Topic: Paper wallet restored properly but Armory still stuck in Offline mode (Read 202 times)

Haha no worries @goatpig.  You helped a bunch.

I'll fix this crap one day, I swear

Everything restored after a few iterations of forcing the db to rebuild.
All Hail @GoatPig
Thanks bruv

Yes I started ArmoryQt.  It's scanning but has been stuck overnight at 31%.

ArmoryDB isn't aware of your wallets until you start ArmoryQt. The step you did was to get ArmoryDB to chain data and prepare its db. It now needs to be fed your addresses by ArmoryQt to scan them. You should see a bunch of scanning info in the ArmoryDB output as you start ArmoryQt. Is it not scanning?

It finished, here's the output:

-DEBUG - 1702343930: (Blockchain.cpp:242) Organizing chain
-INFO  - 1702343939: (DatabaseBuilder.cpp:56) updated HEADERS db in 8045.85s
-INFO  - 1702343939: (BlockUtils.cpp:1206) Enabling zero-conf tracking

Now I did everything else... lol 0.0000 BTC balance...  No idea...
 

Yes in BitcoinQt here are the Datadir and Blocksdir, respectively:
/home/*USERNAME*/snap/bitcoin-core/common/.bitcoin
/home/*USERNAME*/snap/bitcoin-core/common/.bitcoin/blocks

Okay I got ArmoryDB and tried that same command:
 ./ArmoryDB --satoshi-datadir=/home/*USERNAME*/snap/bitcoin-core/common/.bitcoin

Seems to be working on the db right now... so not a permissions issue...
Will check back in a few hours once it's all done.

I don't think that's necessary. The data is somewhere on your system, just need to find it. Hell, you could look at folder sizes and figure it out that way. Some 400GB of data doesn't just sneak around on a disk.

You have to cd to the folder where the binary is installed first. I honestly don't remember where it goes on Ubuntu. I'm guessing /usr/local/bin or /usr/local/lib/Armory. Try "whereis ArmoryDB" or cd to /usr and "find . ArmoryDB".


When you start BitcoinQt, what does it show you? I believe it can display where the blockchain data is located. Do you have a ./bitcoin folder in your home folder? You need to find where Core downloaded the blockchain data and feed that to Armory. If you find it and Armory can't read it, then it's a permission issue. We can look at that too.

Hi @goatpig, when I tried your suggestion, "./ArmoryDB --satoshi-datadir=/home/*USERNAME*/.bitcoin" the only option that comes up is ./ArmoryQt.py.  I tried that though instead but then got:

It looks like all the path issues with snap are the problem...  From here, as it stands though what could I try next? 
Should I go ahead and wipe bitcoin-core off my machine and install it from the official tgz and start fresh?
Looking forward to getting this handled.
Thanks so much @goatpig

Yes I installed via snap.   I'll try again first with what you have suggested @goatpig.  Thank you.

It cannot find bitcoind, turn off auto bitcoin management in Armory (first page in File -> Settings) and run bitcoind manually. Probably this is because you installed bitcoin via snap


This looks wrong. Your blockchain data should be in ~/.bitcoin. This is the folder path you should give it. Try the following:

- From the terminal, cd to the Armory install folder: /usr/local/lib/armory
- Run the db process on its own like this: ./ArmoryDB --satoshi-datadir=/home/*USERNAME*/.bitcoin
- If it starts building the database, let it go all the way. Once it's done, start ArmoryQt.

Okay so I have everything nominally up and running...

Here is my "armorylog.txt"

I recall reading about bitcoinind somewhere in the forums but I don't remember where...  Sorry for my complete amateur mistake but I cannot for the life of me figure out what I need to do from here... Bitcoin-core needs to be running in the background right or is that a thing of the past?

Unfortunately Armory cannot run against pruned nodes at the moment.

@hosseinimr93 got it, yes it was pruned unfortunately... redownloading the blockchain now.
@goatpig, so yep it was in pruned mode...

In pruned mode, you don't store the full blockchain and you only store the UTXO set and the last x GB of blocks.
To check if you are running a prune node, click on "Setting" at top of the window an then go to "Options". If you are running a prune node, you should uncheck "Prune block storage to" option and redownload the blockchain.

Bitcoin-core data is all being stored in the following folders it looks like:
/Users/USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin
/Users/USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/blocks

I don't know what pruned mode is... I'll look for def on the forum though.

It cannot find your blockchain data. Are you using a custom Core folder? Is it running in pruned mode?

I hope that this is not answered somewhere else -- if so, kindly post a link to the solution if known.  Otherwise here goes....

So I'm on macOS Sonoma 14.1.1 (23B81) M1 and I got an older version of Armory to load on my machine.  (v95 -- I know it's an old one but it's the only one for which all dependencies seemed to be met)

I had messed with everything on an old Ubuntu machine and I still will be intermittently if I can't get things up and running on my Mac. It seems way closer on the Mac at this point.

I have encountered the "stuck in offline mode" related posts across the forum but so far nothing I have tried has worked.

@goatpig if this is a fools errand please let me know.  I know that the wallet restores properly so all I need is to get bitcoin-core on my Ubuntu machine (already done, it's syncing currently) and go at it from that direction that's cool too.  I just prefer working with everything tangential to finances on one machine.

Anyway it looks like my synced bitcoin-core-25.1 is not linking over into Armory properly... somehow...

Here is my big ugly log file:

These two are recurrent segments in the log
"""
2023-11-24 19:57 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1137 - C++ block utilities loaded successfully
2023-11-24 19:57 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:651 - Executing popen: sysctl hw.memsize
2023-11-24 19:57 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:651 - Executing popen: sysctl -n machdep.cpu.brand_string
2023-11-24 19:57 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1247 -
2023-11-24 19:57 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1248 -
2023-11-24 19:57 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1249 -
2023-11-24 19:57 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1250 - ************************************************************
2023-11-24 19:57 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1251 - Invoked: /Applications/Armory.app/Contents/MacOS/py/usr/lib/armory/ArmoryQt.py
2023-11-24 19:57 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1252 - ************************************************************
2023-11-24 19:57 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1253 - Loading Armory Engine:
2023-11-24 19:57 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1254 -    Armory Version        : 0.95.1
2023-11-24 19:57 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1255 -    Armory Build:         : None
2023-11-24 19:57 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1256 -    PyBtcWallet  Version  : 1.35
2023-11-24 19:57 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1257 - Detected Operating system: MacOSX
2023-11-24 19:57 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1258 -    OS Variant            : 10.16
2023-11-24 19:57 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1259 -    User home-directory   : /Users/USERNAME/Library/Application Support
2023-11-24 19:57 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1260 -    Satoshi BTC directory : /Users/USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/
2023-11-24 19:57 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1261 -    Armory home dir       : /Users/USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Armory/
2023-11-24 19:57 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1262 - Detected System Specs    :
2023-11-24 19:57 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1263 -    Total Available RAM   : 16.00 GB
2023-11-24 19:57 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1264 -    CPU ID string         : Apple M1 Pro

2023-11-24 19:57 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1265 -    Number of CPU cores   : 10 cores
2023-11-24 19:57 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1266 -    System is 64-bit      : True
2023-11-24 19:57 (ERROR) -- Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Applications/Armory.app/Contents/MacOS/py/usr/lib/armory/ArmoryQt.py", line 44, in
    from armoryengine.ALL import *
  File "/Applications/Armory.app/Contents/MacOS/py/usr/lib/armory/armoryengine/ALL.py", line 8, in
    from armoryengine.ArmoryUtils import *
  File "/Applications/Armory.app/Contents/MacOS/py/usr/lib/armory/armoryengine/ArmoryUtils.py", line 1267, in
    LOGINFO('   Preferred Encoding    : ' + locale.getpreferredencoding())
TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'NoneType' objects
"""

and

"""
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1204 -    Number of CPU cores   : 10 cores
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1205 -    System is 64-bit      : True
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1206 -    Preferred Encoding    : US-ASCII
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1207 -    Machine Arch          : x86_64
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1208 -    Available HDD (ARM)   : 12 GB
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1209 -    Available HDD (BTC)   : 12 GB
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1210 -
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1211 - Network Name: Main Network
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1212 - Satoshi Port: 8333
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1213 - Do wlt check: True
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1214 - Named options/arguments to armoryengine.py:
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1216 -     nettimeout      : 2
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1216 -     rescan          : False
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1216 -     ignoreAllZC     : False
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1216 -     enableSupernode : False
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1216 -     disableModules  : False
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1216 -     port            : None
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1216 -     interport       : 8223
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1216 -     skipStatsReport : False
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1216 -     forceWalletCheck: False
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1216 -     rebuild         : False
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1216 -     datadir         : DEFAULT
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1216 -     clearMempool    : False
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1216 -     offline         : False
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1216 -     coverageOutputDir: None
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1216 -     armoryDBDir     : DEFAULT
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1216 -     psn             : None
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1216 -     satoshiPort     : DEFAULT
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1216 -     useTorSettings  : False
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1216 -     netlog          : False
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1216 -     keypool         : 100
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1216 -     coverageInclude : None
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1216 -     forceOnline     : False
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1216 -     skipAnnounceCheck: False
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1216 -     redownload      : False
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1216 -     multisigFile    : DEFAULT
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1216 -     disableTorrent  : False
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1216 -     testAnnounceCode: False
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1216 -     mtdebug         : False
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1216 -     logDisable      : False
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1216 -     settingsPath    : /Users/USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Armory/ArmorySettings.txt
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1216 -     verbosity       : None
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1216 -     doDebug         : False
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1216 -     enableDetSign   : True
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1216 -     testnet         : False
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1216 -     rpcport         : DEFAULT
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1216 -     satoshiHome     : DEFAULT
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1216 -     satoshiRpcport  : DEFAULT
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1216 -     logFile         : /Users/USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Armory/ArmoryQt.py.log.txt
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1216 -     disableConfPermis: False
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1217 - Other arguments:
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1220 - ************************************************************
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:1620 - C++ block utilities loaded successfully
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- BDM.py:418 - Using the asynchronous/multi-threaded BlockDataManager.
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- BDM.py:419 - Blockchain operations will happen in the background. 
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- BDM.py:420 - Devs: check TheBDM.getState() before asking for data.
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- BDM.py:421 - Registering addresses during rescans will queue them for
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- BDM.py:422 - inclusion after the current scan is completed.
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.py:3531 - Using settings file: /Users/USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Armory/ArmorySettings.txt
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- announcefetch.py:95 - Reading files in fetcher directory:
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- announcefetch.py:271 - Fetching: https://bitcoinarmory.com/announce.txt?osvar=%28%2710.16%27%2C+%28%27%27%2C+%27%27%2C+%27%27%29%2C+%27x86_64%27%29&os=mac&ver=0.93.3&id=9ee7a439
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:2736 - loadWalletsAndSettings
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:2790 - Loading wallets...
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:2849 - Number of wallets read in: 0
2023-11-24 21:44 (ERROR) -- announcefetch.py:283 - Specified URL was inaccessible
2023-11-24 21:44 (ERROR) -- announcefetch.py:284 - Tried: https://bitcoinarmory.com/announce.txt?osvar=%28%2710.16%27%2C+%28%27%27%2C+%27%27%2C+%27%27%29%2C+%27x86_64%27%29&os=mac&ver=0.93.3&id=9ee7a439
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- announcefetch.py:271 - Fetching: https://s3.amazonaws.com/bitcoinarmory-media/announce.txt
2023-11-24 21:44 (ERROR) -- announcefetch.py:283 - Specified URL was inaccessible
2023-11-24 21:44 (ERROR) -- announcefetch.py:284 - Tried: https://s3.amazonaws.com/bitcoinarmory-media/announce.txt
2023-11-24 21:44 (WARNING) -- announcefetch.py:297 - Error fetching announce digest
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:2298 - Setting up networking...
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:2327 - Internet status: 0
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:2525 - loadBlockchainIfNecessary
2023-11-24 21:44 (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:2546 - Setting netmode: 1
2023-11-24 21:44 (ERROR) -- BDM.py:324 - Blockchain data not available: /Users/USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/blocks/blk00000.dat
2023-11-24 21:44 (ERROR) -- Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Applications/Armory.app/Contents/MacOS/py/usr/lib/armory/ArmoryQt.py", line 7147, in
    form = ArmoryMainWindow(splashScreen=SPLASH)
  File "/Applications/Armory.app/Contents/MacOS/py/usr/lib/armory/ArmoryQt.py", line 260, in __init__
    self.loadBlockchainIfNecessary()
  File "/Applications/Armory.app/Contents/MacOS/py/usr/lib/armory/ArmoryQt.py", line 2538, in loadBlockchainIfNecessary
    TheBDM.goOnline()
  File "/Applications/Armory.app/Contents/MacOS/py/usr/lib/armory/armoryengine/BDM.py", line 148, in inner
    return func(*newArgs, **kwargs)
  File "/Applications/Armory.app/Contents/MacOS/py/usr/lib/armory/armoryengine/BDM.py", line 251, in goOnline
    self.bdmThread.setConfig(self.bdmConfig())
  File "/Applications/Armory.app/Contents/MacOS/py/usr/lib/armory/armoryengine/BDM.py", line 148, in inner
    return func(*newArgs, **kwargs)
  File "/Applications/Armory.app/Contents/MacOS/py/usr/lib/armory/armoryengine/BDM.py", line 325, in bdmConfig
    raise FileExistsError, ('Blockchain data not available: %s' % blk1st)
FileExistsError: Blockchain data not available: /Users/USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/blocks/blk00000.dat
"""

Peace 'n' Love,

Francicso