Bitcoin-qt always reindexes blocks on startup [SOLVED]

[99Percent]

I have upgraded to Bitcoin Core version v0.13.0.0-ga402396 (64-bit) on Ubuntu 15.10

Everytime I start it, it will do a Reindexing of blocks on disk from the start. It takes about a day to do so and consumes a lot of CPU.

I patiently wait for it to finish before closing it down. But the next time I start it, it will again do the reindexing from start.

What could be the issue here?

TIA.

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[achow101]

Is it promoting you to reindex or does it just happen? If the latter, check whatever your are using to start bitcoin core that it doesn't have the -reindex option set.

[99Percent]

Is it promoting you to reindex or does it just happen? If the latter, check whatever your are using to start bitcoin core that it doesn't have the -reindex option set.

It just happens. I launch bitcoin-qt from the start menu in Xfce4. The .desktop is as follows:

Code:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Bitcoin
Comment=Bitcoin P2P Cryptocurrency
Comment[fr]=Bitcoin, monnaie virtuelle cryptographique pair à pair
Comment[tr]=Bitcoin, eşten eşe kriptografik sanal para birimi
Exec=bitcoin-qt %u
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=bitcoin128
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/bitcoin;
Categories=Office;Finance;

[achow101]

Interesting. Find the bitcoin.conf file if it exists. It should be in ~/.bitcoin if you didn't change the defaults. Make sure that there isn't something like

Code:

reindex=1

in there.

[99Percent]

Yeah, that was it. I edited the file commenting out the line.

I wonder what changed the bitcoin.conf that way though since I certainly didn't.