This should really be in the Technical Support section, but I do not have the forum permissions to do so.
I've been involved with bitcoin since the early days and now I've been struggling for WEEKS trying to get my bitcoin-qt client to sync.
I have a very good internet connection, 8GiB RAM, Quad-Core Processor × 4 CPU (64bit) and 1TiB HDD (only used 80GiB), originally using xubuntu with encrypted HDD . I have run the bitcoin-qt successfully for years. But in the last couple of months I have been struggling to sync the last little bit, after doing countless "-rescan" and "-reindex" nothing worked, even manually downloaded the blockchain on other system and copied the files to no end.
I ran "-checkblocks=0 -checklevel=6" and it said there where errors and was corrupted. After re-downloading the entire blockchain again multiple times, it still does not work.
I've since moved to Ubuntu 13.04 (not xubuntu) and with a non-encrypted HDD, and it worked!!
Only for a day or so and then it fails to sink the last 70 days or so. I've tried using a blank wallet and starting over but that didn’t work. I've tried installing from the PPA, didn't work. Tried running the bin manually (not from PPA), didn't work.
Here is my stack-exchange from a while back
http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/10003/bitcoin-qt-not-syncing-with-errors/ no solution found their either.
Please help! I don't want to have to move to an online wallet!
