Topic: Armory - Discussion Thread - page 36. (Read 521909 times)

Oh yeah, those criminals! Putting on conferences, promoting bitcoin, and providing legal guidance... what nefarious schemes will they come up with next!? Thanks for volunteering for my ignore list.

I'm pretty disappointed to see the criminal foundation on https://bitcoinarmory.com/donation-match-list/

disgusting

I haven't tested everything but I finally upgraded my Pi to 0.92 and I can confirm it starts and the multipart backup feature works, though I think there are a couple of bugs in the install script.

All info is here. In the particular case of Linux, /home//.bitcoin is where Armory looks by default.

where do i paste ".bitcoin" and it's full blockchain so that Armory will find it during a new installation?  Ubuntu within a VM on a mac os. IOW, where is the default location where Armory looks to find this?

It sounds like it's finding the block files fine on startup, but sees them staying the same size after that..  Armory reads new blocks by observing the last block file changing size or the creation of a new blk file.  Perhaps NFS is not allowing up to date access to that info.

What would cause Armory to fail to recognize that new blocks have arrived?

In this case, bitcoind is running on a separate machine, with NFS used to share the blockchain directory and socat used to tunnel Armory's connection requests to 127.0.0.1:8333 to the appropriate interface.

Indexing the blockchain works just fine, sending transactions works just fine, and Armory does notice incoming unconfirmed transactions.

However the block count in the lower-right corner never increment, requiring a restart in order to notice that new blocks have arrived.

Ah, I'm using "Import digital backup or watching-only wallet".

Hmm, we must be restoring differently...



How are you restoring the wallet?

EDIT: I see now that you must have been restoring a digital backup. I think we need to make sure that Armory gives the same response regardless of how a wallet is restored.

Yes, I downloaded and installed 0.92 using Armory's Secure Downloader.

Are you sure that you are running 0.92? Only older versions of Armory ask you to remove the wallet with the same ID before restoring it.

haha this is embarrassing 
I've never seen that drop down before. It was set to My Wallets but didn't display all my wallets anyway. However after changing to All Wallets and then back to My Wallets again all is fine 

I'll try to import a wallet once more to see if I'll get that other issue again.
Thanks!

No. That should be totally fine.

If anyone's curious, the OS X issue has to do with how we build Armory. It uses a totally separate process than Linux and Windows. It usually works fine. It does occasionally fail, unfortunately. I'm looking into ways to make this a thing of the past. Unfortunately, the only surefire way would require us to add ~300 MB worth of data to the repo. I'll see if I can figure out an alternative that Alan and others can use when building. In fact, sitting here just now, I think I figured out a solution. If I choose to implement it, the solution should make build failures like this a thing of the past.

Speaking of OS X, I have some good news for everybody. Last night, I finished some code that brings notifications back to OS X, at least if you're running 10.8 or higher. The code will also change the dock icon to green when in testnet mode, like BC Core does (along with the Linux and Windows versions of Armory). I don't know when the code will be merged in but it should be relatively soon. It may also need a bit of tweaking over the coming weeks but it seems reasonably solid at the moment.

The best part is that this delivery will build a permanent bridge between Armory and the Objective-C language, which you must use to access certain OS X features. If Armory adds features that require Objective-C on OS X, feature parity should be achieved eventually. (Obviously, I won't promise anything right now. Every feature has its own set of requirements.)

in a typical installation, should the Bitcoin Install directory be in the .armory folder and the Bitcoin Home Directory be in the home directory?

I wasn't able to reimport import the wallet. Armory says that there's already a wallet with the same ID loaded and that I first need to remove it before importing it again. Once I did that I was returned to the Restore Wallet window which I had to Cancel and now it just keeps reloading all other wallets (I can see all other .watchonly.wallet files being constantly rewritten in a loop). I'll make a ticket including logs.

Make a ticket, add your log. Verify in the bottom left corner drop down list that "all wallets" is selected.

You shouldn't be concerned

would this include Ubuntu versions installed within a VM on a Mac?

It's hard to tell what your problem without seeing the logs. As stated by Etotheipi you can send us the log file from within Armory (Help->Submit Bug Report). 

Look at the top block number displayed in the lower right corner of Armory. If it matches the number in blockchaininfo there should be no need to rebuild/rescan the databases.

I don't think reimporting the wallets should make a difference, but it can't hurt. Note that you can reimport a wallet without deleting it. It is never necessary to delete a wallet.

Hey, I've just upgraded from 0.91.2 to 0.92. All my wallets are listed normally but the Transactions list are missing transactions and Maximum and Spendable funds just displays about 30% of my funds. I've tried restarting Armory and Rescan Databases but it didn't help.

Do you think Rebuild and Rescan Databases could help?
Do I need to reimport the wallets?
How else can I troubleshoot this issue?

Thanks