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# KernelError.chainstateManagerOptionsCreationFailed

`btck_chainstate_manager_options_create` returned null.

```
case chainstateManagerOptionsCreationFailed
```

## Discussion

Most commonly caused by the data directory being inaccessible
(missing, not writable, on a filesystem that doesn’t support the
required operations).