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That's what I did.

You should be able to just delete everything inside the blocks folder, and it'll redownload it from the network: C:\users\\AppData\Roaming\Devcoin\blocks

Do you have a link to where one can grab the blockchain?

Thanks,

- Nova

Downloading the entire block chain in the end seems to have solved the problem. I think my previous version of the block chain had gotten corrupted somehow. I didn't think of that at first because, well, when the block chain is corrupted, the error message is different for each type of coin wallet. It took all night, and then in the morning when I checked it was taking forever to get past a particular block. Forget the number but it ended in 71. I closed the wallet and restarted it once. It was still hung up on that block, but I just left the wallet open for quite a while and by the time I got back to it, it had gotten past that block and fully synchronized. I haven't tried to send anything, but as far as I can tell, it's working fine.

One thing I did do, because the wallet seemed to have been taking forever to find a block source, was I put the peers file back into my appdata folder. Eventually the wallet did connect, and I'm not sure if that made a difference or not. I'm also not sure if closing and then restarting my wallet when it was stuck on the block ending in 71 made any difference or if it was just going to take a long time to get past that particular block no matter what I did.

But in any case, downloading the entire block chain seems to solve a lot of problems, so good to try when the wallet is acting up.

Didn't get past this with the devcoin wallet, yet, wiser. Watching your ticket with interest. Monies riding on it, if you will.

- Nova

Well, I deleted everything from the folder except the wallet.dat file and then tried to run the wallet, and still got the same error message. What are the steps you took?

EDIT: OK, never mind. I thought I'd done the above but really hadn't. Now the wallet is open and hopefully will connect to a peer soon.

EDIT: "No block source available" for longer than I'd expect...

EDIT: OK, it's connected and synchronizing. Guess I'll check it in the morning.

I've got a bunch of:


They started appearing in the last 24 hours.

I did it and honestly it was quite fast only few hours. (I dont know if it will resolve your prob).

So how did you get past that? I still have that problem. Wondering if I need to download the entire block chain again or something. I kind of hope not. DVC is an old coin so could take a while...

Receiver files at devcoinblockexplorer.info/receiver/ are available again.

Hello,

Thank you for the explanation. Is there a bounty set for this task ?

Regards,

Flam.

PS: I'm receiving the shares again.

Thought it was just me, when setting up my wallet recently.

- Nova

OK, tried to open my wallet this morning and got an error message saying "failed to connect best block." When I click OK, it just closes the wallet loading. What do I do?

In that case, I'm part of the problem. Crazy busy three weeks and didn't get my file uploaded in a timely fashion. I just uploaded it now. Hopefully anyone else procrastinating will do the same. Thanks for the explanation.

One of the main requirements for devcoin to function is the hosting of the receiver files. Each time a block is solved a 'call' goes to the receivers so as to determine distribution to recipients addresses. There are 7 receivers hosted and (I believe) that 5 out of 7 need to be hosted for devcoin to work/blocks to proceed. Feel free correct me if I am wrong.

I host receivers at http://show-me-the-devcoin.info/devtome/ and am current. Hosting the files is not cheap, or at least wasn't when the big mining pool merge mined dvc. There were so many calls to the receivers I had to upgrade my bandwidth considerably as my site went down. Not sure how it is working now in regards to bandwidth post merge mining with big pools. My site is pretty crap but it's only there for the receiver files.

But the achilles heel with dvc is that if the receivers aren't hosted that the blocks won't be solved. Above post mentioned 404's on some of the receivers which suggests they haven't been updated. If it isn't syncing (mine isn't) then most likely the last receiver hasn't been uploaded enough times.

The last message to host/upgrade the receivers from Unthinking bit from http://galaxies.mygamesonline.org/receiver_59.csv was May 27, and there is a lag until they are required. My guess is that not enough receivers have been uploaded, the lag time has passed, and the blocks aren't being solved.

DVC is still one of the best alt coins yet created, it had a real purpose that was 'good', I really hope it continues!!

I just opened my wallet and found the exact same thing. No mined shares since June 10. What's up?

Hello,

I'm not receiving any shares for several days.
I had difficulties to sync with the latest blocks.
As it was an old version I updated and added the nodes but it was the same (by downloading the entire blockchain again).
Coins in and out seem to work.
Yet I'm up to date.
Can someone help me there please ?

Regards,

Flam.

You can grab them here:

http://devcoin.darkgamex.ch/

I have mine in a folder named "receiver" in the data directory. Sometimes the csv files don't update properly, so I have to download the latest file # manually then restart the wallet.....old code I suppose.

Thanks, that's what I'm running. I get this error when starting devcoind:


It then fails to start. Looking at receiver.csv it shows the following mirrors:


These all appear to be offline or 404. Where are receiver files these days?