About Armory and the blockchain

[HCP]

BitcoinCore does find the blockchain in its custom location, but obviously Armor does not. I don't know why.

Because you have Bitcoin Core setup with it's data directory in a "custom" location... and have not told Armory (correctly) where that location is.

Can you please start Bitcoin Core, goto: "Help -> Debug Window -> Information" and tell us what the value of "Datadir" is:



That is the ACTUAL data directory that your instance of Bitcoin Core is currently using and is the path that needs to be added to your armoryqt.conf file


Also, I noticed that you have mentioned that you're using the "portable" version of both Armory and Bitcoin Core... however, they are not really "portable" (as they don't create data directories in the location they are run from)... instead they are probably better considered to be "standalone". They don't use an installer etc and you can just put them anywhere and run them, but due to the way these applications work, they will setup their data directories in "default" locations... like C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin and C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Armory, unless otherwise specified. I suspect this might be causing some issues with getting your .conf file read by Armory.

[jojo69]

^^ this

[DrakonX]

As already stated, the (custom) directory is "H:\Blockchain". (I simplified it due to recommendations of this thread. It's no longer "H:\Blockchain Core")
As already stated, Armory tells me being offline whether specifing the mentioned directory by the armoryqt.conf file or not. (Of cause whether H:\Blockchain Core nor H:\Blockchain worked.)
I'll give it one last try, installing the install versions of both Bitcoin Core and Armory.

Tell me one thing: Do I have to create a wallet before Armory tells me being online?

[jojo69]

it will use your existing wallets if it finds them, or prompt you to import them if it does not

[HCP]

Windows 10 right? I'm fairly confident that you will never get "online" until you add the following lines to your "bitcoin.conf" (should be in H:\Blockchain):

Code:

server=1
listen=1

No matter what I do, without listen=1, Armory will not show "online"... or it will show "online" but will not pickup new blocks...


Anyway, an armoryqt.conf file in "C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Armory" (assuming you left the Armory datadir as default) with:

Code:

satoshi-datadir="H:\Blockchain"

Should work nicely...

You'll also want to make sure that you're not running Armory from a shortcut that contains any command line arguments, otherwise they will override the values in the armoryqt.conf file.

And, I'd recommend removing the armorylog.txt and dbLog.txt files from "C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Armory", so that the ones being created are nice and fresh and will make troubleshooting easier

[DrakonX]

Code:

server=1
listen=1

Nice idea. If I do this and restart Bitcoin Core, it prompts me for letting bitcoinqt pass through my firewall which I allow. Armory still is offline.

[HCP]

Ok, so now that Bitcoin Core is running... and you've attempted to connect Armory to it, can you please post the current armorylog.txt file using pastebin.

We should now be able to get a better idea of why Armory is not connecting and make sure that it is looking in the right place for your blockchain data!

[DrakonX]

I welcome your step-by-step help.

https://pastebin.com/mqwVWEpv

Code:

2018-02-21 18:23:20 (ERROR) -- BDM.pyc:199 - DB error: C:\Users\Andreas\AppData\Roaming/Bitcoin/blocks is not a valid path

I suppose this line is the problem, but I'm not sure what it means and what I have to do.

[HCP]

Looking at your log file, it appears that you have reverted to an older version of ArmoryQT? "0.96.3" I'm not sure if that is causing the current issue... but I would suggest you go here: https://github.com/goatpig/BitcoinArmory/releases/ and download the "0.96.4 RC3" release, somewhat confusingly numbered "0.96.3.992".

The "standalone" version is named: armory_0.96.3.992_win64.zip (https://github.com/goatpig/BitcoinArmory/releases/download/v0.96.3.992/armory_0.96.3.992_win64.zip)


I really don't understand why, after the app has clearly been invoked with --satoshi-datadir, and it even says "Satoshi BTC directory : H:\Blockchain", it is looking in the default location. I *suspect* this might be an issue with the older version. Try doing the same thing with the latest version and lets see what errors we get in your armorylog.txt

[DrakonX]

That did the trick! It now tells me being online. Thank you so much, helping me out with it. This adresses to all of you.

[jojo69]

YES!!

I love it when it works