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I was trying to launch Mist after a long time and I was hit bye error popup stating:
Couldn't connect to node? See logs for more: Node Type: geth Network: main Platform: linux (Architecture x64)
..flag provided but not defined:-support-dao-fork
Have never faced the issue. I have been using the same wallet (v0.8.6).
Upgrade Ethereum Wallet to 0.8.9. Ethereum Wallet 0.8.9 will download the correct version of geth - see https://github.com/ethereum/mist/blob/v0.8.9/clientBinaries.json .
The newer versions of geth have removed the -support-dao-fork command line option.
geth and the newer version had the -support-dao-fork removed. When you run the old version of Ethereum Wallet, it passes this -support-dao-fork parameter to geth and it causes an error when starting geth.
Feb 27, 2017 at 5:56
geth1.4.18 that came along with Ethereum-wallet-0.8.6. So was not expecting such behaviour.
Feb 27, 2017 at 6:11
Removing all the files from C:\Users\Your name\AppData\Roaming\Ethereum\geth\chaindata and/or from C:\Users\Your name\AppData\Roaming\Ethereum\geth\lightchaindata and starting it again solved the problem for me.
