I'm running a local Parity node for the testnet (Ropsten) on Debian (Jessie). I'm using web3.py to connect to this node and create transactions.
I've created a new account:
parity account new --chain ropsten
I'm running my parity node with the following options
/usr/bin/parity --chain ropsten --no-ui --rpcapi 'eth,web3,personal' --jsonrpc-interface 127.0.0.1 --bootnodes 'enode://20c9ad97c081d63397d7b685a412227a40e23c8bdc6688c6f37e97cfbc22d2b4d1db1510d8f61e6a8866ad7f0e17c02b14182d37ea7c3c8b9c2683aeb6b733a1@52.169.14.227:30303,enode://6ce05930c72abc632c58e2e4324f7c7ea478cec0ed4fa2528982cf34483094e9cbc9216e7aa349691242576d552a2a56aaeae426c5303ded677ce455ba1acd9d@13.84.180.240:30303'
When I test this node, it's running fine, see the following python shell:
Python 3.4.2 (default, Oct 8 2014, 10:45:20)
[GCC 4.9.1] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from web3 import Web3, KeepAliveRPCProvider, IPCProvider
>>> web3 = Web3(KeepAliveRPCProvider(host='localhost', port='8545'))
>>> web3.eth.blockNumber
1012932
However, when I try to unlock my account it returns False (with a proper account hash and password ofcourse)
>>> web3.personal.unlockAccount('my-account-hash', 'some-password')
False
When I check if it's actually in my list of accounts, I get the following:
>>> web3.personal.listAccounts
[]
Any ideas would be kindly appreciated.
>>> web3.personal.listAccounts
returns[]
. Can you find out why? Are you using a different datadir or keypath?