Bitcoin full node and query server

Sep 11, 2025

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Hello, I'm running libbitcoin-explorer with a local libbitcoin-server. Both libbitcoin-explorer and libbitcoin-server are version 3.8.0. I'm able to fetch the block height 848141 (using bx fetch-height), so it seems the explorer and server are connected correctly and the server is reading from the blockchain datastore. However, when I run "bx fetch-history 134HfD2fdeBTohfx8YANxEpsYXsv5UoWyz" it returns: transfers "", and it should return more detailed info per https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin-explorer/wiki/bx-fetch-history. Do I need to re-index the blockchain datastore? Perhaps there is some indexing missing? The entire datastore directory is 918GB, so I suspect it is fully synced and indexed already... but I'm probably missing something. Any help is appreciated!

rose09:01

Hello again, I had another port failure and am now trying to restore from a snapshot (which I had been taking regularly). I'm getting this error: ====================== startup ======================= Using config file: "/home/user/.config/bn/bn.cfg" Database failed to start with error 'flush lock failure'. Please wait while restoring from most recent snapshot... restore::recover_snapshot(store) restore::open_file(header_head) restore::open_file(header_body) restore::open_file(input_head) restore::open_file(input_body) restore::open_file(output_head) restore::open_file(output_body) restore::open_file(point_head) restore::open_file(point_body) restore::open_file(ins_head) Database restore failed with error 'no such file or directory'. Node stopped successfully. ====================== shutdown ======================