Unable to sync or log into wallet

[daviddrew92]

I downloaded Sia UI for the first time yesterday. It did not initiate the syncing process so I downloaded the Consensus.db from the wiki site. It failed to complete the load after I opened Sia for the first time after replacing the DB. So I went into the CMD prompt and executed siad.exe as an administrator. This is what I got in the CMD Prompt:

Loading...
(0/6) Loading siad...
(1/6) Loading gateway...
(2/6) Loading consensus...
(3/6) Loading transaction pool...
(4/6) Loading wallet...
(5/6) Loading host...
(6/6) Loading renter...
Finished loading in 0.050659 seconds
goroutine 543 [running]:
runtime/debug.Stack(0x44439e, 0x0, 0xc042031dc8)
/usr/local/go/src/runtime/debug/stack.go:24 +0x80
runtime/debug.PrintStack()
/usr/local/go/src/runtime/debug/stack.go:16 +0x29
github.com/NebulousLabs/Sia/build.Severe(0xc042031f20, 0x2, 0x2)
/home/luke/go/src/github.com/NebulousLabs/Sia/build/critical.go:32 +0x99
github.com/NebulousLabs/Sia/persist.(*Logger).Severe(0xc04228ce40, 0xc042031f20, 0x2, 0x2)
/home/luke/go/src/github.com/NebulousLabs/Sia/persist/log.go:71 +0xe7
github.com/NebulousLabs/Sia/modules/host/contractmanager.(*writeAheadLog).syncResources.func1(0xc0424905b0, 0xc042073988)
/home/luke/go/src/github.com/NebulousLabs/Sia/modules/host/contractmanager/writeaheadlogsync.go:50 +0x4f1
created by github.com/NebulousLabs/Sia/modules/host/contractmanager.(*writeAheadLog).syncResources
/home/luke/go/src/github.com/NebulousLabs/Sia/modules/host/contractmanager/writeaheadlogsync.go:52 +0x9a
Severe error: ERROR: unable to atomically copy the contract manager settings: rename host\contractmanager\contractmanager.json_temp host\contractmanager\contractmanager.json: Access is denied.

I was able to open it up shortly and start syncing after the CMD Prompt approach failed thanks to this site https://www.reddit.com/r/siacoin/comments/7iga3x/sia_wallet_wont_start_sync/ ;however, the "Said.exe" file crashed or something when it got to 18.5% and I couldn't do anything inside the program. So I closed the program and re-opened it. When I did I got the Loading screen again along with this error.

A critical error loading Sia has occured: Siad unexpectedly exited. Error log: Loading...
(0/6) Loading siad...
(1/6) Loading gateway...
(2/6) Loading consensus...
(3/6) Loading transaction pool...
(4/6) Loading wallet...
(5/6) Loading host...
(6/6) Loading renter...
goroutine 811 [running]:
runtime/debug.Stack(0x44439e, 0x0, 0xc044001dc8)
/usr/local/go/src/runtime/debug/stack.go:24 +0x80
runtime/debug.PrintStack()
/usr/local/go/src/runtime/debug/stack.go:16 +0x29
github.com/NebulousLabs/Sia/build.Severe(0xc044001f20, 0x2, 0x2)
/home/luke/go/src/github.com/NebulousLabs/Sia/build/critical.go:32 +0x99
github.com/NebulousLabs/Sia/persist.(*Logger).Severe(0xc0420a3b20, 0xc044001f20, 0x2, 0x2)
/home/luke/go/src/github.com/NebulousLabs/Sia/persist/log.go:71 +0xe7
github.com/NebulousLabs/Sia/modules/host/contractmanager.(*writeAheadLog).syncResources.func1(0xc0431ce000, 0xc042062788)
/home/luke/go/src/github.com/NebulousLabs/Sia/modules/host/contractmanager/writeaheadlogsync.go:50 +0x4f1
created by github.com/NebulousLabs/Sia/modules/host/contractmanager.(*writeAheadLog).syncResources
/home/luke/go/src/github.com/NebulousLabs/Sia/modules/host/contractmanager/writeaheadlogsync.go:52 +0x9a
Severe error: ERROR: unable to atomically copy the contract manager settings: rename C:\Users\mmare\AppData\Roaming\Sia-UI\sia\host\contractmanager\contractmanager.json_temp C:\Users\mmare\AppData\Roaming\Sia-UI\sia\host\contractmanager\contractmanager.json: Access is denied.
goroutine 1378 [running]:
runtime/debug.Stack(0x44439e, 0x0, 0xc044277dc8)
/usr/local/go/src/runtime/debug/stack.go:24 +0x80
runtime/debug.PrintStack()
/usr/local/go/src/runtime/debug/stack.go:16 +0x29
github.com/NebulousLabs/Sia/build.Severe(0xc044277f20, 0x2, 0x2)
/home/luke/go/src/github.com/NebulousLabs/Sia/build/critical.go:32 +0x99
github.com/NebulousLabs/Sia/persist.(*Logger).Severe(0xc0420a3b20, 0xc044277f20, 0x2, 0x2)
/home/luke/go/src/github.com/NebulousLabs/Sia/persist/log.go:71 +0xe7
github.com/NebulousLabs/Sia/modules/host/contractmanager.(*writeAheadLog).syncResources.func1(0xc0431de000, 0xc042062788)
/home/luke/go/src/github.com/NebulousLabs/Sia/modules/host/contractmanager/writeaheadlogsync.go:50 +0x4f1
created by github.com/NebulousLabs/Sia/modules/host/contractmanager.(*writeAheadLog).syncResources
/home/luke/go/src/github.com/NebulousLabs/Sia/modules/host/contractmanager/writeaheadlogsync.go:52 +0x9a
Severe error: ERROR: unable to atomically copy the contract manager settings: rename C:\Users\mmare\AppData\Roaming\Sia-UI\sia\host\contractmanager\contractmanager.json_temp C:\Users\mmare\AppData\Roaming\Sia-UI\sia\host\contractmanager\contractmanager.json: Access is denied.
Closing host...
Closing wallet...
Closing transaction pool...
Closing consensus...
Closing gateway...
invalid argument

When I was able to open it up it kept saying "error when calling /wallet/init/seed: cannot init from seed until blockchain is synced" when I tried to log in with my seed.

[daviddrew92]

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[daviddrew92]

I was finally able to get Sia-UI working right. Instead of download the consensus.db, I deleted it entirely and reran Sia-UI without it. Once it successfully opened I added multiple gateways that it recognized. At that point it began synchronizing. After it had successfully downloaded the blockchain I was able to log into my wallet again!

[Nijaysville]

Hi, I am new to Siacoin and made the mistake of purchasing on Shapeshift while still trying to synchronize. I had absolutely no idea that it takes days to synchronize. Its a week today since I started and it keeps coming on and off. Stopped synchronizing at 89%
for the past two days and now I dont know how to go about it because I already used the wallet address i generated to purchase Siacoins on Shapeshift. Seeing as it has not been synchronizing for days, what do I do? Should I delete and try downloading a new one? What happens to the coins that Shapeshift has already sent to the wallet address I provided? Will I lose them?

[bryan]

@Nijaysville try these directions.. https://siastats.info/nodes.html