This most recent update (from 0.13.99 to 0.15.99) will prompt you to do a re-index. If you are using the GUI client, the re-index will show the bottom progress bar go from 0% to 100% fairly quickly, and then the "real" re-index will start (start over) and the stats shown in the GUI will update.
So far, on multiple computers, the GUI freezes after some time and needs to be force-quit, which I've found is not harmful but does not save any of the re-indexing progress.
The fix I've found is to let the GUI do that first faux re-index where none of the stats update, and then as soon as the second re-index begins, go to File and Exit the application cleanly. (This saves the state of the re-index.) Then run the namecoind command line daemon and let that do the re-index and sync. It should finish within a couple hours, and you'll know it's completed when you run "$ namecoin-cli getblockchaininfo" and the "blocks" value and the "headers"value are the same value and both values are the most recent block. When that happens, run "$ namecoin-cli stop" to shut it down, wait a little bit for the process to close, and then you can open the GUI and use it as you normally would.
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maxweiss commented on 2018-01-23 20:28 (UTC)
This most recent update (from 0.13.99 to 0.15.99) will prompt you to do a re-index. If you are using the GUI client, the re-index will show the bottom progress bar go from 0% to 100% fairly quickly, and then the "real" re-index will start (start over) and the stats shown in the GUI will update.
So far, on multiple computers, the GUI freezes after some time and needs to be force-quit, which I've found is not harmful but does not save any of the re-indexing progress.
The fix I've found is to let the GUI do that first faux re-index where none of the stats update, and then as soon as the second re-index begins, go to File and Exit the application cleanly. (This saves the state of the re-index.) Then run the namecoind command line daemon and let that do the re-index and sync. It should finish within a couple hours, and you'll know it's completed when you run "$ namecoin-cli getblockchaininfo" and the "blocks" value and the "headers"value are the same value and both values are the most recent block. When that happens, run "$ namecoin-cli stop" to shut it down, wait a little bit for the process to close, and then you can open the GUI and use it as you normally would.
maxweiss commented on 2017-10-01 09:38 (UTC)