“Invalid or missing banlist.dat” message appears every start #7452

1. 
   laanwj commented at 10:00 am on February 1, 2016: member

   It looks like banlist.dat is only actually created if nodes are banned. Otherwise, this will appear on every start:

   02016-02-01 09:55:14 ERROR: Read: Failed to open file /home//.bitcoin/banlist.dat
   12016-02-01 09:55:14 Invalid or missing banlist.dat; recreating
   

   • The ERROR: makes it look like a serious issue
   • It’s probably best to just create the file there. But at the very least, the log message shouldn’t promise to do something it isn’t going to do
2. laanwj added the label P2P on Feb 1, 2016
3. 
   kirkalx commented at 11:08 pm on February 3, 2016: contributor

   Partially resolved by PR #7458, but perhaps the issue could be left open until I (or someone else) can stop the ERROR message as well.
4. 
   laanwj commented at 12:53 pm on February 9, 2016: member

   Closing this - the primary problem has been solved in #7458, I don’t think the one-time error is that bad.
5. laanwj closed this on Feb 9, 2016

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