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Bitcoin => Bitcoin Technical Support => Topic started by: Lurk on October 25, 2012, 05:18:05 PM



Title: bitcoind ?
Post by: Lurk on October 25, 2012, 05:18:05 PM
I'm using windows 7 with the current version of bitcoin client.    when i start bitcoind.exe a blank box shows up.  Nothing else happens.
   when i go to close it,  i get a message saying bitcoind has stopped responding.    Are there any files I might be missing to use bitcoind?
Thanks.


Title: Re: bitcoind ?
Post by: MysteryMiner on October 25, 2012, 06:42:10 PM
Bitcoind is a version without GUI also know as a Daemon. Run regular Bitcoin instead.


Title: Re: bitcoind ?
Post by: stevegee58 on October 25, 2012, 07:37:57 PM
I recall earlier this year that p2pool couldn't use bitcoin-qt as a server due to freezes/crashes so you had to use bitcoind.

Lately I've been using bitcoin-qt as a server with p2pool without problems.


Title: Re: bitcoind ?
Post by: Lurk on October 26, 2012, 12:32:19 AM
its exits at the rpc stage  and tells me to use this random password..... soo i entered the random password and defualt username into my bitcoin.conf  file   but its still telling me that it cant read my .conf and i should create one if it doesnt exist.     its in the right directory  and its not  a  .txt   file    its .conf     not sure whats going on with it


Title: Re: bitcoind ?
Post by: Lurk on October 26, 2012, 01:19:48 AM
tried saving the conf file to a txt   and then back to conf   with no luck.    Tried dropping the -server part and still the same error.
  for some reason its not recognizing my .conf file   I'm the administrator  and run bitcoind as admin still doesnt help.