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My workaround used to be do a geth -removedb and start a fresh fast sync from scratch. Trying to sync with existing blockchain data instead was a lost race of catching up to the latest block.

Today even the workaround in fast sync mode (cache -1024) will not completely load the blockchain anymore. It catches up some 100-300 blocks to the latest block and stalls for hours. By the time it catches up a few hundred blocks, the latest block moved ahead again. For 4 days now. Frustrating. Any ideas?

MacMini 4GB RAM (latest MacMini doesn't support field RAM upgrade) VDSL connection with an average of 20-40Mbit throughput Geth 1.6.1 / go1.8.1 /Ethereum Wallet 0.9.0

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  • Remove the entire chaindata folder and try.
    – niksmac
    Aug 14, 2017 at 11:43
  • (Just commenting on this old question.) If your MacMini is running with an HDD rather than SSD, it's unlikely it'll ever catch up to the latest block...
    – Richard Horrocks
    Jan 12, 2018 at 11:46

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If you only have a few hundred remaining just check your system time. Enable network time synchronisation if you can, then restart geth. This may solve your problem.

You can try this:

sudo ntpdate -u time.apple.com
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