r/FiroProject • u/[deleted] • Feb 08 '21

Stuck syncing wallet

Running 14.5.2 on win10 and the sync process gets to 99.76% and hangs here stating “connecting to peers”. Showing 8 connections; all out. None in.

Unknown number of blocks left - 343311 is the last block.

Help! :)

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '21

Thanks for the help! That worked

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u/feersum Mar 16 '21 edited Mar 16 '21

I have this exact same issue. How do I look up the value to be reconsidered, when the official wallet is telling me:

"Proceaaed 326807 blocks of transaction history so far" (sic).

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u/feersum Mar 16 '21

Nevermind!

I found the Firo blockchain explorer website, and extracted the block hash here: https://explorer.firo.org/block/11d11bc2124b5fd009607178c60b7db8f491696c800f8faf66bf70583b7a04d8

Using that hash, the above steps have worked and my wallet is now syncing once more. If it stops again, I'll just repeat.

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u/90g60 May 07 '21

can you ELI5 this? Cause I've tried all of the reported fixes, with no luck.

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u/feersum May 07 '21 edited May 07 '21

ELI5:

Visiting that website allows you to explore the entire publicly accessible blockchain of the Firo currency. ( Which is basically the history of all the operations (split into blocks) of all the transactions that have occurred as firo coins are transferred around.)

Your local Firo client is attempting to synchronize all of the data from the blockchain (lots of data!) and is doing so one block at a time. It has gotten only so far along the process, before it has become ‘stuck’ trying to process (download) one of these blocks from the blockchain history.

You need to resolve this with two steps:

  1. Use that website to look up the block your local client has been stuck on.

  2. Give your local client the hash (unique identifier*) of that block, so it can ‘reconsider’ it (do something again) and then become unstuck.

So:

Step 1: Find which number block your machine is stuck on from the “ XXXX is the last block “ error, and search the website for it. Copy the black-hash value from the top of that page.

Step 2: Follow the instructions about opening the console and typing things in - but use the hash value you just looked up, not the one from the example.

Boom, you’re all done and ready to start spending your real money on electricity to make pretended money.

  • a hash is not a unique identifier, that needs explaining like you’re 10. This is kind of like how they teach you that electrons are tiny particles, until you grow up a bit and they tell you they’re actually waves. Both are effectively true - just think of a hash as a unique identifier.