Posts made by nicholi3

If it helps anyone else, I deleted all the files in my windows/users/[username]/appdate/roaming/feathercoin directory except wallet.dat and this forced the wallet to re-download the blockchain. It successfully passed the block it was hung on before and is now up-to-date. All is good now.

Steps I took to update were:

1. Backup all the files in the directory noted above including wallet.dat
2. Installed latest wallet 0.9.6.2
3. Deleted all files in the above mentioned /roaming/feathercoin/ directory except wallet.dat
4. Adjust windows firewall settings to allow feathcoin-qt unrestricted internet access
5. Started the feathercoin-qt wallet program
6. Waited about a day for it to update

@wellenreiter

So after a reboot and adjustments to firewall, I now have 10 active connections to the Feathercoin network. However, there is a message “No block source available” in the bottom left status line. It’s stuck on the same 205848 block number as before I updated.

The debug log has grown from about 2k to 6,000k overnight. It seems to be processing blocks, but the block number and weeks behind has not incremented. The majority of the log entries look like similar to this:

2017-12-28 15:08:35 ProcessBlock() ProcessBlock: ORPHAN BLOCK 7501, prev=302af39ced993449cced24f5a06a2c7523e0c4f2e309a3093b7f3928c8a72c7e
2017-12-28 15:08:58 ProcessBlock() ProcessBlock: ORPHAN BLOCK 7501, prev=8c82441ce3023926f2aad65afce69c4b44bab4420f6cda0c5c3a9c9ac2d19e2d
2017-12-28 15:08:59 ProcessBlock() ProcessBlock: ORPHAN BLOCK 7501, prev=48b30340b9eb0db60fbe20bd1d1849210a8e9d5305b828f125eeff63e07fbdaf

Should I just delete the block history? Will that force the wallet to rebuild the block history?

Appreciate the help!

Tks. Updated to 0.9.6.2 successfully. Old wallet imported ok.

It’s been sitting now for about an hour and has not located any active connections for peers yet.

After waiting a while, I tried the console command:
addnode “xxx.xxx.xx.xxx” “add”

for a few of the IP’s listed here: https://www.coinexchange.io/network/peers/FTC

However, no active connections. Thoughts on what I should do? Think firewall/AV could be an issue?

Newbish questions… I have an old qt-wallet 0.8.5.0-beta where the sync stalled 184 wks ago. Couple of questions:

1. Can I initiate a transfer out of that wallet if it’s not synced?
2. I see 0.9.6.2 is current wallet version. If I simply update to the new version, will the keys import and the wallet start syncing again? Any special upgrade steps to take besides making a copy before I start?

Thanks.