Thanks, tried 2 fresh installs,
Did you delete the blockchain or just uninstall and reinstall? If you only uninstalled and reinstalled, that won't help at all because none of the data is removed from the disk.on 2 different SSD, and version 13 and 14.1 with new wallets.
For some reason it just stops around April 7th 2015.
If you actually did a full resync where the blockchain actually redownloaded (and reindex does not do this, I'll get to that below), then this error is indicative of hardware failure. In that case, I suggest you run hardware diagnostics to find what is wrong.For some reason it just stops around April 7th 2015.
Also tried -reindex as well which re-downloaded everything, same issue, total of 5 block chain downloads.
Reindex does not redownloaded anything. All it does is reindex what is already on disk and then it will do the normal catch-up process with whatever blocks that you don't have downloaded. Reindexing is the process of building the databases that have all of the indexes of where to find blocks and transactions. It absolutely does not redownload the blockchain even though it looks like it.The only way to redownload the blockchain is to actually delete the blocks folder within the datadir and start Bitcoin Core. Nothing else will cause a resync; reindexing, rescanning, reinstalling, etc. will not cause a resync.
I posted in that one persons thread because it seems to be an issue with the blockchain download, as the wallet version and drive doesn't seem to matter.
Could of course be OS related, so I'm going over that now.
His issue was completely unrelated. You clearly did not read the thread.Could of course be OS related, so I'm going over that now.
I'm using the portable version with -datadir, all on a single SSD dedicated entirely to the blockchain, application, and all app data but nothing else.
All data, hidden, application, wallet, appdata, etc, all were fully empty before proceeding.
Manual backup of the wallet.dat and a dump as well.
When I used -reindex, it re-downloaded the entire blockchain, twice.
It prompted an error before re-downloading.
Only solution that fixed it stopping on that one single block, was an OS restart after a proper shutdown of bitcoind.
On my Windows 7 backup system, it never finished downloading the blockchain, same issue as the other person, but indeed, not related to this specific case.
Still, two systems that have worked without issue for Core for over 3 years, same wallet file etc, chances of both messing up at the same time is quite odd.
In regards to the other thread, I experienced the same issue they had on my Windows 7 machine:
No error, no progress, just stuck sometimes.
Other times it will error out with the debug code snip.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/major-issues-downloading-blockchain-1951354
So I assumed that since 2 machines went stopped working with Core, on the same day after 3+ years, maybe it was related.
Obviously not though now, as a restart of the OS fixed everything it seems and resumed progress.
