stuck or good?

[henknies1]

It looks like it is not good....is it?

It's rolling at the Build Database step, but the progress bar on Initializing is not complete...?

http://i57.tinypic.com/ouz6fm.png

Reset to factory and start all over ?

[ANON.PURGED]

It looks like it is not good....is it?

It's rolling at the Build Database step, but the progress bar on Initializing is not complete...?



Reset to factory and start all over ?

Probably stuck, But make sure you check it every 5-10 minutes, Once its not move means you have to reset it.

[achow101]

It is OK and not stuck. Armory can take a long time to load. Just keep it open and after a while (can take several hours) if will load and be usable. The more often you use it, the less time the startup should take.

[goatpig]

Shutdown Armory, start BitcoinQt manually and let it do it's thing. If it is fully synced and Armory is still stuck, I'll need to see a log file.

[henknies1]

you were right....it's now running (still  ) using bitcoin core. It's very very very slow and I'm not talking about hours but days with a I5 64bit 4GB ram.

But that doesnt matter, just wanted to say it worked out !

[n808]

Mine has been "stuck" like this for days - zero progress indication. Intel Core i5 2500K running at 4500Mhz, but it's not even using any CPU cycles, so who knows what it's doing.. I'll leave it a couple more days, then just give up.

EDIT: Started up Bitcoin Core GUI, at least it's showing some progress "Verifying blocks with a moving number". OK. Verification complete. Now one year and 24 weeks behind. Progress bar about 1/5th complete. I guess it will take some 2-3 more weeks to catch up. Pretty hopeless. Fortunately, what little I own in bitcons, is on coinbase. Doesn't seem viable to keep a wallet on home computer.

[Carlton Banks]

Mine has been "stuck" like this for days - zero progress indication. Intel Core i5 2500K running at 4500Mhz, but it's not even using any CPU cycles, so who knows what it's doing.. I'll leave it a couple more days, then just give up.

EDIT: Started up Bitcoin Core GUI, at least it's showing some progress "Verifying blocks with a moving number". OK. Verification complete. Now one year and 24 weeks behind. Progress bar about 1/5th complete. I guess it will take some 2-3 more weeks to catch up. Pretty hopeless.

it shouldn't take that long. 3 days would be the maximum, and you'd need to be using 2Mbit/s DSL to get something like that. It's basically a 50 GB download, but you're receiving it the pretty much the way bittorrrent does it, so it goes as fast as your connection. for 50 GB.

[n808]

Thanks - have 40 Mbps DSL download speeds. Bitcoin just now changed to one year and 23 weeks, and is actually moving forward. I am pretty sure my Armory was completely stuck and dead, but it's hard to tell, since there is no other visual progress than the slowly moving wheel.

[Carlton Banks]

Thanks - have 40 Mbps DSL download speeds. Bitcoin just now changed to one year and 23 weeks, and is actually moving forward. I am pretty sure my Bitcoin Armory was completely stuck and dead.

you won't have long to wait. 5-7 hours in total depending on the health of your download peers. Armory will take a further ~ 2 hours to get set up afterwards. Think about all the disk space (50GB for Core db, 50GB for Armory db)

[n808]

Great - thanks again! Once bitcoin core finishes, I'll try Armory again and see if I can figure out why it's not working, but not reporting any errors.

[n808]

Bitcoin Core finished overnight, and reports up-to-date.  However, Armory still refuses to get past the "Build databases" stage. I tried to submit a bug report - but it also failed. I am on Windows 10. Maybe that's why Armory no longer works.

[achow101]

Bitcoin Core finished overnight, and reports up-to-date.  However, Armory still refuses to get past the "Build databases" stage. I tried to submit a bug report - but it also failed. I am on Windows 10. Maybe that's why Armory no longer works.

Armory needs to build its own databases, and from a fresh sync, that will also take a long time. The first startup of Armory always takes ages but after that it should not take that long.

[Carlton Banks]

Bitcoin Core finished overnight, and reports up-to-date.  However, Armory still refuses to get past the "Build databases" stage. I tried to submit a bug report - but it also failed. I am on Windows 10. Maybe that's why Armory no longer works.

someone else had a perpetual 0% problem like this, Armory was looking in the wrong place for the Bitcoin Core database files. I'll see if I can find the thread and link you to it

[goatpig]

If it is fully synced and Armory is still stuck, I'll need to see a log file.

[n808]

Yes, Armory still stuck and Bitcoin Core fully synced. I have the log file. Will send PM.

[goatpig]

From your log file, it appears bitcoind is crashing when Armory is trying to start it. I guess it probably has something to do with permissions on the folder holding the binary (exec permission probably). That or the blockchain folder Armory passes as an argument is getting mangled somehow.

For now, turn off auto bitcoind management. To do so, start Armory, go to File -> Settings and uncheck the first checkbox (you should also to a Help -> Rebuild and Rescan for the good measure). Close Armory, start BitcoinQt manually, then start Armory again, it should pick up from there.

[n808]

That seems to be working. With Bitcoin Core running standalone, and synced, Armory spent a few minutes "Reading New Block Headers", then "Scan Transaction History".. Then "Building databases", for 20 minutes with progress moving. Now it's "Scanning Transaction History" - will take some 40 minutes. Awesome! Hopefully the root cause and messaging to end user about it can be figured out. Thanks for the help!!

[henknies1]

Oke, using bitcoinqt worked. Took ages but it worked. Started armory and after a while it worked, however...

Sometimes closing armory fails, I need to start bitcoinqt en try to close again.

Latest thing I'm having now: I start Armory and it seems suddenly stuck at organizing blockchain ?!

[doug_armory]

Oke, using bitcoinqt worked. Took ages but it worked. Started armory and after a while it worked, however...

Sometimes closing armory fails, I need to start bitcoinqt en try to close again.

Latest thing I'm having now: I start Armory and it seems suddenly stuck at organizing blockchain ?!

goatpig can correct me if I'm wrong but my understanding of this is that your blockchain is corrupt. Long story short, Bitcoin uses LevelDB to organize the blockchain, and LevelDB is a massive pile of junk. (Armory also used LevelDB from 0.90-0.92. 0.93 uses LMDB, which is much saner. Anyway....) LevelDB can be easily corrupted, especially on Windows. So, you may have to download the blockchain again and hope for the best. Again, goatpig can correct me if I'm wrong, and give you more specific advice.

[n808]

To make sure I understand.. Since I can't run bitcoind as a background process started from Armory, in order to keep an Armory wallet on my computer, I have to keep Bitcoin Core and Armory running side-by-side constantly..?

EDIT: any suggestions on trouble-shooting bitcoind crashing when started from Armory?