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If you want to help out, see CONTRIBUTING for a set of guidelines.
+# Debugging
+
+This section contains general instructions for debugging failed installs or problems encountered with Monero. First ensure you are running the latest version built from the github repo.
+
+## LMDB
+
+Instructions for debugging suspected blockchain corruption as per @HYC
+
+There is an `mdb_stat` command in the LMDB source that can print statistics about the database but it's not routinely built. This can be built with the following command:
+
+`cd ~/monero/external/db_drivers/liblmdb && make`
+
+The output of `mdb_stat -ea <path to blockchain dir>` will indicate inconsistencies in the blocks, block_heights and block_info table.
+
+The output of `mdb_dump -s blocks <path to blockchain dir>` and `mdb_dump -s block_info <path to blockchain dir>` is useful for indicating whether blocks and block_info contain the same keys.
+
+These records are dumped as hex data, where the first line is the key and the second line is the data.