Please Help Test Armory 0.91-beta!

[kerogre256]

Ok  its working now look like problem was with old 32 bit bitcoin-qt client 8.5   after removing it from C:\Program Files (x86)\Bitcoin\daemon\bitcoind.exe armory started to scan DB.

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[spin]

Installed this on a Ubuntu system and Win7 system (both 64bit).

The default installation gave me announcements on the ubuntu version but nothing on the Win7 version.

[etotheipi]

Installed this on a Ubuntu system and Win7 system (both 64bit).

The default installation gave me announcements on the ubuntu version but nothing on the Win7 version.

Strange.  Does the announcement tab similar show nothing on Win7?  Or you just didn't get the popups?  There should be some messages in the logfile that start with "announcefetch.py".  Right now the first URL always fails, the second one [should] always succeed.

[spin]

Installed this on a Ubuntu system and Win7 system (both 64bit).

The default installation gave me announcements on the ubuntu version but nothing on the Win7 version.

Strange.  Does the announcement tab similar show nothing on Win7?  Or you just didn't get the popups?  There should be some messages in the logfile that start with "announcefetch.py".  Right now the first URL always fails, the second one [should] always succeed.

Code:

2014-03-23 00:55 (INFO) -- announcefetch.pyc:249 - Fetching: https://bitcoinarmory.com/announce.txt?ver=0.90.99.4
2014-03-23 00:55 (ERROR) -- announcefetch.pyc:261 - Specified URL was inaccessible
2014-03-23 00:55 (ERROR) -- announcefetch.pyc:262 - Tried: https://bitcoinarmory.com/announce.txt?ver=0.90.99.4
2014-03-23 00:55 (INFO) -- announcefetch.pyc:249 - Fetching: https://s3.amazonaws.com/bitcoinarmory-media/announce.txt?ver=0.90.99.4
2014-03-23 01:16 (INFO) -- announcefetch.pyc:367 - Forcing announce data fetch
2014-03-23 01:16 (INFO) -- announcefetch.pyc:249 - Fetching: https://bitcoinarmory.com/announce.txt?ver=0.90.99.4
2014-03-23 01:16 (ERROR) -- announcefetch.pyc:261 - Specified URL was inaccessible
2014-03-23 01:16 (ERROR) -- announcefetch.pyc:262 - Tried: https://bitcoinarmory.com/announce.txt?ver=0.90.99.4
2014-03-23 01:16 (INFO) -- announcefetch.pyc:249 - Fetching: https://s3.amazonaws.com/bitcoinarmory-media/announce.txt?ver=0.90.99.4
2014-03-23 01:20 (INFO) -- announcefetch.pyc:367 - Forcing announce data fetch
2014-03-23 01:20 (INFO) -- announcefetch.pyc:249 - Fetching: https://bitcoinarmory.com/announce.txt?ver=0.90.99.4
2014-03-23 01:20 (ERROR) -- announcefetch.pyc:261 - Specified URL was inaccessible
2014-03-23 01:20 (ERROR) -- announcefetch.pyc:262 - Tried: https://bitcoinarmory.com/announce.txt?ver=0.90.99.4
2014-03-23 01:20 (INFO) -- announcefetch.pyc:249 - Fetching: https://s3.amazonaws.com/bitcoinarmory-media/announce.txt?ver=0.90.99.4
2014-03-23 01:25 (INFO) -- announcefetch.pyc:367 - Forcing announce data fetch
2014-03-23 01:25 (INFO) -- announcefetch.pyc:249 - Fetching: https://bitcoinarmory.com/announce.txt?ver=0.90.99.4
2014-03-23 01:25 (ERROR) -- announcefetch.pyc:261 - Specified URL was inaccessible
2014-03-23 01:25 (ERROR) -- announcefetch.pyc:262 - Tried: https://bitcoinarmory.com/announce.txt?ver=0.90.99.4
2014-03-23 01:25 (INFO) -- announcefetch.pyc:249 - Fetching: https://s3.amazonaws.com/bitcoinarmory-media/announce.txt?ver=0.90.99.4

[spin]

On windows it shows: There are no announcements or alerts to display. (Under notifications).  
On ubuntu it has 3 notifications.

Also some transaction tags have disappeared (same ones from both wallets).  1 wallet is watching only and the other is full.

[spin]

Nevermind on restart windows had notifications as well.

[simonk83]

I'm getting this:

Code:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "armoryqt.py", line 38, in <module>
    from PyQt4.QtCore import *
ImportError: No module named PyQt4.QtCore

The previous version worked fine so not sure what that's about.  Don't really know how to fix it either...

Anything I can try here?

[idoB]

Any help ?

The log file you posted indicated that bitcoind had a problem (unspecified error). Try this:

• Start bitcoin-qt and let it connect and syncronize fully. If it can't for some reason, there's no point starting Armory - your problem is in bitcoin-qt not being able to connect. BTW, if you don't have the latest version - 0.9 - now's a good time to upgrade.
• If it syncs, start Armory. It would complain that bitcoin-qt is running and ask to stop it. Instead, go to File-settings and clear the checkbox 'let Armory run bitcoind'
• Close Armory and start it again and let's see what happens

[Brangdon]

I've just installed 0.90.99.4 on netbook that I intend to become an offline wallet, and it doesn't seem to run. Clicking the desktop icon, ArmoryQT.exe shows up momentarily in Task Manager, and then disappears again. The notebook is an Asus Eee PC 701 running XP SP3 and not much else. The screen is (faked) 800x600 and there's no network driver; it's a pretty minimal configuration. I've tried adding "--offline", and also giving it an explicit logfile path in the command line, and it doesn't seem to get as far as creating it. I've tried rebooting the machine.

Hmm. Looking in the Program Files directory, there's a file "ArmoryQt.exe" that's only 1k long, and claimed by Windows to be a text file. It contains lines like "(ERROR) BDM.pyc:1122 - Resetting BDM and all wallets". There is also a file "ArmoryQt" (no extension) that's 251k long. Weird.

I previously installed it on my Win 8.1 desktop and that seemed fine. I'm using the Windows installer, from the first post in this thread. Scanning this thread, I seem to be the first person to mention using XP. Lucky me.

Edit: I've now uninstalled it and tried the old 0.88.1 instead. That runs up fine, so I guess the netbook is capable. (I've not actually created a wallet with it as I'd rather use the new version with the improved randomness.)

[goatpig]

I've just installed 0.90.99.4 on netbook that I intend to become an offline wallet, and it doesn't seem to run. Clicking the desktop icon, ArmoryQT.exe shows up momentarily in Task Manager, and then disappears again. The notebook is an Asus Eee PC 701 running XP SP3 and not much else. The screen is (faked) 800x600 and there's no network driver; it's a pretty minimal configuration. I've tried adding "--offline", and also giving it an explicit logfile path in the command line, and it doesn't seem to get as far as creating it. I've tried rebooting the machine.

Hmm. Looking in the Program Files directory, there's a file "ArmoryQt.exe" that's only 1k long, and claimed by Windows to be a text file. It contains lines like "(ERROR) BDM.pyc:1122 - Resetting BDM and all wallets". There is also a file "ArmoryQt" (no extension) that's 251k long. Weird.

I previously installed it on my Win 8.1 desktop and that seemed fine. I'm using the Windows installer, from the first post in this thread. Scanning this thread, I seem to be the first person to mention using XP. Lucky me.

Edit: I've now uninstalled it and tried the old 0.88.1 instead. That runs up fine, so I guess the netbook is capable. (I've not actually created a wallet with it as I'd rather use the new version with the improved randomness.)

Try it with --test-announce, then without.

[Brangdon]

--test-announce with/without made no difference.

(Ignore what I wrote earlier about the weird files. Windows was hiding the file extensions. That's what you get from using a freshly-formatted machine; I should know better. The ArmoryQt.exe.log file hasn't been modified since February.)

[goatpig]

In your Armory data folder, do you have this folder: atisignedannounce ?

[digipl]

All OK. Is the first 0.90.XX.X version who doesn't freeze in my computer. (windows 7 64 bits).

Very fast to scan and much, much less memory.

very good work....

[etotheipi]

Try it with --test-announce, then without.

--test-announce is became irrelevant once I published the high-security-signed announcements.  Running with and without it should be identical.

If anything, run with --skip-announce-check to prevent any announcement stuff from happening.  But I suspect it's something else -- I'm pretty sure the announcement stuff fails gracefully. 

If Armory shows up in the task manager briefly, it's probably opening the log file and dumping errors before quitting.  You need to look at the log that it wrote to:

C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Armory\armorylog.txt


Btw, about the filenames in the program files directory:  it's because you don't have file extensions shown.  That directory has files "ArmoryQt.exe.txt" and "ArmoryQt.exe".  But when you haven't told Windows to explicitly show you extensions, they chop off the .txt and .exe respectively in the file browser.  So the text file looks like a .exe and the .txt looks like no extension...

That just made me realize you could probably fool someone even moderately tech savvy, by giving them a file.txt.exe and they might double-click on without thinking, since it's "obviously" a txt file...

[Brangdon]

If Armory shows up in the task manager briefly, it's probably opening the log file and dumping errors before quitting.  You need to look at the log that it wrote to:

C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Armory\armorylog.txt

There's no Users folder on this XP machine. There is "C:\Documents and settings\<user>\Application Data\Armory\armory.exe.log.txt", but it's left over from the 0.8.8.1 install. It has data from two runs; the second one begins with:

2014-03-23 20:22 (INFO) -- armoryengine.pyc:816 - Loading Armory Engine:
2014-03-23 20:22 (INFO) -- armoryengine.pyc:817 -    Armory Version        : 0.88.1
2014-03-23 20:22 (INFO) -- armoryengine.pyc:818 -    PyBtcWallet  Version  : 1.35
2014-03-23 20:22 (INFO) -- armoryengine.pyc:819 - Detected Operating system: Windows
2014-03-23 20:22 (INFO) -- armoryengine.pyc:820 -    OS Variant            : XP-5.1.2600-SP3-Uniprocessor Free
2014-03-23 20:22 (INFO) -- armoryengine.pyc:821 -    User home-directory   : C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Application Data
2014-03-23 20:22 (INFO) -- armoryengine.pyc:822 -    Satoshi BTC directory : C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Application Data\Bitcoin\
2014-03-23 20:22 (INFO) -- armoryengine.pyc:823 -    First blk*.dat file   : C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Application Data\Bitcoin\blocks\blk0001.dat
2014-03-23 20:22 (INFO) -- armoryengine.pyc:824 -    Armory home dir       : C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Application Data\Armory\
2014-03-23 20:22 (INFO) -- armoryengine.pyc:825 - Detected System Specs    :
2014-03-23 20:22 (INFO) -- armoryengine.pyc:826 -    Total Available RAM   : 0.49 GB
2014-03-23 20:22 (INFO) -- armoryengine.pyc:827 -    CPU ID string         : x86 Family 6 Model 13 Stepping 8, GenuineIntel
2014-03-23 20:22 (INFO) -- armoryengine.pyc:828 -    Number of CPU cores   : 1 cores
2014-03-23 20:22 (INFO) -- armoryengine.pyc:829 -    System is 64-bit      : False
2014-03-23 20:22 (INFO) -- armoryengine.pyc:830 -    Preferred Encoding    : cp1252
I can post the whole thing if it would help. It's about 16k.

--skip-announce-check made no difference.

[goatpig]

If Armory shows up in the task manager briefly, it's probably opening the log file and dumping errors before quitting.  You need to look at the log that it wrote to:

C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Armory\armorylog.txt

There's no Users folder on this XP machine. There is "C:\Documents and settings\<user>\Application Data\Armory\armory.exe.log.txt", but it's left over from the 0.8.8.1 install. It has data from two runs; the second one begins with:

2014-03-23 20:22 (INFO) -- armoryengine.pyc:816 - Loading Armory Engine:
2014-03-23 20:22 (INFO) -- armoryengine.pyc:817 -    Armory Version        : 0.88.1
2014-03-23 20:22 (INFO) -- armoryengine.pyc:818 -    PyBtcWallet  Version  : 1.35
2014-03-23 20:22 (INFO) -- armoryengine.pyc:819 - Detected Operating system: Windows
2014-03-23 20:22 (INFO) -- armoryengine.pyc:820 -    OS Variant            : XP-5.1.2600-SP3-Uniprocessor Free
2014-03-23 20:22 (INFO) -- armoryengine.pyc:821 -    User home-directory   : C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Application Data
2014-03-23 20:22 (INFO) -- armoryengine.pyc:822 -    Satoshi BTC directory : C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Application Data\Bitcoin\
2014-03-23 20:22 (INFO) -- armoryengine.pyc:823 -    First blk*.dat file   : C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Application Data\Bitcoin\blocks\blk0001.dat
2014-03-23 20:22 (INFO) -- armoryengine.pyc:824 -    Armory home dir       : C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Application Data\Armory\
2014-03-23 20:22 (INFO) -- armoryengine.pyc:825 - Detected System Specs    :
2014-03-23 20:22 (INFO) -- armoryengine.pyc:826 -    Total Available RAM   : 0.49 GB
2014-03-23 20:22 (INFO) -- armoryengine.pyc:827 -    CPU ID string         : x86 Family 6 Model 13 Stepping 8, GenuineIntel
2014-03-23 20:22 (INFO) -- armoryengine.pyc:828 -    Number of CPU cores   : 1 cores
2014-03-23 20:22 (INFO) -- armoryengine.pyc:829 -    System is 64-bit      : False
2014-03-23 20:22 (INFO) -- armoryengine.pyc:830 -    Preferred Encoding    : cp1252
I can post the whole thing if it would help. It's about 16k.

--skip-announce-check made no difference.

Essentially we need the end of the file, like the last 200 lines or so. Pastebin it and post the link here.

[Brangdon]

The whole file is at http://pastebin.com/H6q6RHQE. As I said, I'm pretty sure it is all from 0.88.1 that works, not from 0.90.99.4 that fails to run.

[goatpig]

That's enough information to know where to look at.

[etotheipi]

That's enough information to know where to look at.

Is it?  I don't see any attempts to open 0.90.99.X in that log file.   

Also, is it correct it's on a system with 512 MB of RAM?    Are you trying to run this online?  That might be challenging, regardless of the reason it's not loading.  Also, I notice it is XP -- has anyone else confirmed that the testing version runs on XP?

[Brangdon]

Also, is it correct it's on a system with 512 MB of RAM?

Yes.

Are you trying to run this online?

No. As I said in my first post, this is intended to be an offline wallet, using a cheap netbook running XP.

I tried using Process Monitor. That suggests Armory:

• Successfully finds _CppBlockUtils.pyd
• Fails to find registry key HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop\MultiUILanguageId
• Fails to find _CppBlockUtils.pyd.2.Manifest
• Closes CppBlockUtils.pyd
• Fails to find ArmoryQt.pyc
• Fails to find ALL.pyc
• Fails to find ArmoryUtils.pyc
• Fails to find CppBlockUtils.pyc
• Closes various files and registry keys and exits.

That makes me wonder if some .pyc components are missing.