How long has it been running? You didn’t actually say. I sync’d a fresh copy today in about ~9 hours. Tailing the log for “height” and it was steadily ticking up pretty quickly.
I installed the app on the 28th and started plotting away
On the 30th I noticed my finished plots haven’t started farming, and that’s when I performed the aforementioned troubleshooting steps. That was the first time I closed the Chia Blockchain app and caused the first interruption
This is what my farming overview screen currently looks like;
Not too long ago I shutdown my main plotter/farmer rig and installed the Chia Blockchain app on a separate computer to isolate the platform, but it’s just as slow, peak height increases by 3 every 3-5 minutes
The only isolation test I haven’t done yet is dragging my rig over to another house with a different ISP and router
I did a clean install at a datacenter on Friday around 12pm, and that machine was not fully synced until the next day. So yes, unfortunately, this is normal. It can take that long (8-12 hours) to sync the blockchain the first time.
That’s why for subsequent machines, it’s a good idea to copy the blockchain file over…
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So yes, unfortunately, this is normal. It can take that long (8-12 hours) to sync the blockchain the first time.
It’s been more like 8-12 days moving onto weeks. Both wallet and Farming Status.
I don’t know what else to do. Running version 1.2.11 on Debian. Deleted the files in the mainnet/wallet/db and then entered the 24 word and passphrase numerous times and nothing seems to work.
Watched lots of videos and tried their repairs, install the latest version of the software, which I have.
Port 8444 is open.
It’s a couple of days that’s normal currently with the growing blockchain, but 8 or more is really bad.
If you delete the db files it will start from zero again of course but that’s not what you mean by 8-12 days I suppose!?!
What disk is your db directory on? HDD, SSD, NVME?
Syncing is very intensive for the processor, what is your CPU?
If all fails (and it’s not for lack of you having tried already!) you can download an actual blockchain db from a few providers these days.
Of course your wallet would still need to sync from zero and even that takes time, depending on your CPU power mostly but can be many hours (over 24 even).
I would not worry about pool / wallet, as long as you are not fully synced.
Whether you have port 8444 open or not, it really doesn’t matter, as it is irrelevant for syncing.
Does it always show in the Full Node section as “Not Synced?” That implies that for whatever reason your node is not making syncing progress at all, so waiting will not help (will not fix itself). Although, on your Blocks section there are blocks that were processed on Feb 22. So, what happened that day? It kind of hints that your db may be corrupted (your box got rebooted while chia was modifying db?).
A screenshot of your Connections would help. If all Up/Down are at 0, that confirms that your node has stopped syncing.
Take a look at that other thread and follow instructions there to grab ERRORs from your debug.log file, as those most likely will point to a db corruption (whether blockchain or wallet).
Actually, as the wallet db is a secondary one, you can try to delete that wallet db (.chia/mainnet/wallet/db/*) and see whether it would help. If not, I think that all signs point to blockchain db corruption.
Your CPU would suggest that you should be able to sync in 2-3 days or so. Although, the media that holds your dbs (HD, SSD, NVMe?) could further slow it down (say 4 days).
Actually, do you still have room on your c: drive (assuming that your dbs are sitting on it)? Is that a HD or SSD?
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Actually, as the wallet db is a secondary one, you can try to delete that wallet db (.chia/mainnet/wallet/db/*) and see whether it would help. If not, I think that all signs point to blockchain db corruption.
Your CPU would suggest that you should be able to sync in 2-3 days or so. Although, the media that holds your dbs (HD, SSD, NVMe?) could further slow it down (say 4 days).
Actually, do you still have room on your c: drive (assuming that your dbs are sitting on it)? Is that a HD or SSD?[/quote]
The drives are HDD. I have about 27 GB in the /home directory. I have deleted the wallet db numerous time from ./chia/mainnet/wallet/db
