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Add regtest troubleshooting error guidance#320

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@KingParmenides KingParmenides commented May 10, 2026

Fixes bitcoin-dot-org/Bitcoin.org#1837.

Summary

  • Add a Regtest Troubleshooting subsection to the Testing Applications page.
  • Document the bad-fork-prior-to-checkpoint (code 67) failure from the bounty issue.
  • Add fixes for common adjacent regtest setup errors around RPC version changes, unloaded wallets, wrong-network addresses, and coinbase maturity.

Testing

git diff --check origin/master..HEAD
PATH=/private/tmp/codex-developer-bitcoin-venv/bin:$PATH make clean html

The Sphinx build completes successfully. It still reports existing warnings in conf.py and glossary.rst unrelated to this edit.

Bounty payment

Bitcoin.org issue #1837 lists a 25,000 bits bounty. If this PR is eligible and merged, please pay to:

39Q34P8A7g375yqEr8buvNJkUbRgKfbKQZ

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Add section with possible error codes and resolution suggestions

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