# Does the file .partkey cause this problem

**URL:** <https://forum.algorand.co/t/does-the-file-partkey-cause-this-problem/1064>\
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**Created:** [October 30, 2019, 12:23pm UTC](https://forum.algorand.co/t/does-the-file-partkey-cause-this-problem/1064 "2019-10-30T12:23:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![studyres](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@studyres](https://forum.algorand.co/u/studyres)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 12:23pm UTC](https://forum.algorand.co/t/does-the-file-partkey-cause-this-problem/1064/1 "2019-10-30T12:23:28Z")

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Operating system, Ubuntu 18.04TLS, on a cloud server, login in as user root, #

Today I created a partition key file, \*.2774800.2778000.partkey, it is put into the folder /var/lib/algorand/mainnet-v1.0  
Then , “goal account changeonlinestatus -a \* -o=1”, this succeeded on my cloud server. ([algoexplorer.io](http://algoexplorer.io) showed ‘offlline’ status originally, and then switched to ‘online’)

Then after some time, the ‘goal node status’ command does not work, the prompted message is: Cannot contact Algorand node: open /var/lib/algorand/algod.net: no such file or directory.

Then I deleted the .partkey file in the folder /var/lib/algorand/mainnet-v1.0, the command ‘goal node status’ work normally again.

I do not know why. If you know it, please paste your answer here. Thanks.

I guess, maybe because the lastvalidround is passed already, so the .partkey file should not exist in the folder. I am going to test it again.

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**Author:** ![studyres](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@studyres](https://forum.algorand.co/u/studyres)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 1:33pm UTC](https://forum.algorand.co/t/does-the-file-partkey-cause-this-problem/1064/2 "2019-10-30T13:33:05Z")

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Maybe I do not need to delete the file, only need to changeonlinestatus to offline.