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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: Error: Error reading from database
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ETFbitcoin
on 01/03/2020, 13:24:14 UTC
2020-03-01T11:06:01Z LevelDB read failure: Corruption: block checksum mismatch: C:\Users\Michael\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin\chainstate\060915.ldb
2020-03-01T11:06:01Z Fatal LevelDB error: Corruption: block checksum mismatch: C:\Users\Michael\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin\chainstate\060915.ldb
2020-03-01T11:06:01Z You can use -debug=leveldb to get more complete diagnostic messages
2020-03-01T11:06:01Z Error: Error reading from database, shutting down.
2020-03-01T11:06:09Z Error reading from database: Fatal LevelDB error: Corruption: block checksum mismatch: C:\Users\Michael\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin\chainstate\060915.ldb

Most common reason are faulty RAM, failing HDD/SDD or broken SATA cable.

Download crystaldiskinfo and see if there are any warning/caution for your HDD/SSD. If there are any warning/caution, it might be the reason.

Try renaming the last blk file in the blocks directory of the data dir for bitcoin core and try again.

What is the default directory for potcoin? Bitcoin and litecoin use different data dirs so it might be a hardware issue if the above doesn't resolve it.

Now it keeps crashing.

Did you same error message (Fatal LevelDB error: Corruption: block checksum mismatch) on debug.log on time when it crashed?