Power outage occured cannot restart KNOTS

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We had a power outage last night. Now my start9 bitcoin knots instance cannot restart. It is forever in the ‘starting’ state. Looking in the logs here is some output. This was all working fine for along time.
2025-07-17T06:20:07-07:00 2025-07-17T13:20:07.465394Z DEBUG run_main:check: startos::manager::health: Checking health of lnbits
2025-07-17T06:20:13-07:00 2025-07-17T13:20:13.288412Z DEBUG run_main:check: startos::manager::health: Checking health of bitcoind
2025-07-17T06:20:14-07:00 2025-07-17T13:20:14.848571Z DEBUG run_main:check: startos::manager::health: Checking health of ride-the-lightning
2025-07-17T06:20:17-07:00 2025-07-17T13:20:17.688241Z ERROR startos::manager::manager_container: The service bitcoind has crashed with the following exit code: 1

2025-07-17T06:25:36-07:00 : Error initializing block database.
2025-07-17T06:25:36-07:00 Please restart with -reindex or -reindex-chainstate to recover.
2025-07-17T06:25:36-07:00 2025-07-17T13:25:36Z scheduler thread exit
2025-07-17T06:25:36-07:00 2025-07-17T13:25:36Z Flushed fee estimates to fee_estimates.dat.
2025-07-17T06:25:37-07:00 2025-07-17T13:25:37Z Shutdown: done
2025-07-17T06:25:52-07:00 Error updating blockchain info: error: timeout on transient error: Could not connect to the server 127.0.0.1:8332

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You can find “Delete Transaction Index” and “Reindex Blockchain” in the actions menu.

Start with Delete transaction index. If that doesn’t resolve it, then reindex.

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Thanks for your prompt response. “Delete Transaction Index” did not do the job. So, I am now “Reindex Blockchain” , which may take awhile. I will let you know the result.

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