Client Fails to Open with EncFS Encrypted Wallet on Mac #400

issue djspiewak opened this issue on July 12, 2011

djspiewak commented at 5:13 PM on July 12, 2011: none
I have used EncFS and MacFUSE to encrypt my "~/Library/Application Support" directory on MacOS X (10.6.8). I'm attempting to use the latest version (0.3.23) of the official client. However, when I attempt to start the client, I get the following error:
```
EXCEPTION: 22DbRunRecoveryException
DbEnv::open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run
database recovery
bitcoin in AppInit()
```
By experimentation, I have found that the trouble file is wallet.dat. All the other files can be encrypted without a problem. The exact encryption scheme is that Application Support is symlinked to ~/.crypt/Library/Application Support, where ~/.crypt is an EncFS mount. Other applications work fine with this (with the notable exception of the App Store).

This happens both with a clean startup and a pre-existing wallet.
gavinandresen commented at 4:45 PM on August 9, 2011: contributor

Won't fix (unsupported configuration, not sure we COULD fix since it looks like an EncFS or Berkely DB problem), but the good news is next version of bitcoin adds an option to encrypt the private keys in the wallet.
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