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Hi guys,

I am running Ubuntu 11.10 on an eee pc (6 months old). I am a newbie to linux so please give me advice as if it was to your grandmother : ).

I Installed bitcoin today using https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=53791.0 (Thanks for that)
once installed bitcoin i went to the 'dash home' load bitcoin and it says loading addresses then dissapears

I have uninstalled bitcoin and reinstalled three times.
I have deleted the addr.dat file in .bitcoin folder
I have restarted several times
I have left it for a while
In the file I initially downloaded from bitcoin.org the read me file (down at the bottom) said there was a problem with one of the qt programs for the screen so i turned that off(uninstalled)

I have searched around this forum and others + google and can't seem to find an answer

Thanks for your assistance in advance

Thanks for the quick reply

How much diskspace is required? I have 71 Gb avalible

When i ran the code you gave me i get this.

bob@011235813:~$ tail ~/.bitcoin/debug.log
Default data directory /home/bob/.bitcoin
Loading addresses...
dbenv.open strLogDir=/home/bob/.bitcoin/database strErrorFile=/home/bob/.bitcoin/db.log


************************
EXCEPTION: 22DbRunRecoveryException       
DbEnv::open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery       
bitcoin in Runaway exception   

hopefully that is helpfull

thanks again

Ok got it working

The debug gave me this '22DbRunRecoveryException' to look up.

apparently 'This is a Berkeley DB version mismatch between the last and current version of bitcoin.

Recovery is:
make sure bitcoin is not running
cd into your .bitcoin directory
rm -rf db* database* .lock *.pid
'

I used this site https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/809 (hope it is ok to post external links)

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction

Thanks from a new bitcoin user