@benlo626
First thing you need is to find where your sia-UI config/data folder is. That is the one containing following subdirectories:
consensus
gateway
wallet
I hope you know how to search your linux machine for a folder named "consensus" or "wallet".
To delete your Sia wallet you just delete the folder named "wallet" (kill the siad process before that).
To completely delete your "Sia account", delete all contents of the folder where you found these subfolders. And burn the paper where you wrote down your seed.
Though, the "account" (wallet) will remain on the blockchain, you (or anyone else) will never use it.
But if you consider starting over and try Sia one more time, look into all these subfolders. There are logfiles where you could find the faulty module preventing startup.
For example, a normally running node logfiles look something like:
tail consensus.log
2017/05/23 20:43:26.868431 persist.go:67: STARTUP: Logging has started.
2017/05/23 20:44:05.143704 synchronize.go:606: INFO: IBD done, synced with 5 peers
2017/05/23 20:47:04.196667 persist.go:73: SHUTDOWN: Logging has terminated.
2017/05/23 20:48:38.228470 persist.go:67: STARTUP: Logging has started.
2017/05/23 20:49:09.454796 synchronize.go:606: INFO: IBD done, synced with 5 peers
2017/05/24 07:33:51.498051 persist.go:67: STARTUP: Logging has started.
2017/05/24 07:34:12.967586 synchronize.go:568: WARN: disconnecting from peer 80.112.150.18:9981 because IBD failed: EOF
2017/05/24 07:34:23.483540 synchronize.go:606: INFO: IBD done, synced with 5 peers
2017/05/24 08:43:41.251707 persist.go:67: STARTUP: Logging has started.
2017/05/24 08:44:23.118377 synchronize.go:606: INFO: IBD done, synced with 5 peers
or
tail wallet.log
2017/05/23 20:48:43.244714 encrypt.go:435: INFO: Unlocking wallet.
2017/05/24 07:31:03.809898 encrypt.go:406: INFO: Locking wallet.
2017/05/24 07:31:03.809998 wallet.go:163: SHUTDOWN: Logging has terminated.
2017/05/24 07:33:51.556886 persist.go:92: STARTUP: Logging has started.
2017/05/24 07:33:56.501419 encrypt.go:575: INFO: Unlocking wallet.
2017/05/24 08:42:25.329697 encrypt.go:406: INFO: Locking wallet.
2017/05/24 08:42:25.329806 wallet.go:163: SHUTDOWN: Logging has terminated.
2017/05/24 08:43:41.314181 persist.go:92: STARTUP: Logging has started.
2017/05/24 08:43:51.246039 encrypt.go:575: INFO: Unlocking wallet.
My node is running fine, so I have no errors to show as an example...
But you should see something suspicious, if sia-UI does not start.
Just delete the fault containing folder and start siad.
To restore your wallet from seed, after deleting the wallet folder and starting siad, run
siac wallet init-seed
or
siac wallet init-seed --force
By the way,
@benlo626 said
... I'll let everyone know how good this coin is.
Sia isn't a coin. Sia is a storage exchange and the siacoin is just a unit of measure for the storage valuation and accounting.
