code -32000 message: account is locked

Question

I am trying to withdraw some coins from my wallet (as I have done several times prior) but this time I am prompted with the error:

 {0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000", value: web3.toWei(1, "ether")})
{
  code: -32000,
  message: "account is locked"
}

I've tried unlocking the account using the --unlock command

geth --unlock "0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000"

but unfortunately it did not fix the issue.

Answer 1

You have to send the index of the account address on eth.accounts to unlock it and the path to the password file:

Like:

geth --unlock=0 --password="./password-file-path"

This will unlock the first address on eth.accounts and use the content on the file as password.