Tranz! You are on here so much being so helpful.

You know it would not hurt you to take it easy and drink a beer every once in a while right     

Can't wait for the 1.4 release, looks great.

Identical bug occurred in blackcoin, all the blocks freshly downloaded, then quit and restart, assert failure.
Also Novacoin dies in the same assert.
HoboNickels has been working ok for me, though.

Has someone tried to reproduce the bug with leveldb 1.15.0? Novacoin had pretty old version of leveldb.

current hbn has kMinorVersion = 13; in src/leveldb/include/leveldb/db.h ?

Anyways, I tested with novacoin, latest leveldb, deleted all the databases and downloaded again..  it did not die with assert tailure.
But this does not prove there are no bugs in novacoin..

EDIT: bummer. blackcoin has leveldb 1.15, so the bug is most probably in the novacoin code. Assuming blackcoin devs did not add their own bugs.

My guess is it has something to do with the cached start up routine that NVC implemented a while ago. I also used that code, as well as BC. I am not sure if PHS did, but they just moved to leveldb as well. So it maybe interesting to see if the bug hits the stones.

If you wallet is encrypted, you need to unlock it. Go to console and type


where 9999 is the number of seconds you want your wallet to be opened.

I think adding this line

To bitcoingui.cpp after line 538 should fix this. but I would need someone who can comile and test it. Otherwise I will put this in for 1.4 and see if max can create us another wallet.

You can lower the coins in reserve by lowering the number. If you have 6000 coins try putting 5000 in reserve. If the gui is good you can lower more, if not you can up it.

You can also use these switches directly in the debug window/console, instead of having to shut down and restart. So you can start with 9999. Then type reservebalance 5000 in the console and see how it responds.

About your second question, yes that will help.  You could use the advanced coin control and send some of the coins to another address. Does not even have to be another wallet.  I would send them over in 500 lots, not the entire lot at once. This way you could send some to trade and not loose coins days on the whole 6000.

By using both methods, you can allow some coins to stake, and then after they are mature, send those coins to another address, in larger blocks.

I have uploaded all my current work to github, ( https://github.com/Tranz5/HoboNickels ) version 1.3.8 but I have not compiled a public release yet.  This would fix your issue with no intervention needed on your part.  Hoping to complete 1.4 here very soon.

Yes that sounds like the issue I spoke of. You gaming rig has a much better CPU so the issue is not as prevalent. But it would show itself again after a while. In any event, this will soon no longer be an issue.

It wont even run when it is the only wallet loaded.