Please help test: versions 0.5.3rc3 and 0.4.4rc3

[Luke-Jr]

Bitcoin version 0.4.4rc3 and 0.5.3rc3 are now available for download.

These are bugfix-only releases based on 0.4.0 and 0.5.1, respectively.

Please report bugs by replying to this forum thread.

Stable source code is hosted at Gitorious:
  http://gitorious.org/bitcoin/bitcoind-stable/archive-tarball/v0.4.4rc3#.tar.gz
  http://gitorious.org/bitcoin/bitcoind-stable/archive-tarball/v0.5.3rc3#.tar.gz

Windows binaries are on my site:
  http://luke.dashjr.org/programs/bitcoin/files/bitcoind-0.4.4/test/
  http://luke.dashjr.org/programs/bitcoin/files/bitcoind-0.5.3/test/

BUG FIXES

Since 0.4.3 and 0.5.2:

• Various compile warning fixes.
• Updated fallback seed nodes, chosen based on uptime and version.
• February 15, 2012 testnet difficulty calculation changes.
• Reannounce UPnP port forwarding rules every 20 minutes, to work around routers that expire them.
• Verify integrity of private keys in wallet file at startup.
• Don't store completely invalid transactions in memory.
• Recommend a secure password for bitcoind, when none is set, and increase JSON-RPC delay when a wrong password is attempted.
• Fix incorrect memory release, which may have caused crashes.
• Use UPnP IP in version messages when available, and never send non-routable IPs.
• Do not attempt to create "CAddress" objects for invalid accepts.
• Several shutdown-related fixes.
• Various wallet locking fixes.
• Fixed memory leaks.
• Fixed a wrong error message when failing to get external IP from webservice.
• New checkpoint at block 168,000.
• A fix for a potential DoS attack.
• BIP 30: Forbid overwriting unspent transactions with duplicates.

Just since 0.5.2:

• Make transaction description read-only.
• Add "About Qt" menu option to show built-in Qt About dialog.
• Add missing "Clear all" tooltip.
• Fix building test framework with shared boost libraries.
• Revert to global blockchain download progress indication.
• Minor translation/capitalization fixes.
• Restructure credit transaction decomposition to fix issue #689.
• Enable accessible widgets Qt module on win32, so that people with screen readers such as NVDA can make sense of it.
• Prevent window from being shown momentarily when using -min
• Fix Minimize to the tray instead of the taskbar.
• Fix parsing of invalid bitcoin URIs (with bitcoin:// instead of simply bitcoin:)
• Don't overwrite user-entered labels with ones from the address book.
• Display a message box with help on Windows for --help
• Don't show splash screen when -min is specified on the command line.
• Don't show weird tooltip when last received block has a future timestamp.

Thanks to everybody who contributed code or helped test these releases:

Pieter Wuille
Luke Dashjr
Wladimir J. van der Laan
Gavin Andresen
Matt Corallo
Lars Rasmusson
Janne Pulkkinen
Gregory Maxwell
Daniel Folkinshteyn
Chris Moore

[grue]

I'm getting

Error loading wallet.dat: Wallet corrupted     

[Luke-Jr]

I'm getting

Error loading wallet.dat: Wallet corrupted

Even after restoring your backup? Can you join #bitcoin-dev to troubleshoot?

[grue]

I'm getting

Error loading wallet.dat: Wallet corrupted

Even after restoring your backup? Can you join #bitcoin-dev to troubleshoot?

No, i was using 0.4.2 before, and it worked fine. When i changed to 0.4.4, i got that error, and when i restored the old executable, it was working fine again. Seems like an incompatible wallet version to me.

[Luke-Jr]

I'm getting

Error loading wallet.dat: Wallet corrupted

Even after restoring your backup? Can you join #bitcoin-dev to troubleshoot?

No, i was using 0.4.2 before, and it worked fine. When i changed to 0.4.4, i got that error, and when i restored the old executable, it was working fine again. Seems like an incompatible wallet version to me.

My best guess, at this point, is that your wallet has a corrupt private key which was not properly detected in older versions. Could you check debug.log?

[Pieter Wuille]

No, i was using 0.4.2 before, and it worked fine. When i changed to 0.4.4, i got that error, and when i restored the old executable, it was working fine again. Seems like an incompatible wallet version to me.

You did not ever use 0.6.0rc1? (I ask because that had a known and fixed bug that can cause this)

[grue]

My best guess, at this point, is that your wallet has a corrupt private key which was not properly detected in older versions. Could you check debug.log?

I copied 0.4.4 back, and now I'm getting a slightly different error.

debug.log

Code:

Bitcoin version 0.4.4-beta
OS version Windows 7 (build 7601, Service Pack 1), 64-bit edition
System default language is 60 English_United States.1252
Language file locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/bitcoin.mo (English (U.S.))
Default data directory C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin
Loading addresses...
dbenv.open strLogDir=C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin/database strErrorFile=C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin/db.log
Loaded 69349 addresses
 addresses              7809ms
Loading block index...


************************
EXCEPTION: 11DbException       
Db::open: Invalid argument       
C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\bitcoin\bitcoin.exe in AppInit()       



************************
EXCEPTION: 11DbException       
Db::open: Invalid argument       
C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\bitcoin\bitcoin.exe in CMyApp::OnUnhandledException()       

db.log

Code:

file unknown has LSN 8/3751694, past end of log at 1/327
Commonly caused by moving a database from one database environment
to another without clearing the database LSNs, or by removing all of
the log files from a database environment
__db_meta_setup: C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin\blkindex.dat: unexpected file type or format

[Luke-Jr]

My best guess, at this point, is that your wallet has a corrupt private key which was not properly detected in older versions. Could you check debug.log?

I copied 0.4.4 back, and now I'm getting a slightly different error.

Does 0.4.2 still work? This looks like blkindex.dat got corrupted somehow.

[grue]

My best guess, at this point, is that your wallet has a corrupt private key which was not properly detected in older versions. Could you check debug.log?

I copied 0.4.4 back, and now I'm getting a slightly different error.

Does 0.4.2 still work? This looks like blkindex.dat got corrupted somehow.

Nope, 0.4.2 doesn't work either now. Although i got it to work by deleting everything except for wallet.dat. 0.4.4 still doesn't work though.

[bitcoinsarefun]

I've got the 5.3 win32 release installed in a vm, is there anything in particular that needs testing?

[Luke-Jr]

My best guess, at this point, is that your wallet has a corrupt private key which was not properly detected in older versions. Could you check debug.log?

I copied 0.4.4 back, and now I'm getting a slightly different error.

Does 0.4.2 still work? This looks like blkindex.dat got corrupted somehow.

Nope, 0.4.2 doesn't work either now. Although i got it to work by deleting everything except for wallet.dat. 0.4.4 still doesn't work though.

Can we get debug.log with the original issue (ie, when 0.4.2 works)?