Quote from: etotheipi on December 06, 2013, 04:39:55 AM

Quote from: Gryph on December 06, 2013, 01:21:10 AM

I've been able to reproduce the error and fix the error.

When install Bitcoin-QT and reload the blockchain with bootstrap.dat the error pops up. But if i install the bitcoin-QT fresh and let it download the whole blockchain over two days, it works.

I hope this, along with the log files i sent you, help you solve problem.

Thanks again for such a great piece of software!

I'm starting to notice some patterns in this. It may have to do with the version of Bitcoin-Qt that produces the blk*.dat files. It's very possible that there are artifacts in the blk*.dat files that I don't handle gracefully.

So where did your bootstrap file come from? Do you know the version that created it?

On the other hand, I'd like to move away from reading the blk*.dat files entirely, and just request it as a regular blockchain download via P2P (via localhost). This would solve a lot of problems and should make the version of Bitcoin-Qt irrelevant, in addition to allowing remote Bitcoin-Qt instances. In fact, I wanted to do this for 0.90-beta, but the change was too dramatic, and decided to keep it simple for now. But now that this version is stabilizing, it may make sense to do that, especially if it wipes out these kinds of bugs, which may be elusive and difficult to debug (basically allow bitcoin-qt to read its own blk*.dat files properly, and pass us the data in standardized network messages).

I swiped the file from this thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=145386.0

as for what version that created it, I have no idea.

Those changes to how it gets the blockchain sound like a great idea! Take all the time you need to implement it!

Great job again!

Gryph

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