Bitcoin core crash on windows 10 #7036

Bitcoin core v 0.11.2 crashes immidiately after start on fresh install on windows 10. Reboot and reinstall of client made no difference.

Was v0.11.0/v0.11.1 running fine before you installed v0.11.2?

On Tuesday, November 17, 2015, Lasse Leegaard notifications@github.com wrote:

Bitcoin core v 0.11.2 crashes immidiately after start on fresh install on windows 10. Reboot and reinstall of client made no difference.

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Dont know. This is a completely new install. Have not had bitcoin core installed before

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On 17. nov. 2015, at 03.29, Michael Ford notifications@github.com wrote:

Was v0.11.0/v0.11.1 running fine before you installed v0.11.2?

On Tuesday, November 17, 2015, Lasse Leegaard notifications@github.com wrote:

Bitcoin core v 0.11.2 crashes immidiately after start on fresh install on windows 10. Reboot and reinstall of client made no difference.

[image: bitcoin crash] < https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1957078/11200481/d5d1efc8-8cd6-11e5-85c0-7252c5cf82e2.PNG

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@lasseleegaard Could you try to locate the debug.log ( https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Data_directory#Windows ) and upload the relevant part or the full debug.log?

Hi,

The folder is there, but it is empty.

-Lasse-

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 8:37 AM, MarcoFalke notifications@github.com wrote:

@lasseleegaard https://github.com/lasseleegaard Could you try to locate the debug.log ( https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Data_directory#Windows ) and upload the relevant part or the full debug.log?

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Is the data directory that you selected on first run perhaps inaccessible for your user?

I didnt select a data directory myself. I chose the default installation directory.

I assume I have access to my own %APPDATA%

-Lasse-

On 19. nov. 2015, at 15.24, Wladimir J. van der Laan < notifications@github.com> wrote:

Is the data directory that you selected on first run perhaps inaccessible for your user?

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Ok. Was the only reason I could think of why it would crash before writing to debug.log.

Do you have non-ASCII characters in your username? Should normally not be an issue but maybe in special cases.

You could try placing the datadir somewhere else by passing -choosedatadir as command line argument.

Hep!

I tried a few different locations and tried creating the folder before I started bitcoin and tried removing the folder before starting bitcoin. It helped. What worked was having the folder NOT be there before starting the program and then it would start up and start syncing.

Thanks for the assistance.

-Lasse-

On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 4:45 PM Wladimir J. van der Laan < notifications@github.com> wrote:

Ok. Was the only reason I could think of why it would crash before writing to debug.log.

Do you have non-ASCII characters in your username? Should normally not be an issue but maybe in special cases.

You could try placing the datadir somewhere else by passing -choosedatadir as command line argument.

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@lasseleegaard Good to hear. If this resolved your problem, please close the issue on GitHub.

Strange. Good that you eventually got it to work.

@lasseleegaard I would argue bitcoin-qt should be able to cope with this situation though, and therefore this issue ought to stay open until it does.

I can't reproduce on Fedora.