I have my coins again, so a brief aggregation now.
I'm working with Ubuntu Linux 12.04, installed as Virtual Machines on top a VirtualBox environment. My Ubuntu installation is for wallets only, standard installation, some with VPN prepared. One week before all worked as expected, I created a lot of wallets for exchanging BCN. But beginning from yesterday I got this message on start of simplewallet and every refresh:
Error: refresh failed: transaction extra parse error. Blocks received: 6321
A dozen of wallets failed, residing on three different VMs, residing on three different hardware. Also with the newest wallet version (0.8.5.306) it failed to refresh. Surprisingly newly created wallets are working, but not the old ones.
I have now installed a wallet into windows 7 (version 0.8.6.56), syncronized the blockchain, created a new wallet successfully. Then I transfered my Ubuntu wallets into windows, renamed the large wallet-file, and voila, the refresh finished without any error, showing the correct balance.
I have downloaded the newest binaries for windows or linux. I wonder that the version differs significantly between the two os. The linux version perhaps is not uptodate.
I could compile it on my own, if I would find a hint about it to be necessary. But as a marketing guy already said about BCN: If the usability does not increase, this coin is useless. What I also wonder about: as a coin with preference to anonymization and security there should be a large community of linux users here.
Do anybody use a linux os for his wallets successfully? What's the os name and version? Do I have to compile the wallet sw on my own?