Topic: Problems with the linearize.py script (Read 1194 times)
If you want to download another copy of the blockchain through the Bitcoin network (which can be from another local bitcoin of yours), you can use https://github.com/jgarzik/pynode. It is a Python standalone Bitcoin node with limited functions. It has a script, mkbootstrap.py, which will also generate the torrent file.
I finally managed to obtain the bootstrap.dat file. I had to:
Thank you for the help.
- create bitcoin.conf with server=1
- set rpcuser/rpcpassword variables in both bitcoin.conf and linearize.cfg
- set max_height=295000 in linearize.cfg
- restart Bitcoin-Qt
- run linearize.py
Thank you for the help.
linearize.py gets blockchain data from bitcoin core using JSON-RPC calls. it does not read it from disk.
I don't have a bitcoin.conf file in my home directory. I also don't understand what linearize.py is trying to connect to, as the blockchain data is on my hard disk. Should I run bitcoind instead of Bitcoin-Qt? Sorry but I'm quite confused...
it should be pretty obvious
it probably means you don't have server=1 in bitcoin.conf (since you're running bitcoin-qt rather than bitcoind)
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socket.error: [Errno 111] Connection refused
it probably means you don't have server=1 in bitcoin.conf (since you're running bitcoin-qt rather than bitcoind)
Hello. I'm a new forum user, but have been using Bitcoin itself for a few months. I read here that I can obtain the bootstrap.dat file via Bittorrent, but since I already downloaded the blockchain data via Bitcoin-Qt I guess it's better to generate the file with the linearize.py script and then seed it. But I get the following error when running it:
I don't know Python so I can't understand what's wrong. I just edited the max_height variable in example-linearize.cfg before running the script:
Code:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./linearize.py", line 130, in
get_blocks(settings)
File "./linearize.py", line 79, in get_blocks
data = getblock(rpc, settings, height)
File "./linearize.py", line 66, in getblock
hash = rpc.getblockhash(n)
File "./linearize.py", line 63, in getblockhash
return self.rpc('getblockhash', [index])
File "./linearize.py", line 41, in rpc
'Content-type' : 'application/json' })
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 973, in request
self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 1007, in _send_request
self.endheaders(body)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 969, in endheaders
self._send_output(message_body)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 829, in _send_output
self.send(msg)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 791, in send
self.connect()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 772, in connect
self.timeout, self.source_address)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 571, in create_connection
raise err
socket.error: [Errno 111] Connection refused
I don't know Python so I can't understand what's wrong. I just edited the max_height variable in example-linearize.cfg before running the script:
Code:
# bitcoind RPC settings
rpcuser=someuser
rpcpassword=somepassword
host=127.0.0.1
port=8332
# bootstrap.dat settings
netmagic=f9beb4d9
max_height=295000
output=bootstrap.dat
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