sipeed/picoclaw · error

deltachat get_all_accounts: %w

Error message

deltachat get_all_accounts: %w

What it means

listAccounts' get_all_accounts JSON-RPC call failed at the transport level: server error, closed stdio ('deltachat rpc: connection closed' / 'rpc closed: ...'), or canceled context. It runs at the top of ensureAccount, so this usually means the RPC child is unhealthy.

Source

Thrown at pkg/channels/deltachat/deltachat.go:1237

func accountConfigOptionalString(value string) *string {
	if value == "" {
		return nil
	}
	return accountConfigString(value)
}

func accountConfigOptionalInt(value int) *string {
	if value <= 0 {
		return nil
	}
	return accountConfigString(strconv.Itoa(value))
}

func (c *DeltaChatChannel) listAccounts(ctx context.Context) ([]dcAccount, error) {
	raw, err := c.rpc.call(ctx, "get_all_accounts")
	if err != nil {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("deltachat get_all_accounts: %w", err)
	}
	var accounts []dcAccount
	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &accounts); err != nil {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("deltachat get_all_accounts decode: %w", err)
	}
	return accounts, nil
}

func (c *DeltaChatChannel) isConfigured(ctx context.Context, accountID int64) (bool, error) {
	raw, err := c.rpc.call(ctx, "is_configured", accountID)
	if err != nil {
		return false, fmt.Errorf("deltachat is_configured: %w", err)
	}
	var ok bool
	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &ok); err != nil {
		return false, fmt.Errorf("deltachat is_configured decode: %w", err)
	}
	return ok, nil

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Solutions

1. Check the server's stderr in PicoClaw debug logs for its exit reason
2. Verify data_dir exists and is writable by the service user
3. Restart PicoClaw so startRPC respawns the child

accounts, err := c.listAccounts(ctx)
if err != nil {
    if strings.Contains(err.Error(), "rpc closed") || strings.Contains(err.Error(), "connection closed") {
        // child is dead: restart channel to respawn deltachat-rpc-server
    }
    return nil, err
}

When it happens

Trigger: c.rpc.call(ctx, "get_all_accounts") errors because the child died at startup or the ctx is already canceled.

Common situations: deltachat-rpc-server exiting immediately (unreadable DC_ACCOUNTS_PATH, bad arch binary starting then crashing), PicoClaw shutting down.

Related errors

• deltachat created account on %s, but could not read generate
• deltachat created account on %s, but generated email is empt
• deltachat set account config: %w
• deltachat is_configured: %w
• deltachat create chatmail account on %s: %w

AI-assisted analysis of sipeed/picoclaw@49183d7e8d (2026-08-15). Data as JSON: /api/errors/9d33630bd591f47d. Report an issue: GitHub.