I got everything cloned and built OK.  When i try to run bts_xt_server, I'm getting

server.cpp:24                 main                 ] assert
fc::exists( "trustee.key" ):

Sure enough I don't have any trustee.key file anywhere.  Where do I get this file?

Yes, it turns out, an older version was still running.  I just pulled again and rebuit and now bts_server and bts_wallet are working

It seems like bts_server is no longer required?  I am able to run bts_wallet without running bts_server.

If I try to run bts_server, I get:
2668863ms th_a       chain_server.cpp:401          configure            ] listening for stcp connections on port 4567
2668864ms th_a       chain_server.cpp:114          close                ] closing connections...
2668864ms th_a       server.cpp:19                 main                 ] std
error configuring server
    {"config":{"port":4567,"mirrors":[]}}
    th_a  chain_server.cpp:423 configure

Is this expected?

All I see is:

>>> login
password:

There is nothing that tells me how to set my password

What is my password?  I never set a password.  I am trying to import the private key that was posted earlier in this thread.

I followed the instructions for unzipping the block.zip.  That solved the bts_server exception I had been having.  I was also able to run bts_wallet.  But when I tried the "importkey" command I got:

>>> importkey d987064e501555cf3d2e4e68f093a94144bc876a85c520971b747af32fa6a4c3 rescan
assert
!is_locked():
    {}
    th_a  blockchain_wallet.cpp:508 import_key
unable to import private key
    {}
    th_a  blockchain_wallet.cpp:516 import_key
>>>

Also: I am not sure what I am supposed to do with the genesis.json file

Is there any workaround? As it is, the wallet.bts file will not get created, and if it exists will not be updated.

Just to clarify... this is very easy (for me) to repro:

Clone latest BitShares and fc.
Build.
Run bts_server.
Start bts_wallet.
Quit.
Results: error about communicating with the network. No new wallet file is created.

Would appreciate if anyone else could repro.  FYI I am on Ubuntu.

I am running bts_server fine.  I used to also have bts_wallet working, but I just did a pull today and now I'm having a problem with it.

When I try to quit it shows an error message and does not create a wallet file.  This is what it looks like:

listening for rpc connections on 127.0.0.1:57037
connecting to bitshares network: 127.0.0.1:4567
>>> q
unable to connect to bitshares network at this time.

Isn't that what .wait() is doing?  It blocks the main thread to wait for the other thread to complete.

In bts_wallet/main.cpp, I noticed lots of code of the form:

    main_thread->async( [=]() {
        // ... do stuff ...
    } ).wait();

What is the point of running async code if all you are doing is waiting for it to complete?  Why not replace the above code with just:

    // ... do stuff ...

Hmmm... I think I found it: PRIVATE_KEY    A hex string of a raw private key without any check sums.

The bts_wallet command line app has the command: importkey PRIV_KEY.  What is the format of PRIV_KEY that the command expects?

It worked!  Rock on!

That doesn't help... my target_link_libraries already has ${CMAKE_DL_LIBS} ... it still fails because -ldl needs to be last in the c++ command line (see my previous post)