It's on an external drive that can be plugged into other computers. I don't run multiple instances of Bitcoin Core at the same time.
I don't see it having anything to do with the problem I had. 

Yes.

I tried something else...

I got into settings and turned on the option to let Armory run Bitcoin Core in the background.
I put into the 'Bitcoin Home Dir' field the location of another Bitcoin installation on an external drive (HD).
The default installation I have on my C: drive is a SSD drive.

I still run Bitcoin Core manually before starting Armory and everything starts normally it seems.
Everything is sync'd up to the latest block. That missing tx shows now with the correct number of confirmations.
It looks like Armory is continuing to stay in sync as more blocks come in.
It showed 466380 in the bottom right when I first started it and right now it shows 466381.

/edit: The only thing seemingly not normal is that when I shutdown Armory, ArmoryDB stays open and I need to shut it down manually.

Note: Bitcoin core was sync'd up to the latest block. It is perhaps rebuilding those blk...dat files in the background?

edit/ I mean shouldn't those blk...dat files be regenerated by bitcoin core?

Did that and then started bitcoin core... (to redownload those blocks?)
Deleted the database subdirectory again and ran armorydb again with those parameters you mentioned.
It only got up to 461207 this time... do I need to let bitcoin core run longer?

 

455618 ( or something close to that... I didn't write it down before I tried another restart... )

Yes it appears to be stuck there, and now when I start it up again it seems to be stalled at the scanning history stage again...

The console has this in it:
... BDM thread failed: empty pool ptr
... Starting address registration process
... running 10 zc parser threads
...

Okay I did all that. Everything went smoothly. Everything started quickly when I went back to regular operations. Thanks for all the help.

But again...

Did I mess up that wallet when I used 'Clear All Unconfirmed' when the transaction really wasn't unconfirmed just that Armory never recognized it as such?

Even before seeing this I tried something else. I shutdown as many background programs etc. as I could to give me as much RAM as possible.
I am back to where the program starts and shows the balances. I didn't have memory problems before. Does 0.96 need greater than 8 GB of RAM?
I have 9GB in total on this machine before anything loads. What would be a good amount?

But again...
That transaction still doesn't show up after all these rescans; the wallet still has the old wrong balance. 
What can be done about that Watching-Only wallet?
If I try to send any more transactions from it there will no doubt be problems won't there?

I don't compile myself but download the binaries.

Windows 7 64bit
Bitcoin Core 0.14.0
Armory 0.96

I upgraded to 0.96 from 0.94.1 and after several crashes (usually at the scanning transaction history stage), restarts and reboots I finally got Armory to startup normally and show transactions and balances.

Everything seemed to be fine after several days, until I did a normal transaction yesterday. I sent some bitcoin from an offline wallet using the method of a usb key to move the tx file back and forth. The transaction went through okay. It got confirmed quickly as evidenced but the receiving wallet and blockchain.info. But Armory didn't show the transaction as having any confirmations(when it really had several), and thus making a lot of the BTC in that wallet unspendable, when it should be spendable.

I decided to do a 'Rescan Balance' to see if that would update the list of txs to show the proper number of confirmations instead of 0. When next I tried to start Armory it stopped working... I tried more times and either ArmoryQt would stop-working/crash or ArmoryDB would, usually at the scanning transaction history stage, or at scanning or resolving tx hashes. After each crash the dblog.txt is always empty and the end of armorylog.txt had several lines of: (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:4619 - Dashboard switched to "Scanning" mode

Next I tried to do a 'Rebuild and Rescan Databases' which didn't help after several attempts(including reboots of the computer)... still the crashes.

I next tried 'Clear All Unconfirmed' in case it was that last tx (which didn't show as confirmed in Armory but really was confirmed) was the problem.
That didn't work right away but after a reboot it seemed to startup normally again. But that transaction was not included in the list of transactions and the balance of the wallet was back to where it was before that transaction; i.e. incorrect.  

Of course I am reluctant to do any more transactions from that wallet when Armory can't even display the balance correctly.

Again I tried to do a  'Rescan Balance'...  but back to the crashing of ArmoryDB. Even when I try 'Clear All Unconfirmed' and reboot the computer again.
It gets as far as showing in the ArmoryQt client, 'Resolving Tx Hashes'... showing a small percentage but also a small number of seconds to go: e.g. 3% 5 seconds.

Still dblog is empty and armorylog ends with the line: (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:4619 - Dashboard switched to "Scanning" mode.

The ArmoryDB console, after a Windows pop-up error message "ArmoryDB.exe has stopped working", and before I choose to 'Close the program' shows several lines of incremented error messages...
The last few lines in the ArmoryDB console are:
-ERROR- 1494614491: (..\BlockchainScanner.cpp:1405) Block deser error while processing tx filters:
-ERROR- 1494614491: (..\BlockchainScanner.cpp:1406)   raw data does not match expected block hash
-ERROR- 1494614491: (..\BlockchainScanner.cpp:1407) Skipping this block
-ERROR- 1494614492: (..\BlockchainScanner.cpp:1405) Block deser error while processing tx filters:
-ERROR- 1494614492: (..\BlockchainScanner.cpp:1406)   raw data does not match expected block hash
-ERROR- 1494614492: (..\BlockchainScanner.cpp:1407) Skipping this block

I am wondering if I should try the 'Factory Reset' option next or wait for the next update where this bug is fixed...

Pro Tip: If you really want to help the project and have something to contribute, go to where the devs are, rather than creating some new spot and expecting them to come to you.

Thank you.

You posted some links but it seems you didn't spend much time at any of them:
https://namecoin.org/resources/chat/

If you not a dev yourself with something tangible to contribute then you may be just wasting your & their time.

Perhaps you are starting to realize that talk of "marketing" is very premature.

Not GoDaddy but more like a decentralized ICANN;  DNS.

"Namecoin is an experimental open-source technology which improves decentralization, security, censorship resistance, privacy, and speed of certain components of the Internet infrastructure such as DNS and identities..."

"Namecoin was the first fork of Bitcoin and still is one of the most innovative “altcoins”. It was first to implement merged mining and a decentralized DNS. Namecoin was also the first solution to Zooko’s Triangle, the long-standing problem of producing a naming system that is simultaneously secure, decentralized, and human-meaningful."

https://www.namecoin.org/

0.95.99.1-testing
goatpig released this on Nov 2, 2016

shhh...

First rule of Armory Club...   

Don't worry about it. 


Well you could stop bumping it so people won't land on it first thing.   


Also, you could start, and maintain, your own list. With the extra categories etc., you would like to see added, it would take a lot of time each day to keep it up to date.

You could pay someone else to create/maintain it... but not me. If one is really interested in the user experience - the safety, convenience, etc. - then it takes a lot of time to verify each site. 

Like I said my interest was mainly about introducing newbies to bitcoin. And why spend so much time on the myriad of faucets and the like, which come and go, and at any moment could potentially activate the closing stages of a long con, and take in as many as they can in a brief window of opportunity and then run off with all they can quickly grab... We've seen it happen many times here on bitcointalk over the years haven't we...  {cough}trade{cough}fortress{cough}

Why, when I could just recommend something like https://21.co/ ...to take just 1 example.

One might ask if they can be trusted 100%.
Well no. You shouldn't trust anything completely. It's a matter of degree. And looking into things oneself... and... well... I'm going on too much... dat nuff.

This list was started years ago as a way for newbies to be introduced to Bitcoin; to get a chance of actually using it. It was never about helping faucet users make money off of these users, often with annoying if not dishonest and unsafe tactics, which would more likely put a bad taste into the mouths of these newbies more than inspire than to get involved with Bitcoin.

What's the point of listing sites that don't meet my criteria you ask? Any sites that don't meet the criteria are simply not added to the list. If a site met the criteria and was added to the list and then they changed the way they operated to where they no longer complied with my "ridiculous high standards" then I moved it to the lower area of "Discontinued Faucets" to let people know of sites to avoid if they want to just get a few satoshis to try out Bitcoin without having to jump through hoops and give up personal information etc. etc. It's not like I go searching for sites to add to the "Discontinued Faucets" category. This forum wouldn't be big enough to hold a listing of all the scammy and spammy faucets out there.

Many things have changed with Bitcoin over the years and perhaps using faucets isn't a good way for newbies to be introduced to Bitcoin anymore, if indeed it ever was.

It never was a good way to make any money, as I have pointed out many times in this thread. This list was never about that:

No Free Lunch
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=90718.msg1046513#msg1046513

What good is it if one can only get very very small amounts?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=74046.msg1088930#msg1088930

I don't have much time to go looking for all these reputable sites you mention. For a long time I relied on users to submit sites they like so I could check them out and add them to the list if they were good. I thank them all for their participation and help in maintaining this list.

I have got a lot of feedback from newbies saying that this list did help them; to learn about Bitcoin and get started with using a Bitcoin wallet etc.
Those are the ones for whom I kept this list going for so long.

No one has submitted a site to this list in quite a while now. It's all for the best. Like I say there are so many better ways for people to explore and get involved in Bitcoin these days.

I won't lock or delete this thread as it is perhaps an interesting look into a little part of the history of Bitcoin.

Have fun and don't take any wooden nickels.         



 

You should talk to people who are interested in the technology and its use - and who follow its actual progress - and not just a few greedy speculators out to make a quick buck.