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Re: Armory - Discussion Thread
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kentt
on 05/05/2014, 06:06:54 UTC
Regarding the virus, how would one double check that I was not victim to this attack.  **nervous**

Generate the new addresses on your cold system first, and then verify that the addresses you generate on the hot watch-only system match the addresses in the cold system.

If a computer is infected, it is completely hopeless

Let say you generated an address with the cold system, which is "1User". You send a withdrawal request to the exchange, asking them to send bitcoin to 1User. A sophisticated malware could secretly replace the address with "1Hacker" before sending the request the exchange.

Extremely valid point.

Some users on Reddit have actually been having this problem caused by extensions on google chrome. Though it could be any sort of malware, google chrome extensions just seem to be the thing lately.

Always a good idea to send a small test transaction out of an exchange before sending the whole amount.
I should be able to avoid that by noticing that I'm signing the txn to 1User on the offline rig.
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Re: Armory - Discussion Thread
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kentt
on 03/05/2014, 22:52:19 UTC
Regarding the virus, how would one double check that I was not victim to this attack.  **nervous**

Generate the new addresses on your cold system first, and then verify that the addresses you generate on the hot watch-only system match the addresses in the cold system.

Do not get scared if they don't match at first! Look at the whole list and address number! They won't be synced.
Generating addresses on the cold rig matched all the generated addresses on the broadcast wallet so I guess I'm good.  Thanks for the heads up.

By "Do not get scared if they don't match at first!" do you just mean don't that I shouldn't be worried if I haven't generated the same addresses on the cold system as on the broadcast system?  Eg I've generated a few on the cold rig, but 50 on broadcast rig.  That is they should still be in generated in same order once generated.
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Re: Armory - Discussion Thread
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kentt
on 03/05/2014, 21:39:20 UTC
Regarding the virus, how would one double check that I was not victim to this attack.  **nervous**
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will run 7 GPUs MSI Z77A-GD55
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kentt
on 21/03/2014, 22:21:35 UTC
Motherboard MSI Z77A-GD55

Will run 7 GPUs

Used this board but had to return it. I bought a new board in the meantime so I don't need this one.
MSI sent me a new one back (different serial number, different mac address).

This is a brand new board, all accessories are in their package. I can provide receipts and rma docs if you need.

Review: http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/mainboard/39737-msi-z77a-gd55-intel-ivy-bridge-motherboard/
Specs: http://www.msi.com/product/mb/Z77AGD55.html

$100USD + shipping from Canada
Bitcoin (using bitcoinaverage.com/#USD price) or Paypal
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Re: Armory - Discussion Thread
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kentt
on 19/03/2014, 22:08:56 UTC
The point is that these transactions have identified an inefficiency in Armory that will have to be fixed.  However, I believe that most users do not have such transactions, and it is only now that we've been able to identify that as the cause for a lot of these reports.  Because no one on our team has a wallet with such transactions in it.  Those types of transactions simply do not exist in many use cases, and thus many people will not experience any such problems.

Please do not misinterpret my statement as blaming it on the user, or saying it's unimportant.  I'm simply identifying that you have fallen into a gap that many users do not, and thus will not have those problems.  Now that we've identified it, we'll try to get a fix into 0.91.1.  Fixing it will require a bit more work than we can put in for 0.91.
Okay great.  I hadn't realized that you had accepted this as the issue.  It sounds like you've got a handle on the issue.
Thanks.
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Re: Armory - Discussion Thread
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kentt
on 19/03/2014, 21:10:44 UTC
0.91 is an improvement over 0.90 for sure.  But we don't believe that it's a critical upgrade.
I'm eating lunch with altoz right now and he also says he's had problems with 0.90 that required him to delete the .armory directory.

I think you've got a lot of users who having problem but are just living with them instead of reporting them.

i have had zero problems with 0.90 (zero crashes) and that's after putting it thru heavy testing.

of course, my laptop has 16GB RAM with a huge HD in linux.
Heavy testing?  Can you take 10 transactions like this? http://blockchain.info/tx/e3aea19a966d103c4520530f6a8f9486b03d4cbe46deeeb56c4e72730fe83f2f

I couldn't on any rig.
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Re: Armory - Discussion Thread
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kentt
on 19/03/2014, 19:01:21 UTC

2. Not sending pooled funds into Armory.  I send them every once in a while when it's as much as feel comfortable leaving in a web wallet.


Unfortunately this won't work on many switching pools. Middlecoin and WafflePool both payout on a daily basis. You can't hold it. These are the two primary pools that I believe are killing my wallets.
I didn't explain well enough.  What I meant is I use blockchain.info for wafflepool daily payments.  After a couple weeks then I send them to armory.  I didn't mean that I delay the payout.
It worked for me and it sounds like we mine on the same pools.
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Re: Armory - Discussion Thread
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kentt
on 19/03/2014, 17:10:52 UTC
In that particular thread that is linked, we have a problem with certain types of transactions that is affecting at least 2 of the 3 users there reporting issues (which are in this thread).  I suspect this pattern is present across a lot of support requests.   I whole-heartedly agree that we need to get the app working for those users, but they still represent a small portion of our userbase -- those that are participating in pooled mining. 
It's not the userbase the participates in certain types of pooled mining that is the issue.  The issue is that Armory won't work for some typical transactions (one input, lots of output addresses).  There are many applications of this and it will only be more common.
Sorry for being so adversarial today. I like what you guys are doing.
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Re: Armory - Discussion Thread
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kentt
on 19/03/2014, 17:07:14 UTC
I'm not saying that no one has problems with Armory.  But we got 25,000 downloads each of the last two months, and we get only a handful of support requests each day.  Unfortunately, it's still too much, as we need to focus on developing and we're not a customer support house, but we're doing our best to balance everything.

In that particular thread that is linked, we have a problem with certain types of transactions that is affecting at least 2 of the 3 users there reporting issues (which are in this thread).  I suspect this pattern is present across a lot of support requests.   I whole-heartedly agree that we need to get the app working for those users, but they still represent a small portion of our userbase -- those that are participating in pooled mining.  In fact, my neighbor who knows nothing about Bitcoin was able to get Armory running and using it, though she said it took 58 hours to sync.

0.91 is an improvement over 0.90 for sure.  But we don't believe that it's a critical upgrade.

A note on your download page informing me that the product is not suitable for those doing pooled mining would have saved both of us a lot of headaches.

What is the best short term solution for us 'pooled miners' who have coins in Armory wallets that wont run?
The work around for me was to
1. Rescue my BTC by getting the private keys into another wallet (-qt client perhaps since you probably have it synched up).
2. Not sending pooled funds into Armory.  I send them every once in a while when it's as much as feel comfortable leaving in a web wallet.

Note that this hasn't stopped Armory from crashing but it make it stable enough to start and run long enough to do a transaction.
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Re: Armory - Discussion Thread
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kentt
on 19/03/2014, 17:01:34 UTC
Sorry in advance for being blunt, but when it comes to releasing 0.91 you guys really need to shit or get off the pot.

Right now you don't have any viable downloads on your website. The 0.8x series is too resource-intensive for most users, and 0.90 is unusably crash-prone.

A year ago, I could point people in this situation: http://www.fr33aid.com/1511/fr33-aid-bitcoins-stolen/ at your website and know they'd find something there they could download and use, but that hasn't been true for the last six months and I don't see any particular acknowledgment of this or urgency on your part.

It's not a problem for me personally since I can just grab the 0.91 branch from Git, but a lot of people who can't are losing Bitcoins because there aren't any good usable cold storage solutions any more.

New features are great to have, but they shouldn't delay you having a minimal viable product out, where "minimum viable product" is defined as "an application that lets you send and receive bitcoins from cold storage without consuming obscene amounts of RAM and also doesn't crash every few seconds."

I was not aware that 0.90 was "unusably crash-prone".  If that was the case, I would not have delayed the 0.91-beta release.  What platforms/contexts are unusably crash-prone (besides Mac)?  As far as I can tell, Windows and Ubuntu seem to be working well for most.
I have to agree with the description that it's "unusaby crash-prone".  I tried my offline wallet on 4 different computers, 2 of which were fresh installs just for testing (one Ubuntu, one Win 7).  None of the computers could run Armory 0.9 for more than an hour with my watch only wallet without crashing.  I figured it had something to do with the number of transaction in the WO wallet and made a new offline and WO wallet.  After about a week I had the same issues though less sever.  I've come to the shitty solution of only adding to my cold storage very occasionally since each transaction decrease the amount of time it takes for Armory to crash.

I know from other threads that you're a bit frustrated with the average user who's complaining to you, but I think justusranvier is exactly correct and I think you need to take these complaints more seriously.  
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kentt
on 05/03/2014, 19:25:01 UTC
Awesome.  I bought a couple to try out!  Hoping WA->WA shipping will go fast.
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Re: Armory - Discussion Thread
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kentt
on 24/02/2014, 02:16:03 UTC
On windows 7 I cannot get the new version to run without crashing.  I tried deleting the appdata folder but it always crashes after synchronizing with network. .88 is working on this machine (kinda, crashes every couple days).
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Re: Armory - Discussion Thread
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kentt
on 09/02/2014, 02:19:58 UTC
I'm running avast as well and I do not have that issue.  I even manually scanned appdata/armory to check.
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Re: Armory - Discussion Thread
by
kentt
on 08/02/2014, 05:47:41 UTC
I've imported the WO wallet on 3 computers now with similar results.  On rig 2 I got the wallet imported and scanned but it would crash frequently (with 30 minutes) and now does load without crashing.  On rig 3 I've done a clean install of Ubuntu 12.04, updated and installed bitcoind and qt from the ppa, synced the blockchain and I'm having similar symptoms as rig 2 and 1 now.

I moved back to using 0.88.1 on rig 1 and it hasn't crashed after a few days. 

Would it make sense to try to reimport (from the paper fragments I have) and export the WO wallet and see if that works better or is that unlikely to do anything different?

Do you mean this WO is ages old? I thought you had it exported from your recently restored wallets. If it is very old, now I really want to take a look at it.

Someome just recently sent us a WO that crashes Armory. I don't know if its yours but I'll be getting on it soon. I'm not gonna insist to see your WO until I'm done with the current one, however it may be very interesting. If anything don't delete it.

As for your test, you should try with a freshly derivated WO.
It wasn't me who sent you the WO wallet.  I will try with a freshly exported WO wallet from the backup and update you.  I will keep a backup of the WO wallet that's crashing.

It's not an old wallet.  The first tx I have in there is early Dec. 2013 so I imagine I made it with whatever Armory version was current then.

As an aside, using 0.88.1 is working well right now.
After re-export, still crashing. 
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Re: Armory - Discussion Thread
by
kentt
on 07/02/2014, 23:02:48 UTC
I've imported the WO wallet on 3 computers now with similar results.  On rig 2 I got the wallet imported and scanned but it would crash frequently (with 30 minutes) and now does load without crashing.  On rig 3 I've done a clean install of Ubuntu 12.04, updated and installed bitcoind and qt from the ppa, synced the blockchain and I'm having similar symptoms as rig 2 and 1 now.

I moved back to using 0.88.1 on rig 1 and it hasn't crashed after a few days. 

Would it make sense to try to reimport (from the paper fragments I have) and export the WO wallet and see if that works better or is that unlikely to do anything different?

Do you mean this WO is ages old? I thought you had it exported from your recently restored wallets. If it is very old, now I really want to take a look at it.

Someome just recently sent us a WO that crashes Armory. I don't know if its yours but I'll be getting on it soon. I'm not gonna insist to see your WO until I'm done with the current one, however it may be very interesting. If anything don't delete it.

As for your test, you should try with a freshly derivated WO.
It wasn't me who sent you the WO wallet.  I will try with a freshly exported WO wallet from the backup and update you.  I will keep a backup of the WO wallet that's crashing.

It's not an old wallet.  The first tx I have in there is early Dec. 2013 so I imagine I made it with whatever Armory version was current then.

As an aside, using 0.88.1 is working well right now.
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Re: Armory - Discussion Thread
by
kentt
on 07/02/2014, 07:51:41 UTC
Okay I deleted everything in appdata/armory and added a new wallet "unused hack".  Let that sync.  Everything was peachy.  Stop and started Armory everything worked.
Added my offline wallet.  Crashed. Any Idea how I can fix this?  Or should I just hold tight?

Try that again with a watching only copy of your offline wallet. If that crashes too, send me a copy of your WO wallet and I can isolate the bug.
Okay I'll test again with the WO wallet.  I'll try on a couple other rigs today too.  I'd rather not send my WO wallet for privacy reasons though I really appreciate the offer.
I've imported the WO wallet on 3 computers now with similar results.  On rig 2 I got the wallet imported and scanned but it would crash frequently (with 30 minutes) and now does load without crashing.  On rig 3 I've done a clean install of Ubuntu 12.04, updated and installed bitcoind and qt from the ppa, synced the blockchain and I'm having similar symptoms as rig 2 and 1 now.

I moved back to using 0.88.1 on rig 1 and it hasn't crashed after a few days. 

Would it make sense to try to reimport (from the paper fragments I have) and export the WO wallet and see if that works better or is that unlikely to do anything different?
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Re: Armory - Discussion Thread
by
kentt
on 05/02/2014, 18:27:24 UTC
Are you sure it's crashed? Might be processing.
It does crash.  Or at least Windows closes it and says it crashed.
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Re: Armory - Discussion Thread
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kentt
on 05/02/2014, 16:44:35 UTC
Okay I deleted everything in appdata/armory and added a new wallet "unused hack".  Let that sync.  Everything was peachy.  Stop and started Armory everything worked.
Added my offline wallet.  Crashed. Any Idea how I can fix this?  Or should I just hold tight?

Try that again with a watching only copy of your offline wallet. If that crashes too, send me a copy of your WO wallet and I can isolate the bug.
Okay I'll test again with the WO wallet.  I'll try on a couple other rigs today too.  I'd rather not send my WO wallet for privacy reasons though I really appreciate the offer.
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Re: Armory - Discussion Thread
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kentt
on 05/02/2014, 01:25:29 UTC
Okay I deleted everything in appdata/armory and added a new wallet "unused hack".  Let that sync.  Everything was peachy.  Stop and started Armory everything worked.
Added my offline wallet.  Crashed. Any Idea how I can fix this?  Or should I just hold tight?
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Re: Armory - Discussion Thread
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kentt
on 04/02/2014, 06:14:29 UTC
Delete your local copy of the blockchain.

Nvm the first part. Just have that wallet sitting in Armory's datadir before building Armory's DB. Also, send me your log file at support@bitcoinarmory.com, link to your post so I can recognize you.

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6. Import wallet the I created using "watching only copy"
Armory Scans Transaction history.  Then crashes.  

Does it crash or do you terminate the process yourself? Assuming the process is hanging, is Armory maxing one of your cores?
I noticed it maxing out one core while scanning, but I wasn't watching just as it crashed.  Windows says that it's not responding (and it's not) and then it crashes.
I'll email you the log.  Thanks for looking.