Topic: encrypted wallet.dat in windows, error message in linux (Read 713 times)
Alright thanks! Yeah I have no idea why I copied it as root. I just redid the process without sudo and it was fine.
The root priv. looks suspicious, but this is where my linux confidence ends.
It's not suspicious at all. For reasons which are currently inscrutable, but no doubt made sense at the time, you deliberately copied the file as root:Code:
sudo cp wallet.dat /home/altoidnerd/.bitcoin
Too bad Bitcoin needs write access to the file, and can't get it since it's not running as root. To correct the file ownership, run:
Code:
sudo chown altoidnerd:altoidnerd /home/altoidnerd/.bitcoin/wallet.dat
Want to use my wallet.dat in ubuntu which was encrypted using the windows QT
I renamed the default wallet in my ubuntu box
Then I copied the desired (windows encrypted) wallet.dat file over to my ubuntu desktop and just moved it into the directory ./bitcoin
now sure enough, the wallet.dat file (which was encrypted in windows) is there in the ./bitcoin directory
But it won't recognize it; when I start qt I get
The root priv. looks suspicious, but this is where my linux confidence ends.
I renamed the default wallet in my ubuntu box
Code:
mv wallet.dat wallet.default
Then I copied the desired (windows encrypted) wallet.dat file over to my ubuntu desktop and just moved it into the directory ./bitcoin
Code:
sudo cp wallet.dat /home/altoidnerd/.bitcoin
now sure enough, the wallet.dat file (which was encrypted in windows) is there in the ./bitcoin directory
Code:
altoidnerd@altoidnerd-HP-EliteBook-8570w:~/.bitcoin$ ls -la
total 4304
drwxrwxr-x 4 altoidnerd altoidnerd 4096 Feb 7 17:49 .
drwxr-xr-x 33 altoidnerd altoidnerd 4096 Feb 6 18:31 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 altoidnerd altoidnerd 77 Feb 3 01:37 bitcoin.conf
drwx------ 3 altoidnerd altoidnerd 12288 Feb 3 17:35 blocks
drwx------ 2 altoidnerd altoidnerd 12288 Feb 7 17:43 chainstate
-rw------- 1 altoidnerd altoidnerd 0 Feb 2 23:15 db.log
-rw------- 1 altoidnerd altoidnerd 464548 Feb 7 17:43 debug.log
-rw------- 1 altoidnerd altoidnerd 0 Feb 2 23:15 .lock
-rw------- 1 altoidnerd altoidnerd 999338 Feb 7 17:43 peers.dat
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2826240 Feb 7 17:49 wallet.dat
-rw------- 1 altoidnerd altoidnerd 73728 Feb 7 17:43 wallet.default
But it won't recognize it; when I start qt I get
Code:
A fatal error occurred. Bitcoin can no longer continue safely and will quit.
EXCEPTION: St13runtime_error
CDB() : can't open database file wallet.dat, error 13
bitcoin in Runaway exception
The root priv. looks suspicious, but this is where my linux confidence ends.
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