Nicholas Bohm to Satoshi: "Reporting" on the attachments, bc014 and Eraser (January 31, 2009)

1 Attachments problem

Although I successfully downloaded and ran bc014, I thought I had better report on the attachments.

I received the following messages from you yesterday 30th January, and only those messages, none of them with any attachments:

At 22.51 GMT

NBQuote from: Nicholas Bohm on January 30, 2009, 9:54:00 PM UTC

SNQuote from: Satoshi Nakamoto on January 30, 2009, 8:21:00 PM UTC

I resent the 0.1.4 file in the previous e-mail. It also contained a bugfix for a bug that was dormant but I thought by process of elimination might have been what you had, but after you told me about Eraser I think it’s more likely to have been Eraser/disk space related.

I guess we are simultaneously trying to debug my e-mail.

We seem to be, as I can only find two messages from you, the one above and the one from vistomail, and neither has any attachments. (I have also again checked the spam quarantine.)

So something odd is happening.

Regards,

Nicholas

Clearly one side or the other is stopping the ones with attachments. I sent you the same file attachment from vistomail about 15 minutes after I sent it from gmx (about 2 hours ago). I’ve successfully sent similar attachments to other people from vistomail many times before.

After this e-mail, which I’m sending without an attachment to make sure it gets through, I’ll try again with a different variation:

1. stripped debug info, reduces rar filesize from 7.8MB to 1.6MB.
2. renamed to bc014.rar, in case long filename or periods are the problem.
3. no gdb.exe.

After that I’ll send bc014a.rar, with bitcoin.exe renamed to bitcoin.dat in case it doesn’t like exe files.

And then I’ll send bc014.rar from vistomail.

Satoshi

At 23.04

I sent bc014.rar and bc014a.rar through gmx, now here’s bc014.rar attached from vistomail.

At 23.13

I sent bc014.rar and bc014a.rar through gmx and bc014.rar through vistomail. Did you get any of them?

In case all those failed (let me know), I also uploaded it to: http://www.upload.ae/file/14497/bc014-rar.html

Satoshi

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This is very odd. I am successfully receiving email from others with attachments, and neither size nor filename seem to matter. NOD32 is no longer detecting Bitcoin as a virus (I assume as a result of an update to NOD32, of which I get one or two most days). Your mail is not in my anti-spam quarantine (though I have now whitelisted both addresses anyway). I’m baffled.

2 Bitcoin 014

The download was successful, and I simply replaced the old executable with the new. It runs without any problems.

3 Eraser

I ran all my normal Eraser tasks, and provoked no problem with Bitcoin.

Eraser might fill the disk in an operation to wipe free space, but this is very slow with two 150GB drives, and I don’t do it routinely. The wiping operations take less than 2 minutes, and I doubt if they use up all the disk space.

The only recent change to my system has been to rectify an apparent failure of the swapfile, whioch did not seem to be recognised by the system, but is now. With 2GB of RAM, though, would that have been a problem?

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It seems we have to wait for further errors to accumulate!

Thanks for all your responses meanwhile. Do let me know if there are further tests you would like me to try.

Regards,

Nicholas