bitcoin/bitcoin — Issue #744: Win7 0.5.1 beta Crash/Exception when syncing block chain.
Author: soundrazor
Created: 2012-01-04 23:16:35+00:00
State: open

Bitcoin-qt fails on Windows 7 when loading blocks to sync block chain.
bitcoind has the same problem see error below.

Sometimes it crashes fully, see attached message from windows7

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EXCEPTION: NSt8ios_base7failureE
CAutoFile::write : write failed
C:\Program Files (x86)\Bitcoin\daemon\bitcoind.exe in ProcessMessage()

$ ./bitcoind.exe getinfo
{
"version" : 50100,
"balance" : 0.00000000,
"blocks" : 160352,
"connections" : 8,
"proxy" : "",
"generate" : false,
"genproclimit" : -1,
"difficulty" : 1159929.49722438,
"hashespersec" : 0,
"testnet" : false,
"keypoololdest" : 1325502590,
"keypoolsize" : 101,
"paytxfee" : 0.00000000,
"errors" : "EXCEPTION: NSt8ios_base7failureE \nCAutoFile::write : write failed \nC:\\Program Files (x86)\\Bitcoin\\daemon\\bitcoind.exe in ProcessMessage() \n"
}

Crash Info

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name:	APPCRASH
Application Name:	bitcoin-qt.exe
Application Version:	0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp:	4d44aa00
Fault Module Name:	StackHash_0a9e
Fault Module Version:	0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp:	00000000
Exception Code:	c0000005
Exception Offset:	063e1bf3
OS Version:	6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID:	1053
Additional Information 1:	0a9e
Additional Information 2:	0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Additional Information 3:	0a9e
Additional Information 4:	0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

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