Any news on the cluster mining JSON err? I am also getting this error, which is preventing me from mining consistently. The wallet solo miner is hard on my CPU (all threads maxed, even though only one is specified) while using the cluster miner seems to spread the load on my CPU more evenly/efficiently. I really would like to get back to cluster mining as soon as possible.
Also, I've almost fully compiled hodlminer-optiminer for OSX if anyone else was looking for it. I've finally got the makefile to compile (goddang OSX not complying to POSIX optional standards took me a while to address) and my next step is to run the binary through a debugger to figure out what's causing an "Illegal instruction: 4" runtime error.