QT says "Synching Headers" during a reindex #12398

issue Sjors opened this issue on February 9, 2018

Sjors commented at 3:29 PM on February 9, 2018: member

<img width="837" alt="schermafbeelding 2018-02-09 om 16 30 32" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/10217/36035229-93d1c1bc-0db6-11e8-9e67-fdef9d01c14a.png">

I restarted QT during the reindex, so that may be related.

At the bottom of the screen it does correctly say "Processing blocks on disk"
MarcoFalke commented at 5:33 PM on February 9, 2018: member

You might want to try -reindex-chainstate
Sjors commented at 6:59 PM on February 9, 2018: member

It may indeed have been in an unusually broken state, so maybe not worth fixing.
MarcoFalke commented at 7:38 PM on February 9, 2018: member

I meant to say that with reindex it is expected to sync the headers first, with reindex chainstate you only reindex the chainstate, which is sufficient in most cases.

I propose to close as "not a bug"
fanquake added the label GUI on Feb 9, 2018
Sjors commented at 10:46 AM on February 10, 2018: member

To clarify: I started a reindex using bitcoind, stopped bitcoind, and then started Bitcoin-QT, without -reindex. QT just continued the reindexing work. I don't think it was actually syncing headers when I made that screenshot.
Sjors commented at 1:38 PM on March 16, 2018: member

I'll reopen if I see this again.
Sjors closed this on Mar 16, 2018
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