioned it moves correctly once in 10 times.  
Assuming Bitcoin Core is btcdrak’s build with addrindex patch:  
a) It could be that Bitcoin Core is having stability problems or can’t keep up. When you tail `debug.log`, do you see frequent errors? Is Bitcoin Core up to date most of time?  
b) In Counterparty server configuration parameters. Are you using `minrelaytxfee` and other values as per [https://github.com/CounterpartyXCP/counterparty-lib](https://github.com/CounterpartyXCP/counterparty-lib)?  
c) Did you install Bitcoin Core manually (with Python pip) or using the Federated Node install script? Manual installations are error prone.

When you start `counterparty-server`, you could tail Bitcoin Core log and also try to run `bitcoin-cli` commands to make sure that Bitcoin Core is working properly. I haven’t seen a situation where Counterparty server fails to work when Bitcoin Core is correctly functioning.