failed to deserialize keys buffer

[Gingeropolous]

https://old.reddit.com/r/monerosupport/comments/zpz5zs/keys_file_cant_restore_couldnt_open_wallet/

this is the second instance I've seen of this. Old monero users getting new software and running into this with old wallet files.

and if there's 2 people that post something, that means there's millions!

someone on IRC says its probably a corrupt file.

[afungible]

And which version are the users talking about? Latest is v0.18.1.2

Might it be a good to check the delta of bool wallet2::load_keys_buf(..) with previous version where this wallet file worked.
https://github.com/monero-project/monero/blob/master/src/wallet/wallet2.cpp#L4181

[selsta]

Is there anyone who reported that they have a .keys file that opens with an old version and doesn't with a new version? If yes, which exact version breaks?

So far I feel like this is just a corrupted file.

[plowsof]

testing with monero-wallet-cli v0.10.0.0 Sep 19, 2016:

• cli v18.1.2 opens the keys file without issue
• gui v18.1.2 will complain - but will open the wallet without issue after cli creates the cache for it (no mention of deserialize here in this particular version)

Error opening wallet with password:  boost::filesystem::copy_file: Invalid argument: "/home/username/Downloads/monero.linux.x64.v0-10-0-0/wallet-v0.10_2", "/home/username/Downloads/monero.linux.x64.v0-10-0-0/wallet-v0.10_2.unportable"

[selsta]

Since there's no clear way to reproduce (@plowsof did testing) and no other reports I'll close this for now. It's highly likely simply a corrupted wallet file.