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Title: MacMiner beta with bfgminer included - testers wanted Post by: Anonymailer on April 28, 2013, 07:47:20 PM THIS IS AN OLD THREAD PLEASE POST HERE:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=197110.0 Hi all, Some of you may be aware of MacMiner which was launched earlier this month as a poclbm GUI. I've now added a bfgminer backed with support for scrypt etc., but the only easy way to do this was to use an installer package rather than the compressed .app I've been distributing so far. To alleviate healthy concerns with regards to security, this installer package is signed with my developer ID (you can check the certificate by clicking the lock on the top right of the installer once you've opened it) - it will require admin permissions to install jansson and libusb in /usr/ folders, so it will ask for your password. If you just want the poclbm support you can customise the install to skip the libraries, or just grab the .app from the original thread here: thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=166347.0 download: http://fabulouspanda.co.uk/macminer/ But I'd really like some feedback on whether the bfgminer backend works for you. I've only tested on the machine I'm developing on and a VM, which lacks devices to mine with. To use bfgminer you'll have to open the preferences (from the MacMiner menu bar or cmd-,) and choose bfgminer, and for now it'll give you an error unless you use flags(options) - if you don't want any special flags you can just use -q (quiet) to minimise the hefty output it churns out. Or check out the available options on the bfgminer github: https://github.com/luke-jr/bfgminer Here's the installer: redacted all downloads require Mountain Lion (Mac OS 10.7+ ) Title: Re: MacMiner beta with bfgminer included - testers wanted Post by: MrNoSox on April 29, 2013, 10:57:13 AM I've been trying to get a good GPU miner going all weekend and I wake up to this! I'm definitely going to test this out. Today is my birthday and this would be a great gift! Thanks!
Title: Re: MacMiner beta with bfgminer included - testers wanted Post by: MrNoSox on April 29, 2013, 11:01:18 AM crashes for me. This is what I get:
Code: 4/29/13 7:00:21.787 AM MacMiner[484]: startPressed Using bfgminer, I get this: Code: [2013-04-29 07:03:01] Started bfgminer 3.0.1 So it looks like bfg would work, but it can't connect to my pool. Title: Re: MacMiner beta with bfgminer included - testers wanted Post by: Anonymailer on April 29, 2013, 11:14:54 AM Happy birthday! Thanks for trying MacMiner. It looks like a pool url problem - i couldn't find pool-x.com, only the litecoin pool pool-x.eu - which would require bfgminer and option --scrypt - can you post the website for the pool you're using please?
Title: Re: MacMiner beta with bfgminer included - testers wanted Post by: MrNoSox on April 29, 2013, 12:20:32 PM Not only did I put in ".com" instead of ".eu", I also failed to put in a port number. whoops. Anyway, Got that all worked out and now this is what I get:
Code: [2013-04-29 08:18:12] Started bfgminer 3.0.1 After that, it stops. I press Start again and get the same thing. Also, is it using both cards when it says "Selected 0: ATI Radeon HD 5870"? If not, is there a way to make it use both? Title: Re: MacMiner beta with bfgminer included - testers wanted Post by: Anonymailer on April 29, 2013, 01:32:43 PM I've set up an account at the pool to do some testing, and it does seem to work for me when I set it up with pool http://mine.pool-x.eu:8337 and options --scrypt OR -C (<-C to use CPU as well) but it doesn't seem to like multiple arguments in the Options text view, and it seems to have connection issues returning work to the pool, so I'll have to bugfix that before scrypt works in the GUI…
For the time being, you can get it working by opening the Terminal, there entering cd /Applications/MacMiner.app/Contents/Resources/bfgminer/bin (press return) ./bfgminer -o http://mine.pool-x.eu:8337 -u USER.1 -p PASS --scrypt --shaders 1600 -C (press return) shaders 1600 is the best for your GPU taken from here: https://github.com/luke-jr/bfgminer/blob/bfgminer/README.scrypt edit: oh and re the GPUs it's supposed to use all by default but you can set -d 0, -d 1 on the command line to make sure it uses both Title: Re: MacMiner beta with bfgminer included - testers wanted Post by: MrNoSox on April 29, 2013, 02:05:28 PM Seems to want to work, then I get this, I have been getting this a lot with different miners, cgminer, reaper...
https://i.imgur.com/4PC5kJS.png I've installed Xcode, Macports, and even Homebrew to try to get these to work. I looked up that error and it seems that it can be almost anything. Title: Re: MacMiner beta with bfgminer included - testers wanted Post by: MrNoSox on April 29, 2013, 02:16:19 PM Sorry for being such a noob. I found this but I have no idea what it means.
https://github.com/luke-jr/bfgminer/issues/221 https://github.com/luke-jr/bfgminer/issues/220 Title: Re: MacMiner beta with bfgminer included - testers wanted Post by: Anonymailer on April 29, 2013, 03:55:03 PM Ah sorry, my fault, it means it's not linked up to the libraries properly because I used aliases to replicate my system - I've replaced the aliases with the actual libraries now, if you download the pkg and run it again you should have success running it in the terminal now! Thanks for being patient :)
Title: Re: MacMiner beta with bfgminer included - testers wanted Post by: MrNoSox on April 29, 2013, 04:52:54 PM Ah sorry, my fault, it means it's not linked up to the libraries properly because I used aliases to replicate my system - I've replaced the aliases with the actual libraries now, if you download the pkg and run it again you should have success running it in the terminal now! Thanks for being patient :) Patient with you? Thanks for being patient with me! I reinstalled with the new pkg and got the same thing. Title: Re: MacMiner beta with bfgminer included - testers wanted Post by: Anonymailer on April 29, 2013, 05:27:38 PM Hmm, it's a little tricky as it's not telling you what's failing to load… Do you have a bitcoin mining account you could test it with (so it's not using scrypt)?
Could I ask you please to check whether all these files exist (and are not aliases): /usr/lib/dyld /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib /usr/lib/libcurl.4.dylib /usr/local/lib/libjansson.4.dylib /usr/local/lib/libusb-1.0.0.dylib /Applications/MacMiner.app/Contents/Resources/bfgminer/lib/libblkmaker_jansson-0.1.0.dylib /Applications/MacMiner.app/Contents/Resources/bfgminer/lib/libblkmaker-0.1.0.dylib If you're in the Finder you can choose 'Go'-'Go to folder' from the menu bar and paste each of those in there It might also be worth pasting this in your terminal: sudo cp /Applications/MacMiner.app/Contents/Resources/bfgminer/lib/libblkmaker_jansson-0.1.0.dylib /usr/local/lib/ press enter and when prompted enter your password and it'll copy that dylib to /usr/local/lib alternately, 'Go' to /Applications/MacMiner.app/Contents/Resources/bfgminer/lib/ and copy everything except pkgconfig to /usr/local/lib by dragging it across while holding 'alt'. if that works please let me know and I'll update the installer! Title: Re: MacMiner beta with bfgminer included - testers wanted Post by: MrNoSox on April 29, 2013, 05:37:58 PM All of those lib files exist. I copied everything like you said and did the cp with terminal and still have the same error. I did notice when I was looking through the usr/lib folder that I had 173 alias files in there. Should those be there?
entered my info for slush's pool and it doesn't like that either. Title: Re: MacMiner beta with bfgminer included - testers wanted Post by: Anonymailer on April 29, 2013, 05:45:35 PM The alias files are there with a standard install - they're mostly just linking names a program might be looking for to what's actually there - libcurl.3.dylib and libcurl.dylib pointing to libcurl4.dylib for example.
Is the output for bitcoin mining on slush's pool the same? Title: Re: MacMiner beta with bfgminer included - testers wanted Post by: Anonymailer on April 29, 2013, 06:02:42 PM Oh and could you please go to the Applications/Utilities folder and open disk utility, select your startup disk at the top of the left pane and 'Repair Disk Permissions' on the right under First Aid please? It could be a permissions problem with a standard library..
Title: Re: MacMiner beta with bfgminer included - testers wanted Post by: MrNoSox on April 29, 2013, 06:16:54 PM Yeah, it gave the same error on slush. Repaired permissions and still the same. Is it possible that installing Xcode (and Xcode command line utils), Macports, and Homebrew may have caused some problems? I installed MacMiner last and I've installed it over itself several times.
Title: Re: MacMiner beta with bfgminer included - testers wanted Post by: Anonymailer on April 29, 2013, 06:24:11 PM Neither macports nor homebrew should cause a problem (i have one machine running each I've tested on) but it's not advisable to have them both installed at the same time... can you please run
port installed and brew list in terminal and post the output of both here? Title: Re: MacMiner beta with bfgminer included - testers wanted Post by: MrNoSox on April 29, 2013, 06:29:18 PM Code: The following ports are currently installed: Brew Code: autoconf coreutils jansson libusb xz Title: Re: MacMiner beta with bfgminer included - testers wanted Post by: Anonymailer on April 29, 2013, 06:55:47 PM it's good to see you don't have any conflicting installs, although I do wonder whether the jansson and/or libusb are having problems with the versions the installer puts in - how does running brew doctor look? It might throw up some issues around those…
I would suggest using brew to uninstall both then running the MacMiner installer again Title: Re: MacMiner beta with bfgminer included - testers wanted Post by: MrNoSox on April 29, 2013, 07:10:49 PM Code: Warning: "config" scripts exist outside your system or Homebrew directories. I knew Xcode was out of date. For some reason I can't get the installer for 4.6.2 to launch but I didn't figure it was *that* big of a deal. Anyway, how do I uninstall with Brew? Title: Re: MacMiner beta with bfgminer included - testers wanted Post by: Anonymailer on April 29, 2013, 07:20:37 PM aha, it looks as though we're getting close to the root of the problem!
brew remove libusb jansson ^that should take care of those but you have some other warnings related to macports so if just removing those and running the MacMiner installer again doesn't work you might want to run sudo mv /opt/local ~/macports which will put all your macports installs in a directory called macports in your home folder and stop them being loaded by the system. just in case they're related, does the app store give you an error code when you try to install the xcode update? Title: Re: MacMiner beta with bfgminer included - testers wanted Post by: MrNoSox on April 29, 2013, 07:29:45 PM I'll try those. And yeah, I can't get any appstore stuff to work other than updates, because this is a custom built hackintosh ;) shhhh... don't tell.
Title: Re: MacMiner beta with bfgminer included - testers wanted Post by: MrNoSox on April 29, 2013, 07:39:17 PM I ran both of those commands for brew and for Macports. Restarted the machine and reinstalled MacMiner. Same doggone error.
Title: Re: MacMiner beta with bfgminer included - testers wanted Post by: Anonymailer on April 29, 2013, 07:49:34 PM damn. short of removing all the libraries mentioned by brew doctor and trying again or reinstalling mountain lion (which on a regular mac at least, leaves your files intact and just installs a fresh system) I'm out of ideas. It might be something to do with being a hackintosh… sorry I can't be of any more help!
Title: Re: MacMiner beta with bfgminer included - testers wanted Post by: MrNoSox on April 29, 2013, 08:00:16 PM ah, it's cool Thanks for all the help though. I use a Core i5 iMac at work so once I get it updated to ML, I'll see how it goes on there.
Title: Re: MacMiner beta with bfgminer included - testers wanted Post by: Anonymailer on April 29, 2013, 08:10:48 PM thanks, let me know how you get on! I'm pretty sure it should work on a standard setup, but I only have machines packed with libs and VMs without access to the GPU to test on so far :/
Title: Re: MacMiner beta with bfgminer included - testers wanted Post by: Epoch on April 30, 2013, 11:19:11 PM I'm a bit of a Mac noob, but I'd like to try this out. I have a Mountain Lion Mac mini; is there anything special I need to do to get this to work? I have 2 BFL Singles (FPGA miners) connected through USB and would like to try out bfgminer with them.
Also, when Luke releases new bfgminer code, how does one update the Mac application? Thanks in advance. Title: Re: MacMiner beta with bfgminer included - testers wanted Post by: Anonymailer on May 01, 2013, 12:15:00 AM Thanks for your interest, I'd really like some feedback from fpga users like yourself!
bfgminer support is very beta at the moment, but it should work with any pool as long as there's not more or less than one command in the Options textview (you just need to open the preferences window and check use bfgminer first) - if you need to use more than one for now the thing to do is pop open the terminal and cd /Applications/MacMiner.app/Contents/Resources/bfgminer/bin and then run bfgminer as you would normally e.g. ./bfgminer -o pool.address.tld:port -u user -p pass (then any flags you want say -S <arg> to scan a specific place for your fpga or --bfl-range (use nonce range on bitforce devices if supported) bfgminer does scan for devices but I'm not sure whether it can find all of them on Mac, because libudev is linux only, you may need to point it to the devices specifically. this is the kind of thing I'm hoping to get sorted while it's still in beta! but maybe just run with -q (for quiet, although bfgminer does still output a lot) or -D (for even more output - including the results of it's scan for supported hardware). The .pkg installer installs bfgminer 3.0.1 Built with GPU CPU bitforce icarus avalon modminer x6500 ztex scrypt mining support. and the dependencies needed, so if not being fully featured yet in connecting to the MacMiner gui is holding you back at least you can get bfgminer installed the mac way rather than installing all the dependencies with homebrew, macports or from source. There's no self-update in place yet (the app is less than a month old and I'm just working on it in my free time) but I will be sure to update it and the thread regularly as I'll be using it myself too, on GPUs for now and BFL ASICs in future. Once all the back-ends are properly functioning I'll look in to update notifications from within the app, so it will prompt you when there's an upgrade available. Until it's built to update itself, you can just run the installer again and it will replace all the updated components with the newer versions. Title: Re: MacMiner beta with bfgminer included - testers wanted Post by: Anonymailer on May 02, 2013, 11:14:46 PM the package available at the same address has been updated with bfgminer bugfixes and cpuminer for litecoin, you can run more than one at once, choose which from the 'View' menu
Title: Re: MacMiner beta with bfgminer included - testers wanted Post by: maxmint on May 05, 2013, 03:09:37 PM the package available at the same address has been updated with bfgminer bugfixes and cpuminer for litecoin, you can run more than one at once, choose which from the 'View' menu [/quote I don't see anything when opening the "View" menu, I have MacMin Version 1.0 (1) – is this the current one? Title: Re: MacMiner beta with bfgminer included - testers wanted Post by: Anonymailer on May 05, 2013, 03:22:36 PM I don't see anything when opening the "View" menu, I have MacMin Version 1.0 (1) – is this the current one? They're all version 1 so far - a factor of my laziness - but if there's nothing in the View menu you don't have the latest - redownload the .pkg and run the installer again and it should show up for you! postscript: I'm going to release the real v1 soon with a 'check for updates automatically' feature, I've just been battling with 10.7 support which I'd like to get sorted before I release it. And I'm a little busy today! Title: Re: MacMiner beta with bfgminer included - testers wanted Post by: akspa on May 05, 2013, 04:46:08 PM Will there ever be a version for those of us stuck on 10.7?
I've got my old Mac Pro running 10.7 and the bitminter client currently, but I'd love to be able to try other miners and see which one has the best performance. Title: Re: MacMiner beta with bfgminer included - testers wanted Post by: Anonymailer on May 05, 2013, 09:12:16 PM Will there ever be a version for those of us stuck on 10.7? Definitely, I've cpuminer working on 10.7 in the unreleased version and poclbm won't be a problem, I was just spending a long time struggling to get all the dependencies of bfgminer packaged in the app but it has a lot of trouble installing with jansson out of system directories so for now at least it will remain .pkg/installer based (although I'll remove admin permissions for the app so people who don't need cpuminer/bfgminer can install without entering a password) but the next version will work with 10.7! Title: Re: MacMiner beta with bfgminer included - testers wanted Post by: emunebtk on May 21, 2013, 10:15:34 PM Any update on the latest MacMiner being available for 10.7 yet? For some reason I can only get CPUminer to work at the moment in the http://fabulouspanda.co.uk/MacMiner10.7-1.0.2.pkg . Would love to test anything you may have for us Lion users who are unable to upgrade to 10.8 due to hardware constraints :(
Title: Re: MacMiner beta with bfgminer included - testers wanted Post by: Anonymailer on May 21, 2013, 10:17:35 PM That shouldn't be, what errors are the others giving you?
Title: Re: MacMiner beta with bfgminer included - testers wanted Post by: emunebtk on May 21, 2013, 10:34:19 PM running MacMiner option i get (:
21/05/2013 15:33:39, Ignored invalid server entry: OpenCL devices:
No devices specified, using all GPU devices 21/05/2013 15:33:40, started OpenCL miner on platform 0, device 1 (ATI Radeon HD 5770) 21/05/2013 15:33:40, Setting server (username.1 @ mining.usa.la.hypernova.pw:9332) ______ I also have a ATI Radeon XT1900 installed which shows on system profiler but am not seeing it here or on any other Mining app like Guiminer? Title: Re: MacMiner beta with bfgminer included - testers wanted Post by: Anonymailer on May 21, 2013, 10:39:17 PM That looks like it's working, does it start hashing and accepting shares? You should get about 150-170MH
If not, can you test another pool? Or use the CGMiner window - I just set up a p2pool and the MacMiner (poclbm) window doesn't like it but BFG Miner and CG Miner are working with it fine. Just figuring it might be that as it's the same port? the p2pool node i'm running is on 176.58.119.218:9332 with username BTC address password just anything, if anyone's interested… and this thread has moved here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=197110.20 Title: Re: MacMiner beta with bfgminer included - testers wanted Post by: emunebtk on May 21, 2013, 10:42:21 PM actually after " 21/05/2013 15:33:40, Setting server (emuneltk.1 @ mining.usa.la.hypernova.pw:9332)
came : mining.usa.la.hypernova.pw:9332 21/05/2013 15:33:50, Failed to subscribe Exception in thread Thread-2: Traceback (most recent call last): File "threading.pyc", line 810, in __bootstrap_inner File "threading.pyc", line 763, in run File "StratumSource.pyc", line 126, in asyncore_thread File "asyncore.pyc", line 216, in loop File "asyncore.pyc", line 145, in poll error: (9, 'Bad file descriptor') mining.usa.la.hypernova.pw:9332 21/05/2013 15:33:52, IO errors - 1, tolerance 2 _____ When I try to run Cgminer window I get : Error opening terminal: unknown. _____ and BFLminer : [2013-05-21 15:42:52] Started bfgminer 3.0.99 All devices disabled, cannot mine! [2013-05-21 15:42:52] Started bfgminer 3.0.99 Title: Re: MacMiner beta with bfgminer included - testers wanted Post by: mnyonpa on July 11, 2013, 10:28:06 AM Is it possible to update bfgminer to 3.1.2?
3.1.1 does not see my USB Erupter and 3.1.2 fails to build on my machine :( Title: Re: MacMiner beta with bfgminer included - testers wanted Post by: Anonymailer on July 11, 2013, 10:32:23 AM They definitely do work with the latest version, try 1.4.3 from the main thread here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=197110.20 If you haven't installed the USB serial drivers use the CG Miner window and type -S /dev/pathtomydevice in the custom flags text field if you have installed the drivers do the same in the bfg miner window 3.1.2 won't compile unfortunately! Title: Re: MacMiner beta with bfgminer included - testers wanted Post by: mnyonpa on July 11, 2013, 12:02:23 PM Thank you so so much!!!
You saved me from BitMinter slavery :) Title: Re: MacMiner beta with bfgminer included - testers wanted Post by: Anonymailer on July 11, 2013, 01:54:20 PM ;D no problem thanks for using MacMiner!
Title: Re: MacMiner beta with bfgminer included - testers wanted Post by: Luke-Jr on July 11, 2013, 05:27:23 PM BFG 3.1.2 has some serious problems. I'll be releasing a 3.1.3 soon.
Title: Re: MacMiner beta with bfgminer included - testers wanted Post by: mnyonpa on July 12, 2013, 12:10:32 AM BFG 3.1.2 has some serious problems. I'll be releasing a 3.1.3 soon. Thanks! Title: Re: MacMiner beta with bfgminer included - testers wanted Post by: Anonymailer on July 12, 2013, 10:01:57 PM BFG 3.1.2 has some serious problems. I'll be releasing a 3.1.3 soon. Thanks Luke! And thanks for linking MacMiner! I'll give 3.1.3 a shot and update on github if there are any problems. |
