Failed withdrawing rewards of returning pool registration deposit with MissingVKeyWitnessesUTXOW

Staking & Delegation Stake Delegation
1

I registered a stake pool at epoch 237 and retired at epoch 238. In order to withdraw returned rewards into the reward address, tried to make a transaction thru the instruction. But it failed with the MissingVKeyWitnessesUTXOW error.

cardano-cli transaction sign \
--mainnet \
--tx-body-file withdraw_rewards.raw  \
--signing-key-file payment.skey \
--signing-key-file stake.skey \
--out-file withdraw_rewards.signed

cardano-cli transaction submit \
--mainnet \
--tx-file withdraw_rewards.signed

Shelley command failed: transaction submit Error: Error while submitting tx: ApplyTxError [LedgerFailure (UtxowFailure (MissingVKeyWitnessesUTXOW (WitHashes (fromList [KeyHash “ef5096dbe8818da93ec4050899d1d5005178b93aa01d193a0e881178”]))))]

2

Hello,

It’s in the error… missing VKey file

Cheers,

3

How could it be missing even if it’s registered? link.

4

I am talking about this file kes.vkey should be on your server while perform the transaction

5

I’m not following you. Could you let me know why the server needs KES vkey for withdrawing rewards?

6

sorry, my bad, I reviewed the guide and indeed, there is no need…

did u follow this guide?

18.11 Claim your rewards

7

Just solved. The error message was unclear. By some reason, the payment key pair was refreshed. So I restored it from a backup and worked well.

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8

Hello, I want to make it clear, does it mean that after i retire the stakepool, i dont need to claim? And it will return by it self??

9

Nope, the 500 ADA will return to you as a reward, so u will need to withdraw the rewards first and after that remove from the wallet (send to another wallet)