# \[Building Grin T4\] - stuck at "Waiting for peers"

**URL:** <https://forum.grin.mw/t/building-grin-t4-stuck-at-waiting-for-peers/1378>\
**Category:** Tech Support\
**Created:** [December 8, 2018, 3:48pm UTC](https://forum.grin.mw/t/building-grin-t4-stuck-at-waiting-for-peers/1378 "2018-12-08T15:48:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![mrpqzm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@mrpqzm](https://forum.grin.mw/u/mrpqzm)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2018, 3:48pm UTC](https://forum.grin.mw/t/building-grin-t4-stuck-at-waiting-for-peers/1378/1 "2018-12-08T15:48:17Z")

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**Problem** : Whenever I run grin using ‘grin server run’ command. The ‘current status’ stays stuck on “Waiting for peers” as displayed in the image below.

 ![grin](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/grin/original/1X/189ca8201c9269a3e64a4dc8083e8477759a23f1.png)

After building the grin (following this guide: [https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin/blob/master/doc/build.md](https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin/blob/master/doc/build.md)) into my bash Ubuntu 18.04. I’ve never been able to get my instance to sync. The ‘connected peers’ : number also does not exceed 2, and I am stuck on chain height 0.

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**Author:** ![dewdeded](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.grin.mw/dewdeded/32/60_2.png) [@dewdeded](https://forum.grin.mw/u/dewdeded)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2018, 10:06pm UTC](https://forum.grin.mw/t/building-grin-t4-stuck-at-waiting-for-peers/1378/2 "2018-12-17T22:06:52Z")

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Looks more like your setup. I saw no problem on \> 10 different Ubuntu testnet 4 setups.

The only time I didnt found peers on one host, I fixed it by switching seed type: from “DNSSeed” to list of hardcoded healthy peers (in the grin-server-config file).

Did you read the logs?

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**Author:** ![goldenrule](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@goldenrule](https://forum.grin.mw/u/goldenrule)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2019, 9:13am UTC](https://forum.grin.mw/t/building-grin-t4-stuck-at-waiting-for-peers/1378/3 "2019-02-28T09:13:32Z")

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Hello,

I got the same issue and did the following:

1. cd grin
2. sudo nano grin-server.toml
3. scroll to last line: copy paste: run\_wallet\_listener = true  
ctrl x to close and click y to save.
4. reboot the server

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**Author:** ![dwayne](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.grin.mw/dwayne/32/878_2.png) [@dwayne](https://forum.grin.mw/u/dwayne)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2019, 1:00pm UTC](https://forum.grin.mw/t/building-grin-t4-stuck-at-waiting-for-peers/1378/4 "2019-02-28T13:00:21Z")

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You’re the same @goldenrule from this thread right? [Grin text user interface not displaying when run grin](https://forum.grin.mw/t/grin-text-user-interface-not-displaying-when-run-grin/4274)

You resolved that by adding  
`run_wallet_listener = true`  
to grin-server.toml?

Strange. Whether or not the wallet listener is running shouldn’t affect the ability of grin to connect to peers. Am I wrong, @antioch ?