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Topic: Stuck on "Initializing bitcoin engine" forever (Read 1010 times)

staff
Activity: 3458
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Just writing some code
In Armory, uncheck the "Let Armory run Bitcoin Core in the background" Checkbox. Stop Armory. Start Bitcoin Core. Let Bitcoin Core sync. Then start Armory again.

Let me get this straight: "Let Bitcoin Core sync." - Start syncing or finish syncing?
Finish syncing.
newbie
Activity: 27
Merit: 0
In Armory, uncheck the "Let Armory run Bitcoin Core in the background" Checkbox. Stop Armory. Start Bitcoin Core. Let Bitcoin Core sync. Then start Armory again.

Let me get this straight: "Let Bitcoin Core sync." - Start syncing or finish syncing?
legendary
Activity: 3752
Merit: 1364
Armory Developer
Don't run auto bitcoind if your setup isn't stable. Run BitcoinQt and make sure it's sync'd before running anything else. The fact that it's eating 40% CPU implies it's not done syncing.
member
Activity: 90
Merit: 10
aha thanks!
Now stuck at initializing bitcoin engine. bitcoind is running and at 40% cpu usage.
uh
legendary
Activity: 3752
Merit: 1364
Armory Developer
That's not stuck, that's how far the DB can get without wallets registered. Now start ArmoryQt to get to the next step.
member
Activity: 90
Merit: 10
Thank you! I did it, it's now stuck at:

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-INFO  - 1492718365: (DatabaseBuilder.cpp:268) parsed block file #837
-INFO  - 1492718368: (DatabaseBuilder.cpp:268) parsed block file #841
-DEBUG - 1492718393: (Blockchain.cpp:242) Organizing chain
-INFO  - 1492718401: (DatabaseBuilder.cpp:56) updated HEADERS db in 2358.24s
-INFO  - 1492718403: (BlockUtils.cpp:1636) Enabling zero-conf tracking
legendary
Activity: 3752
Merit: 1364
Armory Developer
Delete your databases folder. Start ArmoryDB from the command line with the following:

Code:
ArmoryDB --db-type=DB_BARE

Once, it's done building, you can shutdown the DB and start the client as usual.
member
Activity: 90
Merit: 10
That didn't help, so i went the starting bitcoin-qt route so it rebuilds everything.
After it did that for 3+ days armory still hangs on scanning transaction history and bad block hash
legendary
Activity: 3752
Merit: 1364
Armory Developer
You should just rebuild & rescan here. Don't delete blocks files just yet.
member
Activity: 90
Merit: 10
I just spent 3+ days rebuilding the whole database with bitcoin-qt and when finally started armory the dblog ends with
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-INFO  - 1492548099: (DatabaseBuilder.cpp:56) updated HEADERS db in 68.9895s
-INFO  - 1492548099: (DatabaseBuilder.cpp:106) scanning new blocks from #457820 to #459045
-ERROR - 1492548100: (BlockchainScanner.cpp:271) raw data does not match expected block hash

how many block files I have to delete?
Can't afford to wait another 3+ days to rebuild.
member
Activity: 90
Merit: 10
I see. More often than not Armory freezes when quitting on Ubuntu and I have to kill it.
legendary
Activity: 3752
Merit: 1364
Armory Developer
If you don't shut down Core gracefully, the leveldb database may get corrupted. Your best bet is to manually control BitcoinQt to make sure it is shut down properly (that the shut down period is respected).
member
Activity: 90
Merit: 10
When starting bitcoin-qt it said corrupted database block detected and started reindexing blocks from the beginning which last time took couple of days.
This is like the 3rd time this happens (second in a month)

Is there particular reason this happens so often?



p.s.
thank you for the help!
staff
Activity: 3458
Merit: 6793
Just writing some code
In Armory, uncheck the "Let Armory run Bitcoin Core in the background" Checkbox. Stop Armory. Start Bitcoin Core. Let Bitcoin Core sync. Then start Armory again.
member
Activity: 90
Merit: 10
I'm with Armory 0.95.1-beta and bitcoin-0.11.1 on Ubuntu 16.10
When I start Armory, it starts bitcoind as well but it closes shortly after. So it's stuck at "Initializing bitcoin engine" forever

Sometimes after couple of runs it goes beyond that and hangs all day on syncrhonizing with network, but it's just few days behind so couldn't be taking whole day for sure.

So basically I can't access my money again.
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