Wallet won't load in 26.x #28810

issue jamesob opened this issue on November 7, 2023
  1. jamesob commented at 6:48 AM on November 7, 2023: contributor

    Is there an existing issue for this?

    • I have searched the existing issues

    Current behaviour

    I have a wallet that (I guess) is berkeleydb format that as of 26.x (or master) refuses to load. I get the following message on loadwallet:

    "Wallet file verification failed. Failed to open database path '/home/james/.bitcoin/wallet-name'. Build does not support Berkeley DB database format."  code: -18
    

    I suppose I somehow have to upgrade this old wallet to sqlite, but I'm not sure how. I can't find any documentation on how to do this, and it would be nice if the error message surfaced here would give me a link, because at this point I have no idea what to do but downgrade the software.

    Expected behaviour

    Clear instructions on how to upgrade the wallet during this error.

    Steps to reproduce

    Bitcoin Core version v25.99.0-4a481a1f4d79

    Relevant log output

    I didn't see any related logs.

    How did you obtain Bitcoin Core

    Compiled from source

    What version of Bitcoin Core are you using?

    Bitcoin Core version v25.99.0-4a481a1f4d79

    Operating system and version

    Arch Linux

    Machine specifications

    No response

  2. jamesob commented at 6:59 AM on November 7, 2023: contributor

    Oops, nevermind - looks like my bdb inclusion started failing for some reason during my configure step.

  3. jamesob closed this on Nov 7, 2023

  4. bitcoin locked this on Nov 6, 2024
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