Inaccessible wallet.dat => user instructed to wipe blockchain #2591

issue zw opened this issue on April 29, 2013

zw commented at 4:54 PM on April 29, 2013: contributor
Without paying attention, I restored wallet.dat from a backup with poor metadata preservation and left it root:root, effectively doing:
```
chown root:root ~/.bitcoin/wallet.dat
```
Starting bitcoind yielded the somewhat misleading:
```
Error: Error initializing database environment /home/zak/.bitcoin! To recover, BACKUP THAT DIRECTORY, then remove everything from it except for wallet.dat
```
Not the end of the world suggesting the user re-download the blockchain, but it won't actually help here.
Diapolo commented at 4:45 PM on April 30, 2013: none

Duplicate of #2488 and so can be closed.
sipa closed this on Apr 30, 2013
gmaxwell commented at 4:55 PM on April 30, 2013: contributor

Zak, this should be fixed in the next release.
sipa commented at 5:00 PM on April 30, 2013: member

@gmaxwell #2558 isn't merged yet
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