<p>I can’t believe this hasn’t come up multiple times.</p>
<p>My hardware crashed (actually locked up and could only be unlocked by a forced (unplug) power off) while Bitcoin core was running. Of course on restart various files will/can not load. Specifically (it seems) settings.json.</p>
<p>Tried to delete the entire Bitcoin-23.0 file but permission denied.</p>
<p>Running Ubuntu OS.</p>

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2022-08-11T09:11:09.150Z
What does it tell, when trying to start Bitcoin?
Mercedes
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2022-08-12T16:26:53.527Z
Settings file could not be written.  (New Paragraph) A fatal error occurred. Check that settings file is writeable, or try running with -nosettings.  <<Show Detail . . .>> " - Error: Unable to open settings file /[path]/Bitcoin/settings.json.tmp for writing"
Jim Perkins
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2022-08-12T18:33:56.433Z
interesting data directory, where did you get that software copy? you can work around the problem by solving the permissions problem you pasted
Mercedes
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2022-08-12T18:43:24.277Z
I manually set up the directory because that's where the blocks were stored (from a prior install). My question is HOW to "solve" the permissions problem.
Jim Perkins
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Hardware crashed, Bitcoin core won’t load
Jim Perkins
# Hardware crashed, Bitcoin core won’t load

(Asked by: username_0 on 2022-08-10)

I can’t believe this hasn’t come up multiple times.

My hardware crashed (actually locked up and could only be unlocked by a forced (unplug) power off) while Bitcoin core was running. Of course on restart various files will/can not load. Specifically (it seems) settings.json.

Tried to delete the entire Bitcoin-23.0 file but permission denied.

Running Ubuntu OS.

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: What does it tell, when trying to start Bitcoin?  
> **username_0**: Settings file could not be written.  (New Paragraph) A fatal error occurred. Check that settings file is writeable, or try running with -nosettings.  <<Show Detail . . .>> " - Error: Unable to open settings file /[path]/Bitcoin/settings.json.tmp for writing"  
> **username_1**: interesting data directory, where did you get that software copy? you can work around the problem by solving the permissions problem you pasted  
> **username_0**: I manually set up the directory because that's where the blocks were stored (from a prior install). My question is HOW to "solve" the permissions problem.  

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