19:07:41 <dEBRUYNE> xiphon, selsta, tobtoht: There seems to be an issue with GUI v0.17.1.5 not automatically loading the 'old' wallet
19:07:45 <dEBRUYNE> Seeing numerous reports of this now
19:09:16 <xiphon> Nothing we can do i guess
19:09:30 <xiphon> i didn't inspect the issue
19:09:54 <xiphon> but at a glance it looks like bumping Qt from 5.9 to 5.15 i the reason
19:10:16 <selsta> ah that explains why it did not happen to me
19:11:52 <dEBRUYNE> xiphon: Would you mind having a look? It's kind of annoying, as the settings are fully reset too
19:14:50 <selsta> I guess if they are reset now we are unable to do anything anyway, though should only happen on Linux
19:15:10 <dEBRUYNE> We should still fix the issue though in case people upgrade from .4 to say .6
19:16:20 <dEBRUYNE> We need to do a new release anyway to fix the target height issue
19:20:20 <xiphon> "xiphon: Would you mind having a look?" -> checked, can't reproduce
19:20:56 <xiphon> "We should still fix the issue" -> if the Qt version bump is the reason, we most probably can't fix that
19:48:34 <c_onero> hi all. I'm having an issue with my monero-gui since the last update. anyone here who could help?
19:48:53 <selsta> please explain the issue
19:55:01 <c_onero> the gui stucks in synchronizing, always switching "daemon blocks remaining" between 1 and 2. but everything looks good when opening the wallet via cli 
19:55:15 <selsta> which node are you using?
19:56:48 <c_onero> local one started on port 17600.. (not started via gui, via shell). 
19:57:38 <selsta> can you download this text file https://gui.xmr.pm/files/block.txt and add --ban-list /path/to/block.txt to your start daemon start parameters?
20:04:25 <c_onero> it worked!! holy sh... i should have asked some hours ago. thanks alot!
20:06:07 <selsta> we will add some mitigations to this in a future release, someone is trolling with claiming a higher target height without actually sending data
20:06:10 <selsta> harmless but annoying
20:06:46 <selsta> 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
20:09:33 <c_onero> alright. thanks for the explanation and the immediate assistance selsta!
21:54:02 <geonic> I"m having the same issue. will try this fix
21:54:27 <geonic> also, GUI v0.17.1.5 lost my daemon startup flags
21:54:32 <geonic> any way to retrieve them?
21:55:31 <dEBRUYNE> Linux?
21:55:43 <dEBRUYNE> And a normal wallet or in conjunction with a hw device?
21:56:30 <geonic> Windows
21:56:53 <geonic> no hw device. just updated and it started to download the blockchain from scratch. had to point to it again
21:57:01 <selsta> did you use v0.17.1.4 previously?
21:57:04 <geonic> yes
21:57:44 <dEBRUYNE> Did it open on the welcome screen? 
21:57:58 <geonic> yes
21:58:01 <geonic> select mode etc
21:58:05 <selsta> we barely changed stuff that could cause this... hmm
21:58:12 <selsta> https://github.com/monero-project/monero-gui/commit/56e611480abcd2e02701961a5a4772ddbad4666d
21:58:17 <selsta> xiphon: could ^ be related?
21:59:31 <xiphon> it shouldn't, at least i don't see how this could affect the persistent settings
22:00:00 <xiphon> would be nice if someone provides steps to reproduce
22:00:44 <xiphon> i checked running qt 5.9 version and running qt 5.15 afterwards
22:00:55 <xiphon> works smooth
22:00:59 <selsta> geonic says Windows
22:01:21 <selsta> I did not have issues upgrading v0.17.1.4 -> v0.17.1.5 on mac
22:01:52 <dEBRUYNE> xiphon: Can you check with release binaries?
22:02:03 <dEBRUYNE> i.e. create a wallet with .4, add some daemon startup flags, try opening it with .5
22:07:52 <selsta> geonic: did you use a different wallet language?
22:08:02 <geonic> nope
22:08:17 <geonic> English both times
22:23:55 <Snipa> .merges
22:23:55 -xmr-pr- 3169 3249
22:36:29 <xiphon> dEBRUYNE: "i.e. create a wallet with .4, add some daemon startup flags, try opening it with .5"
22:36:36 <xiphon> ^ works fine
22:37:00 <geonic> I think the auto update process is what removed the persistent settings
22:37:29 <xiphon> it is auto-download actually
22:37:46 <xiphon> it doesn't install / change anything
22:39:04 <geonic> yes I meant the installation after the download :)
22:39:56 <geonic> are you able to try that? install .4 and update to .5 with the .exe
22:40:06 <geonic> and see if it keeps your settings
22:40:24 <xiphon> ah, if you uninstall it, the installer could remove the settings
22:40:32 <xiphon> i would expect that
22:40:41 <xiphon> and it should actually do that
22:41:00 <selsta> just running .5 exe over .4 should be fie
22:41:01 <selsta> fine
22:41:25 <xiphon> it is, indeed
22:41:33 <selsta> I’m quite sure it is because of https://github.com/monero-project/monero-gui/commit/56e611480abcd2e02701961a5a4772ddbad4666d
22:41:45 <selsta> I remember that I tried a similar patch once and had similar issue and gave up afterwards
22:41:52 <selsta> but don’t remember the details
22:42:08 <xiphon> ^ uninstalling monero gui is the reason
22:42:20 <xiphon> or just provide the steps to reproduce the issue
22:42:28 <xiphon> i give up at the moment
22:42:34 <selsta> I didn’t trigger it myself
22:42:56 <xiphon> i did enough testing for the case andcan't reproduce it