xiphon, selsta, tobtoht: There seems to be an issue with GUI v0.17.1.5 not automatically loading the 'old' wallet

Seeing numerous reports of this now

Nothing we can do i guess

i didn't inspect the issue

but at a glance it looks like bumping Qt from 5.9 to 5.15 i the reason

ah that explains why it did not happen to me

xiphon: Would you mind having a look? It's kind of annoying, as the settings are fully reset too

I guess if they are reset now we are unable to do anything anyway, though should only happen on Linux

We should still fix the issue though in case people upgrade from .4 to say .6

We need to do a new release anyway to fix the target height issue

"xiphon: Would you mind having a look?" -> checked, can't reproduce

"We should still fix the issue" -> if the Qt version bump is the reason, we most probably can't fix that

hi all. I'm having an issue with my monero-gui since the last update. anyone here who could help?

please explain the issue

the gui stucks in synchronizing, always switching "daemon blocks remaining" between 1 and 2. but everything looks good when opening the wallet via cli

which node are you using?

local one started on port 17600.. (not started via gui, via shell).

can you download this text file gui.xmr.pm/files/block.txt and add --ban-list /path/to/block.txt to your start daemon start parameters?

it worked!! holy sh... i should have asked some hours ago. thanks alot!

we will add some mitigations to this in a future release, someone is trolling with claiming a higher target height without actually sending data

harmless but annoying

if it starts happen again please first try to update block.txt to the latest version and if you still have issues report this on IRC

alright. thanks for the explanation and the immediate assistance selsta!

I"m having the same issue. will try this fix

also, GUI v0.17.1.5 lost my daemon startup flags

any way to retrieve them?

Linux?

And a normal wallet or in conjunction with a hw device?

Windows

no hw device. just updated and it started to download the blockchain from scratch. had to point to it again

did you use v0.17.1.4 previously?

yes

Did it open on the welcome screen?

yes

select mode etc

we barely changed stuff that could cause this... hmm

xiphon: could ^ be related?

it shouldn't, at least i don't see how this could affect the persistent settings

would be nice if someone provides steps to reproduce

i checked running qt 5.9 version and running qt 5.15 afterwards

works smooth

geonic says Windows

I did not have issues upgrading v0.17.1.4 -> v0.17.1.5 on mac

xiphon: Can you check with release binaries?

i.e. create a wallet with .4, add some daemon startup flags, try opening it with .5

geonic: did you use a different wallet language?

nope

English both times

.merges

dEBRUYNE: "i.e. create a wallet with .4, add some daemon startup flags, try opening it with .5"

^ works fine

I think the auto update process is what removed the persistent settings

it is auto-download actually

it doesn't install / change anything

yes I meant the installation after the download :)

are you able to try that? install .4 and update to .5 with the .exe

and see if it keeps your settings

ah, if you uninstall it, the installer could remove the settings

i would expect that

and it should actually do that

just running .5 exe over .4 should be fie

fine

it is, indeed

I’m quite sure it is because of monero-project/monero-gui 56e6114

I remember that I tried a similar patch once and had similar issue and gave up afterwards

but don’t remember the details

^ uninstalling monero gui is the reason

or just provide the steps to reproduce the issue

i give up at the moment

I didn’t trigger it myself

i did enough testing for the case andcan't reproduce it