Latest client release will not completely sync

[mindphlux]

Even the block count in "get_info" is stuck, and does not show progress. Suddenly, it was synced after hours.

[xeroc]

I don't understand, but the client is sycned now.. I let it run for a few hours unattended and it did the job. However, the frontend it seemed stuck at this specific block.. very bad user experience.

I see .. the status bar at the lower end of the GUI window is stuck although the client is synced (checked via console of the advanced menu?)

That may indeed be a bug ..
Thanks for taking the time to track it down!

[mindphlux]

I don't understand, but the client is sycned now.. I let it run for a few hours unattended and it did the job. However, the frontend it seemed stuck at this specific block.. very bad user experience.

Thank you xeroc!!

[xeroc]

No luck. Still stuck. Doesn't seem to work on my iMac.

I'll try it on my laptop with my old wallet.

Can you show the output of the terminal .. from the startup until you see ">>>"?

[mindphlux]

No luck. Still stuck. Doesn't seem to work on my iMac.

I'll try it on my laptop with my old wallet.

[mindphlux]

I tried  delegate.nathanhourt.com's chainserver yesterday, and it was fine until the client reached 70%, then it switched to p2p and was stuck there shortly after.

I setup 185.25.22.21:1375 (liondani) now, and will let you know if this works better. It's downloading from scratch now.

[xeroc]

You should also try a chain server http://wiki.bitshares.org/index.php/BitShares/Chain-Server
for downloading the blockchain. Try liondani's or wackou's servers for syncing ..
when you made the changes in the config and restarted the terminal client you will see something with "fast download" .. if you see "P2P" then the chain server might be offline ..

That's the last thing that may help here for syncing

[mindphlux]

I let it run for a while, and it produced about 250mb of traffic, but even after a restart the block count has NOT changed.

I'm at a loss here now.. This seems to be a bug.

[xeroc]

Sorry for the inconveniences and thank you for the patience ..

[mindphlux]

At least, its my network monitor is showing that its downloading data now.. but info shows that no block is being added.

Even after a restart, the block count did not changed.

I'll let it run for an hour and let you know

Thanks

[xeroc]

Negative. I added the nodes in the console.

Still stuck at the very same block. I had 0.4-0.6 running just fine on this machine, this is very strange.

Had another idea... could you please remove the checkpoints.json from the BitShares data directory in %APPDATA% and restart the client?

[mindphlux]

Negative. I added the nodes in the console.

Still stuck at the very same block. I had 0.4-0.6 running just fine on this machine, this is very strange.

[xeroc]

It's doing SOMETHING since the cpu usage is 100-180%, but there's no hdd or network traffic to be seen.

that is a good sign .. if you run "getinfo" again, did "blockchain_head_block_num" increase?

[xeroc]

Seems ok to me. You are definitely on the right fork. Try this to connect to other nodes directly:

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network_add_node "107.170.211.129:1700" add
network_add_node "80.240.133.79:1776" add
network_add_node "188.226.195.137:60696" add
network_add_node "76.74.170.79:54200" add
network_add_node "176.9.234.166:1700" add
network_add_node "180.153.142.120:1777" add
network_add_node "162.243.220.142:1777" add
network_add_node "84.238.140.192:42577" add
network_add_node "5.101.106.138:1778" add
network_add_node "69.164.192.144:1700" add
network_add_node "192.168.0.14:1776" add
network_add_node "78.46.32.25:1776" add
network_add_node "192.168.0.12:44327" add
network_add_node "70.114.143.108:1776" add
network_add_node "106.187.91.24:38581" add
network_add_node "106.185.26.162:1981" add
network_add_node "188.138.107.159:1776" add
network_add_node "104.131.136.190:1776" add
network_add_node "95.85.33.16:8764" add
network_add_node "198.199.103.79:1776" add
network_add_node "104.131.234.136:8801" add


Maybe you are just connected to too many old nodes that have not been upgraded and have been disconnected from the rest of the network ..

[mindphlux]

It's doing SOMETHING since the cpu usage is 100-180%, but there's no hdd or network traffic to be seen.