When a daemon update changes the block-index on-disk format (or the index is
corrupt), dragonxd aborts at startup — "non-canonical optional discriminant" →
"Error loading block database. Aborted." — and the wallet silently shows a zero
balance. Previously the connect loop just crash-restarted into the same abort up
to 3x and then reported a bare "Daemon crashed N times", with no path forward.
Now:
- daemon/daemon_startup_diagnosis.h: pure blockDbOutputLooksBroken() classifies
the crashed node's captured console output (the fatal block-DB markers).
- The connect loop detects it on the FIRST abort, STOPS crash-restarting into the
same failure (each retry reloads the whole index — wasteful), and offers a fix.
- A one-shot -reindex flag (EmbeddedDaemon::setReindexOnNextStart → DaemonController
forwarder → args) rebuilds the block index + chainstate from the intact raw
blocks; App::reindexBlockDatabase() arms it and un-gates the loop to restart.
- An auto-shown dialog (renderBlockDbReindexDialog) + a notification explain the
situation ("your coins are safe; the node just can't load the chain") and offer
a one-click "Rebuild block database". Full-node only (gated), lite-safe.
This is the exact trap behind a real "big wallet shows no funds" report: a
post-format-change daemon over pre-change chaindata. Reindex also fixes a plain
corrupt index.
Adds testBlockDbOutputDiagnosis (the abort sequence + individual markers trip it;
normal startup / wallet-corruption / asmap errors do not). Suite green (1/1).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Links the real EmbeddedDaemon into the ObsidianDragonTests target (its deps were
already present) and adds two POSIX integration tests that exercise the actual
fork/exec/waitpid fixes headlessly:
- testExecFailureReported (F2): start() against a non-executable file must fail with a
precise "not executable or wrong architecture" reason.
- testDaemonCrashDetected (F1): a short-lived child that exits abnormally is still
detected (crash_count_ increments) while isRunning() is hammered from the test
thread — a regression test for the reap race.
Writing the F2 test surfaced a real bug: start()'s failure branch called
setState(State::Error, "Failed to start dragonxd process"), and setState stores the
Error message into last_error_ — clobbering the precise message startProcess() had
just set, so getLastError()/the UI only ever saw the generic string. Fixed to pass the
preserved detail to setState, so the precise reason survives and now also reaches the
state callback (crash panel / status).
ctest 1/1, green including the two new integration tests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three verified daemon-startup edge-case fixes in the embedded-daemon process
lifecycle (all in embedded_daemon.{cpp,h}):
- F1: EmbeddedDaemon::isRunning() (POSIX) now reads the atomic state_ instead of
calling waitpid(WNOHANG) from the UI thread, which raced monitorProcess()'s own
reap. waitpid is one-shot: whichever thread won consumed the exit status; if
isRunning() won, the monitor never saw the crash, so crash_count_/State::Error
and the 3-strike restart cap were silently lost. monitorProcess() is now the sole
reaper (predicate Running || Stopping keeps stop()'s wait loops correct). Mirrors
the existing XmrigManager::isRunning() fix.
- F2: startProcess() (POSIX) adds a close-on-exec self-pipe exec handshake. On a
non-executable / wrong-arch / corrupt binary, execv fails in the child and the
parent now learns synchronously (reads errno vs EOF), reaps the zombie, sets a
precise last_error_ ("not executable or wrong architecture"), and returns false
-- instead of reporting State::Running for a daemon that never started. Uses
pipe()+FD_CLOEXEC (not pipe2) so the branch stays shared with macOS. Parent-side
setpgid is now best-effort + logged.
- F4: start() gates on a lingering datadir lock after the port check. A graceful
shutdown releases the RPC port ~90s before the datadir .lock, so a rapid
stop->start spawned a daemon that died on the lock and, three times in ~12s,
tripped the 3-strike crash cap before the lock cleared. start() now polls
isDaemonProcessRunning() with a bounded ~300ms wait and bails with a distinct
non-crash Error (no crash_count_ bump) that the connect loop retries once the
lock clears. Isolated migrate-to-seed starts (skip_port_check_ / -datadir
override) are exempt.
Adds the testDatadirLockGate unit test (pure evaluateDatadirLockGate matrix) to
test_phase4.cpp. Plan and progress tracked in docs/daemon-startup-hardening.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
When a switch fails, the failure modal now distinguishes a CORRUPT target wallet
from other failures and offers a one-click repair:
- The switch worker watermarks the node's captured console output before the
start and, if the node dies in init, scans this start's output for a corruption
signature ("Failed to rename … .bak" / "salvage failed" / "wallet.dat corrupt" /
"Error loading wallet") → sets switch_wallet_corrupt_.
- The Failed modal then shows an accurate "this wallet appears corrupt" message
(instead of the generic "Couldn't open that wallet") plus a "Try to repair
(salvage)" button that retries the switch with the target node started under
-salvagewallet (recovers readable keypairs; implies -rescan).
- EmbeddedDaemon::setSalvageOnNextStart (one-shot, precedence salvage > zap >
rescan) + controller forwarder; switchToWallet gains a salvage arg.
Salvage operates only on the corrupt target (never the good wallet, no fund
movement). Adversarially verified: output isolation, one-shot lifecycle, state
handling, re-entrancy, no success-path regression.
i18n (EN + 8 languages) + 2 new CJK glyphs baked into the subset font.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two issues the latest live log exposed:
- The switch's start-retry spawned a SECOND dragonxd while the first was still
shutting down, so the two held wallet.dat against each other (BDB "Failed to
rename wallet-savings.dat … Error"), and it then span on a stale "Daemon
already running". Revert to a single start — the stopDaemonForWalletSwitch()
wait already ensures the old process is gone, so a valid wallet opens cleanly
and a bad one exits during init and reverts, without overlapping spawns.
- findProcessByName() used the non-suffixed PROCESSENTRY32/Process32First with an
ANSI _stricmp; if UNICODE is defined those map to the wide variants, so the
compare comparing garbage would NEVER match — silently making the process-gone
wait a no-op. Rewritten with the explicit wide Toolhelp API + lstrcmpiW so it's
correct either way (verified to compile under mingw with and without -DUNICODE).
Note: a corrupt wallet.dat (BDB recovery failing) still can't be opened by any
node — that's a data issue needing a clean reset, not a switch-flow bug.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Live logs showed the switch's new node starting on the correct wallet, reaching
"Verifying wallet…", then aborting with "Binding RPC on ::1 port 21769 failed" +
"Failed to rename wallet-savings.dat" — the OLD node's RPC port (on ::1/IPv6) and
Berkeley DB environment weren't fully released yet, so the wallet-verify DB
recovery couldn't rename the file. The app then reverted, and the connect loop
brought a node up on the DEFAULT wallet.
Two causes fixed:
- isPortInUse() only probed 127.0.0.1 (IPv4). The daemon also binds ::1 (IPv6),
which lingers after IPv4 releases — so the readiness wait returned "free"
prematurely. Now probe BOTH families (Windows: IPv4 + ::1 via in6addr_loopback;
Linux: /proc/net/tcp + tcp6). mingw-verified.
- The datadir/DB-env can still be briefly held right after the old node exits, so
the first start can abort. Retry the start (up to 6×, 2s backoff) with the
CORRECT -wallet — active_wallet_file isn't reverted until we give up — resetting
the crash count and re-arming -rescan each attempt, until one survives.
Also: the "Wallet switch failed" modal no longer repeats its title in the warning
header — it now shows the actual reason there.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
After the stop, the switch started the replacement dragonxd too early — while the
old (direct-connected, unowned) node was still doing a slow graceful shutdown
(~70s; its network threads block on peer TLS timeouts) and holding the DATADIR
LOCK. The replacement couldn't acquire the lock, failed repeatedly, and the
crash-wedge left it stuck "starting". Root cause: the readiness poll used
isRpcPortInUse(), which on Windows is a connect() probe that reads "free" the
moment the daemon stops ACCEPTING RPC — early in shutdown, long before the
process exits and releases the datadir.
- EmbeddedDaemon::isDaemonProcessRunning(): true while any dragonxd process is
alive (Windows findProcessByName; Linux /proc/<pid>/comm scan; macOS port
fallback) — reflects the PROCESS, not just RPC acceptance.
- stopDaemonForWalletSwitch: for an UNOWNED node (no handle), after the RPC stop
wait until BOTH the port is free AND isDaemonProcessRunning() is false, bounded
~120s (or ~5s if the stop couldn't be sent). Owned nodes are unchanged
(stopEmbeddedDaemon() blocks for exit via the handle).
- Switch notification reworded to set the up-to-a-minute expectation (60s toast).
daemon_restarting_ stays set across the wait so the connect loop can't spawn a
competing daemon. Adversarially verified 6/6; fixes the seed-adopt path too.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Second phase of multi-wallet: list wallet files and switch the active one.
- Daemon plumbing: EmbeddedDaemon::setWalletFile -> start() passes -wallet=<name>
(non-default only; skipped during the isolated seed-migration start), and
DaemonController::syncSettings pushes active_wallet_file on each start.
- App::switchToWallet: persist the new active wallet, then stop + restart the
node on -wallet=<name> (rescan only if it was never synced in this datadir).
Reuses the seed-adopt restart coordination; WalletState clears on disconnect
and the P1 identity-scoped caches re-key, so no previous-wallet data leaks.
Guarded: full-node, embedded daemon, not mid-restart, no pending send.
- Wallets dialog (Settings -> Backup & Data -> "Wallets…"): a table of wallet
files (datadir wallet*.dat + user-added folders' *.dat) with size (disk) and
cached balance / address count / last-opened (wallet index), a current/Active
badge, Open (switch), and Add folder. Out-of-datadir wallets show "import to
open" (P3). Added as a sweep surface.
- Mining payout safety: non-destructive warning if the pool-mode worker looks
like a DragonX address not in the current wallet (stale after a switch).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
First, fund-safe step of "migrate a legacy wallet to a seed wallet": mint a
brand-new BIP39 mnemonic wallet in an ISOLATED throwaway datadir so the user
can later sweep funds into it. No funds move and the real wallet.dat / main
daemon are never touched — the isolated node runs concurrently on its own port.
- EmbeddedDaemon: one-shot isolated-datadir override (setNextStartOverride)
consumed on the next start(); a skip-default-port-check for an isolated
instance beside the main daemon; and a tcpPortInUse() probe. The datadir's
basename must be the assetchain name (DRAGONX) and the daemon reads
<datadir>/DRAGONX.conf itself, so no -conf is passed (both learned from
live testing against the hd-transparent-keys daemon).
- SeedWalletCreator (src/daemon): picks a free port, writes a throwaway conf,
starts an isolated dragonxd with -usemnemonic=1 -connect=0, waits for RPC,
calls z_exportmnemonic + z_getnewaddress (the sweep target), stops it, and
keeps/scrubs the temp datadir. Off-thread; the seed is wiped after use.
- App: beginCreateSeedWallet (background) -> pumpSeedMigration (main-thread
handoff) -> renderSeedMigrationDialog (Intro -> Working -> Show seed ->
Error), reusing the seed_display grid + clipboard auto-clear.
- Settings: "Migrate to seed…" button (full-node gated) + persisted pending
migration state (dest address + temp datadir) for Phase 2 to adopt.
Validated end-to-end against the hd-transparent-keys daemon: the isolated
node comes up in ~4s and returns a 24-word mnemonic + a shielded z-address.
Requires that daemon (the bundled Jun-28 build lacks z_exportmnemonic). The
migration modal uses English literals for now (as renderBackupDialog does);
the whole flow gets translated once Phase 2 finalizes it. Phase 2 (sweep +
adopt) is next.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
New full-node wallets now get a real 24-word recovery phrase, and users can
reveal/back it up from Settings.
- Pass -usemnemonic=1 to dragonxd. The daemon reads it only inside
GenerateNewSeed() when a wallet has no seed yet, so it is inert on existing
wallets (safe to pass unconditionally) and makes every freshly-created
wallet mnemonic-backed — its phrase is then exportable via z_exportmnemonic
and portable to SDXLite/ObsidianDragonLite. (Existing/legacy wallets are
unaffected and keep using the chat identity's z_exportkey fallback.)
- App::exportSeedPhrase() wraps z_exportmnemonic on the RPC worker with
sodium_memzero wiping on every path; it flags the daemon's "not derived
from a mnemonic" error as a legacy wallet rather than a failure.
- New "Back up seed phrase" modal (Settings -> Backup & Data, full-node
gated): reveals the phrase in a numbered word grid, copy (45s clipboard
auto-clear) + save-to-file (0600), wipes the secret on every close path
incl. dismiss-mid-fetch. Shared ui/windows/seed_display.h grid helper.
- One-time nudge (settings flag seed_backup_reminded) toasts mnemonic-wallet
users to back up their phrase; legacy wallets are not nagged.
- 15 new strings translated into all 8 languages (additive, 957->972 keys);
CJK subset font rebuilt for the new glyphs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
When a note's stored record is corrupt or its tx isn't in the canonical chain,
z_sendmany fails to build a valid sapling spend proof even after a full -rescan,
because a plain rescan replays witnesses but keeps the existing tx/note records.
The zcashd repair for this is -zapwallettxes=2, which deletes all wallet tx/note
records and rebuilds them from the chain (keys/addresses preserved).
Adds a RepairWallet lifecycle operation that mirrors the existing -rescan plumbing
(one-shot zapOnNextStart flag on the embedded daemon; -zapwallettxes=2 implies and
supersedes -rescan), an App::repairWallet() that reuses the rescan status UI (so the
status bar + warmup-end completion detection apply), and a confirmed "Repair Wallet"
button + dialog in Settings → node maintenance (embedded daemon only).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Replace hardcoded IP addnodes with node.dragonx.is, node1–4.dragonx.is
in both daemon launch params and auto-generated DRAGONX.conf
- Add max_connections setting (persisted, default 0 = daemon default);
passed as -maxconnections= flag to dragonxd on startup
- Show blocks/sec in status bar during sync with exponential smoothing
(e.g. "Syncing 45.2% (12340 left, 85 blk/s)")
- Create .github/copilot-instructions.md with project coding standards,
architecture overview, threading model, and key rules for AI sessions
- Add module description comments to app.cpp, rpc_client.cpp, rpc_worker.cpp,
embedded_daemon.cpp, xmrig_manager.cpp, console_tab.cpp, settings.cpp
- Add ASCII connection state diagram to app_network.cpp
- Remove /.github/ from .gitignore so instructions file is tracked
- Shutdown: 3-phase stop (wait for RPC stop → SIGTERM → SIGKILL) prevents
LevelDB flush interruption on macOS/APFS that caused full re-sync on restart
- dbcache: auto-detect RAM and set -dbcache to 12.5% (clamped 450-4096 MB)
on macOS (sysctl), Linux (sysconf), and Windows (GlobalMemoryStatusEx)
- Import key: pass user-entered start height to z_importkey and trigger
rescanblockchain from that height for t-key imports
- Bump version to 1.1.1
Build & setup:
- Fix setup.sh and build.sh for macOS (bundle daemon, xmrig, sapling params, asmap.dat into .app)
- Fix CMakeLists.txt libsodium linking for macOS
- Fix incbin.h to use __DATA,__const section on macOS
- Remove vendored libsodium-1.0.18 source tree (use fetch script instead)
- Remove prebuilt-binaries/xmrig (replaced by xmrig-hac)
- Add .DS_Store to .gitignore
Rendering & UI:
- Use GLSL #version 150 and OpenGL 3.2 Core Profile on macOS
- Force dpiScale=1.0 on macOS to fix Retina double-scaling
- Set default window/UI opacity to 100% on Mac/Linux
- Add scroll fade shader guard for macOS GL compatibility
- Add ImGui error recovery around render loop and mining tab
Daemon & bootstrap:
- Fix getDragonXDataDir() to return ~/Library/Application Support/Hush/DRAGONX/ on macOS
- Fix isPortInUse() with connect() fallback (no /proc/net/tcp on macOS)
- Increase daemon watchdog timeout from 3s to 15s
- Add daemon status indicator (colored dot + label) in wizard bootstrap phases
Mining tab:
- Fix EmbeddedDaemon::getMemoryUsageMB() crash on macOS (was using Linux /proc)
- Fix XmrigManager::getMemoryUsageMB() to use ps on macOS instead of /proc
- Restructure RenderMiningTab with wrapper pattern for exception safety
- Fix default pool URL to include port (pool.dragonx.is:3433)
Windows identity:
- Add VERSIONINFO resource (.rc) with ObsidianDragon file description
- Embed application manifest for DPI awareness and shell identity
- Patch libwinpthread/libpthread to remove competing VERSIONINFO
- Set AppUserModelID and HWND property store to override Task Manager cache
- Link patched pthread libs to eliminate "POSIX WinThreads" description
Address creation (+New button):
- Move z_getnewaddress/getnewaddress off UI thread to async worker
- Inject new address into state immediately for instant UI selection
- Trigger background refresh for balance updates
Mining tab:
- Add pool mining dropdown with saved URLs/workers and bookmarks
- Add solo mining log panel from daemon output with chart/log toggle
- Fix toggle button cursor (render after InputTextMultiline)
- Auto-restart miner on pool config change
- Migrate default pool URL to include stratum port
Transactions:
- Sort pending (0-conf) transactions to top of history
- Fall back to timereceived when timestamp is missing
Shutdown:
- Replace blocking sleep_for calls with 100ms polling loops
- Check shutting_down_ flag throughout daemon restart/bootstrap flows
- Reduce daemon stop timeout from 30s to 10s
Other:
- Fix market chart fill artifact (single concave polygon vs per-segment quads)
- Add bootstrap checksum verification state display
- Rename daemon client identifier to ObsidianDragon
Diagnostics & logging:
- add verbose logging system (VERBOSE_LOGF) with toggle in Settings
- forward app-level log messages to Console tab for in-UI visibility
- add detailed connection attempt logging (attempt #, daemon state,
config paths, auth failures, port owner identification)
- detect HTTP 401 auth failures and show actionable error messages
- identify port owner process (PID + name) on both Linux and Windows
- demote noisy acrylic/shader traces from DEBUG_LOGF to VERBOSE_LOGF
- persist verbose_logging preference in settings.json
- link iphlpapi on Windows for GetExtendedTcpTable
Security & encryption:
- update local encryption state immediately after encryptwallet RPC
so Settings reflects the change before daemon restarts
- show notifications for encrypt success/failure and PIN skip
- use dedicated RPC client for z_importwallet during decrypt flow
to avoid blocking main rpc_ curl_mutex (which starved peer/tx refresh)
- force full state refresh (addresses, transactions, peers) after
successful wallet import
Network tab:
- redesign peers refresh button as glass-panel with icon + label,
matching the mining button style
- add spinning arc animation while peer data is loading
(peer_refresh_in_progress_ atomic flag set/cleared in refreshPeerInfo)
- prevent double-click spam during refresh
- add refresh-button size to ui.toml
Other:
- use fast_rpc_ for rescan polling to avoid blocking on main rpc_
- enable DRAGONX_DEBUG in all build configs (was debug-only)
- setup.sh: pull latest xmrig-hac when repo already exists
- Fix z_importwallet to use full path instead of filename only
- Add rescanBlockchain() method that restarts daemon with -rescan flag
- Track rescan progress via daemon output parsing and getrescaninfo RPC
- Display rescan progress in status bar with animated indicator when starting
- Improve dark theme card contrast: lighter surface-variant, tinted borders, stronger rim-light
Full-node GUI wallet for DragonX cryptocurrency.
Built with Dear ImGui, SDL3, and OpenGL3/DX11.
Features:
- Send/receive shielded and transparent transactions
- Autoshield with merged transaction display
- Built-in CPU mining (xmrig)
- Peer management and network monitoring
- Wallet encryption with PIN lock
- QR code generation for receive addresses
- Transaction history with pagination
- Console for direct RPC commands
- Cross-platform (Linux, Windows)
