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Title: [Bug(?)] Latest bitcoind crashes Armory Post by: OpenYourEyes on February 12, 2013, 09:24:40 PM Using the latest BitCoin (0.8.0 rc1) causes Armory (0.87) to crash on my system with the following output when launched from a terminal:
Code: /home/me/.bitcoin/blocks/blk00020.dat is 134,217,728 bytes I've read reports of others using it with no issues. Unsure if this is related, but I was using Armory for quite some time on another laptop, and Armory would, every 30m or so, drain all my system resources, so I'd have to quit and restart; at one time my whole system became completely unresposive (mouse movements took about 30secs to respond) so I decided to hard power off my system. The hard disk, which was is relatively good condition according to SMART, is now is full of bad blocks with a lot of my data inaccessible. I was able to recover my wallet files which I have now imported into my only other system, a notebook with SSD, could my wallets be causing this issue? Edit: On a second load of Armory, I now get this error: Code: /home/me/.bitcoin/blocks/blk00025.dat is 134,217,728 bytes I've also tried loading it without any wallet files in the .armory directory but to no avail. Title: Re: [Bug(?)] Latest bitcoind crashes Armory Post by: etotheipi on February 13, 2013, 03:29:59 AM Using the latest BitCoin (0.8.0 rc1) causes Armory (0.87) to crash on my system with the following output when launched from a terminal: Code: /home/me/.bitcoin/blocks/blk00020.dat is 134,217,728 bytes I've read reports of others using it with no issues. Unsure if this is related, but I was using Armory for quite some time on another laptop, and Armory would, every 30m or so, drain all my system resources, so I'd have to quit and restart; at one time my whole system became completely unresposive (mouse movements took about 30secs to respond) so I decided to hard power off my system. The hard disk, which was is relatively good condition according to SMART, is now is full of bad blocks with a lot of my data inaccessible. I was able to recover my wallet files which I have now imported into my only other system, a notebook with SSD, could my wallets be causing this issue? Edit: On a second load of Armory, I now get this error: Code: /home/me/.bitcoin/blocks/blk00025.dat is 134,217,728 bytes I've also tried loading it without any wallet files in the .armory directory but to no avail. It's entirely possible that you have a corrupted blockchain file. I have had this happen to me before -- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=44887.0 -- I spent like 4 hours tracking this down to a single flipped bit in 2 GB of blockchain files. I simply redownloaded the chain, and it worked (not so "simple", anymore). The other issue could be RAM... if you are low on RAM and have no swap space, I suppose it it could bad_alloc because it can't allocate any more resources. Armory hardly uses any HDD resources. If you have HDD issues, I would blame it on bitcoin-qt or some other app -- Armory uses about 50 MB total, the rest is RAM. I suppose if you start swapping, that would cause HDD issues. However, sometimes Armory can go into freakout mode -- where it hits some unrecoverable error, and it starts sucking up a lot of resources. One of those, I believe has been fixed -- try going to the bitcoinarmory.googlecode.com page and download 0.87.2. Other than that, there's not a lot of useful information in those bug reports. I know it's never fun to redownload the blockchain, but it is the likely culprit when you consistently fail at the same blockchain location loading. |