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Title: Bitcoin Client can't sync Post by: worldinacoin on March 28, 2012, 03:06:43 PM I am installing a new computer with Bitcoin client 0.5.3.1 but it can't sync beyond 90%, wonder what can be done? I am running Windows 7.
Title: Re: Bitcoin Client can't sync Post by: NothinG on March 28, 2012, 03:08:13 PM Does it say you have any connections?
Title: Re: Bitcoin Client can't sync Post by: DeathAndTaxes on March 28, 2012, 03:10:29 PM Are you sure it just isn't slow? I rarely use the GUI client but if you hold the mouse over the blocks icon it should show the block #. If you hover it over the connections icon it should show the # of connections.
Title: Re: Bitcoin Client can't sync Post by: worldinacoin on March 29, 2012, 04:54:18 AM I have 8 connections and it is running an entire day :(
Title: Re: Bitcoin Client can't sync Post by: NothinG on March 29, 2012, 04:58:35 AM I have 8 connections and it is running an entire day :( What block does it say it's at?Title: Re: Bitcoin Client can't sync Post by: worldinacoin on March 29, 2012, 12:55:20 PM I uninstall and reinstall again and finally it sync, kinda weird but at least the bitcoin is running fine now.
Title: Re: Bitcoin Client can't sync Post by: DeathAndTaxes on March 29, 2012, 01:10:56 PM I uninstall and reinstall again and finally it sync, kinda weird but at least the bitcoin is running fine now. You may want to portfoward or use uPNP to allow outbound connections. I have found bitcoind more "stable" using larger number of peers. Honestly given the number of hosts with outbound connections I wonder if the inbound connection limit can be raised in a future version. Title: Re: Bitcoin Client can't sync Post by: worldinacoin on April 09, 2012, 11:42:35 AM bitcoind do not have the graphical interface, I do prefer the interface :) But the rising of the connection limits would be great as the chain gets bigger and bigger.
Title: Re: Bitcoin Client can't sync Post by: Pieter Wuille on April 09, 2012, 12:05:26 PM I really doubt the problem was a lack of connections here. There have been problems with the blockchain getting stuck, and there may still be such bugs.
If bitcoin becomes larger (including more non-relaying light clients, more people behind firewalls and NATs, ...), the solution is encouraging people to be reachable (UPnP, opening ports, ...), so that enough "connections slots" (number of reachable nodes * number of connections they accept) exist in the network for everyone to connect to. Increasing the number of outgoing connections will have the opposite effect. Title: Re: Bitcoin Client can't sync Post by: coga on April 24, 2012, 07:16:13 AM I got the same problem exactly: client will not sync and tells me that I probably need to upgrade, on two separate machines. I'm running 0.3.30. I upgraded to 0.4.4.1, but it craps out as well - same message. Qt one worked.
UPDATE: I've rebuilt the blockchain, and the client got up to block 176947, and got stuck: http://vvcap.net/db/2IR75OWyJj5AsUW7eo_i.htp |