Litecoin Core crashes when opening old wallet

[Zorba131]

Expected behavior

Open your old wallet from 2017 with the current version of Litecoin Core

Actual behavior

When opening an old wallet, Litecoin Core instantly closes without any message

To reproduce

I take the current version of Litecoin Core, download the entire blockchain from scratch, try to open my old wallet

System information

Litecoin Core 0.21.4 for Windows

On several different computers

Windows 10 Pro

2024-12-10T07:42:08Z Litecoin Core version v0.21.4 (release build)
2024-12-10T07:42:08Z Qt 5.9.8 (static), plugin=windows (static)
2024-12-10T07:42:08Z System: Windows 10 (10.0), x86_64-little_endian-llp64
2024-12-10T07:42:08Z Screen: \\.\DISPLAY1 2560x1440, pixel ratio=1.0
2024-12-10T07:42:08Z Assuming ancestors of block 80cdb35c080484df5bf384b311fde3c4694d3405765bc0f596e9eb369ff286e5 have valid signatures.
2024-12-10T07:42:08Z Setting nMinimumChainWork=00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000146878abee06fa883e0a
2024-12-10T07:42:08Z Using the 'sse4(1way),sse41(4way),avx2(8way)' SHA256 implementation
2024-12-10T07:42:08Z Using RdSeed as additional entropy source
2024-12-10T07:42:08Z Using RdRand as an additional entropy source
2024-12-10T07:42:08Z Default data directory C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\Litecoin
2024-12-10T07:42:08Z Using data directory E:\Files\Litecoin
2024-12-10T07:42:08Z Config file: E:\Files\Litecoin\litecoin.conf
2024-12-10T07:42:08Z Using at most 125 automatic connections (2048 file descriptors available)
2024-12-10T07:42:08Z GUI: "registerShutdownBlockReason: Successfully registered: Litecoin Core didn't yet exit safely..."
2024-12-10T07:42:08Z Using 16 MiB out of 32/2 requested for signature cache, able to store 524288 elements
2024-12-10T07:42:08Z Using 16 MiB out of 32/2 requested for script execution cache, able to store 524288 elements
2024-12-10T07:42:08Z Script verification uses 15 additional threads
2024-12-10T07:42:08Z scheduler thread start
2024-12-10T07:42:08Z Using wallet directory E:\Files\Litecoin\wallets
2024-12-10T07:42:08Z init message: Verifying wallet(s)...
2024-12-10T07:42:08Z init message: Loading banlist...
2024-12-10T07:42:08Z SetNetworkActive: true
2024-12-10T07:42:08Z Using /16 prefix for IP bucketing
2024-12-10T07:42:08Z Cache configuration:
2024-12-10T07:42:08Z * Using 2.0 MiB for block index database
2024-12-10T07:42:08Z * Using 56.0 MiB for basic block filter index database
2024-12-10T07:42:08Z * Using 8.0 MiB for chain state database
2024-12-10T07:42:08Z * Using 384.0 MiB for in-memory UTXO set (plus up to 286.1 MiB of unused mempool space)
2024-12-10T07:42:08Z init message: Loading block index...
2024-12-10T07:42:08Z Switching active chainstate to Chainstate [ibd] @ height -1 (null)
2024-12-10T07:42:08Z Opening LevelDB in E:\Files\Litecoin\blocks\index
2024-12-10T07:42:09Z Opened LevelDB successfully
2024-12-10T07:42:09Z Using obfuscation key for E:\Files\Litecoin\blocks\index: 0000000000000000
2024-12-10T07:42:21Z LoadBlockIndexDB: last block file = 1329
2024-12-10T07:42:21Z LoadBlockIndexDB: last block file info: CBlockFileInfo(blocks=820, size=117308078, heights=2805799...2806631, time=2024-12-08...2024-12-10)
2024-12-10T07:42:21Z Checking all blk files are present...
2024-12-10T07:42:21Z Opening LevelDB in E:\Files\Litecoin\chainstate
2024-12-10T07:42:22Z Opened LevelDB successfully
2024-12-10T07:42:22Z Using obfuscation key for E:\Files\Litecoin\chainstate: b4ce3a8b449dfdc2
2024-12-10T07:42:22Z Loaded best chain: hashBestChain=92895200739fcc0ef168f9adf1efd5249820c3ac89359e3557d16e374ce23810 height=2806631 date=2024-12-10T07:39:31Z progress=0.999999
2024-12-10T07:42:22Z init message: Rewinding blocks...
2024-12-10T07:42:23Z FlushStateToDisk: write coins cache to disk (0 coins, 0kB) started
2024-12-10T07:42:23Z FlushStateToDisk: write coins cache to disk (0 coins, 0kB) completed (0.02s)
2024-12-10T07:42:23Z init message: Verifying blocks...
2024-12-10T07:42:23Z Verifying last 24 blocks at level 3
2024-12-10T07:42:23Z [0%]...[12%]...[20%]...[33%]...[41%]...[50%]...[62%]...[70%]...[83%]...[91%]...[DONE].
2024-12-10T07:42:24Z No coin database inconsistencies in last 24 blocks (5963 transactions)
2024-12-10T07:42:24Z  block index           15260ms
2024-12-10T07:42:24Z Opening LevelDB in E:\Files\Litecoin\indexes\blockfilter\basic\db
2024-12-10T07:42:24Z Opened LevelDB successfully
2024-12-10T07:42:24Z Using obfuscation key for E:\Files\Litecoin\indexes\blockfilter\basic\db: 0000000000000000
2024-12-10T07:42:24Z block tree size = 2806632
2024-12-10T07:42:24Z nBestHeight = 2806631
2024-12-10T07:42:24Z loadblk thread start
2024-12-10T07:42:24Z basic block filter index thread start
2024-12-10T07:42:24Z basic block filter index is enabled at height 2806631
2024-12-10T07:42:24Z basic block filter index thread exit
2024-12-10T07:42:24Z Bound to [::]:9333
2024-12-10T07:42:24Z Bound to 0.0.0.0:9333
2024-12-10T07:42:24Z torcontrol thread start
2024-12-10T07:42:24Z Bound to 127.0.0.1:9333
2024-12-10T07:42:24Z init message: Loading P2P addresses...
2024-12-10T07:42:24Z Leaving InitialBlockDownload (latching to false)
2024-12-10T07:42:24Z Imported mempool transactions from disk: 176 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 expired, 0 already there, 0 waiting for initial broadcast
2024-12-10T07:42:24Z loadblk thread exit
2024-12-10T07:42:24Z Loaded 52935 addresses from peers.dat  116ms
2024-12-10T07:42:24Z Loaded 2 addresses from "anchors.dat"
2024-12-10T07:42:24Z 2 block-relay-only anchors will be tried for connections.
2024-12-10T07:42:24Z init message: Starting network threads...
2024-12-10T07:42:24Z init message: Done loading
2024-12-10T07:42:24Z net thread start
2024-12-10T07:42:24Z dnsseed thread start
2024-12-10T07:42:24Z Waiting 300 seconds before querying DNS seeds.
2024-12-10T07:42:24Z addcon thread start
2024-12-10T07:42:24Z opencon thread start
2024-12-10T07:42:24Z msghand thread start
2024-12-10T07:42:24Z GUI: Platform customization: "windows"
2024-12-10T07:42:25Z New outbound peer connected: version: 70016, blocks=2806631, peer=0 (block-relay)
2024-12-10T07:42:25Z New outbound peer connected: version: 70016, blocks=2290467, peer=1 (block-relay)
2024-12-10T07:42:26Z New outbound peer connected: version: 70016, blocks=2806631, peer=2 (full-relay)
2024-12-10T07:42:26Z New outbound peer connected: version: 70016, blocks=2806631, peer=3 (full-relay)
2024-12-10T07:42:27Z New outbound peer connected: version: 70017, blocks=2806631, peer=4 (full-relay)
2024-12-10T07:42:28Z New outbound peer connected: version: 70017, blocks=2806631, peer=5 (full-relay)
2024-12-10T07:42:30Z Using BerkeleyDB version Berkeley DB 4.8.30: (April  9, 2010)
2024-12-10T07:42:30Z Using wallet E:\Files\Litecoin\wallets\Lwall.wall
2024-12-10T07:42:30Z BerkeleyEnvironment::Open: LogDir=E:\Files\Litecoin\wallets\database ErrorFile=E:\Files\Litecoin\wallets\db.log
2024-12-10T07:42:30Z init message: Loading wallet...
2024-12-10T07:42:30Z [Lwall.wall] Wallet File Version = 130000
2024-12-10T07:42:30Z [Lwall.wall] Keys: 0 plaintext, 203 encrypted, 203 w/ metadata, 203 total. Unknown wallet records: 0
2024-12-10T07:42:30Z [Lwall.wall] Wallet completed loading in             274ms
2024-12-10T07:42:30Z init message: Rescanning...
2024-12-10T07:42:30Z [Lwall.wall] Rescanning last 1597555 blocks (from block 1209076)...
2024-12-10T07:42:30Z [Lwall.wall] Rescan started from block 6a7c80ebce15e051e0589ae0e8cb84f383696b99c37be8ff7db8c6b1daf08a5b...

[rbbrdckybk]

Can confirm that I'm seeing the same behavior. Created an encrypted wallet.dat file back in 2013, opened it here and there a few times between then and 2017 without issues, tried to open it a few days ago with v0.21.4 and could not (fully downloaded blockchain from scratch, tried to open my wallet.dat file, Litecoin Core crashes with no errors). My log looks similar to OP's.

Downloaded v0.17.1, as it seemed to be the version that I would have been using the last time I transferred LTC. Re-downloaded the blockchain and was able to open my wallet without issues.

Didn't try any versions between v0.17.1 and v0.21.4, but I'm assuming that a bug was introduced somewhere in there.