diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 824b8aa..a51125d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+- 0.2.2
+	* Fix missing symbol crashes related to race conditions
+- 0.2.1
+	* Receive removed race checks from chainqueue
 - 0.2.0
 	* primitive race condition handling between fs access of sync and queue
 	* re-enable throttling based on in-flight transaction count
diff --git a/chaind/adapters/base.py b/chaind/adapters/base.py
index 7e46bb0..6f0689b 100644
--- a/chaind/adapters/base.py
+++ b/chaind/adapters/base.py
@@ -1,9 +1,14 @@
+# standard imports
+import logging
+
 # external imports
 from chainqueue import Store as QueueStore
 
 # local imports
 from chaind.error import BackendIntegrityError
 
+logg = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
 
 class ChaindAdapter:
 
diff --git a/chaind/filter.py b/chaind/filter.py
index 4c9c561..3e25c2d 100644
--- a/chaind/filter.py
+++ b/chaind/filter.py
@@ -61,19 +61,40 @@ class StateFilter(SyncFilter):
             raise NotLocalTxError(tx.hash)
 
         delay = 0.01
+        race_attempts = 0
+        err = None
         while True:
             if delay > self.delay_limit:
                 raise QueueLockError('The queue lock for tx {} seems to be stuck. Human meddling needed.'.format(tx.hash))
+            elif race_attempts >= 3:
+                break
             try:
                 if tx.status == TxStatus.SUCCESS:
                     queue_adapter.succeed(block, tx)
                 else:
                     queue_adapter.fail(block, tx)
                 break
+                err = None
             except QueueLockError as e:
                 logg.debug('queue item {} is blocked, will retry: {}'.format(tx.hash, e))
                 time.sleep(delay)
                 delay *= 2
+                err = None
+            except FileNotFoundError as e:
+                err = e
+                logg.debug('queue item {} not found, possible race condition, will retry: {}'.format(tx.hash, e))
+                race_attempts += 1
+                continue
+            except NotLocalTxError as e:
+                err = e
+                logg.debug('queue item {} not found, possible race condition, will retry: {}'.format(tx.hash, e))
+                race_attempts += 1
+                continue
+
+        if err != None:
+            raise BackendIntegrityError('cannot find queue item {} in backend: {}'.format(tx.hash, err))
+
+        logg.info('filter registered {} for {} in {}'.format(tx.status.name, tx.hash, block))
 
         if self.throttler != None:
             self.throttler.dec(tx.hash)
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index cef23db..fe26169 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [metadata]
 name = chaind
-version = 0.2.1
+version = 0.2.2
 description = Base package for chain queue service
 author = Louis Holbrook
 author_email = dev@holbrook.no