Continued errors after wallet salvage: "entries might be missing or incorrect" #2212

issue qubez opened this issue on January 24, 2013
  1. qubez commented at 7:30 AM on January 24, 2013: none

    After performing an automatic salvage operation on a wallet detected as damaged, Bitcoin displays an error on every subsequent launch of bitcoin-qt, with no remedy:

    "Warning: error reading wallet.dat! All keys read correctly, but transaction data or address book entries might be missing or incorrect"

    salvaged-wallet-error

    Data - repaired wallet and corrupted wallet auto-backup (original "corrupt" wallet is "wallet.1357810229.bak" in linked zip): http://we.lovebitco.in/testplan-datadir.zip

    bitcoin-qt pull-tester build Dec 2012 Win32 Windows XP SP3 (FAT32)

  2. Diapolo commented at 7:50 AM on January 24, 2013: none

    What build is this, based on which pull-request?

  3. qubez commented at 12:15 PM on January 24, 2013: none

    The tested build is f4445f9982a760869c430f3d4b1302f7eb509bd8 here: http://bitcoin.sipa.be/builds/pre-0.8/2013-01-13-turbo-ldb17/info/commits.after-v0.7.1.txt SHA256: 52255782... It was the one linked in this testing plan: https://github.com/gavinandresen/QA/blob/master/HardLinksUpgrade.md, although the link is dead now.

    0.7.2 has the same issues dealing with the corrupted wallet though. Bitcoin does an automatic wallet salvage recovery, and future launches of Bitcoin have the same error. We only need to let users know once that "salvage" toasted everything except addresses, not every time.

    The corrupt wallet was created by 0.3.24 on a VM that crashed while Bitcoin was running.

  4. laanwj closed this on Jan 29, 2016

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