ARMORY WON’T START BITCOIN D

[BARSTOOL]

I’m running Win 11
Armory 96.5 is running, shows correct balances, shows "connected (849994 blocks)" in purple text at lower right corner (number of blocks never changes) ,
and popup says "you can send and recieve bitcoins"....
Bitcoin Core 30.0 is running, bitcoind is not running.

It doesn’t seem to matter if “Allow Armory to manage bitcoin” is checked or not,
it doesn’t seem to matter which one I start first, as long as they are both running, Armory shows “"connected (849994 blocks)" in purple text at lower right corner”

No matter what I do, I can’t get Armory
to start bitcoind and manage Btc Core in background.
Can anyone help with this?

[retaur]

What happens if you run armory without bitcoin core running? And what about with just bitcoind running in the background?

How do you know bitcoind isn't running? Have you checked both processes and services in task manager (or ran tasklist from command prompt)?

[goatpig]

it doesn’t seem to matter which one I start first, as long as they are both running, Armory shows “"connected (849994 blocks)" in purple text at lower right corner”

Top block as of this writing is ~920k.

No matter what I do, I can’t get Armory
to start bitcoind and manage Btc Core in background.
Can anyone help with this?

Likely the bitcoind binary is in another folder than what Armory expects. Default folders for Core changed a couple versions or so ago. You would have to tell Armory where to look for bitcoind.exe, through the Files menu. Could also post a log file for inspection?

[BARSTOOL]

What happens if you run armory without bitcoin core running? And what about with just bitcoind running in the background?

How do you know bitcoind isn't running? Have you checked both processes and services in task manager (or ran tasklist from command prompt)?

Armory alone shows correct balences and "Node offline (0 blocks)" in rust red text at lower right corner.  I don't know how to manually make Btc D run in background.

Yes, checked Apps, Processes and Services in Task Mgr...no Btc D...with or without
Bitcoin Core.  When Armory is running Armory DB is running in Services.
 
No, not familiar with tasklist from Cmd prompt. Have never been very comfortable
 with DOS.  Did learn to run chkdsk/r though.

 

[nc50lc]

I’m running Win 11

Open your Window Explorer and browse to the folder where you extracted/installed Bitcoin Core. (defaults to C:\Program Files\Bitcoin)
Inside that folder check if there's a "daemon" or "bin" folder, if so, look for "bitcoind" inside it.

But, you must be on an X/Y problem since the issue may not be bitcoind based from your description.
For that, you should provide the logs or at least check the contents yourself if you don't prefer to share it.

I'd also suggest to check your Bitcoin Core's debug.log file for possible corrupted "chainstate" or "block index" somewhere at 849994
which should be easy to fix with --reindex or --reindex-chainstate (but will take hours to finish)
But do not use those commands until you confirm the issue from the logs.