bitcoin-qt won’t launch, no clear errors #14675

1. 
   ak1n commented at 3:31 am on November 7, 2018: none

   Issue

   Bitcoin-qt will not launch, whether called from command line (bitcoin-qt) or via desktop launcher. The process does not terminate but hangs without clear error in CLI or journal logs.

   Expected behavior

   Bitcoin launching and displaying graphical interface (or failing with error messages/output).

   Reproducibility

   Add bitcoin PPA then attempt to launch bitcoin as above.

   Software Setup

   • software version: 0.17.0 (cosmic2)
   • installation method: via bitcoin PPA

   Hardware Setup

   • OS: Ubuntu 18.10 (new install)
   • Hardware: Purism Librem15

   Additional Information

   Similar phenomenon on Arch linux that has been attributed to qt/openssl bug:

   • #14359
   • https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/60235?project=5&string=bitcoin-qt

   No debug information to present.

   Please advise if specific additional information would be of utility.

   EDIT: for formatting

2. fanquake added the label GUI on Nov 7, 2018
3. fanquake added the label Linux/Unix on Nov 7, 2018
4. 
   MarcoFalke commented at 4:09 pm on November 7, 2018: member

   software version: 0.17.0 (cosmic2)

   Since you build from source, you could try to build from 1e49fe450dbb0c258776526dba3ee583461d42ff, which is unfortunately not yet tagged in a release, but fixes the issue you describe here.

   An alternative would be to compile the dependencies (including qt) from ./depends.

5. MarcoFalke closed this on Nov 7, 2018

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6. 
   ak1n commented at 4:25 pm on November 7, 2018: none

   Could you please provide any additional information? I don’t see how the two items in the changelog relate to this. Thanks for any clarification.
7. 
   MarcoFalke commented at 4:32 pm on November 7, 2018: member

   Sorry, I was linking to the HEAD of the 0.17 branch. You can see more commit here: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/commits/1e49fe450dbb0c258776526dba3ee583461d42ff
8. 
   ak1n commented at 4:38 pm on November 7, 2018: none

   Thanks, I presume you’re referring to this: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/commit/b0e88b89149f2aaf7c2eb23524655461214130ee

   Unless I’m missing something seems like this breaks bitcoin core qt on most modern platforms. Thus hope this gets released/tagged soon. Thanks for the response and clarification.

9. 
   kyegupov commented at 11:11 am on December 5, 2018: none

   this is pretty shocking: the official binary has been borked on many platforms - and badly, with zero indication of the nature of the problem. Why is this closed?! @MarcoFalke , do you know is there any ETA for a release?
10. 
    JavierRSobrino commented at 1:56 pm on January 30, 2019: none

    Checkout v0.17.0.1 doesn’t work too on Fedora 29.
11. 
    MarcoFalke commented at 2:43 pm on January 30, 2019: member

    This was fixed in v0.17.1
12. DrahtBot locked this on Dec 16, 2021

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