Title: Block chain stuck at 143,288 blocks Post by: GideonGono on October 11, 2011, 05:25:12 PM Hello,
I am using Ubuntu 10.04 & bitcoin 0.4 Yesterday I was recovering an old wallet.dat so I copied it over to the .bitcoin directory and I started bitcoin with the rescan option from terminal. After about 10hrs I was up to block number 143,288 and all my old coins were showing up (hooray!) but I had to shutdown so I closed the bitcoin window and I got some strange error from the terminal window where I had started it. I shutdown as normal and today when I started the bitcoin client it's stuck on block 143,288 with 0 connections. Its been open for 3hrs now and nothing. Should I do the rescan thing again? Will it start all the way from the beginning? What the hell happened and how can I prevent it from happening again? Thank you Title: Re: Block chain stuck at 143,288 blocks Post by: 2112 on October 11, 2011, 06:25:01 PM Maybe you could start by fishing the "strange errors" out of the "debug.log", "db.log" and maybe a scrollback buffer of your console?
Title: Re: Block chain stuck at 143,288 blocks Post by: GideonGono on October 11, 2011, 06:39:03 PM Maybe you could start by fishing the "strange errors" out of the "debug.log", "db.log" db.log is empty debug.log is over 36,000 lines long. I have no idea where to begin looking :-\ maybe a scrollback buffer of your console? not sure what this means Title: Re: Block chain stuck at 143,288 blocks Post by: GideonGono on October 11, 2011, 06:46:27 PM Never mind, I found it. Here are the last few lines before, and the error itself in the log:
Code: ProcessBlock: ACCEPTED Title: Re: Block chain stuck at 143,288 blocks Post by: 2112 on October 11, 2011, 07:40:44 PM db.log is empty This is most important. It means that none of the databases got corrupted, most importantly wallet.dat.Code: ************************ Since you running your Ubuntu behind some consumer-grade UPnP router, that would be the next item to investigate. Can you check if all the port mapping and NAT sessions are sensible? Or just reboot the router without investigating. It is a known cure for many networking problems with the cheap hardware. Title: Re: Block chain stuck at 143,288 blocks Post by: GideonGono on October 12, 2011, 12:17:22 AM Rebooting the router didn't work
Can you check if all the port mapping and NAT sessions are sensible? Say what? Title: Re: Block chain stuck at 143,288 blocks Post by: Vandroiy on October 20, 2011, 11:46:50 AM I had a similar problem, but it just recovered after running long enough.
The delays between program start and its window appearing as well as the one between having node connections and continuing the block chain download are excessive. Many users will not have that kind of patience. This must be fixed. If I start Bitcoin, I have to walk away from the computer for a while, since its window will appear at an arbitrary moment, possibly taking whatever command I input that moment. So apart from requiring a dedicated PC for security, I can't even browse on it while Bitcoin is starting! Title: Re: Block chain stuck at 143,288 blocks Post by: worldinacoin on October 20, 2011, 11:51:17 AM I had a similar problem, but it just recovered after running long enough. The delays between program start and its window appearing as well as the one between having node connections and continuing the block chain download are excessive. Many users will not have that kind of patience. This must be fixed. If I start Bitcoin, I have to walk away from the computer for a while, since its window will appear at an arbitrary moment, possibly taking whatever command I input that moment. So apart from requiring a dedicated PC for security, I can't even browse on it while Bitcoin is starting! Same for me here, sometimes I have to click a few times before Bitcoin appear. |