diff --git a/docs/emails/bitcoin-list/11.md b/docs/emails/bitcoin-list/11.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9dee5c4 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/emails/bitcoin-list/11.md @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +--- +layout: default +title: “[bitcoin-list] Does Bitcoin Crash in Windows?” +grand_parent: Emails +parent: bitcoin-list +nav_order: 11 +--- + +# Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper + +The email on the Cryptography Mailing List that announced Bitcoin publicly to the world. +{: .fs-6 .fw-300 } + +--- + +``` +Liberty Standard wrote: +> Do you Windows users experience occasional Bitcoin crashes? +> Lately Bitcoin running in wine-1.0.1 has been crashing frequently. I was +> just wondering whether this is a Wine issue or a Bitcoin issue. + +I haven't had any reports of crashes in v0.1.5. It's been rock solid +for me on Windows. I think it must be Wine related. If you get another +crash in Wine and it prints anything on the terminal, e-mail me and I +may be able to figure out what happened, maybe something I can work +around. Martti and I have been working on a new version to release soon +and it would be nice to get any Wine fixes in there. + +> The following four lines print from the terminal when I start Bitcoin. +> fixme:toolhelp:CreateToolhelp32Snapshot Unimplemented: heap list snapshot +> fixme:toolhelp:Heap32ListFirst : stub +> fixme:toolhelp:CreateToolhelp32Snapshot Unimplemented: heap list snapshot +> fixme:toolhelp:Heap32ListFirst : stub + +Those don't look like anything to worry about. Probably functions +unimplemented by Wine that are harmlessly stubbed out. + +> I previously wasn't starting Bitcoin from the terminal, so I don't know what +> gets printed out when it crashes, but I'll reply with the results the next +> time it crashes. +> +> While Bitcoin first downloads previously completed blocks, the file +> debug.log grows grows to 17.4 MB and then stops growing. I imagine it will +> continue to grow as more bitcoins are completed. + +You can delete debug.log occasionally if you don't want to take the disk +space. It's just status messages that help with debugging. + +bitcoin.sourceforge.net looks fine now. Maybe sourceforge was doing +some maintenance. + +Satoshi +```