I ran bitcoind under valgrind and found a place where it references an uninitialized variable in some cases: tm@tm-VirtualBox:~/bitcoind/bitcoin/src$ valgrind ./bitcoind ==2337== Memcheck, a memory error detector ==2337== Copyright (C) 2002-2012, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al. ==2337== Using Valgrind-3.8.1 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info ==2337== Command: ./bitcoind ==2337== ==2337== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s) ==2337== at 0x319176: CWallet::LoadKeyMetadata(CPubKey const&, CKeyMetadata const&) (wallet.cpp:110) ==2337== by 0x33645A: ReadKeyValue(CWallet*, CDataStream&, CDataStream&, CWalletScanState&, std::string&, std::string&) (walletdb.cpp:509) ==2337== by 0x3374F0: CWalletDB::LoadWallet(CWallet*) (walletdb.cpp:623) ==2337== by 0x3218FD: CWallet::LoadWallet(bool&) (wallet.cpp:1485) ==2337== by 0x157F16: AppInit2(boost::thread_group&) (init.cpp:958) ==2337== by 0x140142: AppInit(int, char**) (bitcoind.cpp:143) ==2337== by 0x13649E: main (bitcoind.cpp:180) ==2337== The bug occurs here because nTimeFirstKey is not initialized when the wallet is instantiated: wallet.cpp:63 if (!nTimeFirstKey || nCreationTime < nTimeFirstKey) nTimeFirstKey = nCreationTime; I fixed it in my fork: diff --git a/src/wallet.h b/src/wallet.h index 9607415..b78045f 100644 --- a/src/wallet.h +++ b/src/wallet.h @@ -163,6 +163,7 @@ public: nOrderPosNext = 0; nNextResend = 0; nLastResend = 0; + nTimeFirstKey = 0; } If this fix is ok please pull from my GitHub fork; username on GitHub is tm314159. Toshi