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Bitcoin => Armory => Topic started by: katsuma99 on November 07, 2017, 03:06:41 PM



Title: Restoring from paper backup, stuck organizing blockchain
Post by: katsuma99 on November 07, 2017, 03:06:41 PM
Hi,

Armory Wallet version: 0.96-beta-a3d01aa722
BitCoin Core: 0.15.01
Operating system: Windows 10

I have a paper backup from an Armory wallet created a couple of years ago.

I've installed the above versions of Bitcoin Core and Armory and restored the wallet using the root key.

Armory is now stuck on 'organizing blockchain' and has been running like this for 12+ hours

I do see this error in the console window if that means anything:

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ERROR - 1510061159: (..\DatabaseBuilder.cpp:: (..\BitcoinP2P.cpp:1032268) parsed block file #37) caught exception in processDataStackThread: invalid varint size

Any pointers would appreciated as things don't feel right.

Thanks


Title: Re: Restoring from paper backup, stuck organizing blockchain
Post by: goatpig on November 07, 2017, 06:38:24 PM
Update.


Title: Re: Restoring from paper backup, stuck organizing blockchain
Post by: droark on November 08, 2017, 01:54:14 AM
Please update to Armory 0.96.4 RC1 (https://github.com/goatpig/BitcoinArmory/releases/). Thanks.


Title: Re: Restoring from paper backup, stuck organizing blockchain
Post by: katsuma99 on November 08, 2017, 10:19:08 AM
Thanks guys.  This seems to have done the trick.  The new version crashed a couple of times and I had to kill orphaned processes, but eventually it sync'd up.