Ethereum Wallet does not synch (downloading chain structure without end in sight) #2749
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It usually does take a few hours. But if it's taking too long, you want to check other things like - is a firewall/antivirus blocking anything, are you behind a proxy and can you try on another network, any specific issues shown in the log file? |
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Hey Sathish - i read your earlier responses on the same lines. No firewall/antivirus, no proxy, tried two networks too. No log file issues that i can see. The issue is that it's been 3 days and the chain structure just keeps on growing, just never ends. |
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I have the same problem |
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I have the same problem and have also sent Ether to my wallet and it still reads o and have left it running for days and days |
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@shalav @Jex-y the best I can do is to point you to other detailed troubleshooting tips. @Dbabcock001 yours seem more likely because the blocks are yet to be synced. You can still check your balance on etherscan.io and transact via https://www.myetherwallet.com |
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I have the same problem too. Blocks 402xxxx. |
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same issue- chain structure is at 5,090,000 and max is ever increasing at 5,115,000. The Downloading is endlessly chasing the chain structure max and it's been many days. |
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Same here. It looks like this isn't a priority for fixing or they just can't repro it. It's going to be up to us to fix it or abandon MIst/Wallets in Ethereum. I'm on my third day of trying to download the block chain for my wallet. I'm on Windows 10. I have no firewall/proxy/network issues. Here's the last entries in the log when it's stuck (nothing unusual except the retry): INFO [08-12|12:55:12] Imported new state entries count=1 flushed=1 elapsed=0s processed=19798 pending=3054 retry=1 duplicate=0 unexpected=2 It appears to get stuck chasing the chain structure. I have chain structures in the millions as well and they appear to just go on and on (the progress bar is not helpful). There is a workaround. Restarting. Over and Over. It will still take days. When it gets into the contemplating its navel over chain structures. Kill it and restart. |
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Update - Chain Structure eventually completed, block sync still having trouble- it's been over 5 days now. |
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I have the same problems. Situation angle. |
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Another Update- block sync now has over 30000 blocks to sync. Currently 4 peers connected (I've seen up to 12 over the past few days), But block sync rate seems to be 1 block per minute! |
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same I'm giving up, will try parity |
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after updating to the latest version of geth (1.6.7) do:
and this seems to download mich faster with no interuptions so far. probably will take a few hours but this seems to be the way to make mist work again. -bp |
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Ethereum is broken. It's impossible to get a wallet working even with light geth the chain structure never ends =-( |
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My downloading chain structure goes at about 21,000,000 and counting. Where can I check what is the total at this time? |
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Check out this discussion: #3023 |
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And this: 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 this canonical issue: #3097 |
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Stop giving temporary and untested solutions and fix the problem! Saying to users to delete datafolder and syncing from start=pointless and not reliable and may cause loss of all user holdings! (make a proper tool for it atleast) anyway it does not fix the issue just redownloads and comes to same as before! Light client # (BETA) a users are loosing contracts created in combination with "datafolder" solution. |
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Let me add my $0.02. We are talking about downloading some files/data. Downloading technology is prehistoric dating back to 1987 with Gopher. In 2017 a simple download cannot get done in 2 months? It is some kinda dubious guiness record. Here I have terabytes disk, mininum 4 mb speed, 8GB RAM, Eastern timezone. Most of the time it shows connecting to 12 peers. Block size shows around 45xxxxxxx. Downloading stops before only 65 blocks. Then it goes to downloading chain structure for 3 weeks. Restarting/deleting or any other stunt doesn't help. This is beyond pathetic. Note: light client only helps you if you are transacting ether. It does not help if you are working with contracts/tokens. I don't understand the settings in Geth/Mist. Why does it stop only a few blocks before finishing? Why does it do infinite/indefinite chain structure downloading? At least it could display the progress in clear terms. Often the messages disappear and leaves one to wonder what is happening (and leading to shutting off the program). Why is it so hard to display progress without the suspense? Why is it hard to show how much is left to download in both blocks and chain str? Why can't chain structure do it like bit torrent, instead of restarting the download everytime from scratch? These are design problems. Some serious intervention is required to uplift these tools.
-At the rate the data is growing, by 2019 it would hit 1 terabyte and nobody will be able to download/sync data. Ether will be dead in water. Similar problem might exist in Bitcoin. |
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Wow seems people having same problem months ago. and i am having the same. So seems i will not be able to bother with ethereum. |
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Without end :( p.s. p.p.s. |
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I'm having the exact same problem. |
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Version 0.9.3 |
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0.9.3, macOS High Sierra, latest iMac, 200mbps fiber connection, no proxy/firewall/av. |
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I am having a similar problem. I signed up to mine new ETH because my GFX card is really good at it and it sits idle for 20 hours a day. I thought I may as well put it to work. I can't get a wallet so I don't have an address so I can't mine. To me this looks like an exponential problem. I am block 4,648,585 of 4,648,707 with so far a chain structure of 14,***, **** and increasing. If each addtional block has an ever increasing chain structure, it would take forever to do the last block at maximum. I personally think eth is probably done. We don't have the compute or network power to do this downloading everyday. You will fall behind and never catch up. I don't understand how online wallets are able to keep up. |
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Same problem, cannot use my ethereum at all (Win7). Edit: I got it to work by letting the initial window (with Launch Application) run for about an hour. For some reason, it won't work in the main Ethereum window. All is well now. |
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@abishai You don't have to be spot on the blockchain to mine. It should only take a few hours to load back up if you ever have to "removedb" again. That said, I always use geth --fast-cache4096 as the fast load, then if it hangs I restart it with geth -rpc. Then load your miner (I use ethminer) and within minutes the blockchain should sync with your miner |
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@desdonnelly This is my suspicion........It's only a suspicion of course. The programmers are working feverishly to eliminate PoW and only have time for PoS. Those of us who came to the trough "late" have to work it out for ourselves. I have read all kinds of talk from March of 2016 that PoS was "imminent". |
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I also had issue with fast syncing downloading for ages on Ubuntu 16.04. There seemed to be some bug in geth 1.7.2 which is deployed with Electrum Wallet 0.9.3, as it would go even over the highest block in fetching new block headers. I was unable to get it up in both fast and light mode. I found this solution:
I was up and running within 20 mins, I can live with using light mode and not fast mode. |
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Ad I could not sync using windows (light client didn't work at all; when starting syncing from a downloaded state it synced with 10-12 blocks/minute) I set up a Linux server. Goal was to sync there and then copy/paste the chaindata (used --fast --cache=5000). After 20h37m it is now only syncing states. Sadly only 300k/hour, so it will probably take a while from now. Weird also that Geth sometimes required over 16GB RAM (had to use a swapfile as my server only has 8GB).
If this doesn't work (synctime on my PC <30-60 blocks/minute), I'll switch to parity. This is unacceptable. No way a regular user with 50Mbit and no SSD could ever sync the chain |
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@WernerderChamp what is your geth version? |
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1.7.3 |
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Happy to know ETH official wallet. |
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Same here, time to search for an alternate coin to mine, not going to waste my energy and money to this ridiculous piece of software. Somewhere i get a creeping feeling that when i'm syncing, my system is being used to mine by the network, and my computing power is sent to the keepers of the network, if that's possible anyway, still new to all this, so i might be talking nonsense, but i have a lot of experience with human beings and the tricks they use to deceive you. |
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same problem ! |
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Same problem...stucked with sync and deleted chaindata folder, download geth, run with fast and cache 2048. Blocks are synced in few hours and now downloading chain structure for 48h+ and have only 23M. |
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Did you tried to switch your computer from 24h clock to 12h clock ? (it fixed the problem there, don't know why). |
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i found a solution and it is working |
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Ethereum project people are bunch of retards. |
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why does the chain structure reset everytime you shut down the program? so you have to re download the chain structure each time which can take a few hours to days depending on your computer power. This is bad programmers and engineers? |
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Mist is dead, I have i7, 16gb ddr4, ssd, 100Mbit connection and try to sync for many weeks without success. Try all methods which found on github and discussions, but sync is still very slow. Blocks are downloaded fast, but download chain structure is imposible. And developers ignore many issues here.....result -> official wallet killing whole ethereum project :( |
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what mining program are you running?
…On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 12:32 AM, stixpunk ***@***.***> wrote:
Mist is dead, I have i7, 16gb ddr4, ssd, 100Mbit connection and try to
sync for many weeks without success. Try all methods which found on github
and discussions, but sync is still very slow. Blocks are downloaded fast,
but download chain structure is imposible. And developers ignore many
issues here.....result -> official wallet killing whole ethereum project :(
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mining is irelevant to wallet |
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if you're not running a miner in conjuction with geth, then it's no wonder
you're waiting weeks
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what mining program are you running?
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> Mist is dead, I have i7, 16gb ddr4, ssd, 100Mbit connection and try to
> sync for many weeks without success. Try all methods which found on github
> and discussions, but sync is still very slow. Blocks are downloaded fast,
> but download chain structure is imposible. And developers ignore many
> issues here.....result -> official wallet killing whole ethereum project :(
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what is conjuction between mining and geth? i think, it's two different things. it's usual to use small ssd only for os on mining rigs and different pc/server for wallet. and what about people who don't mining and want only buy and hold? i have wallets of 16 coins on home NAS server and ethereum mist is only one with sync problems edit: and it starts this year, first sync freeze on one block. then i clear data and run geth with fast parameter and from this time it's impossible to sync chain data. in past sync was ok |
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don't use mist Just run the geth blockchain and when it gets close, say
100,000 blocks off or so.....run ethminer. Then you should see results.
If you run ethminer from the beginning it will sync with geth at some point
(mine varied by a few 10k blocks)
Mist sucks as far as I'm concerned. When I tried it (twice) it just hanged
at 95-99% both times
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what is conjuction between mining and geth? i think, it's two different
things. it's usual to use small ssd only for os on mining rigs and wallet
on different pc/server. and what about people who don't mining and want
only buy and hold? i have wallets of 16 coins on home NAS server and
ethereum mist is only one with sync problems
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i tried to run geth without mist many times. will try it again with ethminer |
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This just worked for me on Rinkeby:
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would be great if ethereum organization start to provide daily blockchain export for download. this will solve initial sync problems for all |
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Hi everyone, |
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@geospus Use symbolic links. On Windows, open command line (not the new windows power shell) with administrator rights, then type
Please note that you'll have to rename/move your original geth folder first before you can create the link. After you've done it, geth will save its data on your other drive. I did it too and it works a lick |
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To the others, I heard using the 1.8.1 improves the situation |
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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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who owns this ethereum wallet i need to change address to another wallet can i export from here |
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I'm not a techie but wanted to try and download and synch a wallet to start to learn. It's been three days and the wallet has not synched. The "downloading chain structure" never ends. What options do i have?
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