Quote from: barrysty1e on March 06, 2017, 10:21:51 AM

Quote from: pallas on March 06, 2017, 09:44:43 AM

about the hash: looks suspicious, I will look thru it, time permitting :-)
please share the block height and hash.

the error in debug.log while syncing:

Code:

2017-03-06 06:50:24 UpdateTip: new best=000000017ec0449e4ebc1e2bc7d0cc5836490048169d4ab01801dd7d5dc7ebdc height=160 log2_work=35.256255 tx=161 date=2014-07-28 01:24:2 0 progress=1.000000
2017-03-06 06:50:24 Cannot fastforward chain because of missing data: 000000044c4e5c82cf3c93a3019f09ecd9005a30f5eeba2ff6952b349c7324ae
Cannot fastforward chain because of missing data: 000000044c4e5c82cf3c93a3019f09ecd9005a30f5eeba2ff6952b349c7324ae 2
2017-03-06 06:50:24 Activate 000000017ec0449e4ebc1e2bc7d0cc5836490048169d4ab01801dd7d5dc7ebdc

however putting a fully sync'd chain into place, running 'getblockhash 161', we get:
000000044c4e5c82cf3c93a3019f09ecd9005a30f5eeba2ff6952b349c7324ae

james

"Cannot fastforward chain because of missing data" means it can't find block data, which is normal for such an old block. Miniblockchain should go ahead and keep the header only. There must be something else.