Re: (context post by Gavin Andresen)

Until there is a better fix… after a very small amount of testing this seems to work: Code:--- a/main.h +++ b/main.h @@ -473,8 +473,12 @@ public:

     // Check for negative values
     foreach(const CTxOut& txout, vout)

{ if (txout.nValue < 0) return error(“CTransaction::CheckTransaction() : txout.nValue negative”);
if (txout.nValue > 21000000*COIN)
return error(“CTransaction::CheckTransaction() : txout.nValue over-max”);
}
```
   if (IsCoinBase())
   {
```

@@ -520,6 +524,8 @@ public: int64 nValueOut = 0; foreach(const CTxOut& txout, vout) {

if (txout.nValue > 21000000*COIN)
continue; // ignore over-max-value… if (txout.nValue < 0) throw runtime_error(“CTransaction::GetValueOut() : negative value”); nValueOut += txout.nValue;

You’ll need to re-download the part of the block chain before the bad block— remove the blkindex.dat and blk0001.dat files. I started with knightmb’s blockchain snapshot.

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