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Topic: Bitcoind read error and crash. Log not showing much detail. (Read 2760 times)

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How much free space you have in drive C?

About 55 GB.  It has not occured again and bitcoind was able to restart without a rebuild or re-index. 
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How much free space you have in drive C?
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The fault was that the block file on the hard disk could not be opened.

I would suggest backing up your wallet immediately if you have not, then closing bitcoin and running some health checks on the hard disk.
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Might be me, but "ERROR: ReadBlockFromDisk : OpenBlockFile failed" looks like an error. Could you try renaming that offending file to some unrelated name?

If that fails, you may consider trying to re-sync after deleting or renaming the C:\bitcoin\data\blocks folder.

Yes would be the error I can see how the title would be confusing.  Outside of the debug.log there was no error message when the application crashed.  I restarted bitcoind and it validated blocks without issue.  The start of the log after restart is the following (no indication of the read error).
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2014-07-15 16:48:01 Bitcoin version v0.9.2.0-g505681f-beta (Fri, 13 Jun 2014 12:26:02 +0200)
2014-07-15 16:48:01 Using OpenSSL version OpenSSL 1.0.1h 5 Jun 2014
2014-07-15 16:48:01 Using BerkeleyDB version Berkeley DB 4.8.30: (April  9, 2010)
2014-07-15 16:48:01 Default data directory
2014-07-15 16:48:01 Using data directory c:\bitcoin\data
2014-07-15 16:48:01 Using at most 250 connections (2048 file descriptors available)
2014-07-15 16:48:01 Using 8 threads for script verification
2014-07-15 16:48:01 Using wallet wallet.dat
2014-07-15 16:48:01 init message: Verifying wallet...
2014-07-15 16:48:01 CDBEnv::Open : LogDir=c:\bitcoin\data\database ErrorFile=c:\bitcoin\data\db.log
2014-07-15 16:48:02 Bound to [::]:8333
2014-07-15 16:48:02 Bound to 0.0.0.0:8333
2014-07-15 16:48:02 AddLocal(66.232.104.157:8333,5)
2014-07-15 16:48:02 init message: Loading block index...
2014-07-15 16:48:02 Opening LevelDB in c:\bitcoin\data\blocks\index
2014-07-15 16:48:02 Opened LevelDB successfully
2014-07-15 16:48:02 Opening LevelDB in c:\bitcoin\data\chainstate
2014-07-15 16:48:02 Opened LevelDB successfully
2014-07-15 16:48:11 LoadBlockIndexDB(): last block file = 157
2014-07-15 16:48:11 LoadBlockIndexDB(): last block file info: CBlockFileInfo(blocks=132, size=35903286, heights=310658...310789, time=2014-07-14...2014-07-15)
2014-07-15 16:48:11 LoadBlockIndexDB(): transaction index enabled
2014-07-15 16:48:11 LoadBlockIndexDB(): hashBestChain=000000000000000033cd828bf6b8662f424f165def4ccd6d3bf0aa86c89a4680 height=310789 date=2014-07-15 04:05:56 progress=0.998249
2014-07-15 16:48:11 init message: Verifying blocks...
2014-07-15 16:48:11 Verifying last 288 blocks at level 3
2014-07-15 16:48:41 No coin database inconsistencies in last 289 blocks (116571 transactions)
2014-07-15 16:48:42  block index           40463ms
2014-07-15 16:48:42 init message: Loading wallet...
2014-07-15 16:48:42 nFileVersion = 90200
2014-07-15 16:48:42 Keys: 0 plaintext, 1920 encrypted, 414 w/ metadata, 1920 total
2014-07-15 16:48:42  wallet                  234ms
2014-07-15 16:48:42 init message: Rescanning...
2014-07-15 16:48:42 Rescanning last 37 blocks (from block 310752)...

Bitcoind has been very reliable.  It was just unusual to get a fatal read error which caused the application to crash and then restarting it showed no issue.  It would indicate the error (whatever caused it) was recoverable.
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Might be me, but "ERROR: ReadBlockFromDisk : OpenBlockFile failed" looks like an error. Could you try renaming that offending file to some unrelated name?

If that fails, you may consider trying to re-sync after deleting or renaming the C:\bitcoin\data\blocks folder.
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Bitcoind (v0.9.2) crashed without an error.

The last lines of the debug.log are:
Code:
2014-07-15 04:03:13 UpdateTip: new best=0000000000000000254ad6360f213075ec51b80209d4ec432b84f25c165151d1  height=310788  log2_work=79.720254  tx=42550544  date=2014-07-15 04:02:37 progress=0.999999
2014-07-15 04:03:13 ProcessBlock: ACCEPTED
2014-07-15 04:03:57 receive version message: /Satoshi:0.8.1/: version 70001, blocks=308362, us=, them=5.44.169.75:8333, peer=5.44.169.75:51840
2014-07-15 04:04:15 receive version message: /bitcoinseeder:0.01/: version 60000, blocks=230000, us=, them=0.0.0.0:0, peer=178.18.90.41:52823
2014-07-15 04:05:09 socket recv error An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.  (10054)
2014-07-15 04:05:11 ResendWalletTransactions()
2014-07-15 04:06:00 UpdateTip: new best=000000000000000033cd828bf6b8662f424f165def4ccd6d3bf0aa86c89a4680  height=310789  log2_work=79.720361  tx=42550658  date=2014-07-15 04:05:56 progress=1.000000
2014-07-15 04:06:00 ProcessBlock: ACCEPTED
2014-07-15 04:06:32 Unable to open file c:\bitcoin\data\blocks\blk00157.dat
2014-07-15 04:06:32 ERROR: ReadBlockFromDisk : OpenBlockFile failed

Any ideas?
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