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ORIGINAL QUESTION:

Anyone know why I am getting the following error message?

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Other possible relevant info:

Config file location

/home/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf

Config file content:

server=1
testnet=0
txindex=1
rpcuser=[username redacted]
rpcpassword=[password redacted]

bitcoind location:

/home/bitcoin-0.19.1/bin/bitcoind

OS:

Ubuntu 18.04 (fully uptodate)


bitcoin-core download location:

sudo wget https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.19.1/bitcoin-0.19.1-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz

login username:

bitcoin

folder/file permissions (recursive) for bitcoind and bitcoin.conf:

777

After a few seconds, bitcoind automatically stops without warning and allows me to start it again, only to automatically stop again. How do I figure out why it is not starting, or why it stops after a second or 2? When it stops, it does not show any error messages in the terminal. I only know something is wrong if I run a bitcoin-cli command, as seen in the screenshot above.


UPDATE ONE:

./bitcoind output below:

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  • Run bitcoind without --daemon and check for error messages
    – pinhead
    Commented May 10, 2020 at 12:37
  • @pinhead, added output by running bitcoind without -daemon. Any idea why that error message is being generated? Commented May 10, 2020 at 18:53
  • could it be a weird time/date in your output CBlockFileInfo(.... time=01-01-1970.. )
    – Denja
    Commented May 16, 2020 at 11:59

2 Answers 2

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It's possible your blockchain is corrupted or you have multiple bitcoind processes running. Kill the bitcoind process, go to /home/bitcoin/.bitcoin and delete the blocks, chainstate and database directories using

rm -r blocks
rm -r chainstate
rm -r database

then start the daemon again without the '-daemon' flag to see if it progresses further.

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I was having all sorts of problems with this. Decided to copy everything from an NTFS drive to a Ext4 drive. All problems gone...

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