CLI --rescan argument unrecognized

Running EPS (0.1.6) under Debain Buster (fresh, in a Docker) the CLI argument --rescan returns “unrecognized arguments” when trying to set up a wallet with existing transactions.

root@a3509f5df03e:/usr/local/bin# electrum-personal-server --rescan /usr/local/etc/electrum-personal-server/config.cfg
usage: electrum-personal-server [-h] [-l LOG] [-a] [-f LOGFMT] [--loglevel {DEBUG,INFO,WARNING,ERROR,CRITICAL}] config_file
electrum-personal-server: error: unrecognized arguments: --rescan
root@a3509f5df03e:/usr/local/bin#

What does work is the electrum-personal-server-rescan script that scans from genesis without problem.

EPS runs perfectly once rescanned.

Docker setup files here although I really don’t think this is a Docker specific issue.

ADDED: The Docker container is built by unpacking the tarball as this saves space in the container by not having to install git (which has lots of dependencies). Were there any commits after the tarball was made? I can modify it to do a github pull if this is the case - it just increases the container file size.

[peleion]

Ideally, especially for Docker use (and BTCpay integration) there would be an option like --rescan-all that would rescan from genesis without user input. A full rescan from genesis only took about 1 hour for one 2,000 address Electrum wallet on moderately slow hardware and I think this would be the most bullet-proof (and user-proof) solution.

[peleion]

OK - I’ll try it out and report back. Closing this for now.