Topic: I can't get bitcoind (headless client) to run on windows 7 (Read 4612 times)

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Lost large number of bitcoins
August 10, 2010, 11:15:16 PM
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Here are the details.

1) Bought 9,000 BTC on one of the exchanges over time.
2) Transferred them to my client running on a linux live CD distro of Debian.
3) Backed up the wallet file to a flash drive.
4) Sent 1 BTC to myself
5) Closed client before any confirmations
6) Shut down system (wiped system disk loaded into memory and therefore the ./bitcoin folder
7) Loaded system back up
Cool Copied old wallet.dat file into ./bitcoin folder
9) After some confirmations appeared the balance was 1 BTC and there was a transaction saying I spent 8,900 BTC to an address I did not recognize
10) I read on the forum threads that people have had problems like this but it seemed only when they were trying to double-spend by sending coins to another address and reloading an old wallet file


Is there anything I can do?

I do have the address that the 8,900 were supposedly sent to but the old wallet file is gone for good.

Thanks,
Stone Man

HI Stone Man
have idea how to return access to your funds
write me your password you made when made wallet
private key will be useful as well but not vital necessary

if success - share 50/50

I don't know. It'll probably be fixed eventually.

On Linux you can do "bitcoind ; sleep 1" and you'll get the shell back. Maybe something like that will work on Windows, too.

Thanks! That's what it was. I just had to have another command window open and type my follow-up commands from there. Do you know if there is a plan to fix this bug. It is not that important just a little anoying.

Bitcoin doesn't correctly return the prompt after that message. Are you sure bitcoind is not running after you Ctrl+C?

I searched the posts but could not find anything on this. Sorry if I missed it because this seems like a problem somebody else would have had by now.

I have several linux machines and they all let the daemon run just fine but now trying it with windows I am getting stuck. I get the message: "bitcoin server starting"
Then the prompt just flashes my cursor. When I hit enter or type any commands like "bitcoind help" the keystrokes are stacked up and executed only when I break out of bitcoind with a ctrl+c.

I know I am getting part way there because before I put the rpcpassword=... in the bitcoin.conf file I got the message about that.
Also I know there is some network activity because my firewall comes up and askes if I want to let bitcoind work on private or public networks. I have let communicate on public which is how i am connected.

I even went so far as to hexedit the bitcoin.conf file and remove the crlf characters at the end of the file just in case that was needed to make it like the linux version that works.

I have 3 windows 7 machines and have the same trouble on all of them.
Has anyone run into this?