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Looking for a little guidance on eloipool setup. I am fairly comfortable with ubuntu... though a bit new to python. Anyway... I am running ubuntu 12.04 LTS server, and I think I have a stupid configuration error somewhere. This is a pretty vanilla ubuntu 12.04 server with python3, libpython3.2, python3-dev, and build-essentials installed via apt. I followed the top post and after all is said and done, I see in my eloipool.log the following message in a fairly tight loop: 2013-03-30 17:22:48,844 merkleMaker CRITICAL Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3.2/json/decoder.py", line 367, in raw_decode
obj, end = self.scan_once(s, idx)
StopIteration
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/mining/bitcoin/build/eloipool/merklemaker.py", line 692, in run
self.merkleMaker_I()
File "/mining/bitcoin/build/eloipool/merklemaker.py", line 682, in merkleMaker_I
self.merkleMaker_II()
File "/mining/bitcoin/build/eloipool/merklemaker.py", line 648, in merkleMaker_II
return self._updateMerkleTree()
File "/mining/bitcoin/build/eloipool/merklemaker.py", line 548, in _updateMerkleTree
self._updateMerkleTree_I()
File "/mining/bitcoin/build/eloipool/merklemaker.py", line 512, in _updateMerkleTree_I
r = self._updateMerkleTree_fromTS(TS)
File "/mining/bitcoin/build/eloipool/merklemaker.py", line 477, in _updateMerkleTree_fromTS
MP = self._CallGBT(TS)
File "/mining/bitcoin/build/eloipool/merklemaker.py", line 327, in _CallGBT
MP = access.getblocktemplate(self.GBTReq)
File "/mining/bitcoin/build/python-bitcoinrpc/jsonrpc/authproxy.py", line 107, in __call__
resp = json.loads(resp, parse_float=decimal.Decimal)
File "/usr/lib/python3.2/json/__init__.py", line 322, in loads
return cls(**kw).decode(s)
File "/usr/lib/python3.2/json/decoder.py", line 351, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
File "/usr/lib/python3.2/json/decoder.py", line 369, in raw_decode
raise ValueError("No JSON object could be decoded")
ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded
I went and edited /usr/lib/python3.2/json/decoder.py so the raise would print "s" as well (i.e. raise ValueError("No JSON object could be decoded"+s) ) to get visibility on the problem message and it turns out to be a 401 error: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/loose.dtd">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Error</TITLE>
<META HTTP-EQUIV='Content-Type' CONTENT='text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1'>
</HEAD>
<BODY><H1>401 Unauthorized.</H1></BODY>
</HTML>
Any thoughts on what I could be doing wrong? This is a fresh ubuntu 12.04LTS with the bitcoin.org ppa based bitcoind. I felt it was safer to use the packaged 0.8.1 bitcoind rather than build my own... but I am not afraid if needed to build it if needed. I checked my rpc username and password in my bitcoin.conf and config.py to make sure they match. I thought it might be an access thing... but... I don't see anything suspicious in /var/log. Any thoughts would be appreciated... or any pointers. The forum search didn't turn up anything so I thought I would post. Thanks - |
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Aseras
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March 31, 2013, 01:06:01 AM |
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In your config.py did you change ALL the test net values to real values? Check every edit in the OP.
Check your bitcoin.conf and make sure you set rpcallowip to 127.0.0.1 and your LAN IP.
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March 31, 2013, 03:52:36 PM |
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If you want to operate a public pool and do not know linux... then my arguments, well... just please don't.
i can understand your frustration with those of us who don't have the experience with linux that you do. but my feeling is that you should be encouraging and helping those of us who are willing to mine solo and don't mind the variance. IMO, mining is becoming too centralized at pools and anyone who can distribute that power away from the pools helps the community at large. my personal goal is to always be able to be a full node and mine solo if possible as i think it's more healthy for the network long term. if it turns out i can't do this b/c i can't get sufficient help then so be it. |
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March 31, 2013, 04:48:54 PM |
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If you want to operate a public pool and do not know linux... then my arguments, well... just please don't.
i can understand your frustration with those of us who don't have the experience with linux that you do. but my feeling is that you should be encouraging and helping those of us who are willing to mine solo and don't mind the variance. IMO, mining is becoming too centralized at pools and anyone who can distribute that power away from the pools helps the community at large. my personal goal is to always be able to be a full node and mine solo if possible as i think it's more healthy for the network long term. if it turns out i can't do this b/c i can't get sufficient help then so be it. Well, the real reason you can't solo mine is because you're using a fork of cgminer on Avalon. Encourage the Avalon team to switch to BFGMiner so you can get GBT support that both works and supports solo mining  Then you won't need to setup a pool at all. |
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March 31, 2013, 07:34:14 PM |
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If you want to operate a public pool and do not know linux... then my arguments, well... just please don't.
i can understand your frustration with those of us who don't have the experience with linux that you do. but my feeling is that you should be encouraging and helping those of us who are willing to mine solo and don't mind the variance. IMO, mining is becoming too centralized at pools and anyone who can distribute that power away from the pools helps the community at large. my personal goal is to always be able to be a full node and mine solo if possible as i think it's more healthy for the network long term. if it turns out i can't do this b/c i can't get sufficient help then so be it. Well, the real reason you can't solo mine is because you're using a fork of cgminer on Avalon. Encourage the Avalon team to switch to BFGMiner so you can get GBT support that both works and supports solo mining Then you won't need to setup a pool at all. that sounds like a reasonable suggestion. but then how did Garzik solo mine with his cgminer fork and eloipool? |
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Luke-Jr
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March 31, 2013, 07:44:28 PM |
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If you want to operate a public pool and do not know linux... then my arguments, well... just please don't.
i can understand your frustration with those of us who don't have the experience with linux that you do. but my feeling is that you should be encouraging and helping those of us who are willing to mine solo and don't mind the variance. IMO, mining is becoming too centralized at pools and anyone who can distribute that power away from the pools helps the community at large. my personal goal is to always be able to be a full node and mine solo if possible as i think it's more healthy for the network long term. if it turns out i can't do this b/c i can't get sufficient help then so be it. Well, the real reason you can't solo mine is because you're using a fork of cgminer on Avalon. Encourage the Avalon team to switch to BFGMiner so you can get GBT support that both works and supports solo mining Then you won't need to setup a pool at all. that sounds like a reasonable suggestion. but then how did Garzik solo mine with his cgminer fork and eloipool? My point is that setting up Eloipool is a workaround to the problem of being unable to solo mine directly. |
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March 31, 2013, 07:49:17 PM |
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If you want to operate a public pool and do not know linux... then my arguments, well... just please don't.
i can understand your frustration with those of us who don't have the experience with linux that you do. but my feeling is that you should be encouraging and helping those of us who are willing to mine solo and don't mind the variance. IMO, mining is becoming too centralized at pools and anyone who can distribute that power away from the pools helps the community at large. my personal goal is to always be able to be a full node and mine solo if possible as i think it's more healthy for the network long term. if it turns out i can't do this b/c i can't get sufficient help then so be it. Well, the real reason you can't solo mine is because you're using a fork of cgminer on Avalon. Encourage the Avalon team to switch to BFGMiner so you can get GBT support that both works and supports solo mining Then you won't need to setup a pool at all. that sounds like a reasonable suggestion. but then how did Garzik solo mine with his cgminer fork and eloipool? My point is that setting up Eloipool is a workaround to the problem of being unable to solo mine directly. ah, ok. seems to me that if BFGminer allows Avalon owners to solo or pool mine directly then indeed it needs consideration. i'll certainly bring that up when i can but it seems Avalon is pretty set in their ways.  |
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Aseras
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March 31, 2013, 09:51:16 PM |
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If you want to operate a public pool and do not know linux... then my arguments, well... just please don't.
i can understand your frustration with those of us who don't have the experience with linux that you do. but my feeling is that you should be encouraging and helping those of us who are willing to mine solo and don't mind the variance. IMO, mining is becoming too centralized at pools and anyone who can distribute that power away from the pools helps the community at large. my personal goal is to always be able to be a full node and mine solo if possible as i think it's more healthy for the network long term. if it turns out i can't do this b/c i can't get sufficient help then so be it. Well, the real reason you can't solo mine is because you're using a fork of cgminer on Avalon. Encourage the Avalon team to switch to BFGMiner so you can get GBT support that both works and supports solo mining Then you won't need to setup a pool at all. Have a new build of BFGminer to test? Ckolivas is going to develop remotely on my units next week. Hopefully the issue is close to being fixed. |
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March 31, 2013, 10:03:12 PM |
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Ckolivas is going to develop remotely on my units next week. Hopefully the issue is close to being fixed.
now that is good news. will he be working on solo mining or just fixing the restarts? |
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Aseras
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April 01, 2013, 01:01:46 AM |
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Ckolivas is going to develop remotely on my units next week. Hopefully the issue is close to being fixed.
now that is good news. will he be working on solo mining or just fixing the restarts? We'll take whatever we can get. |
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Luke-Jr
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April 01, 2013, 01:04:45 AM |
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Have a new build of BFGminer to test? Not yet. Due to time constraints, I will probably only be releasing 3.0.0 for Avalon as a package, and try to figure out instructions for Avalon users to install it to the ramdisk. Ckolivas is going to develop remotely on my units next week. Hopefully the issue is close to being fixed. Last I heard, he admitted to intentionally making GBT support in cgminer defective, so I kinda doubt that. Unless he's changed his mind recently, I know solo mining support had never been on his planned features list. |
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April 01, 2013, 01:37:08 AM |
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Have a new build of BFGminer to test? Not yet. Due to time constraints, I will probably only be releasing 3.0.0 for Avalon as a package, and try to figure out instructions for Avalon users to install it to the ramdisk. I discovered a faster way to install BFGminer:  Apply this directly to the control board and you're done. Similar end result, but more permanent. Ckolivas is going to develop remotely on my units next week. Hopefully the issue is close to being fixed. Last I heard, he admitted to intentionally making GBT support in cgminer defective, so I kinda doubt that. Consider repeating this a few more times. Maybe add an "Amen" and it will become true! |
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April 01, 2013, 09:51:03 AM |
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If you want to operate a public pool and do not know linux... then my arguments, well... just please don't.
i can understand your frustration with those of us who don't have the experience with linux that you do. but my feeling is that you should be encouraging and helping those of us who are willing to mine solo and don't mind the variance. IMO, mining is becoming too centralized at pools and anyone who can distribute that power away from the pools helps the community at large. my personal goal is to always be able to be a full node and mine solo if possible as i think it's more healthy for the network long term. if it turns out i can't do this b/c i can't get sufficient help then so be it. Well, the real reason you can't solo mine is because you're using a fork of cgminer on Avalon. Encourage the Avalon team to switch to BFGMiner so you can get GBT support that both works and supports solo mining Then you won't need to setup a pool at all. Luke, is it possible to run two avalons (threads) with a single instance of bfgminer currently? what i mean -S/dev/ttyUSB0 -S/dev/ttyUSB1 assuming that both tty's are avalons? Best |
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April 01, 2013, 03:40:07 PM |
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If you want to operate a public pool and do not know linux... then my arguments, well... just please don't.
i can understand your frustration with those of us who don't have the experience with linux that you do. but my feeling is that you should be encouraging and helping those of us who are willing to mine solo and don't mind the variance. IMO, mining is becoming too centralized at pools and anyone who can distribute that power away from the pools helps the community at large. my personal goal is to always be able to be a full node and mine solo if possible as i think it's more healthy for the network long term. if it turns out i can't do this b/c i can't get sufficient help then so be it. Well, the real reason you can't solo mine is because you're using a fork of cgminer on Avalon. Encourage the Avalon team to switch to BFGMiner so you can get GBT support that both works and supports solo mining Then you won't need to setup a pool at all. is it possible to run two avalons (threads) with a single instance of bfgminer currently? what i mean -S/dev/ttyUSB0 -S/dev/ttyUSB1 assuming that both tty's are avalons? Yes, just be sure you have an Avalon-enabled build. The default for all other platforms does not have it enabled at the moment. |
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April 01, 2013, 06:11:25 PM |
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If you want to operate a public pool and do not know linux... then my arguments, well... just please don't.
i can understand your frustration with those of us who don't have the experience with linux that you do. but my feeling is that you should be encouraging and helping those of us who are willing to mine solo and don't mind the variance. IMO, mining is becoming too centralized at pools and anyone who can distribute that power away from the pools helps the community at large. my personal goal is to always be able to be a full node and mine solo if possible as i think it's more healthy for the network long term. if it turns out i can't do this b/c i can't get sufficient help then so be it. Well, the real reason you can't solo mine is because you're using a fork of cgminer on Avalon. Encourage the Avalon team to switch to BFGMiner so you can get GBT support that both works and supports solo mining Then you won't need to setup a pool at all. is it possible to run two avalons (threads) with a single instance of bfgminer currently? what i mean -S/dev/ttyUSB0 -S/dev/ttyUSB1 assuming that both tty's are avalons? Yes, just be sure you have an Avalon-enabled build. The default for all other platforms does not have it enabled at the moment. 10X Luke.I will give it a shot sooner. I am waiting for my er703 spare to arive |
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April 04, 2013, 05:17:23 AM |
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So... I rebuilt the server from scratch and everything seems to be working now... thanks for the steps.
One hint for fellow ubuntu folks. I don't recommend using the prebuilt bitcoind. I think that was what was giving me grief the first time around. Build it yourself by following TikToc's steps in "Avalon users: bitcoind and slush's/generalfaults mining pool setup" thread. Follow the steps for building bitcoind and you should be good to go.
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April 07, 2013, 12:14:38 AM |
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Has anyone else tried running eloipool against the test network? I set it up with this configuration, but when I tried the test network it gave me errors in cgminer.
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Aseras
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April 07, 2013, 02:34:02 AM |
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Has anyone else tried running eloipool against the test network? I set it up with this configuration, but when I tried the test network it gave me errors in cgminer.
Works fine. Make sure you haven't commented out the test net stuff in config.py Also there's a stratum bug on LP for new blocks the 2 arguments given blah whatever, it's ok to ignore. |
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April 07, 2013, 02:48:24 AM
Last edit: May 03, 2013, 11:57:17 PM by zero-asic |
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Has anyone else tried running eloipool against the test network? I set it up with this configuration, but when I tried the test network it gave me errors in cgminer.
Works fine. Make sure you haven't commented out the test net stuff in config.py Also there's a stratum bug on LP for new blocks the 2 arguments given blah whatever, it's ok to ignore. If I can ignore that then maybe I should post my install scripts. I have it set up on my machine with my avalon pointed at it, but it hasn't found a block yet. If anyone wants to test some install scripts for setting up eloipool + bitcoind on Ubuntu 12.04 send me a PM. Edit: A link to the scripts is in my sig. |
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April 07, 2013, 05:20:28 PM |
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If you are on testnet and you havent found a block yet with a avalon something is wrong. With a dual GPU normally find one every 5 to 10 minutes
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