Ipfs cat hangs blank

Help Kubo
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Hello,

installed ipfs today, daemon runs, init command was successful

go is installed
go version go1.12.1 linux/arm

address was created however using the ipfs cat function basically just prints a new line in my terminal and doesn’t exit the program.

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ ipfs cat /ipfs/QmbtEkYCN6f2Z5VySyABvqQ9WkP1y6LyHCYWsR8W7aFis1/readme

I can Ctrl+\ to force stop both the cat process and the daemon and both present debug info. Any pointers as to why it freezes instead of returning an actual error?

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That’s your peer id. If you want to access content you have published to your id you must use" /ipns/QmbtEkYCN6f2Z5VySyABvqQ9WkP1y6LyHCYWsR8W7aFis1/readme".

But more likely you are trying to access the readme that comes with every installation, try ipfs cat /ipfs/QmS4ustL54uo8FzR9455qaxZwuMiUhyvMcX9Ba8nUH4uVv/readme

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Well yes, I did try ipfs cat /ipfs/QmbtEkYCN6f2Z5VySyABvqQ9WkP1y6LyHCYWsR8W7aFis1/readme, nothing’s happening. I also tried the ipns modification to no avail.

I thought it was a firewall issue but that doesn’t explain why even on the local machine it doesn’t print anything.

EDIT: Ohhhh so it’s a different code. Gotcha. But ipfs cat /ipns/QmbtEkYCN6f2Z5VySyABvqQ9WkP1y6LyHCYWsR8W7aFis1/readme is still blank?

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Yeah that’s because you haven’t published anything yet. It’s currently pointing to an empty unix-fs dir

$ ipfs name resolve QmbtEkYCN6f2Z5VySyABvqQ9WkP1y6LyHCYWsR8W7aFis1
/ipfs/QmUNLLsPACCz1vLxQVkXqqLX5R1X345qqfHbsf67hvA3Nn

To publish the readme dir you can do ipfs name publish /ipfs/QmS4ustL54uo8FzR9455qaxZwuMiUhyvMcX9Ba8nUH4uVv