p2pool warning: Upgrade required

[Cornmeister]

Hi all,

I've setup a p2pool on ubuntu LTS yesterday, and everything was running fine.
When I take a look at the console, i see a warning, but I have no idea how to solve it:

Code:

2013-04-05 08:19:19.071954 > ########################################
2013-04-05 08:19:19.072203 > >>> Warning: (from bitcoind) Warning: this version is obsolete, upgrade required
2013-04-05 08:19:19.072362 > ########################################

I've tried to update p2pool from GIT, but no updates....

someone ?

[mokahless]

It's telling you to update bitcoind, not p2pool. Notice how it says from bitcoind.

[Cornmeister]

n00b question.....

Why do i need bitcoind ?
I'm only mining Litecoin

[Mylon]

Because p2pool uses bitcoind dependacies to mine Litecoins perhaps?

See if ubuntu has any updates for bitcoind, your most likely running on protocol 7 while it should be 8

[Cornmeister]

no updates for bitcoind

[Mylon]

what version are you running?

p2pool --version
or
run_p2pool.py --version

[Cornmeister]

what version are you running?

p2pool --version
or
run_p2pool.py --version

Code:

jdmeij@Hertz:~/build/p2po./run_p2pool.py --version
11.2-8-g896c9ed
jdmeij@Hertz:~/build/p2pool$ git pull
Already up-to-date.
jdmeij@Hertz:~/build/p2pool$

[Mylon]

what version are you running?

p2pool --version
or
run_p2pool.py --version

Code:

jdmeij@Hertz:~/build/p2po./run_p2pool.py --version
11.2-8-g896c9ed
jdmeij@Hertz:~/build/p2pool$ git pull
Already up-to-date.
jdmeij@Hertz:~/build/p2pool$

Bizarre... You really wanna get out of here and start talking to the p2pool guys. No clue and google ain't helpful whatsoever... Still believe something is out of date, hence you getting the error... but what... good question...

[Cornmeister]

as a forum noob, i'm not able to post in their forum yet

[Mylon]

I know, stay online for the next 4 hours and you'll be able too Having the same issue... only half-way atm

[gfoot]

It's a known problem - about 60% of litecoin miners are publishing blocks with a higher version number that the one used in the latest version of the standard litecoind.  See here:

http://forum.litecoin.net/index.php/topic,1580.0.html

It doesn't affect your mining, the blocks are all still compatible.  I think it is because some of the big litecoin pools are using software derived from more recent bitcoin versions that have not yet been ported into the stock litecoind (which is back at 0.6.3).

[Cornmeister]

tnx for the info.

after a server restart, the warnings just disappeared
strange

[gfoot]

They tend to come back after a few hours.

[RauBan]

I had this problem aswell, failing to find any active litecoin developer i decided to abandon ship.

[bigb0096]

I posted about this yesterday, and did not get a response. It is definitely coming from litecoind, not bitcoind.

Run "litecoind getinfo" and you will see the same warning. The explanation above about miners derived from more recent versions of bitcoin seems to be the most plausible explanation. Maybe this weekend I'll dive into the litecoind code, and see what triggers that warning, and if there is a way to prevent it.

[gfoot]

It's easy to turn off the warning, but kind of pointless.

coblee has announced work beginning on pulling changes from bitcoind 0.8.1, so presumably this will go away soon of its own accord.

[aspect]

Do not worry about this.  Ignore the message for now.  Once 8.x upgrade is released the warning will go away.