Title: Blockchain gets stuck downloading no matter what Post by: hatrix on January 21, 2013, 03:49:27 AM I don't know what to do, I've tried everything I could find on the forum.
I installed bitcoin-qt fresh on my windows install. Started it and let it run for an entire day but when I looked at it later that night noticed it was stuck at like 93% of the blockchain downloaded. Tried to quit out and use the -rescan option. That didn't work, the error message at the bottom displayed was: "Warning: displayed transactions may not be correct! you may need to upgrade, or other nodes may need to upgrade" I tried searching for that error too and nothing that was said resolved the issue. I have tried deleting all my blk files in the data directory and letting it redownload the entire blockchain again and it gets stuck downloading every single time. The last time I tried letting it run the error message from before popped up without me ever even restarting the client, the one about displayed transactions may not be correct. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling bitcoin-qt. Did not work. Made sure I had enough diskspace, there's plenty of free space for the blockchain. I have tried using snapshots of the blockchain with a new wallet and it STILL got stuck downloading with the same error as usual popping up after a while. I don't know what is wrong. It's driving me crazy. I can't access anything stored in my actual wallet because the blockchain won't finish downloading. I was going to say screw it and use my online wallet but I need to import my private keys for that wallet, but can't because bitcoin throws the same error I get about not being up to date when trying to dump. I have 8 active connections to the network according to the client yet nothing more will download. This is the error being dumped in the log repeatedly: Code: REORGANIZE: Disconnect 0 blocks; 0000000000000470fa73..0000000000000470fa73 Title: Re: Blockchain gets stuck downloading no matter what Post by: zvs on January 21, 2013, 04:19:34 AM I don't know what to do, I've tried everything I could find on the forum. I installed bitcoin-qt fresh on my windows install. Started it and let it run for an entire day but when I looked at it later that night noticed it was stuck at like 93% of the blockchain downloaded. Tried to quit out and use the -rescan option. That didn't work, the error message at the bottom displayed was: "Warning: displayed transactions may not be correct! you may need to upgrade, or other nodes may need to upgrade" I tried searching for that error too and nothing that was said resolved the issue. I have tried deleting all my blk files in the data directory and letting it redownload the entire blockchain again and it gets stuck downloading every single time. The last time I tried letting it run the error message from before popped up without me ever even restarting the client, the one about displayed transactions may not be correct. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling bitcoin-qt. Did not work. Made sure I had enough diskspace, there's plenty of free space for the blockchain. I have tried using snapshots of the blockchain with a new wallet and it STILL got stuck downloading with the same error as usual popping up after a while. I don't know what is wrong. It's driving me crazy. I can't access anything stored in my actual wallet because the blockchain won't finish downloading. I was going to say screw it and use my online wallet but I need to import my private keys for that wallet, but can't because bitcoin throws the same error I get about not being up to date when trying to dump. I have 8 active connections to the network according to the client yet nothing more will download. if you're using the default directory, delete all the stuff in your /users/<name>/appdata/roaming/bitcoin folder. make a new bitcoin.conf file server=1 daemon=1 rpcuser=crazedhookers rpcpassword=3$9czKO$23LCXMZJO%$#@vndkxccxkvDJSKOJ%#@OPvfcxkvjW$JRO#$@ rpcallowip=127.0.0.1 rpcport=31337 port=8333 listen=0 maxconnections=1 irc=0 upnp=0 keypool=0 dns=0 detachdb=1 logtimestamps=1 connect=5.9.24.81 after blockchain is done downloading, change maxconnections, change listen to 1 (if you want), and remove connect=5.9.24.81, or change it to addnode or something... and I guess you could change keypool to make a ton of addresses you probably wont need to bloat your wallet some Title: Re: Blockchain gets stuck downloading no matter what Post by: hatrix on January 21, 2013, 04:23:37 AM why do I need that specific username and password for the config file ?
And yea like I said, I've deleted the data folder multiple times and retried. I'll report back in the morning, I know it's going to take forever as usual to download. Title: Re: Blockchain gets stuck downloading no matter what Post by: Stephen Gornick on January 21, 2013, 12:56:24 PM I don't know what is wrong. It's driving me crazy. Are you using the latest release of the client, v0.7.2? Title: Re: Blockchain gets stuck downloading no matter what Post by: ingrownpocket on January 21, 2013, 03:31:31 PM Import your wallet here:
https://blockchain.info/wallet/import-wallet (https://blockchain.info/wallet/import-wallet) Title: Re: Blockchain gets stuck downloading no matter what Post by: hatrix on January 21, 2013, 04:01:39 PM Still failed to finish downloading. Stopped aroud 82% and this time I had zero connections to the network when I checked.
Yes I'm using the latest client. I'll try the online wallet, didn't know you could use your wallet.dat Screw it, I'm done with the client. It's giving me to much trouble and I don't know why. I never noticed that import page on the online wallet, if you were logged in it only let you import with other methods for some reason. Title: Re: Blockchain gets stuck downloading no matter what Post by: ingrownpocket on January 21, 2013, 04:22:39 PM Still failed to finish downloading. Stopped aroud 82% and this time I had zero connections to the network when I checked. Yes I'm using the latest client. I'll try the online wallet, didn't know you could use your wallet.dat Screw it, I'm done with the client. It's giving me to much trouble and I don't know why. I never noticed that import page on the online wallet, if you were logged in it only let you import with other methods for some reason. I had the EXACT same problem ;) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=122212.msg1314640 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=121326.msg1307846#msg1307846 Title: Re: Blockchain gets stuck downloading no matter what Post by: deepceleron on January 21, 2013, 04:28:21 PM InvalidChainFound: invalid block=00000000000005455897 height=149546 work=145098545800861907382 date=10/16/11 19:13:40
InvalidChainFound: current best=0000000000000470fa73 height=139547 work=69200808057072673980 date=08/04/11 06:48:31 Both of these are correct block hashes for the main chain; it looks like one p2p client you are connecting to might be serving you up a corrupted block 139548, confounded with some problem recovering to a correct blockchain. We would need to look further back in the log file where blocks up to 139548 are downloaded normally and then something happens to see when the problems started occurring and deduce what data Bitcoin might be receiving. If you can post the complete debug.log/db.log files from download start to blocks 140000+ on the web somewhere it might help. If you want to skip quite a bit of downloading, you can get this torrent: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=94881.0 - -loadblock it's orphan-free blocks instead, which definitely shouldn't error. I had the EXACT same problem ;) Links seem to be nothing like the challenges indicated above.https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=122212.msg1314640 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=121326.msg1307846#msg1307846 Title: Re: Blockchain gets stuck downloading no matter what Post by: ingrownpocket on January 21, 2013, 04:44:00 PM InvalidChainFound: invalid block=00000000000005455897 height=149546 work=145098545800861907382 date=10/16/11 19:13:40 InvalidChainFound: current best=0000000000000470fa73 height=139547 work=69200808057072673980 date=08/04/11 06:48:31 Both of these are correct block hashes for the main chain; it looks like one p2p client you are connecting to might be serving you up a corrupted block 139548, confounded with some problem recovering to a correct blockchain. We would need to look further back in the log file where blocks up to 139548 are downloaded normally and then something happens to see when the problems started occurring and deduce what data Bitcoin might be receiving. If you can post the complete debug.log/db.log files from download start to blocks 140000+ on the web somewhere it might help. If you want to skip quite a bit of downloading, you can get this torrent: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=94881.0 - -loadblock it's orphan-free blocks instead, which definitely shouldn't error. I had the EXACT same problem ;) Links seem to be nothing like the challenges indicated above.https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=122212.msg1314640 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=121326.msg1307846#msg1307846 Scroll bar. Use it. ;D Title: Re: Blockchain gets stuck downloading no matter what Post by: deepceleron on January 21, 2013, 05:11:19 PM Bitcoin also requires a computer that is operating correctly, it runs the CPU and drives at 100% for hours, and has low tolerance for bad math. It requires about 100 trillion CPU instructions to download the blockchain, all performed correctly. If you have a laptop that has the cooling fins plugged up with fuzz, are overclocking, have a SATA cable creating CRC errors, or have one bit of bad RAM, Bitcoin will find it.
Title: Re: Blockchain gets stuck downloading no matter what Post by: Stemby on January 25, 2013, 03:32:00 AM I'm experiencing exactly the same problem, by using the official Debian package:
http://packages.debian.org/sid/bitcoin-qt So, is this a bug? Title: Re: Blockchain gets stuck downloading no matter what Post by: Stephen Gornick on January 25, 2013, 05:24:51 PM I'm experiencing exactly the same problem, by using the official Debian package: You are getting InvalidChainFound? Log snippet please. Title: Re: Blockchain gets stuck downloading no matter what Post by: Stemby on January 25, 2013, 07:30:45 PM You are getting InvalidChainFound? Log snippet please. http://paste.debian.net/228421/ Actually I deleted the broken blockchain, and currently I'm re-downloading everything. Ciao! Title: Re: Blockchain gets stuck downloading no matter what Post by: Herodes on January 25, 2013, 07:32:56 PM it should also be possible to get the blockchain off torrent to get up to speed. Sadly I don't have a link, perhaps some others do ?
Title: Re: Blockchain gets stuck downloading no matter what Post by: Stemby on January 31, 2013, 11:53:30 AM Actually I deleted the broken blockchain, and currently I'm re-downloading everything. Finished. No problem this time. Title: Re: Blockchain gets stuck downloading no matter what Post by: Herodes on January 31, 2013, 11:59:14 AM Actually I deleted the broken blockchain, and currently I'm re-downloading everything. Finished. No problem this time. Great! Is it the first time with bitcoin ? Title: Re: Blockchain gets stuck downloading no matter what Post by: ingrownpocket on January 31, 2013, 12:54:57 PM Title: Re: Blockchain gets stuck downloading no matter what Post by: Herodes on January 31, 2013, 01:28:20 PM lol, must've been when it was at 1337 posts. ;) Title: Re: Blockchain gets stuck downloading no matter what Post by: jomplox on January 31, 2013, 01:45:07 PM Give Electrum a try. It has all the same features and doesn't need to download the blockchain.
Title: Re: Blockchain gets stuck downloading no matter what Post by: Stemby on February 01, 2013, 02:16:46 AM Great! Is it the first time with bitcoin ? No, but it is the first time with the official package taken from Debian repositories. Title: Re: Blockchain gets stuck downloading no matter what Post by: KJTetc on February 01, 2013, 05:33:14 AM This happened to me too. On some blocks you have to wait a while.
Title: Re: Blockchain gets stuck downloading no matter what Post by: jrdough on February 01, 2013, 05:43:42 AM It always takes forever for me too. Even from 93 percent to done seems to take many hours.
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