Fatal: Failed to register the Ethereum service: failed to retrieve genesis from ancient EOF
navy665180 opened this issue · 4 comments
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my computer is powered off because the ele-power is sudden off,now i restart the geth ,but error:
Fatal: Failed to register the Ethereum service: failed to retrieve genesis from ancient EOF
what shall i do now?thanks
Looks like your ancient folder is broken. Can you do a ls -l? The ancient folder is <your-geth-datadir>/chaindata/ancient
@rjl493456442 yes ,i did it,and find it,can i delete it ?or do anything eles?
Sorry but you need to resync
Note, I had this too.