Crash on initial blockchain sync #5670

mappum commented at 9:44 PM on January 15, 2015: none

This happened while running a prebuilt 0.10.0rc3 binary from bitcoin.org.

Error:

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EXCEPTION: St9bad_alloc
std::bad_alloc
bitcoin in ProcessMessages()

bitcoind: main.cpp:1647: bool ConnectBlock(const CBlock&, CValidationState&, CBlockIndex*, CCoinsViewCache&, bool): Assertion `hashPrevBlock == view.GetBestBlock()' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)

OS: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.13.0-43-generic x86_64)

Startup info:

2015-01-15 21:38:58 Bitcoin version v0.10.0rc3 (2015-01-12 16:10:50 +0100)
2015-01-15 21:38:58 Using OpenSSL version OpenSSL 1.0.1k 8 Jan 2015
2015-01-15 21:38:58 Using BerkeleyDB version Berkeley DB 4.8.30: (April  9, 2010)
2015-01-15 21:38:58 Default data directory /home/mappum/.bitcoin
2015-01-15 21:38:58 Using data directory /home/mappum/.bitcoin
2015-01-15 21:38:58 Using config file /home/mappum/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf
2015-01-15 21:38:58 Using at most 128 connections (1024 file descriptors available)
2015-01-15 21:38:58 Using 0 threads for script verification
2015-01-15 21:38:58 Binding RPC on address ::1 port 8332 (IPv4+IPv6 bind any: 0)
2015-01-15 21:38:58 Binding RPC on address 127.0.0.1 port 8332 (IPv4+IPv6 bind any: 0)
2015-01-15 21:38:58 Using wallet wallet.dat
2015-01-15 21:38:58 init message: Verifying wallet...
2015-01-15 21:38:58 CDBEnv::Open : LogDir=/home/mappum/.bitcoin/database ErrorFile=/home/mappum/.bitcoin/db.log
2015-01-15 21:38:58 Bound to [::]:8333
2015-01-15 21:38:58 Bound to 0.0.0.0:8333
2015-01-15 21:38:58 init message: Loading block index...
2015-01-15 21:38:58 Opening LevelDB in /home/mappum/.bitcoin/blocks/index
2015-01-15 21:38:58 Opened LevelDB successfully
2015-01-15 21:38:58 Opening LevelDB in /home/mappum/.bitcoin/chainstate
2015-01-15 21:38:59 Opened LevelDB successfully
2015-01-15 21:39:03 LoadBlockIndexDB: last block file = 52
2015-01-15 21:39:03 LoadBlockIndexDB: last block file info: CBlockFileInfo(blocks=645, size=121795758, heights=229469...230337, time=2013-04-03...2013-04-08)
2015-01-15 21:39:03 Checking all blk files are present...
2015-01-15 21:39:03 LoadBlockIndexDB(): transaction index disabled

Last lines of debug.log:

2015-01-15 20:35:05 UpdateTip: new best=000000000000006de346b0acc44f6dcbeab1733086dd4dc4dd38ca0d8b29cd4e  height=230030  log2_work=69.712313  tx=15653239  date=2013-04-06 23:09:42 progress=0.129548  cache=170595
2015-01-15 20:35:05 UpdateTip: new best=000000000000010cfeb52ac531922d500190e7a17a44ae858cdc3bd81be8cf56  height=230031  log2_work=69.712362  tx=15653807  date=2013-04-06 23:22:34 progress=0.129553  cache=170840
2015-01-15 20:35:06 UpdateTip: new best=00000000000000d89764a5b1614401d37128c1fd34a60606908b33caf83c3f34  height=230032  log2_work=69.712411  tx=15654194  date=2013-04-06 23:29:36 progress=0.129556  cache=171056
2015-01-15 20:35:06 UpdateTip: new best=00000000000001864679e980583a05cc96da89ec31923fbce37cf4582c627392  height=230033  log2_work=69.71246  tx=15654297  date=2013-04-06 23:31:28 progress=0.129557  cache=171095
2015-01-15 20:35:07 

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EXCEPTION: St9bad_alloc       
std::bad_alloc       
bitcoin in ProcessMessages()       

2015-01-15 20:35:07 ProcessMessage(block, 140344 bytes) FAILED peer=16

mappum commented at 9:49 PM on January 15, 2015: none

Oh, it just ran out of memory. That had never happened on this machine before, but maybe 0.10.0 uses more memory.

mappum closed this on Jan 15, 2015

MarcoFalke locked this on Sep 8, 2021