BitCoin stuck @ 93.27%

[Wild Billy]

I dl BC 0.7.1 yesterday and waited a few hours for the Green Bar to reach 100%. So I thought I was good to go.

Deposited some BCs today. When I loaded my client tonight it says it's out of sync, so I waited. But it never seems to get past 93.27% (194649), even though the block count (.dat) is climbing. I currently have 2 .dat files, #1 is 2GB and #2 is about 1.7GB and climbing. I tried a rescan, but this did not help at all.

Should I wait? Download the bootstrap.dat? How big should my .dat files be currently?

I'm on Windows if that matters. I also tried port forwarding; I had 54 connections at one point.

[MKEGuy]

For some reason it just takes a while sometimes, if you do a search there are some instructions on how to delete the file and download it again if you continue to have issues.

[Foxpup]

That's impossible. Block 194649 is from over 3 months ago. If your client was even close to 100% yesterday it would have already been way past block 194649. Something has clearly gone horribly wrong (especially if blk0002.dat is growing in size despite being stuck on block 194649). I'd suggest you close Bitcoin, wait for it fully shut down, then delete (or move to another folder, if you're worried about deleting things) blk0001.dat, blk0002.dat, and blkindex.dat, and then restart Bitcoin. This will force it to download the blockchain from scratch, which should fix any odd issues.

Also, while you're at it, you should backup your wallet.dat file if you haven't already, especially since you've already sent money to it. If anything happens to that file, your money's gone for good unless you have a backup. So back it up!

[deepceleron]

It is peculiar if the client is showing that the current block is only 194649 - at that block number,  blockchain blk000x.dat files would only be 2GB + 0.5GB. The size of the blockchain files you have is similar to a complete download (as you saw if the green "blocks remaining" bar disappeared once). Likely something has gone strange with your client.

The rescan option doesn't fix anything, you only need to use it if you have completed the blockchain download and suspect that your wallet balance is missing some payments.

The bootstrap.dat torrent file has blocks 0-193000, your client says you already have more blocks than that. When you hover your mouse over the bottom right icon, this tells you the current blockchain height, if that's where you are seeing something like "catching up...downloaded 194649 of 208730 blocks" and it's never increasing then your database likely has an error which prevents it from being read correctly. Opening and analyzing any errors near the end of the debug.log (in the Bitcoin data directory) will help discover the solution. Likely the fastest steps to get the blockchain database working again is to follow the steps at the end of this post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=122902.msg1323417#msg1323417 - you won't need to do any downloading with this procedure.

[Wild Billy]

It is peculiar if the client is showing that the current block is only 194649 - at that block number,  blockchain blk000x.dat files would only be 2GB + 0.5GB. The size of the blockchain files you have is similar to a complete download (as you saw if the green "blocks remaining" bar disappeared once). Likely something has gone strange with your client.

Thanks I started with a fresh bootstrap and all was looking good (less than 2k blocks remaining) then it jumped up to 14k remaining again and I'm still not past the magical 194649.

I should know in a few minutes how screwed I am.

[Wild Billy]

Still 92 days away and I'm seeing this crap in my error log again:

ERROR: FetchInputs() : 1159dd906d mempool Tx prev not found 6bcb5886b0
stored orphan tx 1159dd906d (mapsz 1511)
ERROR: FetchInputs() : 50ca72f3d8 mempool Tx prev not found a78e99f213
stored orphan tx 50ca72f3d8 (mapsz 1512)
getblocks 101519 to 00000000000000000000 limit 500
  getblocks stopping at limit 102018 00000000000137e0915b
received block 0000000000000403d0b1

I was getting this before, but the new try looked good, except for the end of the chain.

[deepceleron]

Those are normal errors, associated with relaying p2p transactions for others while not having a complete blockchain. The post I linked to has "bad" errors. Keep in mind that when importing a bootstrap.dat file (like if you use the torrent, it will only import 189xxx blocks)the rest of the blocks still come from the network. After Bitcoin connects to other network clients after importing, it will slowly learn and trust the answer from others of how many blocks total there actually are. As long as the blockchain is increasing (there may be periods of over a minute without the block count going up, some blocks are big) then you are doing fine.

This is how many blocks there are right now: http://blockexplorer.com/q/getblockcount

[hardcore-fs]

Nope , it is the 0.7.1 client, it really sucks ass, it can take upto a day to sync when it is first installed.
Kept reporting the client process had hung, but in reality the app is badly designed and does not relinquish control of threads, so the OS thinks it has crashed.

And the "Not in sync" every time you power it up, is also normal, it can take upto an hour for every day it is off, allowing it to make more connections to the outside world will sometimes speed it up.

But since it needs to validate and check each block transaction, what do you expect?

[Wild Billy]

This is how many blocks there are right now: http://blockexplorer.com/q/getblockcount

Green bar is gone, but I'm still out of sync and the Swirl says I'm at block 204500 and 28 days away. At least it's getting closer, but blockcount shows only 189414 blocks out there?

[hardcore-fs]

This is how many blocks there are right now: http://blockexplorer.com/q/getblockcount

Green bar is gone, but I'm still out of sync and the Swirl says I'm at block 204500 and 28 days away. At least it's getting closer, but blockcount shows only 189414 blocks out there?

What you can do now...., is shut the client down and then restart it, so that it can save the results of what it has found

My current block on 0.7.1 is showing:

current no: 208729
estimate: 193000
The website above: 191293

and yes....... it still sucks bad on startup ,even its only been off for 6 hours.

[Foxpup]

Green bar is gone, but I'm still out of sync and the Swirl says I'm at block 204500 and 28 days away. At least it's getting closer, but blockcount shows only 189414 blocks out there?

If it's getting closer, it's all good. All you have to do is wait.

This is how many blocks there are right now: http://blockexplorer.com/q/getblockcount

No it isn't. Blockexplorer.com hasn't been working right for... I can't even remember how long. Use http://blockchain.info/q/getblockcount instead.

[deepceleron]

No it isn't. Blockexplorer.com hasn't been working right for... I can't even remember how long.

It was correct when I posted, looks like it's broken now (it's showing 196298 now).