Is My Etherum Wallet Synching with the Blockchain?

Question

I just downloaded geth and started running the geth --rpc command. Is everything working and normal?

peer=5e56002f0252fe80 number=1701275 hash=6fe05e…979f0a WARN [05-16|15:29:09] Header broke chain ancestry
peer=5e56002f0252fe80 number=1701657 hash=4b1ecb…519ee6 WARN [05-16|15:29:10] Header broke chain ancestry
peer=5e56002f0252fe80 number=1702403 hash=359304…d535fb WARN [05-16|15:29:11] Header broke chain ancestry
peer=5e56002f0252fe80 number=1703158 hash=a8edf8…099703 WARN [05-16|15:29:12] Header broke chain ancestry
peer=5e56002f0252fe80 number=1703561 hash=8b738c…823f53 WARN [05-16|15:29:13] Header broke chain ancestry
peer=5e56002f0252fe80 number=1704121 hash=409083…b041d7 WARN [05-16|15:29:13] Header broke chain ancestry
peer=5e56002f0252fe80 number=1704509 hash=ba83bc…6c6ca0

Got this also

WARN [05-16|15:37:57] Synchronisation failed, retrying
err="receipt download canceled (requested)" INFO [05-16|15:38:01] Imported new block headers count=0 elapsed=2.979ms
number=1914414 hash=0f3c0d…075354 ignored=192 INFO [05-16|15:38:01] Imported new block receipts count=0 elapsed=0s
number=1914235 hash=4a964a…5a322a ignored=13 INFO [05-16|15:38:01] Imported new block headers count=0 elapsed=1.978ms
number=1914606 hash=4ff356…074458 ignored=192

I'm a total noob is everything working?

Answer 1

Your chain is syncing. When you posted the message your client synced about 1/3 of the blockchain. number is block number. You had 1704121 and head of the main net is 3719020.