Troubleshoot a node running on Windows#
This guide describes how to troubleshoot a node running on Windows on the Concordium network.
Node crash or database corruption#
A node crash or database corruption is the problem if:
the node fails to start
the node is in a restart loop with an error message about database corruption
or you get a “too few bytes” message.
The solution is to delete the relevant portion of the database.
The database directory should contain matching pairs of blockstate-$i.dat and treestate-$i files for some number of consecutive i’s starting at 0. The number of the files differs depending on which protocol version is current.
blockstate-0.dat
blockstate-1.dat
blockstate-2.dat
treestate-0
treestate-1
treestate-2
To resolve a crash or non-starting node, delete files, starting at the largest i, until the node starts or until there are no more files in the directory.
If only one of
treestate-iorblockstate-$i.datfiles exists, delete the other and try starting the node.Otherwise delete both files of the
treestate-$iandblockstate-$i.datpair and try starting the node.
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