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[bitcoin-list] Does Bitcoin Crash in Windows?

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#23818861
From:
Liberty Standard
Subject:
[bitcoin-list] Does Bitcoin Crash in Windows?
Date:
Do you Windows users experience occasional Bitcoin crashes?

Lately Bitcoin running in wine-1.0.1 has been crashing frequently. I was
just wondering whether this is a Wine issue or a Bitcoin issue. I speculate
it might have something to do with how many Bitcoins I have since it would
crash less when I had less bitcoins and now crashes more now that I have
more bitcoins. It makes me hesitant to send my balance of bitcoins to my
fresh Bitcoin installation. But this might just be my imagination since it
has crashed a few times after installing Bitcoin afresh.

The following four lines print from the terminal when I start Bitcoin.
fixme:toolhelp:CreateToolhelp32Snapshot Unimplemented: heap list snapshot
fixme:toolhelp:Heap32ListFirst : stub
fixme:toolhelp:CreateToolhelp32Snapshot Unimplemented: heap list snapshot
fixme:toolhelp:Heap32ListFirst : stub

I previously wasn't starting Bitcoin from the terminal, so I don't know what
gets printed out when it crashes, but I'll reply with the results the next
time it crashes.

While Bitcoin first downloads previously completed blocks, the file
debug.log grows grows to 17.4 MB and then stops growing. I imagine it will
continue to grow as more bitcoins are completed.

~NewLibertyStandard~

bitcoin-list
#23824064
From:
Satoshi Nakamoto
Subject:
Re: [bitcoin-list] Does Bitcoin Crash in Windows?
Date:
Liberty Standard wrote:
> Do you Windows users experience occasional Bitcoin crashes?
> Lately Bitcoin running in wine-1.0.1 has been crashing frequently. I was
> just wondering whether this is a Wine issue or a Bitcoin issue.

I haven't had any reports of crashes in v0.1.5. It's been rock solid
for me on Windows. I think it must be Wine related. If you get another
crash in Wine and it prints anything on the terminal, e-mail me and I
may be able to figure out what happened, maybe something I can work
around. Martti and I have been working on a new version to release soon
and it would be nice to get any Wine fixes in there.

> The following four lines print from the terminal when I start Bitcoin.
> fixme:toolhelp:CreateToolhelp32Snapshot Unimplemented: heap list snapshot
> fixme:toolhelp:Heap32ListFirst : stub
> fixme:toolhelp:CreateToolhelp32Snapshot Unimplemented: heap list snapshot
> fixme:toolhelp:Heap32ListFirst : stub

Those don't look like anything to worry about. Probably functions
unimplemented by Wine that are harmlessly stubbed out.

> I previously wasn't starting Bitcoin from the terminal, so I don't know what
> gets printed out when it crashes, but I'll reply with the results the next
> time it crashes.
>
> While Bitcoin first downloads previously completed blocks, the file
> debug.log grows grows to 17.4 MB and then stops growing. I imagine it will
> continue to grow as more bitcoins are completed.

You can delete debug.log occasionally if you don't want to take the disk
space. It's just status messages that help with debugging.

bitcoin.sourceforge.net looks fine now. Maybe sourceforge was doing
some maintenance.

Satoshi


bitcoin-list
#23827020
From:
Mike Hearn
Subject:
Re: [bitcoin-list] Does Bitcoin Crash in Windows?
Date:
>
>
> The following four lines print from the terminal when I start Bitcoin.
> fixme:toolhelp:CreateToolhelp32Snapshot Unimplemented: heap list snapshot
> fixme:toolhelp:Heap32ListFirst : stub
> fixme:toolhelp:CreateToolhelp32Snapshot Unimplemented: heap list snapshot
> fixme:toolhelp:Heap32ListFirst : stub
>

That just means it failed to create a minidump, so yeah, not the cause of
the crash.

To find the cause of the crash you'd need to run it with a +seh,+relay trace
and find out what the app was doing before it crashed, or look in the
bitcoin logs.

bitcoin-list
#23838155
From:
Eugen Leitl
Subject:
Re: [bitcoin-list] Does Bitcoin Crash in Windows?
Date:
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 12:55:06AM +0100, Satoshi Nakamoto wrote:

> bitcoin.sourceforge.net looks fine now. Maybe sourceforge was doing

Doesn't work right now.

> some maintenance.

Still no .deb packages for Bitcoin?

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