Can't get armory online

[traincarswreck]

I was trying with a different comp, ubuntu and old computer, and couldn't get armory online.  It would just stalling at scanning transactions etc.

I copied the blockchain data to a PC and have been trying with win10.  Core seems to be fine with the block chain data (armory is reading it initially as well).

I don't think my log errors are consistent:

(latest one)

2017-12-06 13:44:53 (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:4670 - Dashboard switched to "Scanning" mode
2017-12-06 13:45:17 (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:4670 - Dashboard switched to "Scanning" mode
2017-12-06 13:45:40 (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:4670 - Dashboard switched to "Scanning" mode
2017-12-06 13:45:57 (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:4670 - Dashboard switched to "Scanning" mode
2017-12-06 13:47:25 (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:4670 - Dashboard switched to "Scanning" mode
2017-12-06 21:39:54 (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:5445 - BDM state is scanning -- force shutdown BDM
2017-12-06 21:39:54 (INFO) -- SDM.pyc:459 - Called stopBitcoind
2017-12-06 21:39:54 (WARNING) -- SDM.pyc:509 - bitcoind exited, bitcoind STDOUT:
2017-12-06 21:39:54 (WARNING) -- SDM.pyc:511 -
2017-12-06 21:39:54 (WARNING) -- SDM.pyc:512 - bitcoind exited, bitcoind STDERR:
2017-12-06 21:39:54 (WARNING) -- SDM.pyc:514 -
2017-12-06 21:39:54 (INFO) -- SDM.pyc:465 - ...but bitcoind is not running, to be able to stop

Obviously trying not to have to dl the blockchain again. I have unchecked "Let Armory run Bitcoin core in the background" and I start core first (using a shortcut to the gui wallet version) and then armory.

I reinstalled with the newest versions of armory I could find: 0.96.0 0.95.1 for win64 bit

Any help appreciated thx!

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[HCP]

Then you didn't look very hard for the real latest version of Bitcoin Armory... Try the sticky thread at the top of the thread listings on this board titled: "0.96.4 RC1"

[traincarswreck]

Ya well i was looking on the armory webiste, hard!

I downloaded what I guess is the link, although its 96.3.99 not 96.4

I unzipped to a fold on my c: tree and unzipped a "library" zip folder.  

then I let core catch up again and opened armoryqt file.  

Its syncing...

Cheers.

[droark]

0.96.3.99 is 0.96.4 RC1.

[traincarswreck]

It sitting on "ArmoryQt.py:4673 - Dashboard switched to "Scanning" mode" the timestamps were updating every few minutes in the armorylog.  But now they haven't updated for about 30 minutes....

[Aegean Skipper]

I also had some troubles in getting armony on line
i will tell you what worked for me hoping to get fixed because its a good wallet

install the last version of the bitcoin core wallet, the official one and let it sync the entire blockchain.
it has to be fully updated.

leave the core wallet open and open also armony. wait for all checking staff and it has to get online

[traincarswreck]

Ok, armory says online.  connected (25035 blocks) in purple.  I've imported an old key but there are no transactions on it. I should have a key with transactions and I think this is my only armory key I had.  How often do blocks increase, its been about 30 mins with no change?  thoughts?!

[PhoenixFire]

Ok, armory says online.  connected (25035 blocks) in purple.  I've imported an old key but there are no transactions on it. I should have a key with transactions and I think this is my only armory key I had.  How often do blocks increase, its been about 30 mins with no change?  thoughts?!

Purple means the node RPC is not available. The bigger problem seems to be that you are ~470k blocks behind. Current block count is 498,147.
If you open bitcoin core, go to help > Debug Window. From there, on the "Information" tab look for "Current number of blocks" - what number is there?

Edit: And if your coins/transactions are more recent than 15th October 2009, they aren't going to appear without more blocks.

[traincarswreck]

498175 block confirmed in core and still 25035 in armory.  To be clear thats 25k. and still purple. I deleted "databases" in appdata>>Roaming and restarted and same thing

[PhoenixFire]

498175 block confirmed in core and still 25035 in armory.  To be clear thats 25k. and still purple. I deleted "databases" in appdata>>Roaming and restarted and same thing

Narrows it down a bit, thanks.
In Armory, have you tried Help > Rebuild and Rescan Databases ?
Hopefully it won't choke this time round. It does take a while to build the db from fresh.

To deal with the purple connected, you either need to add "-server" to your bitcoin core shortcut or "server=1" to a bitcoin.conf file in the bitcoin core data directory (i.e. usually on the same level as mempool.dat, peers.dat and so on). Will need to restart core for that to take effect.

[traincarswreck]

No luck and I'm pretty sure I deleted the database not from armory but from the bitcoin folder, maybe thats the problem (ie I could re copy it from the ubuntu drive). 

Running core with this target: "C:\Program Files\Bitcoin\bitcoin-qt.exe" -server

Armory is saying it will rebuild on restart but its not.  I guess delete the armory data folder, maybe reboot and try again.

Connected WAS burgundy and is now back to purple

[HCP]

It seems like Armory can't find your blocks folder... Did you configure Bitcoin Core to use a custom data directory? Or is it running from C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin ?

If it's in a custom directory... Did you configure Armory with the correct path?

Can you post the full logs? Please use Pastebin (Don't paste the log text into a post here) and post the Pastebin link here

[traincarswreck]

Yes I configured core to work from an external drive ie g:\bitcoin and I did the same for armory.  I think we can be confident core is reading and writing to the proper place.  I have armory unchecked in regard to controlling bitcoind etc which greys out the ability to control where armory sees the blockchain (g:\bitcoin etc) but i think i tried it both way (check and not checked).

I don't know what you want with the log file.  it is too big to fit into past bin. 

I pasted the info from the last ********************* line

And didn't copy all the repeated lines.

I just copied the folder "bitcoin" from the ubuntu drive and set my pc to read off an external hd. Which seems to be working. Armory is stuck 300k blocks or something though. I think I might retry getting the bitcoin folder from the ubuntu drive.  I might have deleted something from the bitcoin folder?

[HCP]

 the Armory log will show exactly where it is looking for your blocks and how it is invoking armoryDB... the armory db log will allow us to see if armoryDB has any problems reading the blocks etc... without this information we have no idea what exactly your issue is.

posting the last 10 lines of the log doesn't help at all... if they're too big for pastebin, delete your log files, start Armory again and then post the new logs via pastebin.

[traincarswreck]

thank you for your patience, I meant to give this link: https://pastebin.com/3Ec5C907

It isn't every line from the log because every line is too big.  I think its the last log and I took out the repeated lines.  I'll try to run armory again in the meantime and if i haven't provide the proper log text I'll do that too if I need to give more.

[HCP]

That log looks pretty "clean"... it shows that it is using your G:\Bitcoin directory (or at least it is attempting to use it)... can you post the dbLog.txt as well? Given the lack of obvious issues with the Armory log... I suspect that is where the issue lies.

[traincarswreck]

https://pastebin.com/b0F9F104

I grabbed the end of the "debug" file from the g: bitcoin folder.  Not sure if thats what you mean.  I didn't think I was running core at the time of the timestamps earlier this morning, but i could be mistaken.

I noticed its being remotely closed, is that normal?  Perhaps my isp feels I used to much bandwith or something?

[traincarswreck]

Ah that wasn't what we were looking for.  This is it: https://pastebin.com/sYN1mSJj

I pasted i think the last log and part of the previous one.

[HCP]

Not sure what this is all about:

-INFO  - 23:03:38.359: (..\DatabaseBuilder.cpp:281) parsed block file #305
-ERROR - 23:03:40.391: (..\BlockDataMap.cpp:80) merkle root mismatch!
-ERROR - 23:03:40.391: (..\BlockDataMap.cpp:81)    header has: eadfc47c1fe18ab807c5fd9fb639a884444f6498bc961c6f441e025ddf4e651f
-ERROR - 23:03:40.391: (..\BlockDataMap.cpp:82)    block yields: f3fcdb492d17dbee00b9fb579fff5900136b20bc5d41e700565fbd14c5711a6e
-ERROR - 23:03:40.391: (..\DatabaseBuilder.cpp:366) block deser except: invalid merkle root
-ERROR - 23:03:40.391: (..\DatabaseBuilder.cpp:367) block fileID: 306
-INFO  - 23:03:40.391: (..\DatabaseBuilder.cpp:493) Found next block after skipping 665600bytes

It might be that your bitcoin blocks are corrupt? You might need to shutdown Armory and start Bitcoin Core using -reindex, wait for that to finish and sync up, then delete the Armory databases and let Armory try rebuilding it's database again... If that still doesn't fix it, you might be looking at having to redo your entire blockchain

[traincarswreck]

Its reindexing @30% ish right now, so a couple days.... cheers.