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author | Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail.com> | 2012-09-18 14:30:47 -0400 |
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committer | Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail.com> | 2012-10-08 17:46:45 -0400 |
commit | eed1785f701be93ac2464e854c2a7de1f748ef84 (patch) | |
tree | 012b0bae35dfc7f35c10d341e50dd31fb88c6cf1 /README | |
parent | 8d5f461cb6d4bb954fef5c3deebe2b2a7bdbfe27 (diff) |
Handle corrupt wallets gracefully.
Corrupt wallets used to cause a DB_RUNRECOVERY uncaught exception and a
crash. This commit does three things:
1) Runs a BDB verify early in the startup process, and if there is a
low-level problem with the database:
+ Moves the bad wallet.dat to wallet.timestamp.bak
+ Runs a 'salvage' operation to get key/value pairs, and
writes them to a new wallet.dat
+ Continues with startup.
2) Much more tolerant of serialization errors. All errors in deserialization
are reported by tolerated EXCEPT for errors related to reading keypairs
or master key records-- those are reported and then shut down, so the user
can get help (or recover from a backup).
3) Adds a new -salvagewallet option, which:
+ Moves the wallet.dat to wallet.timestamp.bak
+ extracts ONLY keypairs and master keys into a new wallet.dat
+ soft-sets -rescan, to recreate transaction history
This was tested by randomly corrupting testnet wallets using a little
python script I wrote (https://gist.github.com/3812689)
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