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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: BitcoinCore node crashing
by
AbsentSixth
on 16/01/2018, 20:03:37 UTC
I don't think I explained what happened very well so let me give it another shot. And if there is information that you can tell would be more useful to you please just let me know and I will try my best to provide anything I can.
 
I had plugged it (21bitcoin pi) in for a while but there was no prompt, so if it was doing anything, it would have been unknown to me. I thought it had software on it but since they don't support it any longer I am guessing that is why without the proper driver it produced the driver power state failure. But I never got it to do anything, even tho windows tried to find a driver that would work but could not.
It does have an older version of the blockchain on a micro sd in it but since I don't think it really connected, I figure that's probably not where the corruption took place but I could be wrong.

Now though when I run bitcoin-qt everything is as it should be for approx 40-50 min's until it crashes. I could probably even send the little bitcoin I have in that wallet out to somewhere else if the mining fee wasn't as high as it is. But then again I wonder what might happen if that transaction didn't confirm within the 40-50 min window before my node crashed again. But other than that it syncs up and then connects to approx 8 inbounds and 8 outbound peers at the beginning, shows my balance and runs properly for about 45mins then gives the fatal internal error. The wallet dat file is encrypted but is in the bitcoin folder and I have checked that my user has read and write access.

I read back thru the debug file to the 7th of this month which I believe is when I tried to connect the 21 pi and found a line in there that said "possible stale tip detected" I'm not sure what that means but it occurs to me that I only put a days worth of the debug log file in the Pastebin would it be more helpful if I loaded more of the debug file? Would you be able to help me decipher what the heck I did wrong and maybe a way to either roll back or apply a fix so I can learn a bit more about it? I don't have much bitcoin in the wallet at the moment but have had this node up and running for quite some time 24/7 without fail and would like to continue to do so, but this thing has me dead in my tracks.

Thanks for sticking in there with me, I appreciate it.