Wallet new stops syncing last blocks (4 days syncing still not completed)

[tomtom87]

System information

Geth version: geth 1.6.6
OS & Version: OSX
Commit hash : (if develop)

Expected behaviour

Wallet sync of Mac OSX client

Actual behaviour

Cannot finish syncing, forever downloading chain structure and the last 100 blocks.

Steps to reproduce the behaviour

1. Install ethereum wallet 0.9.0 on mac osx
2. try to sync
3. wait 3 days with nothing happening
4. slowly loose your sanity

Backtrace

[backtrace]

[tomtom87]

[tomtom87]

#14995

[tomtom87]

Now get this

WARN [08-21|11:48:26] Stalling state sync, dropping peer       peer=655c0278c317a012
WARN [08-21|11:48:26] Stalling state sync, dropping peer       peer=f26dce0aea871dc8
WARN [08-21|11:48:26] Stalling state sync, dropping peer       peer=0fb49536fda319d3
WARN [08-21|11:48:27] Stalling state sync, dropping peer       peer=ae8de9feee4df4e6
WARN [08-21|11:48:27] Stalling state sync, dropping peer       peer=e7a69c447cb83857
WARN [08-21|11:48:30] Stalling state sync, dropping peer       peer=8e8edc9627fedc6b
WARN [08-21|11:48:32] Stalling state sync, dropping peer       peer=606587b48a16fd10
WARN [08-21|11:48:32] Node data write error                    err="state node 638deb…cf0f09 failed with all peers (4 tries, 4 peers)"

[wtfiwtz]

See #15001 as it seems to be an issue with the chain height being incorrectly determined

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