One time for less than an hour, the "Blocks Remaining" were actively counting-down. I have restarted both the daemon and the GUI Wallet several times. I have also left them both up and running for more than 24 hours multiple times. I sent Monero to the Wallet, but it shows 0.00 balance.
2017-11-10 07:55:58.208 9176 INFO global contrib/epee/src/mlog.cpp:145 New log categories: *:WARNING,net:FATAL,net.p2p:FATAL,net.cn:FATAL,global:INFO,verify:FATAL,stacktrace:INFO 2017-11-10 07:55:59.214 9176 ERROR msgwriter src/common/scoped_message_writer.h:94 Error: Couldn't connect to daemon Error: Couldn't connect to daemon
2017-11-10 07:56:18.876 9208 INFO global contrib/epee/src/mlog.cpp:145 New log categories: *:WARNING,net:FATAL,net.p2p:FATAL,net.cn:FATAL,global:INFO,verify:FATAL,stacktrace:INFO 2017-11-10 07:56:19.882 9208 ERROR msgwriter src/common/scoped_message_writer.h:94 Error: Couldn't connect to daemon Error: Couldn't connect to daemon
2017-11-10 07:56:21.915 3976 INFO global contrib/epee/src/mlog.cpp:145 New log categories: *:WARNING,net:FATAL,net.p2p:FATAL,net.cn:FATAL,global:INFO,verify:FATAL,stacktrace:INFO Height: 1400001/1400001 (100.0%) on mainnet, not mining, net hash 259.32 MH/s, v5, update needed, 0(out)+0(in) connections, uptime 0d 0h 0m 4s
2017-11-10 08:05:56.439 9444 INFO global contrib/epee/src/mlog.cpp:145 New log categories: *:WARNING,net:FATAL,net.p2p:FATAL,net.cn:FATAL,global:INFO,verify:FATAL,stacktrace:INFO Height: 1400001/1439681 (97.2%) on mainnet, not mining, net hash 259.32 MH/s, v5, update needed, 8(out)+0(in) connections, uptime 0d 0h 9m 35s