Signrawtransaction: "no Information Available About Transaction"

I'm on v0.8.2 on linux. I'm attempting to build my own transaction with createrawtransaction and signrawtransaction. I managed to get the raw transaction from createrawtransaction, but when I feed it into signrawtransaction I receive an error:

Code:

$ ./dcrctl --wallet signrawtransaction 01000000021783c06014a1c3d39ed04dbec355d0659dd621898c71896eec240bed75bcd7e10000000000ffffffff1783c06014a1c3d39ed04dbec355d0659dd621898c71896eec240bed75bcd7e10100000000ffffffff01208f91160300000000001976a914d6a09bb7ab50f9dbd8403fb9f2b387e34533fe0188ac000000000000000002ffffffffffffffff00000000ffffffff00ffffffffffffffff00000000ffffffff00
-5: No information available about transaction e1d7bc75ed0b24ec6e89718c8921d69d65d055c3be4dd09ed3c3a11460c08317

I can't find any information on what causes this error. The txid e1d7... in the error message refers to the transaction with unspent outputs that I wish to spend. I don't know why information about this transaction is not available.

Please note that I have already enabled the transaction index by running

Code:

./dcrd --txindex

I had to do this because getrawtransaction was complaining:

Code:

$ ./dcrctl --wallet getrawtransaction e1d7bc75ed0b24ec6e89718c8921d69d65d055c3be4dd09ed3c3a11460c08317
-5: The transaction index must be enabled to query the blockchain (specify --txindex)

Thank you.