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What block is your wallet on? I wonder if my wallet has stalled...

My current problem, though, is I tried to send out some DVC and after an hour the transaction is not confirming either in the wallet or on the receiving end. Is it just a slow block, or is there another problem? My wallet is indicating that it's synced up at block 370586.

My wallet is all synced up too. Thanks!

Friends I now have a fully synced client today.I did not do anything only open up client that would not previously open due to failed to connect to best block error ..but this time it opened and worked.Who fixed it?Well done!

Well, I had to go to work on Sunday and I left my wallet open and finally noticed it this morning and lo and behold it is downloading blocks. So, I'm hoping for the best. If it stalls or something I'll try your second suggestion.

So I did this and the wallet very quickly made 8 connections with the devcoin network. So far (after about 5 minutes) it is still stuck on block 0, though. I'll let it run for an hour or two and post if it starts downloading blocks. If it doesn't download blocks, do you have any other suggestions? Thanks!

Hey thanks! I'll try that. Will the username and password have to be the same as my wallet password, or just something I choose for that purpose only?

My wallet is up to 11 active connections and still stuck on block zero. I've worked with a lot of QT wallets but this is a new wrinkle for me. What do I do?

I'm having wallet issues now too. I got beyond the point you did, FuzzyBear, but got stuck further down--block 36999 or something. So I tried to manually download receiver 91 (replaced what was in my folder with one I downloaded from the direct download site (only changed to be receiver 91). The next time I ran my wallet, I got the "failed to connect to best block" error message. So I thought, great, I've corrupted the block chain. I deleted all but wallet.dat and tried again. It won't get past block zero now. I tried to shut down wallet and restart. That gave me the failed to connect error message again. Deleted everything, trying again, stuck on block zero (for now). I'm going to walk away and come back (and if it starts syncing I'll post an update). If it stays stuck on block zero, what are the steps I can take to get my wallet working again?

Edit: It's also stuck on only one active connection to network.

Edit: I restored the original peers file to see if that would help. My wallet now has 2 active connections and is still stuck on block zero. I'm running out of ideas. Please help.

Edit: 4 active connections now. still stuck on block 0. Maybe it's just slow?

ok so i got the blockchain downloading again past block 359999 (10 weeks behind) by manually downloading the receiver file 90 and starting devcoin client.

direct download can be done here: http://galaxies.mygamesonline.org/receiver_90.csv or here: http://devcoinpool.btc-music.com/receiver/receiver_90.csv

blockchain fully synced after dropping the receiver files.

Any questions or issues please let me know.

Fuzzybear

Thank you for response gentlemen.I empty data dir and other files from executables and download all over again until it stuck about 23 weeks away from sync.After cloese and reopen I get error saying not being able to connect to best block again and in roaming files debug shows same

I have experienced the same on my windows laptop.

I added all the nodes from https://chainz.cryptoid.info/dvc/#!network which is reading a block height count of 369636

But this also got stuck again at block 359999.

I can try adding in manually the receiver file tonight to see if that makes a difference, but I am hosting the receiver files myself and they should be downloadable so not sure if that is the issue.  Has anything changed in the code? do we need to issue new binaries  off the new build?  I can try a linux build this week if I get some time, and will also have a look at the mac build I have been trying to get round to looking into.

Fuzzybear

maybe it cant download the receiver file no host

Hello.I too get this issue but nothing fixes it.I am now syncing again from beginning and it works but I am wondering if it will happen once I reach certain part of chain?

Update:I download from scratch and same shit happens again @sidhujag et al what to do

Hello all.I am trying to sync devcoin wallet but it hangs with 10 weeks to sync.When I shut it down and restarted it say message:error: cannot find best block? Please advise thanks.

Debug:

Trucker, welcome.

Hi, I sent coins off Freiexchange to qt wallet address before it finished syncing but laptop shutdown and now I got error on devcoin wallet "failed to connect to best block" and wallet will not open. Any fix?

Never mind. Fixed by moving wallet.dat from laptop to desktop wallet

Is that sort of a description of "coin mixing" and issuing lots?

The wallet generates I think 100 addresses when it is created, then as it runs low it generates more; and there is a command to make it generate more too so if you expect to use a lot before your next backup you can deliberately generate a lot so your backup will contain the next however many addresses that will be used.

So you have some leeway.

When you send coins often an address will be used up to send the change to, and of course every time you do getnewaddress to get a new address to tell someone to send to that uses up one of the pre-created addresses.

So basically every time you do a backup it includes the next X-number of addresses that are to be used.

Once they have all been used, you will be into new territory, using addresses that had not been created at the time of your last backup.

So the key is to make backups faster than you use up addresses.

For example if you have a website that lets visitors cause an address to be created for them to send coins to, and thousands of visitors get addresses created daily, or one visitor uses a bot to have it generate tens or hundreds of thousands of addresses for them in one day, you might be hard-pressed to make backups often enough, and will want to generate vast numbers of addresses ahead of time to back up before the site gives them out.

If on the other hand you only have one publicised address for folks to send you coins (a donation address for example, or the address DevTome sends your shares to), and never send coins so never use up addresses to send change to, then one backup will last you "forever" with plenty of pre-generated addresses in it ready for some day when you do suddenly need another address or few.

-MarkM-

I think once is OK. However, do as many backups as you can. You can't have enough backups of something.  I recently lost a lot of stuff from my old HDD because I didn't have a backup for it. Fortunately, I got my DVC wallet stored in several places. So, do it once, but store it in several safe places.