"bitcoind block 177596 issue" - Where can I find more info on this? Besides from seeing that it's quite a big block from 2012 
He meant block 277596
Here is some information I gathered in another thread:
This is some #bitcoin-dev discussion about the issue:
http://bitcoinstats.com/irc/bitcoin-dev/logs/2013/12/29
http://bitcoinstats.com/irc/bitcoin-dev/logs/2013/12/30 <- Ukyo asked for some advice in this one.
Even http://blockexplorer.com/ is stuck on block 277955.
Thanks, read through all of it, seems more bad luck, as others apparently managed to get it fixed rather easy (by waiting or upgrading), but reading Ukyo's log that didn't work in his case