Title: The only output is fan noise and hot air Post by: Proofer on December 17, 2011, 07:57:17 AM EDIT: Posted in wrong forum, and the forum won't let me delete it. I am going to repost in the cgminer forum.
cgminer 2.0.8, Ubuntu 10.04 I first ran cgminer this evening on my newly-built 3x5970 rig. I access the rig from a Mac on a LAN via SSH. And since this was to be a first familiarization run, I started with solo mining, pointing cgminer at an instance of bitcoind on my Mac. I use this small script to run it: Code: #!/bin/bash (Confidential to those helping me earlier today: I was logged in on the rig, so I dropped the sudo.) When cgminer starts, I notice two things immediately: It outputs a line on the terminal saying it started; The GPU fan speeds increase substantially. I also notice a little later via ps that there are six cgminer processes, which I hope is normal at one per GPU core. I also notice a file in the current directory: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 750880 2011-12-16 22:36 phatk110817Cypressbitalignv2w128long8.bin The log file is created, but it's empty. Nor is there any further console output. Here's the thing: it's not responsive to the keyboard. Keypress commands such as P, G, or Q are merely echoed. I wondered if this had something to do with using a remote terminal, so I tried running it locally. Whoops, I had specified an -intensity of 8 for all six cores, so in effect I was locked out of my monitor. (I know about "d" but the .conf was intended for remote use and I had forgotten that.) So each time I ran it I stopped it (and dropped the GPU fan revs) by rebooting. Here's the .conf file, based on the example that came with the source code: Code: { OK guys, I have braced myself for looking stupid: why is it unresponsive to the terminal and producing no output? Title: Re: The only output is fan noise and hot air Post by: P4man on December 17, 2011, 08:35:32 AM There should only be 1 cgminer process.
First of all, may I suggest you install "screen" so you can attach and detach console sessions. then do the following: #!/bin/bash now="`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`" cd ~/miners export DISPLAY=:0 screen ./cgminer -c cgminer.conf 2 (whats the purpose of the 2 ?) You can ssh in to the machine and reattach the console to see whats going on with screen -r or screen -r -d Should that work, may I also suggest changing "donation" : "0.00", into "donation" : "0.5", :) |