Hi all, it's now my turn to ask for help around this infamous symptom.
Side note: Huge thanks to goatpig for maintaining this amazing software! I can't begin to imagine how hard it must be to be the only maintainer of a widely used critical piece of software. Please don't burn yourself out.
I installed Armory 0.96.3 and Bitcoin 0.15.0.1 on an Ubuntu 16.04 system, and let Bitcoin download the entire blockchain (using `bin/bitcoin-qt`, it took a few days and downloaded 149 GB to my hard drive. Phew!)
Then I tried to start Armory, but I don't think I've ever got past the infamous "Organizing Blockchain" step that goes on forever (side note: If I understand things correctly, Armory added this horribly slow step in order not to copy over the entire blockchain. Personally, I was happy with the duplicated blockchain from before, because it was fast and I have disk space).
I've read through many posts describing similar issues, and tried various things, but to no avail. One workaround had an interesting result though:
- I ran `bin/bitcoin-qt` on its own, letting it sync.
- I then ran the ArmoryDB command line on its own (without starting Armory itself):
> ArmoryDB --db-type="DB_FULL" --cookie --satoshi-datadir="/home/user/.bitcoin/blocks" --datadir="/home/user/.armory/" --dbdir="/home/user/.armory/databases"
This command printed a bunch of "parsed block file #<number>", and then nothing at all for a very long time (20h or so), and then it seemed to have finished. I got excited, killed the process, and started Armory itself, but it seemed to start re-processing every block from the beginning, and got stuck on "Organizing Blockchain" again.
I've now let it run for more than 24h, in `htop` I see two `ArmoryDB` processes running at 100% CPU (one says 21h26 and the other 22h08), but nothing else seems to be happening (side note: I have 8 cores available, is there a way to make ArmoryDB use more than 2 cores?)
- Here is my (entire*) dbLog.txt:
https://colle.delire.party/?c59b5393c5cb4ab6#0sJLcMSUkQ08kSq93tczo7ENOVaWxB+kxr/+liBjzjY=- Here is my (entire) armorycpplog.txt:
https://colle.delire.party/?4037db3d7ab7ad31#lTv0nOL01fjpjPmLUqv7GUcKifLUc68z+Qs/47h8DRo=- Here is my (entire*) armorylog.txt:
https://colle.delire.party/?52d01a402310804a#tVayjf1EAnBdt7HiBrg3ehCjv/uIJSmom+SO6zV8+DU=(* as you can see, I've run Armory many times. I'm pasting the entire log in case it helps troubleshoot my issue and/or reveal other issues)
Could you please help me resolve this issue? I'd love to be able to 1) get past the "Organizing Blockchain" step in order to use Armory, and 2) hopefully not get stuck 24h+ on this step every time I run the software.
Thanks!