Bitcoin full node and query server

Dec 23, 2025

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Hello there! I'm having trouble getting up and running with libbitcoin-node with latest master. I'm not very familar so it's more than likely I've misunderstood something. Running bn --newstore on a fresh install fails after all database files are successfully created. The error message is confusing me. Ideally I'd like to create a regtest config. I'm using the following minimal config:

$ cat /tmp/bn.cfg
[log]
path = /tmp/bn-logs

[database]
path = /tmp/bn-db

[inbound]
bind = 127.0.0.1:18445
connections = 1

[outbound]
connections = 0

$ bn --config /tmp/bn.cfg --newstore

Output:

All files are created, opened, loaded, unloaded, and closed successfully:
create::create_file(header_head)
...
create::close_file(filter_tx_body)
Database creation failed with error 'file failed to load, disk may be full'.

Any kind of pointer would be much appreciated (storage seems fine) 🙂

(edited)

eynhaender23:26

I just checked your config and the store has successfully been created with an initial size ob 14GB. This is the minimum you need to start. Then, starting the node without -n but with outbound.connections = 0 in the config will cause the node to just idle and do nothing as it will not connect to any peers.

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