Quote from: whenwhatwherewhyhow on May 21, 2016, 11:08:51 PM

I'm new to Factom. Trying to set up the wallet and my factomd keeps shutting itself down. Is that normal?

This is where it quits...

It then scrolls something too fast for me to see before shutting down. I don't think it can finish syncing the chain.

EDIT:

This is what I'm trying to follow (for windows)
https://www.factom.com/howto/binaries-install-guide/

It says download factom.msi but I couldn't find it on the site. I had to google to find it here... http://factom.org/downloads/

Maybe it is too old? It says last updated 2-11-16

That is the default screen that it should show when it is downloading the blockchain. to see the progress, open a new terminal window and type

Code:

factom-cli get height

it will show how many blocks have been downloaded. When it has the same number as http://explorer.factom.org/ is showing, then you have the whole blockchain.

once you get the whole blockchain, click on the other desktop shortcut. this will load walletapp, which opens a webpage to manage the wallet.

if it scrolls and closes, then it is displaying a message, then windows is closing the terminal. try opening a terminal window from the run dialog. then start factom with

Code:

factomd

this will keep the window open and you can see what it is complaining about.