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My geth blockchain sync is stalling with the error message: 

I0323 07:46:09.085264 3027 downloader.go:267] Synchronisation failed: no peers to keep download active

I've tried to restart it but it syncs again for a while and then stalls again, it seems to repeat this pattern.

Any idea why this happens?

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  • I guess its the problem with latency
    – niksmac
    Commented Mar 26, 2016 at 6:57
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    Have you tried updating your clock? ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/53/…
    – eth ♦
    Commented Mar 26, 2016 at 9:33
  • Is this resolved? Are you using testnet or mainnet?
    – eth ♦
    Commented May 23, 2016 at 11:19

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If you are trying to sync with testnet, there seems to not be many peers running on this testnet. I got the same errors, but just restarted geth and eventually the blockchain was synced.

I've not encountered this problem on mainnet. Please reply / edit your question if you did encounter this issue on mainnet and we can try to work through this problem.

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I've got these errors too from time to time with 3 ethereum nodes (1 instance in Windows 10, another instance on Ubuntu 16 and another one on CentOS) running geth on mainnet. Waiting for a while use to fix it. If the error takes too long to disappear, restarting geth fixes it too.

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