alright thank you. I'll do the reindex and get back to you when its finished. Thank you  I'll also check the debug.log

alright, I think I have created a whole new node on the SD by accident. I deleted all those files. everything bitcoin related should now be strictly on hdd, except the binaries in bin? I guess those just stay where they are  in;    home/pi/bin/bitcoin  ?  I deleted a couple directories of old versions of core. I think i messed up and deleted my bitcoin folder on pi -rf  I may need to rebuild soimething. The wallet starts up but  I am now back to the original problem. wallet v 0.17.1  8 outbound connections and I'm stuck on block 569512.  I think there was something I needed in that bitcoin folder. im pretty sure I needed that i just can't remember what it was  I still have my .bitcoin with my .dats  and chainstate and all that.  my bitcoin.conf is empty though.

Sorry, yes. Blockchain is on an ext. HDD. I guess there a chance i saved the new update to the SD.  I used a different process this time when updated btc core. I'm a linux noob though idk what I did wrong. How can I verify this? Thank you

about a 3 month ago I had to shutdown my node. while it was down I updated to v0.17.1  After that it never worked again. Its filling up my root folder, then the pi is out of memory. Ive tried to fix this for a month. I cant figure it out. Its like the update is going straight to the SD card and filling it up. my dev/root folder is out of memory.  I did a reindex before all this, because when I first started node back up it kept getting stuck on the same block for a couple days. The node ran flawless for over a year. Ive tried all updates and autoremoves but i'm stuck here. I havent made any progress in 2 weeks. I don't know how to get into that folder and see and/or delete some of whats in there. Ive already got rid of the unneccasary programs like wolf and those other 2 to try to free up memory. what should i do? I would like to have my node back up and running. i'm lost here

hey everyone,
Ive been running my node without problems for a couple yrs. now with 0.16.3v I really want to verfiy my check sums. I ve been searching and can't find out how to do this.
My node runs on a raspberry pi3. Is there a way i can verify i'm running good software? thanks in advance for any help

hi everyone,

Ive been mining eth on ethmine. Hash rate and everything is showing up fine. However I can't make any changes to anything. When the box of the terms of service and usage pops up. I click "accept and close" it doesn't close. it's like stuck in a loop. I click it, it closes and pops back up immediately. Preventing my from moving past that. so Im unable to do anything really. Any ideas? Thank you

Thank you. This also helped me update my node