Yes. "Failure starting blockchain" is a proper error, though we could potentially be more specific - there is really only one cause, store corruption. An error cannot be written to logs in the case where the corruption results from an uncontrolled shutdown. There is no way to recover it, resync is required.

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From: Libbitcoin [mailto:libbitcoin-bounces@lists.dyne.org] On Behalf Of veleiro@???
Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2017 10:40 AM
To: libbitcoin@???
Subject: Re: [Libbitcoin] libbitcoin fails to start and no error logs

don't tell me: Ive corrupted the store, haven't I?

https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin-server/wiki/Frequently-Asked-Questions

Really? damn.. Shouldnt that generate a proper error?

On 2017-08-13 11:55, veleiro@??? wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm having problems resuming my sync of mainnet blockchain. I build
> libbitcoin-server from master which reports at v4.0.0. I also cant
> seem to find the error logs. I changed the location in the config file
> from the default error_log = error.log to a static location that i
> could find with no luck.
>
> Here's the only feedback that I get after running "bs". I dont want
> to reinitailize the blockchain because its already been syncing for days.
>
> 15:27:32.989303 INFO [server] ================= startup
> ==================
> 15:27:32.989341 WARNING [server] ================= startup
> ==================
> 15:27:32.989382 ERROR [server] ================= startup
> ==================
> 15:27:32.989396 FATAL [server] ================= startup
> ==================
> 15:27:32.989407 INFO [server] Using config file:
> "/usr/local/etc/libbitcoin/bs.cfg"
> 15:27:32.989425 INFO [server] Please wait while the server is
> starting...
> 15:27:32.989871 ERROR [node] Failure starting blockchain.
> 15:27:32.989903 ERROR [server] Server failed to start with error,
> operation failed.
> 15:27:32.989962 INFO [server] Please wait while the server is
> stopping...
> 15:27:32.990079 INFO [node] Server stopped successfully.
>
> I was also wondering why the libbitcoin version of the blockchain
> seems much larger than Bitcoin Core by default. I'm almost at 150GB.
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