Error message - unknown account specifier about ethdo HOT 6 CLOSED

What version of ethdo are you using? Support for 12-word phrases was added in 1.31.0. Also, are you putting quotes around your mnemonic as per the command?

This appears to be okay with a local test:

ethdo version
1.31.0
ethdo account derive --mnemonic="abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon abandon about" --path=m/12381/3600/0/0
Public key: 0x8ebe599559cbf3abbc6a72b25d8bc13fd9b5075283fcd9ec47b2a0bf6c5148a2e9e615b181e5b2c03abe63818ef70c61

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I'm using the latest version 1.31. Yes I put quotes around the mnemonic.

Is it possible the program I used to generate the seed didn't create it correctly?

What does the error message from Ethdo mean?

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The message means that ethdo only saw the first word of the mnemonic, and is trying to use that as a general account specifier (e.g. an account name or validator index) rather than a full mnemonic. Can you try running the commands in my prior message and supplying the output?

The mnemonic is likely fine, it seems to be an issue with the input.

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Thank you for clarifying. I ran your commands and it worked exactly the same for me.

Now I ran the same command again with my seed & it says:

./eth: No such file or directory

That doesn't sound good...

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eth is not the command, it is ethdo. You should take the command that worked and swap out the mnemonic, making no other changes.

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I did it again and got this error message:

Error: failed to process: failed to derive account: mnemonic is invalid

Then I ran your command and mine again. Somehow the second time it generated the public key correctly. I'm not sure why but thank you so much for your help.

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