I just did all the linux upgrades and restarted the computer. Some of the upgrades seemed to include bitcoin related stuff. The wallet still has the same problem. Says "verifying blocks" and then closes down.
All I've tried to get the wallet to work is just restarting the computer, installing linux updates and restarting the computer. The next step is I'd probably save the wallet.dat backup file on a USB, then remove the entire bitcoin program, and download it again. But if there is a less drastic solution, I'd like that!
First backup your wallet.dat file again. Then you can try the following things:
- Download bitcoin-qt from the official repository and run that. There is no installation process. You just run the bitcoin-qt file from the bin sub-directory:
http://bitcoin.org/en/download- If the above fails it is most likely that your copy of the blockchain has become corrupted. So what you should do is delete everything save the wallet.dat file in the your /home/username/.bitcoin directory. Note it is a hidden directory with a name that starts with a dot.
Then run bitcoin-qt and it'll start downloading the blockchain all over again a process that can take days.
- Finally, your last option is to give up on bitcoin-qt entirely and migrate to another wallet. I recommend electrum. To import your private keys you can use a temporary blockchain.info wallet to import the keys and send all the coins to your new electrum address or you can use pywallet to extract the private keys and import them directly into electrum.
