By now you will have seen a 100 or more posts on what happened on the 17th September 2018 when the blockchain stood still so I will spare you the details, what I will say is it is thanks to the excellent work of our Top Witnesses and multiple developers working on code patches all that we lost was a little Steemit time, once the problem was solved everything restarted without transaction loss.
I held out on my paused v0.20.00 Witness server in case there was any chance to restart it without a reply - the end solution however required replacing the block log and replaying which takes my server 6 hours. And at that time everyone was asked to revert to v0.19.12 , v0.20.00 has been fixed now though and we are seeing some Witnesses on it - I think I will hold out until next Monday night to suffer another long replay.
So last night I finally went to bed just after 2am, setting an alarm for 4am to see if the replay had done. It hadn't of course so a 6am alarm and at that point the replay had finished and there were patch instructions so a quick stop, build and config edit and start got me running and back processing transactions - and a block a few minutes after they started!
Irony of the day was 45 minutes after getting that block with my Witness running smoothly on v0.19.12 conductor caught up with the 6 blocks I missed when the blockchain was not running and promptly disabled my perfectly working Witness. I noticed quickly and was able to manually reactivate - nothing works when the blockchain stops!
So the Blockchain restarted at 1am my time, and my server started processing transactions again at 7am after the replay - not bad going really and even now many Witnesses are still out of action. I have been producing blocks all day and everything is smooth again, the bug that caused it all has been fixed and we can all carrying on looking forward to HF20 on the 25th.
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The C0ff33 Vlog 25th August 2018 |
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