Cardano-cli query utxo address not recognized anymore

Staking & Delegation Setup a Stake Pool
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Hello,
I am working on setting up a pool on mainnet, and just successfully completed setting up relay and core nodes. Everything is working beautifully.

However, as I just tried to run cardano-cli query utxo --address command to query balances on addresses that I setup while configuring my nodes, I am getting an error: "Invalid argument addr.....". Now, I have tried this with 3 different addresses that I have setup, and I am getting the same invalid argument error followed by the address.

I have used this command a couple of days ago, and I have successfully run transactions with these addresses. Can an address become invalid??.. May be it needs to have a minimum balance that they fell short of?

Thanks in advance for your guidance.
Arman.

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Hi!

What is the exact command you are executing?
seems that there is something wrong with parameters…

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Laplasz, thank you for your prompt response! My exact command is as follows:

cardano-cli query utxo
–address $(cat payment.addr)
–mary-era
–mainnet

the payment.addr file has the following value:
addr1v87nxne4gfs0pd3cjdvadlvsl6arrwdwnauzr3urdwnxesgewl2r8

Again, this exact same command was working a couple of days ago, and I was building and making transactions using this address.

Thanks again,
Arman.

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yeah try to avoid using multi line for a command
cardano-cli query utxo –address $(cat payment.addr) –mary-era –mainnet

or use the line break \

cardano-cli query utxo \
–address $(cat payment.addr) \
–mary-era \
–mainnet
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yes, I am using line breaks, sorry, I just omitted them in my response above. I have the command saved in a text file.
I am sorry, I see the typo mistake I made in copy/pasting the command I carried over “>” character. That’s embarrassing.

However, with that error gone, I get “Network.Socket.connect: socket:11: does not exist (no such file or directory” error. I get that even if I try to query the tip. This is puzzling, because my node is running. I see “chain extended, new tip: xxxx at slot yyyy”.

I had run the command CARDANO_NODE_SOCKET_PATH, and I do see that I have a node-socket file under /relay/db folder.

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laplasz, I figured it out. thank you very much for your help!

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great! - please share with us what was the solution

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Of course! I just typed the wrong address in the CARDANO_NODE_SOCKET_PATH… Everything is working well. I guess I didn’t get enough sleep last night and didn’t see the incorrectly formatted value.
Thanks for your help today.!

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