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I am currently facing this issue that doesnt let me close my program (I don't really want to loose all the rent right now) https://forums.solana.com/t/help-me-my-wallet-was-locked-unable-to-pay-a-transaction-fee/7802

TLDR: My wallet is owned by the BPF upgradable loader and I can't do any transactions with it so it's kind of like a loophole because I can't change the owner if I can't pay the transaction fees.

here the steps in detail:

  1. Program deployment failed
  2. closed buffer account to reclaim funds
  3. cannot create new buffer/update program authority because authority wallet's assigned program id is BPF upgradeable loader and therefore can not be used to pay for transaction fees.

Question: Is there a way to specify the fee payer to change the program authority?

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Every command with the solana CLI allows you to specify the fee payer, typically through the --keypair parameter. So for example, to close a buffer, you can do:

solana --keypair <FEE_PAYER_KEYPAIR> program close <BUFFER_ID> --authority <CURRENT_UPGRADE_AUTHORITY_KEYPAIR>
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  • The command we needed didn't have a fee payer argument built in so we wrote our own Script in rust using the code from the solana CLI with the addition of specifying a keypair
    – Yusuf-Uluc
    Commented Oct 11, 2022 at 13:12
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    That's a fine addition too -- feel free to create a PR with that change!
    – Jon C
    Commented Oct 11, 2022 at 13:13

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