I mean c'mon are you really suggesting solo mining after you see that error ?
Failed to handle NOTIFY_REQUEST_CHAIN. block_ids doesn't end with genesis block ID
Is anyone out there doing some troubleshooting ? or do you need community's help ?
You can ignore this error, it's because there are still a few lingering nodes on the network with the original genesis block ID. Your client will not sync with them. It's just warning you that there is some 'confusion' in the syncing. As long as you see 'SYNCHRONIZED OK' in green text in the daemon, or '*** You are now synchronized with the network and can now start simplewallet ***', you have nothing to worry about.
Nice, and what about the first real launch with the old wallet? I have still 4000 coins on it
Announcement coming by this evening with a page to reclaim those coins, as long as they were from pool mining. If you solo mined we have no way to keep track of your balance - the Ring signatures of cryptonote means we can't trace transactions in the blockchain. However, we have database records from the pool of all balances and payouts, and that is exactly what will be reimbursed.