The endless node sync!!! #2466
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You can try deleting your |
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Your ETH balance is still viewable on ethereum blockchain browsers like etherscan: etherscan.io/address/0x... Your local node with ethereum-wallet/mist is only accessing the public blockchain and is not necessary for the rest of the network to function. |
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dear sathishvj -- I have the same issue with my wallet and the node never synching, and on top of that no ether I have sent to my wallet address shows up. Can you elaborate on why you say the local nodes "is not necessary for the rest of the network to function." I'm guessing I have received no ether because the download never completes, but I could be wrong of course. Can you help? |
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So I used the myetherwallet.com route to send my ether to a different wallet. Worked just fine, and now I don't have the stress of wondering if I will ever see my ether due to an endless node sync. Thank you everyone. |
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@glad-zilla what wallet are you using if you don't mind me asking? |
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@matthewleising You're looking for a wallet from Freewallet.org. |
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@matthewleising as a quite crude analogy, think of how email works. Somebody sends you an email while your computer was shut down. Is it still received? Yes, on your email account. But not your computer. You later start your computer, connect to the internet, and now the email sync happens. The email will then show up on your local client. In a somewhat similar way, somebody sending Eth to your account will be processed by the Ethereum network and it will be available against your account. However, your local node might still not have the latest until it is synced with the network. |
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@Sathisvj thank you that makes perfect sense to me and I appreciate you taking the time to explain it |
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Hey guys, i have kind of the similar problem.. I bought some ethereum and transferred it to my mist wallet, not realising it was still synchronising... I am convinced I am doing multiple things wrong and I know it is mostly due to my complete ignorance about Ethereum and the wallets, but I really would like to acces my ethereum and I hope someone can help me accessing it faster. Thanks! |
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@Luukw12 It's myetherwallet.com Don't go to any other site. They could be phishing sites. It would be best if you followed the tutorials for MEW (myetherwallet.com). You can just search for them. Yes, syncing the entire blockchain takes tens of GBs of space. For the sync, make sure you are on a fast network, if possible put an Ethernet cable directly to the WiFi box, see if it finds peers, check the log file that there are no errors, if you are behind a proxy maybe you can try on a network without that, close other torrent/wallet/AV apps (not sure if it has an impact but you can try). |
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maybe that I'm wrong, but I see a design flaw here, running a full node without any prune option to keep the downloaded data within a reasonable size, specially when the network seems to be under pressure like these days, the sync task never finish, I suppose that network changes faster than the most home computers can handle; just now I see that the chain structure has near 180'000 entries, and my pc follows at 160'000, one hour ago was 140'000 over 165'000, a funny race, beside the fact that the wallet is eating all my resources (memory, hard disk) :/ FYI, wallet 0.8.10, linux version edit: I discovered just now that the local node is already started using geth --fast, so it's already pruned; seems that is not a mist/wallet problem, but related to underline geth node, should the issue to be routed to "geth" developers? |
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update: I can confirm that the issue is related to geth one, see ethereum/go-ethereum#14575 I found several entries like this in node.log: simply said, the network is filled by new transactions and the geth client is not able to follow |
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As far as I understand, by default Mist/Ethereum-Wallet starts geth and then connects to that. So sync issues are definitely at the geth level. I used to just run geth and see the log on screen. I would see that issue once in a rare while, but stopping and starting geth usually worked for me. |
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I've been syncing for about 20 days now. In the beginning the chains structure thing (the 32 million counter) went up fast, as did the block chain counter (now 1,5 million left). After the first was done, it continued (or restarted) on the second. Currently its constantly using 10% CPU, 3 to 4 GB RAM, my drive is making sound like crazy, and its increasing with about 1 block per minute. This is going to take forever. Whats going on?? |
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A little check; Started Eth again. Started Thats 25 blocks / hour. At a constant 10,0MB/s disk IO, 0.02 to 9Mbps on my network and 2GB RAM. In short: Its going to take ~ 618TB of bandwidth, 2PB of disk i/o (so probably a few new disks as well) and 6,5 years for me to sync. |
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I just renamed the geth folder to geth_bak2 (I did it before) and started the app again. Block downloading got fast up until 2,112 of 2,687,392. Chain structure is still going quickly and both are increasing. As I'm typing the blocks are downloading quickly as well. This time, 700MB RAM, 25% CPU (i7 7700k), 5mb/s disk and 35 mbps network. Minute later at block 160,000 of 2,687,392 and chain structure 150,000 of 300,000 ( latter 2 are steadily increasing). I used to have this before, and chain structure got up to like 32 million, after which it disappeared and the block download started going really slow. I wonder what will happen this time. EDIT: 35 minutes in: 60 minutes in: Another 10 minutes later: 3 hours in:
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I've been running the download nonstop for 3 days and am at 25%, 1,684,000 blocks to go with usually about 10-12 peers. At this rate it will take 10 days assuming it doesn't crash or my 5 year old unplugs the computer. Not the best UI in my opinion but none of the other ether wallets seem trustworthy to me so I'm going to stick this out in case it works |
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It hasn't usually taken me that much time. I recently tried setting up a new node from my office network while connected via an ethernet cable and it was very fast compared to what I did at home on a comparably slower wifi network. Anyways, best of luck. |
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15 hours in... Love how the block number goes down and chain structure increases all the time. |
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This application sucks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bMANwuxx1k&feature=youtu.be |
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I must say that the recent updates seem to have fixed the issues for me. It now syncs with a good speed. |
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Check out this thread: ethereum/go-ethereum#15001 |
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Hi, we have just launched Mist v0.9.1, with Light Client integration (beta). What does that mean?
How to activate? I'm closing this issue. Should you have any trouble, please refer to these channels:
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you close the issue? well excellent |
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This is a problem for me also , when i run the light client my ETH goes to zero, why is that. So i tried running it as normal and i am at 17 percent after 12 hours. Any ideas i could use the myetherwallet but i am unsure exactly what to do. |
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Having the same problem on a Macbook pro with SSD , its taken 12hrs to sync 17 percent , what do i do , ive no idea about geth or much else...please can someone offer an alternative , maybe my Ether wallet but im not sure how that works exactly. |
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HELP - I installing the ethereum blockchain on my new laptop: |
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@NotJoking if you only want to connect to your wallet you dont need to sync the full node. you can use metamask instead. if need an example to connect metamask see this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5uq_Y41U-M (is in spanish, but you can activate the subtitle). if need any help send me a email rafaelosiris@gmail DOT COM. |
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After 1.5 weeks of fruitless attempts to download chain using "geth --cache=2048" on my HDD I ended up with purchasing a EUR115 samsung EVO 960 nvme SSD, got 10+ times speed increase and geth finally synchronized in just several hours. |
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@rafaelosirs you saved me lots of time. thank you so much! by the way, my ethereum wallet kept synchronizing for days. stopped at 99.99%. a really shit software. update for @zdrive : My OS is Windows 10. |
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For those having this problem, it might be helpful to specify your operating system. So far I have only seen a few references to Macbook and Windows. I've been trying to synch for months on Windows 10 without any luck... it keeps stalling after downloading a few thousand blocks. Meanwhile, yesterday I installed Ethereum Wallet (via go-ethereum AKA geth) on a laptop running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and synchronization was reasonably fast. This morning, I tried running both side-by-side, and Ubuntu started synching right away, while the wallet on Windows was stalled. So perhaps this is a problem with specific versions of the software, rather than a general bug. |
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Till yesterday my system was syncing sinds december 20th 2017, it never stopped. With the knowledge from these two sites below i decided to deleted everyting (*** MAKE FIRST A COPY OF YOUR KEYSTORE ***) and start again but now i synced the light version. Wauw, downloaded in less then 30 minutes, http://ethereumchainsize.com/ |
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Today I have downloaded new GETH 1.81, I launched geth in light mode and Ethereum Wallet started in 5 minutes with all updated accounts and my balance. awesome. last time I was waiting 8 days non stop and it never synchronized |
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So after limited success , downloading the new geth i was hoping for the light client to work. I am now shut out completely (please see above). i hope it works in future. |
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Hey buddies, please show your OS, I think this issue exists only in Windows? Please just let us know your OS is: Windows, Linux or Mac. and your wallet version. thanks |
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See this issue for a detailed description of what is going on under the hood - ethereum/go-ethereum#15001 (comment) |
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This software is absolutely 100% shit. I run a plethora of wallets & have done for years - but this wallet is by far the worst one out there. Period. I've spent days trying to get this crap to sync. I've read every article I can find about the sync issues until my eyes bled & have tried every supposed fix or resolution - nothing works. The only reason I'm trying to use this Ethereum crap is because one of my legacy coins went ECR20 & I needed to do a coin swap before I can trade them - but after days of frustration with this software I think I'll just accept the fact that Ethereum devs don't know what the fuck they're doing & my coins are lost. Seriously. Fuck this useless dysfunctional Ethereum wallet crap. I'm done with it. |
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p3yot3 What do you need to do, i left the mist because that software dosen't work, but i found another way to do the same. So explain what do you need to do and maybe we can look another solution. |
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@rafaelosirs You're right, it absolutely doesn't work. The only cure I found was to get rid of it completely (including the 70+Gb of useless data it tried to download) & use the offline myetherwallet version. Problem solved in 2 minutes. |
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Just run Light version (from bat file) if you are not a crypto-nerd. I make every week a transaction. Therefore i deleted the old chaindata and run the program again. The program makes a new chaindata. Afther about one hour i run my wallet and up i go.
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You're right, it absolutely doesn't work. The only cure I found was to get rid of it completely (including the 70+Gb of useless data it tried to download) & use the offline myetherwallet version. Problem solved in 2 minutes.
I seriously can't believe that this software was even released, let alone recommended. If this is the best software Eth devs can come up with, the project is doomed.
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So my ether wallet has been attempting to sync for the last 28 days.
Wallet version 0.8.10
Ether node geth 1.6.5 (Go)
MacOS Sierra 10.12.5
Will the wallet ever sync?
It seems to be downloading infinite chain structure.
Could really use some reassurance as I have coin transferred to this wallet and I'm worried it might never arrive.
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