In the debug.log, it requests the block list, receives the block list, then begins uploading the list of blocks requested. It doesn’t receive the blocks, but it didn’t run long enough for me to be sure it would have had time yet. Everything else looks normal.
How long did you run it? It could take a few minutes to start downloading the blocks. Especially if you’re on a cable modem, the uplink can be much lower bandwidth so it would take some time to upload the block request list.
If you run it again and it still doesn’t download blocks, keep it running for several hours at least and then send me the debug.log. That should give it time for my node to connect to you and I could see what it says on my side and correlate it with your debug.log.
You’re right about the minimize on close option, there’s no reason that can’t be separate. Martti originally had it separate and I made it a sub-option, my bad. I’ll change it back.
Liberty Standard wrote:
That is what I meant. The blocks displayed in the status bar did not increase at all while i ran the program. I have attached my debug.log.
A good way for you to test the tray icon in Gnome is to remove the notification area and then add it back. If the icon is still displayed after adding the notification back, then it’s working correctly.
I generally set application preferences to not minimize to the tray, but to close to the tray. And I keep the application minimized. That way I don’t accidentally close the program and still have the convenience of being able to open the application from the tray. (I don’t display open windows in the ‘task bar’ but I have an icon that if clicked displays open windows as sub-menu items.) Then if the tray icon disappears, I go into the settings disable and re-enable the tray icon setting to get it to reappear. That’s currently not possible with the bitcoin preferences because the close to tray check mark can not be enabled without the minimize to tray check box being enabled.
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Satoshi Nakamoto <satoshin@gmx.com mailto:satoshin@gmx.com> wrote:
Liberty Standard wrote: I downloaded it and it runs. It and it is using plenty of CPU, so I think it's working properly. It has not downloaded previously generated blocks. Is that a bug or a new feature? If you mean the blocks count in the status bar isn't working its way up to around 26600, then that's a bug, you should send me your debug.log. (which is at ~/.bitcoin/debug.log) The system tray in Gnome is not very reliable. Sometimes an icon will disappear leaving no way to get back to the program. I have verified that this can happen with bitcoin. It would be nice if starting bitcoin while it's already running would just bring up the GUI of the already running bitcoin process. We haven't figured out how to find and bring up the existing running program yet on Linux like it does on Windows. Given what you say, I should at least turn off the minimize to tray option initially by default.
Source: Published by Martti Malmi on GitHub in February 2024 as part of his testimony in the COPA v. Wright trial. The full correspondence archive is available at mmalmi.github.io/satoshi/.