wallet stuck

Carlone

hello everyone, the wallet is stuck to synchronize and I don’t know what to do. it has been more than a week I am waiting for it to be synchronized but nothing changes with the loading.
let me know what I could do, please.
thank you!

AcidD

Hi @Carlone

We are aware of this issue. This happens because Feathercoin was attacked a lot in the early days and there’s a few orphan chains that need to be processed.

Depends how urgent your need is, you’ll find that when the wallet gets “stuck” with syncing…if you close and open the wallet again it will start the sync again.

If you wait a few days, we will be releasing 0.9.6.2 which has a major improvement with sync issues.

Carlone

Hi @acidd
thank you for the support. I have tried to close it and open it again but it does not start again. its just stuck, same place everytime…

thanks for the updates!

AcidD

@carlone said in wallet stuck:

Hi @acidd
thank you for the support. I have tried to close it and open it again but it does not start again. its just stuck, same place everytime…

thanks for the updates!

You need to aquire some patience.

Close the wallet.
Wait 30 seconds
Open wallet again
Wait 5 mins or so and see if syncing starts.

opeth24

This is happening to me but doing the close and then open method seems to work. it is still very slow going but it is going. From what I’ve read it seems that this is the longest part, after the first install it seems to update rather quick.

narbss

@opeth24 you’re syncing the entire block chain from the network so can take a while, especially with a slow internet connection! 0.9.6.1 had issues with slow syncs but 0.9.6.2 should get round these issues. If your sync does halt, restarting the wallet is the best solution so far!

Wellenreiter

@carlone
if your wallet doesn’t start the synchronization after you restarted the wallet within ~ 1 - 5 minutes do the follwing:

go to settings->debug window->console tab
enter addnode <ip address> add in the input line
repeat this step 2 -3 times with a different ip address each time

*replace the <ip address> with the ip address of a known working node.
You can use ip addresses from feathercoin pools for this or any other IP hosting a working wallet

ChekaZ

You could also add these nodes to your .conf, which seems to be faster and more easy.

Wellenreiter

@chekaz said in wallet stuck:

You could also add these nodes to your .conf, which seems to be faster and more easy.

the ‘node add’ commands should be needed one time only.
Once the client has connected to a peer it maintains a list of known peers in peers.dat and uses that first to get connected at startup.

ChekaZ

@wellenreiter Oh ok, didnt know that actually, thanks for letting me know!

Carlone

@chekaz excuse my ignorance in the field, could you help me understand what exactly do I have to add and where do I find feathercoin pools? thanks

ChekaZ

@carlone https://www.feathercoin.com/mining/

How to add nodes is described above by @Wellenreiter

jimmy24651

Everyone reading this thread, please also take note that the speed of your internet connection has little to do with how fast the wallet syncs, as someone stated earlier. I live just a little outside of metro Atlanta, and I have a screaming fast connection. It still took my wallet over a week to synchronize…

Also remember, you can still send coins to your wallet address, but you will not be able to see them in your wallet balance, since this transaction took place on the most recent block which will, naturally, be the last one downloaded. I know this seems quite basic, and stupid to say…but I nearly lost my sanity when I dealt with it a while back…