Please Help Test Armory 0.91-beta!

[mattbit]

Since a week ago, Armory is constantly crashing at 23% when scanning transaction history.  I was using the previous stable release and tried upgrading to the beta version but it's still happening.  Here is the log:

....

Code:

-INFO  - 1396656713: (BlockUtils.cpp:4503) Processed 1 raw blocks DB (0 seconds)
-INFO  - 1396656713: (BlockUtils.cpp:4535) Starting scan from block height: 0
-ERROR - 1396656927: (StoredBlockObj.cpp:1082) Cannot get tx copy, because don't have full StoredTx!

Haven't seen this one in a while, but we think it's caused by building your DB with the old version and corrupt blk*.dat files from Bitcoin Core.  Since your DB is already built, you need to rebuild it with the new version.  We'd love to know if this fixes your problem -- because we actually haven't run into the "don't-have-full-tx" problem on any of our own systems before, so we can't test whether we fixed it!

So please use "Help"->Rebuild & Rescan Databases.  With some luck that fixes it.  If not, I recommend you do a factory reset and redownload the blockchain (because this is ultimately caused by bad blk*.dat files which will only be fixed with a redownload).  With the new bittorrent stuff, it's a heck of a lot faster than it used to be!

Thanks.  It looks like this worked.  I moved the blockchain files to another partition as my hard drive space was filling up.  Perhaps during the copy some files got corrupted.

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[_r2h]

Any issues reported with the torrent download not working?  Log reveals

2014-04-18 16:23 (ERROR) -- torrentDL.pyc:303 - piece 7984 failed hash check, re-downloading it
None
2014-04-18 16:23 (ERROR) -- torrentDL.pyc:303 - piece 7984 failed hash check, re-downloading it

for hours on end.

[etotheipi]

Any issues reported with the torrent download not working?  Log reveals

2014-04-18 16:23 (ERROR) -- torrentDL.pyc:303 - piece 7984 failed hash check, re-downloading it
None
2014-04-18 16:23 (ERROR) -- torrentDL.pyc:303 - piece 7984 failed hash check, re-downloading it

for hours on end.

This is the first report we've heard of problems with torrent.  It's been pretty reliable so far.

It sounds like there's a corrupt block in the file being downloaded, and it's not recovering.  I would close Armory, go into the Bitcoin homedir (C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin or /home/<user>/.bitcoin) and remove bootstrap.dat.partial and/or bootstrap.dat.  Armory will restart the download next time you start it.

[_r2h]

Any issues reported with the torrent download not working?  Log reveals

2014-04-18 16:23 (ERROR) -- torrentDL.pyc:303 - piece 7984 failed hash check, re-downloading it
None
2014-04-18 16:23 (ERROR) -- torrentDL.pyc:303 - piece 7984 failed hash check, re-downloading it

for hours on end.

This is the first report we've heard of problems with torrent.  It's been pretty reliable so far.

It sounds like there's a corrupt block in the file being downloaded, and it's not recovering.  I would close Armory, go into the Bitcoin homedir (C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin or /home/<user>/.bitcoin) and remove bootstrap.dat.partial and/or bootstrap.dat.  Armory will restart the download next time you start it.

I attempted a couple more times, always failed to sync a single block.  Just downloaded another torrent of the blockchain and it recovered just fine.  Armory is currently rebuilding it's database.  Not really sure what the issue was.

[chadwickx16]

using armory .91 windows 7 x64 system. Receiving this error - dont think it completes downloading the block chain whne it springs up.

Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library

Runtime Error!

This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.
Please contact the applications support team for more information.


been getting this for  a while now - tried the updates, bitcoin updates too, reinstalled the c++ libraries no effect can anyone help out or point me in right direction please.

Getting this same error when building the database. I have done "Rebuild and Rescan Databases" after I received the C++ Error, now Armory crashes immediately upon opening in "Online Mode" works in "Offline Mode".

I have upgraded to Bitcoin Core, and am in the process of reinstalling the C++ Libraries.

Any other suggestions please?

Thanks!
Chad

EDIT: Had corrupted blocks in Bitcoin Core. Problem solved.

[Klazzik]

Hi,

I'm running Armory-0.91 on Linux, and it crashes after it finishes synchronizing with the network. Once it starts 'Building Databases' I see a 'Connected 0 blocks' at the bottom then it shuts down.

Edit: it used to work fine a couple days ago.

Edit #2: I was going to try to rebuild the database using Help > Rebuild and Rescan Databases but I don't even have a Help menu, not even that menu at the top. Is this supposed to be only on Windows clients? I don't remember ever having this!

[goatpig]

Hi,

I'm running Armory-0.91 on Linux, and it crashes after it finishes synchronizing with the network. Once it starts 'Building Databases' I see a 'Connected 0 blocks' at the bottom then it shuts down.

Edit: it used to work fine a couple days ago.

Edit #2: I was going to try to rebuild the database using Help > Rebuild and Rescan Databases but I don't even have a Help menu, not even that menu at the top. Is this supposed to be only on Windows clients? I don't remember ever having this!

What distro are you using?

[7queue]

Is this pop-up message legit?

Your version of Armory is now outdated. Please upgrade to version 0.91.1 through our secure downloader inside Armory (link at the bottom of this notification window). Alternatively, you can get the new version from our website downloads page at:

https://bitcoinarmory.com/download/#ubuntu

I pull from git for both bitcoind and Armory, I don't see this version in git repository?

Loading Armory Engine:
   Armory Version:       0.91
   PyBtcWallet  Version: 1.35
Detected Operating system: Linux
   OS Variant            : ('Ubuntu', '14.04', 'trusty')
 
* remote origin
  Fetch URL: git://github.com/etotheipi/BitcoinArmory.git
  Push  URL: git://github.com/etotheipi/BitcoinArmory.git
  HEAD branch: master
  Remote branches:
    0.88                                            tracked
    0.91-dev                                        tracked
    .
    .
  Local branch configured for 'git pull':
    master merges with remote master
  Local ref configured for 'git push':
    master pushes to master (up to date)

bitcoind 0.9.1

* remote origin
  Fetch URL: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.git
  Push  URL: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.git
  HEAD branch: master
  Remote branches:
    .
    .
    0.9.1         tracked
    blockheaders  tracked
    freenode-verf tracked
    master        tracked
  Local branch configured for 'git pull':
    0.9.1 merges with remote 0.9.1
  Local ref configured for 'git push':
    0.9.1 pushes to 0.9.1 (up to date)

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[etotheipi]

Yes, we just pushed the new version 0.91.1.  It's actually on the testing branch, haven't merged it into master yet.   But there is a signed tag for it:

https://github.com/etotheipi/BitcoinArmory/tree/v0.91.1

[PRab]

I just used the secure downloader and it added an extra "," to the end of the file name. I ended up getting "armory_0.91.1_winAll.exe.signed.exe," when I downloaded the file.

Edit: Ah, I realized that is a side effect of checking the "Save with offline-verifiable signature". I checked that expecting to get 2 files. The actual download and a signature file, but just got the 1 file with the botched filename.

Edit2: Ok, I played around with it a little more. Once I got rid of the ".exe," from the end of the file I was able to use Help --> Verify Signed Package to verify it. I would still like to be able to do this manually, but couldn't figure out the right incantation to pass to gpg.

[7queue]

Thanks!

Up and running, looks good so far.

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[prezbo]

Am I the only one having trouble downloading using the secure downloader? All I get is "There was a failure downloading this file: 0" message. Downloading bitcoin-core works fine though.

[bitpop]

Am I the only one having trouble downloading using the secure downloader? All I get is "There was a failure downloading this file: 0" message. Downloading bitcoin-core works fine though.

Perfect here

[Roy Badami]

I see you've dropped the message 'No Wallet Error Found'.

The first time I saw that, my brain parsed it as 'Error: No Wallet Found' :-)

[bitpop]

I see you've dropped the message 'No Wallet Error Found'.

The first time I saw that, my brain parsed it as 'Error: No Wallet Found' :-)

Me too!

[xe99]

download links on first page are broken.

[goatpig]

download links on first page are broken.

About to release a new version, and the website is undergoing some updates too.

[xe99]

Ah! ok sounds good. will check back in a couple days.

[keewee]

Here's an easy one, I suspect   On Mac OS X 10.9.2 Armory 0.91.1 failed to start because I had moved the app package to a folder in Applications called "Crypto Wallets". It does not like the space in the folder name. Once I renamed the folder to "CryptoWallets" everything worked fine.

[Rampion]

Should the signed version of Armory downloaded from the secure feature be verified offline? How risky is to verify it online?