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Nicholas Bohm to Satoshi: "I'm just a humble lawyer" (January 26, 2009)

Nicholas Bohm January 26, 2009 16:31 UTC
Quote from: Satoshi Nakamoto on January 26, 2009, 3:18:00 PM UTC

Right, debug.log is what I need.

Attached in latest version.

Satoshi Nakamoto

You’re using v0.1.3 right?

Yes.

Satoshi Nakamoto

What operating system are you using?

Windows XP Professional Version 2002 Service Pack 3

Satoshi Nakamoto

I haven’t tested Vista yet but I’m getting a copy tomorrow. Several people have been running on XP since I released v0.1.3 without problems.

0x000bd598 isn’t a valid address. If it printed another address in the crash dialog, that would be useful.

I’ve saved the Event Viewer data using words instead of bytes, in case that’s any more useful:

Event Type:     Error
Event Source:   Application Error
Event Category:      None
Event ID:  1000
Date:          26/01/2009
Time:          04:51:09
User:          N/A
Computer:      HP91914945127
Description:
Faulting application bitcoin.exe, version 0.0.0.0, faulting module
bitcoin.exe, version 0.0.0.0, fault address 0x000bd598.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 6c707041 74616369 206e6f69 6c696146
0010: 20657275 74696220 6e696f63 6578652e
0020: 302e3020 302e302e 206e6920 63746962
0030: 2e6e696f 20657865 2e302e30 20302e30
0040: 6f207461 65736666 30302074 35646230
0050: 0a0d3839

I notice this gives the same fault address, though. I don’t know where to find the crash dialog you mention (this is technically deep water by my modest standards - I’m just a humble lawyer).

Satoshi Nakamoto
Quote from: Nicholas Bohm on January 26, 2009, 10:34:00 AM UTC

I had another crash in the early hours of this morning: from Event Viewer:

Event Type:     Error
Event Source:   Application Error
Event Category:      None
Event ID:  1000
Date:          26/01/2009
Time:          04:51:09
User:          N/A
Computer:      HP91914945127
Description:
Faulting application bitcoin.exe, version 0.0.0.0, faulting module
bitcoin.exe, version 0.0.0.0, fault address 0x000bd598.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74   Applicat
0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c   ion Fail
0010: 75 72 65 20 20 62 69 74   ure  bit
0018: 63 6f 69 6e 2e 65 78 65   coin.exe
0020: 20 30 2e 30 2e 30 2e 30   0.0.0.0
0028: 20 69 6e 20 62 69 74 63   in bitc
0030: 6f 69 6e 2e 65 78 65 20   oin.exe
0038: 30 2e 30 2e 30 2e 30 20   0.0.0.0
0040: 61 74 20 6f 66 66 73 65   at offse
0048: 74 20 30 30 30 62 64 35   t 000bd5
0050: 39 38 0d 0a          98..

Would it be useful to send an updated copy of debug.log?

I have restarted Bitcoin, and it is running normally.

Regards,

Nicholas

Original external source

https://eth.loan/pdfs/20090126-Re_[bitcoin-list]%20Problems-73902.pdf
From exhibit NB1 to Nicholas Bohm's witness statement in COPA v Wright: his own export of his correspondence with Satoshi from Mozilla Thunderbird, filed in July 2023 and put online by decashed.eth in January 2025. The time is the one shown in Bohm's mail client (UK time), converted to UTC. The postal address and telephone numbers in Bohm's signature are omitted.