bitcoin-qt hangs on startup on Ubuntu 18.10/Debian Buster

[TheBlueMatt]

Hangs trying to load ssl cert list, can we just remote BIP 70 support now?

(gdb) thread apply all bt

Thread 2 (Thread 0x3ffff1a3ac40 (LWP 58)):
#0  0x00003ffff55a2154 in poll () from /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
#1  0x00003ffff22f2a80 in ?? () from /usr/lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libxcb.so.1
#2  0x00003ffff22f5684 in xcb_wait_for_event () from /usr/lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libxcb.so.1
#3  0x00003ffff1ec0aa8 in ?? () from /usr/lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libQt5XcbQpa.so.5
#4  0x00003ffff66c3c4c in ?? () from /usr/lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libQt5Core.so.5
#5  0x00003ffff567d6d8 in start_thread () from /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
#6  0x00003ffff55b34d8 in clone () from /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libc.so.6

Thread 1 (Thread 0x3ffff222b490 (LWP 55)):
#0  0x00003ffff55aaed0 in syscall () from /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
#1  0x00003ffff58abc04 in __cxa_guard_acquire () from /usr/lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
#2  0x00003ffff7d65110 in ?? () from /usr/lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libQt5Network.so.5
#3  0x00003ffff7d92670 in ?? () from /usr/lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libQt5Network.so.5
#4  0x00003ffff7d9bfb8 in ?? () from /usr/lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libQt5Network.so.5
#5  0x00003ffff7d90a68 in ?? () from /usr/lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libQt5Network.so.5
#6  0x00003ffff7d3e840 in QSslCertificate::QSslCertificate(QByteArray const&, QSsl::EncodingFormat) ()
   from /usr/lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libQt5Network.so.5
#7  0x00003ffff7d6001c in ?? () from /usr/lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libQt5Network.so.5
#8  0x00003ffff7d4bfac in QSslConfiguration::defaultConfiguration() () from /usr/lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libQt5Network.so.5
#9  0x000000010007363c in main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=0x3ffffffff598) at qt/bitcoin.cpp:582

[TheBlueMatt]

May or may not be related to the 32-bit latest-openssl failures seen in #14580 which prevent building on 32-bit Ubuntu 18.10.

[fanquake]

@TheBlueMatt Can you try building with ./configure --disable-bip70?

[gmaxwell]

This sounds to me like it could be fixed by #14403

[maflcko]

Indeed, should be fixed on master and 0.17, though it is not yet tagged.

[TheBlueMatt]

Indeed, 0.17 branch fixes this. Need a release, though.

[mayfer]

In the meantime, is there NO WAY we can run bitcoin-qt on 18.10?

[wrapperband]

Pretty urgent Bitcoin doesn't run on the largest consumer distribution on Linux? I'd like to trash the windows set-up I've had to make to access my wallet.

Anything happening with this? Is it fixed or is there still an error?

I nearly tried building my own, but saw this from 2 days ago :

https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/80781/bitcoin-qt-and-ubuntu-18-10

11th December 2018 : Can’t build Berkley database on ubuntu 18.10.

During call to make install getting error: definition of ‘int __atomic_compare_exchange(db_atomic_t*, atomic_value_t, atomic_value_t)’ ambiguates built-in declaration ‘bool __atomic_compare_exchange(long unsigned int, volatile void*, void*, void*, int, int)’

[fanquake]

@wrapperband the 0.17.1rc1 release candidates are available here if you’d like to test them.

[kf106]

0.27.1rc1 bitcoin-qt starts and begins syncing on Ubuntu 18.10.

[wrapperband]

@fanquake 0.27.1rc1 bitcoin-qt - Kubuntu 18.10 Bitcoin-qt is syncing - thanks