No wallet.dat file

[wrapper]

Don’t know, but the readme in the docs is more up to date.

[gonnaforget]

@williamwalker

Have you tried downloading the blockchain.dat file and seeing if that works?

You can go here http://cryptochainer.com/dir/?page_id=881 and downloaded the .zip
Close your wallet, copy the files into the Data Folder (maybe backup the old ones, just in case…). Start your Wallet and you should only be come days behind. Wallet quickly syncs and you are good…

[gonnaforget]

@AcidD Might be the one who will know what to do.

[wrapper]

@williamwalker Again, try building with the latest instructions - which are version controlled with the software. (Berkley database version issue?)

https://github.com/FeatherCoin/Feathercoin/tree/master-0.9/doc

[Wellenreiter]

@williamwalker said in No wallet.dat file:

I tried compiling/installing feather 9.6.2 I got from the release page on github following the guide from this forum, but I get a weird error about wallet.dat. I’m on ubuntu 16.04.

https://forum.feathercoin.com/topic/8556/guide-build-feathercoind-feathercoin-qt-v0-9-6-1-on-ubuntu/2.

I searched for the error message on this forum, google, the bug page on github, but I can’t find anyone else with it. Can someone point me to some help?

The error is:

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EXCEPTION: St13runtime_error
CDB : Error 22, can’t open database wallet.dat
feathercoin in Runaway exception

Thanks!

• Check the rw rights and ownership of ~/.feathercoin/wallet.dat under the user you used to start the wallet.

if the access rights are ok:

• delete ~/.feathercoin/wallet.dat (assumming you don’t have coins in there !!! ) and try again

[williamwalker]

Thanks for your quick answers!

@wrapper I tried installing in a fresh directory (feathercoin 0.9.6.2 from the github release page) following the instructions in the documentation under /doc, but got the same error. .feathercoin/database is empty - no wallet file is there. I’m just running feathercoin-qt from the terminal with no options. Could that be the problem?

@gonnaforget I’m downloading that now and will try this evening.

@Wellenreiter There’s no wallet.dat in .feathercoin or .feathercoin/database. I have rwx permission on .feathercoin and .feathercoin/database.

Thanks!

[williamwalker]

If I run with the --disablewallet flag, I do get a GUI, but it doesn’t look like the screenshots I’ve seen in the guides. It does seem like it’s trying to sync though. I attached some pictures.

Run with
feathercoin-qt --disablewallet

[williamwalker]

Update …

So copying over the db files as @gonnaforget suggested unfortunately didn’t help. I did get it to work eventually by installing the deb package from this guide

https://forum.feathercoin.com/topic/8327/guide-feathercoin-wallet-ppa-and-binaries-on-ubuntu-and-debian-linux/21

But that didn’t work for me until I changed the “https” to “http” in the opensuse.list file entry. Maybe a typo there?

Thanks for your help!

[Wellenreiter]

@williamwalker
copying the db files gives you the blockchain, while your problem was related to the wallet, which is more or less a container with your feathercoin addresses, private and public keys.
If you start the wallet with --disable-wallet, the client synchronizes with the block chain, but you can’t do any coin transfers. This mode can be used to develop own applications. Wallets serving p2pools can run in this mode, as the p2pool doesn’t need a wallet address, but just the interface to the block chain to work as an example.

I’m glad, that the installation package solved your problem.
I will check the installation description and update it.

Did you get any errors about outdated repository keys when using https?

[williamwalker]

No, it was a strange error - unfortunately I didn’t write it down. Thanks!