Quote from: novacadian on June 19, 2016, 02:55:55 PM

Quote from: wiser on June 18, 2016, 05:42:30 PM

Quote from: novacadian on June 18, 2016, 03:08:45 PM

Quote from: wiser on June 18, 2016, 01:24:29 PM

OK, tried to open my wallet this morning and got an error message saying "failed to connect best block." When I click OK, it just closes the wallet loading. What do I do?

Thought it was just me, when setting up my wallet recently.

- Nova

So how did you get past that? I still have that problem. Wondering if I need to download the entire block chain again or something. I kind of hope not. DVC is an old coin so could take a while...

Didn't get past this with the devcoin wallet, yet, wiser. Watching your ticket with interest. Monies riding on it, if you will. Wink

- Nova

Downloading the entire block chain in the end seems to have solved the problem. I think my previous version of the block chain had gotten corrupted somehow. I didn't think of that at first because, well, when the block chain is corrupted, the error message is different for each type of coin wallet. It took all night, and then in the morning when I checked it was taking forever to get past a particular block. Forget the number but it ended in 71. I closed the wallet and restarted it once. It was still hung up on that block, but I just left the wallet open for quite a while and by the time I got back to it, it had gotten past that block and fully synchronized. I haven't tried to send anything, but as far as I can tell, it's working fine.

One thing I did do, because the wallet seemed to have been taking forever to find a block source, was I put the peers file back into my appdata folder. Eventually the wallet did connect, and I'm not sure if that made a difference or not. I'm also not sure if closing and then restarting my wallet when it was stuck on the block ending in 71 made any difference or if it was just going to take a long time to get past that particular block no matter what I did.

But in any case, downloading the entire block chain seems to solve a lot of problems, so good to try when the wallet is acting up.