EXCEPTION: St9bad_alloc std::bad_alloc C:\Users\Papa\Desktop\MintCoin-Qt.exe in Runaway exception

[shane-kerr]

Many Windows users have reported:

EXCEPTION: St9bad_alloc
std::bad_alloc
C:\Users\Papa\Desktop\MintCoin-Qt.exe in Runaway exception

A workaround for now is:

• Make a shortcut to Mintcoin-Qt.exe
• Right click on the shortcut->Properties. Then add -splash=0 to the end of the target string.

We should find and fix the underlying issue though.

[gradegal]

thanks for the workaround - now this exception doesn`t show up again - but the wallet gets no connections to network.

debug.log

[shane-kerr]

The code in the GitHub repository has a fix for not getting connections, but for now you need to specify nodes directly using addnode. You may find one of these videos helpful:

(Windows) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc7FecSGm1s (Mac) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn4M_H69ZP8 (Mac Lion to High Sierra) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQY1KOyu8uY

[gradegal]

....but for now you need to specify nodes directly using addnode.

How can I do this ?

[Myke500]

Getting a slightly different error EXCEPTION: St13runtime_error CDE(): error opening database environment IO error:

Same or needs new issue thread?

[shane-kerr]

It seems that we were running up into the default 2 GB process size limit for 32-bit applications in Windows. 32-bit applications running in 32-bit Windows can support up to 3 GB of RAM, and 32-bit applications running in 64-bit Windows can support up too 4 GB of RAM, but they need to be compiled with this feature enabled.

Here's the Microsoft page about this build option, IMAGE_FILE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE, for your reading pleasure:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/desktop/Memory/memory-limits-for-windows-releases#memory_limits

In our case we are using the MXE cross-compile from Linux, and need to add the -Wl,--large-address-aware flag to our 32-bit Windows build.

[shane-kerr]

This seems to be fixed with binaries built by Travis, using the linker options which set the binaries to support 3 GB of RAM, which we will use for the next release.

I'll keep this ticket open to point people to until then.

[gradegal]

Dear Shane, thank you very much for this update 👍🏼 I am eager for the next release of the wallet.

Am 13.08.2018 um 23:37 schrieb Shane Kerr notifications@github.com:

This seems to be fixed with binaries built by Travis, which we will use for the next release.

I'll keep this ticket open to point people to until then.

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[shane-kerr]

This is fixed with the release of the 2.1 wallet.