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Quote from: dansmith on May 10, 2013, 08:26:48 AM

Happened to me today on 0.8.1 after a clean shutdown:

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Error opening block database.
Do you want to rebuild the block database now?

Relevant part of debug.log:

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LevelDB read failure: IO error: /home/default/.bitcoin/chainstate/031746.sst: No such file or directory

Brand new HDD here.

How about 0.8.2rc1? So far I haven't experienced the issue with it.

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Happened to me today on 0.8.1 after a clean shutdown:

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Error opening block database.
Do you want to rebuild the block database now?

Relevant part of debug.log:

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LevelDB read failure: IO error: /home/default/.bitcoin/chainstate/031746.sst: No such file or directory

Brand new HDD here.

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Quote from: salfter on April 17, 2013, 10:49:10 AM

AFAICT, the only thing likely to get it running again is to redownload the blockchain. I moved .litecoin to a safe location, created a new .litecoin directory, copied over my litecoin.conf and wallet.dat, and am now letting litecoin-qt pull in the blockchain again. It's set to only talk to the litecoind on my mining rig, so the transfer's only running across the LAN and should be done in less than a half-hour. It's halfway done as I write this; if it ends up working properly, I'll do the same thing with bitcoin-qt.

As a bit of follow-up, this method worked. It took a little longer to pull the Litecoin blockchain through (and it took a few hours to rebuild the Bitcoin blockchain), but it beats having to download them from outside the LAN.

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I got it now too

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Wow, this is really getting annoying. Had the same error again, tried rebuilding the database which made bitcoin-qt completely crash.
Downloaded new block chain and now getting "wallet.dat corrupt, salvage failed".

Any hints on what could be causing this? Bitcoin-qt is almost unusable for me, since I have to redownload the block chain every week.
Also reported this here at github.

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Quote from: keystroke on March 19, 2013, 09:12:47 PM

Just opened 0.8.1 after having successfully opened it a few times and received:
"Error opening block database. Do you want to rebuild the block database now?"

I started getting this error today on a machine on which I had upgraded LibreOffice to 4.0. litecoind and litecoin-qt were throwing database-related exceptions as well. The LibreOffice upgrade pulled in a newer version of Boost, which meant everything else that uses Boost (including *coind and *coin-qt) needed to be rebuilt as well. No problem, right? Gentoo is good at this sort of thing.

It looks like there's some interaction between Boost and the database used such that the on-disk format changed in a way that *coind/*coin-qt don't like. AFAICT, the only thing likely to get it running again is to redownload the blockchain. I moved .litecoin to a safe location, created a new .litecoin directory, copied over my litecoin.conf and wallet.dat, and am now letting litecoin-qt pull in the blockchain again. It's set to only talk to the litecoind on my mining rig, so the transfer's only running across the LAN and should be done in less than a half-hour. It's halfway done as I write this; if it ends up working properly, I'll do the same thing with bitcoin-qt.

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... and I get the same error again. I had it about 3 weeks ago, decided to re-download the whole blockchain and not get the same error again.
I don't have any idea on what could be causing this.

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I and others have reported similar issue on Mac:

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/2435

After 5 crashes and reindexes I've downgraded to v0.7.2

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Quote from: mobile4ever on April 02, 2013, 04:41:14 PM

Will this work?

Download the blockchain and then upload it to one of those download sites. It wont be totally current, but it may be faster than having to wait for the bitcoin wallet to redownload it. The uploader may even make some money off of it.

I now keep a local backup copy of the block chain, so in case of getting errors again I can copy over my backup.

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Will this work?

Download the blockchain and then upload it to one of those download sites. It wont be totally current, but it may be faster than having to wait for the bitcoin wallet to redownload it. The uploader may even make some money off of it.

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Quote from: redwraith on April 02, 2013, 10:15:38 AM

Oh boy, this is one those "geeky" things that the masses won't understand. How did you implement this solution, in layman's terms? This is happening to me as well.

The masses should learn to backup their wallet and the bitcoin folder itself. 7zip is free software (but please make a donation if you can, its good software )

http://www.7-zip.org/download.html

There may be software available to do it automatically. If not, just for the sake of bitcoin, it should be made. I dont believe in the online wallet thing.

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Quote from: inglian on March 20, 2013, 09:10:21 AM

Same problem, immediately upon upgrading from bitcoin-0.8.0rc1-win32 to 0.8.1, on Win7-64.

Chose Cancel. The .sst file referenced did not exist, but no problem creating the .sst file with Cygwin "touch". Deleted the .sst file I had created, restarted Bitcoin-Qt, ran fine the second time, no further mention of .sst files in the debug.log. 2-month old SATA laptop drive with no problems.

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Bitcoin version v0.8.1-beta (2013-03-17 15:35:36 -0400)
Using OpenSSL version OpenSSL 1.0.1c 10 May 2012
Startup time: 2013-03-20 12:52:37
Default data directory C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin
Used data directory C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\LargeDB\Bitcoin
Using 4 threads for script verification
init message: Verifying wallet integrity...
dbenv.open LogDir=C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\LargeDB\Bitcoin\database ErrorFile=C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\LargeDB\Bitcoin\db.log
Bound to [::]:8333
Bound to 0.0.0.0:8333
init message: Loading block index...
Opening LevelDB in C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\LargeDB\Bitcoin\blocks\index
Opened LevelDB successfully
Opening LevelDB in C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\LargeDB\Bitcoin\chainstate
Opened LevelDB successfully
LoadBlockIndex(): last block file = 14
LoadBlockIndex(): last block file: CBlockFileInfo(blocks=789, size=119258104, heights=225479..226267, time=2013-03-12..2013-03-17)
LoadBlockIndex(): transaction index disabled
LoadBlockIndex(): hashBestChain=00000000000002e60135b76ddd31d727f4ca44c28f142e85ff38c199b1a098e8  height=226267 date=2013-03-17 02:17:42
init message: Verifying block database integrity...
Verifying last 288 blocks at level 3
LevelDB read failure: IO error: C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\LargeDB\Bitcoin\chainstate\013292.sst: Could not create random access file.

Oh boy, this is one those "geeky" things that the masses won't understand. How did you implement this solution, in layman's terms? This is happening to me as well.

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I have gone from scratch several times and have even grabbed the torrent of the blockchain to see if it would load more smoothly pulling transactions from the .dat file instead of downloading from peers. I get a checksum error every single time and it is never in the same place so I know that it isn't like there is some embedded corruption. I do appreciate that the blockchain loads significantly faster than in 0.7 days but I would prefer it loading correctly as well.

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Quote from: mobile4ever on April 01, 2013, 03:02:55 PM

Quote from: maxmint on April 01, 2013, 01:19:20 PM

Just got the same error again, decided to rebuild. Bitcoin-qt crashed, I re-ran the app now get this error:
"System error: Database corrupted" and the programm crashes again.

Not sure what to do know. Should I delete everything (expect my wallet) and re-download the block chain?

It does not matter if you delete your wallet. Just save the "wallet.dat" file, because that is where your transactions are.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=112429.0;all

Yeah thanks, I know that. My question was rather if I have to re-download the whole block chain now or if there's a way to repair it somehow.
Anyhow, this is really strange and right now weakens my trust in the official client. I really hope that the problem is on my side (SSD defect?) and not within the current client, that would be really bad.

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Quote from: maxmint on April 01, 2013, 01:19:20 PM

Just got the same error again, decided to rebuild. Bitcoin-qt crashed, I re-ran the app now get this error:
"System error: Database corrupted" and the programm crashes again.

Not sure what to do know. Should I delete everything (expect my wallet) and re-download the block chain?

It does not matter if you delete your wallet. Just save the "wallet.dat" file, because that is where your transactions are.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=112429.0;all

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I will learn someday to back up the wallet. I got the same thing as you guys.... but I dont have time to do anything but redownload the blockchain again.

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Just got the same error again, decided to rebuild. Bitcoin-qt crashed, I re-ran the app now get this error:
"System error: Database corrupted" and the programm crashes again.

Not sure what to do know. Should I delete everything (expect my wallet) and re-download the block chain?

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Quote from: paraipan on March 31, 2013, 05:46:10 PM

Quote from: maxmint on March 31, 2013, 02:50:20 PM

It's been a few hours now and I tried to open my bitcoin-qt client again. It's working now without any errors.
I'm on a brand new iMac, the blockchain is on a SSD and I just checked the disk integrity, everything is good.

So strange, I just don't know what was causing this.

Please post the issue on Github so developers can have a look at it.

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/new

Will do.

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Quote from: maxmint on March 31, 2013, 02:50:20 PM

It's been a few hours now and I tried to open my bitcoin-qt client again. It's working now without any errors.
I'm on a brand new iMac, the blockchain is on a SSD and I just checked the disk integrity, everything is good.

So strange, I just don't know what was causing this.

Please post the issue on Github so developers can have a look at it.

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/new

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It's been a few hours now and I tried to open my bitcoin-qt client again. It's working now without any errors.
I'm on a brand new iMac, the blockchain is on a SSD and I just checked the disk integrity, everything is good.

So strange, I just don't know what was causing this.

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