Title: Bitcoin will not start up after upgrade to 0.5.2 Post by: GideonGono on January 19, 2012, 08:38:21 PM I downloaded bitcoin 0.5.2 yesterday replacing 0.5.0rc7 which I was using before. The blockchain updated as normal and I exited. Today, I tried opening bitcoin-qt from terminal and it showed the loading screen but it quickly disappeared and the following error was left in the terminal window:
Code: ubuntu@ubuntu-desktop:~/$ bitcoin-qt Now bitcoin will not start and neither will the headless daemon. I have a backup of my wallet. How do I fix this? BTW I use Ubuntu 10.04 Title: Re: Bitcoin will not start up after upgrade to 0.5.2 Post by: jake262144 on January 21, 2012, 02:57:35 PM One of the databases(1) (either the block chain or the wallet) got corrupt.
Move the block chain data (addr.dat, blk0001.dat, blkindex.dat) into a temporary sub-directory so bitcoin-qt can't find them. If any of those files were damaged, bitcoin-qt will now launch and start downloading the whole block chain from scratch. If bitcoin-qt still fails, put the block chain files where they belong and deploy your backed-up wallet. Notes: (1) Actually, I should have said "At least one" but an event resulting in damage both to the block chain data and wallet is very unlikely. |