Ambiguous message: Chain state database corruption likely. #9360

issue rebroad opened this issue on December 16, 2016
  1. rebroad commented at 8:01 AM on December 16, 2016: contributor

    In validation.cpp, this is a warning message that can be produced, but it is ambiguous as it could mean either:-

    1. Chain state database corruption is likely the reason for the message (and the large fork reported is a false alarm).

    or

    1. Chain state database corruption is likely to occur (or has occured?) as a result of this (referring to the previous sentence of "Large valid fork found, forking the chain")
  2. laanwj commented at 9:51 AM on December 16, 2016: member

    It means it is likely that there is chainstate corruption, that is what the message warns about. Feel free to improve the message accordingly.

  3. laanwj closed this on Dec 16, 2016

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