Bitcoin Core will not Start/Stuck

Troubleshooting
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BTC core has not been able to download past 7.17% of the blockchain, and I’m largely sure that it is a configuration setting in my router that is blocking it. My bitaxe also cannot reach any mining pools. Here are the logs, does anyone know how to fix this?

2024-03-05T11:07:32-05:00 2024-03-05T16:07:32.625358Z DEBUG run_main:check: startos::manager::health: Checking health of bitcoind
2024-03-05T11:07:34-05:00 2024-03-05T16:07:34.237658Z ERROR startos::manager::manager_container: The service bitcoind has crashed with the following exit code: 1

2024-03-05T11:07:47-05:00 2024-03-05T16:07:47.884557Z DEBUG run_main:check: startos::manager::health: Checking health of mempool

2024-03-05T11:07:50-05:00 2024-03-05T16:07:50.832084Z ERROR startos::net::tor: Tor Daemon Error: Our circuit 0 (id: 1488) died due to an invalid selected path, purpose Hidden service: Establishing introduction point. This may be a torrc configuration issue, or a bug.: Restarting tor
2024-03-05T11:07:50-05:00 2024-03-05T16:07:50.832388Z DEBUG startos::net::tor: Error { source:
2024-03-05T11:07:50-05:00 0: Our circuit 0 (id: 1488) died due to an invalid selected path, purpose Hidden service: Establishing introduction point. This may be a torrc configuration issue, or a bug.
2024-03-05T11:07:50-05:00 Location:
2024-03-05T11:07:50-05:00 startos/src/net/tor.rs:604
2024-03-05T11:07:50-05:00 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SPANTRACE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
2024-03-05T11:07:50-05:00 0: startos::net::tor::torctl
2024-03-05T11:07:50-05:00 at startos/src/net/tor.rs:250
2024-03-05T11:07:50-05:00 Backtrace omitted. Run with RUST_BACKTRACE=1 environment variable to display it.
2024-03-05T11:07:50-05:00 Run with RUST_BACKTRACE=full to include source snippets., kind: Tor, revision: None }

2024-03-05T11:07:52-05:00 2024-03-05T16:07:52.898377Z INFO torctl: startos::net::tor: Tor is started

2024-03-05T11:07:54-05:00 2024-03-05T16:07:54.597326Z DEBUG run_main:check: startos::manager::health: Checking health of bitcoind

2024-03-05T11:07:56-05:00 2024-03-05T16:07:56.206551Z ERROR startos::manager::manager_container: The service bitcoind has crashed with the following exit code: 1

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This debug and crash message will repeat infinitely fyi

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Is Services > Bitcoin Core > Config > Advanced > Peers > Disable Clearnet toggled on?

It seems you’re having trouble connecting to tor, though I don’t think that should crash bitcoin unless maybe you have Disable Clearnet on.

In any event, you may be right that your router (or ISP?) is blocking tor connections. Some routers have ~“smart firewall” settings that will block tor nodes. If you have that, you probably want to disable it, or at least disable the Tor blocking component, or don’t toggle on “Disable Clearnet” in the Bitcoin settings.

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Disable Clearnet was toggled off when I checked. Node still does not want to run even after disabling firewall. What does this message mean explicitly?

ERROR startos::manager::manager_container: The service bitcoind has crashed with the following exit code: 1

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It means bitcoin exited. To know more, you’d have to share more of your logs. The part that would be important is right before Bitcoin restarts. We’re looking for what made it crash.

Can you share some of Services > Bitcoin Core > Logs?