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Description
- Open Electrum, Qt GUI, with internet connection
- Open network dialog, and break connection to server; e.g. auto-connect off, and change port to
1 - Open a new lightning channel
- flow will succeed, but tx broadcast will fail
- GUI gives positive feedback to user, does not even say broadcast failed
- new channel appears in Channels tab, in "OPENING" state; channel cannot be deleted
- funding tx appears in History tab, as a local unsigned tx
At this point the user can either manually sign and broadcast the funding tx (using the local tx in the History);
or abandon the channel and e.g. remove the local tx (but they cannot delete the channel from the Channels tab).
This is very confusing. I suppose it can happen organically if e.g. there are some server issues during the channel-open.
At the very least, the GUI messages should be changed to tell the user they need to broadcast manually.
Also, perhaps we should allow the user to delete the channel -- but not sure what this could be conditioned on; as it is prone to server-initiated attacks... (if the user deletes the channel but then the funding tx does confirm...)