Bitcoin Knots Stopped Running

Support and Troubleshooting
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This is now the second time this has happened to me since I have switched to Knots:

After receiving the same error the first time, I reindexed the chainstate as per the log and patiently waited 12 days for my node to sync to 100%. Once it syncd, I restarted all my apps. Knots stops running and I get the same errors:

Error initializing block database
[error] Aborted block database rebuild. Exiting.
Error initializing block database.

Do I seriously have to go through this whole process again?

bitcoin-log-tail.txt (7.9 KB)

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what apps are you running?

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Lightning Node, Datum, Core Lightning, Thunderhub, Electrs, Lightning Terminal, Mempool

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2025-07-26T14:03:15Z Config file: /data/bitcoin/bitcoin.conf
2025-07-26T14:03:15Z R/W Config file: /data/bitcoin/bitcoin_rw.conf (not found, skipping)

I noticed that it does not find this file when it looks for it.

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Is there an override I can use?

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Have you run out of space maybe ?