OLD: BFGMiner 3.10.0: modular ASIC+FPGA, GBT+Strtm, RPC, Mac/Lnx/W64, AntU1, DRB

[pirate1]

Up and mining with bfgminer-3.1.1-win64.  Thanks Luke.

[A_Member]

I am trying to set up a BFL ASIC single for a friend.  I have worked on it for maybe 4 or 5 hours now and can't figure out how to get it working.  I have tried my best to find the answer on my own, but I've reached my limit.  It's time to ask the community, so here it goes:

I am using Mac OSX 10.7

I invoke cgminer with the following command:
/Applications/MacMiner.app/Contents/Resources/bfgminer/bin/bfgminer -S /dev/cu.usbserial-00002026 -o stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334 -O MyBitcoinAddress

Running the command "ls /dev/cu.*" in terminal shows "/dev/cu.usbserial-00002026" as one of the devices.

I get the following error:
 [2013-06-23 20:34:10] Error -54: Enqueueing kernel onto command queue. (clEnque
ueNDRangeKernel)
 [2013-06-23 20:34:10] OCL 0 failure, attempting to reinitialize
 [2013-06-23 20:34:10] Error -54: Enqueueing kernel onto command queue. (clEnque
ueNDRangeKernel)
 [2013-06-23 20:34:10] OCL 0 failure, disabling!
 [2013-06-23 20:34:10] OCL 0 (thread 0) being disabled
 [2013-06-23 20:34:10] Error -54: Enqueueing kernel onto command queue. (clEnque
ueNDRangeKernel)
 [2013-06-23 20:34:10] OCL 0 failure, attempting to reinitialize
 [2013-06-23 20:34:10] OCL 0 (thread 1) being disabled

If I leave it running it gives me more of the same errors.

As I said before, I have spent hours trying to figure this out on my own, so I think I am clear of the accusation of being a help vampire.  Someone with better Googleing skills could probably figure it out pretty quickly.

Thanks in advance for the help

[Luke-Jr]

I am trying to set up a BFL ASIC single for a friend.  I have worked on it for maybe 4 or 5 hours now and can't figure out how to get it working.  I have tried my best to find the answer on my own, but I've reached my limit.  It's time to ask the community, so here it goes:

I am using Mac OSX 10.7

I invoke cgminer with the following command:
/Applications/MacMiner.app/Contents/Resources/bfgminer/bin/bfgminer -S /dev/cu.usbserial-00002026 -o stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334 -O MyBitcoinAddress

Running the command "ls /dev/cu.*" in terminal shows "/dev/cu.usbserial-00002026" as one of the devices.

I get the following error:
 [2013-06-23 20:34:10] Error -54: Enqueueing kernel onto command queue. (clEnque
ueNDRangeKernel)
 [2013-06-23 20:34:10] OCL 0 failure, attempting to reinitialize
 [2013-06-23 20:34:10] Error -54: Enqueueing kernel onto command queue. (clEnque
ueNDRangeKernel)
 [2013-06-23 20:34:10] OCL 0 failure, disabling!
 [2013-06-23 20:34:10] OCL 0 (thread 0) being disabled
 [2013-06-23 20:34:10] Error -54: Enqueueing kernel onto command queue. (clEnque
ueNDRangeKernel)
 [2013-06-23 20:34:10] OCL 0 failure, attempting to reinitialize
 [2013-06-23 20:34:10] OCL 0 (thread 1) being disabled

If I leave it running it gives me more of the same errors.

As I said before, I have spent hours trying to figure this out on my own, so I think I am clear of the accusation of being a help vampire.  Someone with better Googleing skills could probably figure it out pretty quickly.

Thanks in advance for the help

OCL is the GPU stuff. Try disabling it with -G

[2weiX]

using bfgminer 3.1.1, I get around 11% HW-erros with my Jalapeno.
is this normal? I gander it's not.

what to do, what to do?

edit: I have 8 Erupters on another BFGminer instance.

[somedood]

Thanks for the new version.

The "Intensity < 0 = 100% CPU" Issue ist still there.
I have upgraded to APP SDK 2.5 to see if it would make any difference but it does not.

Is there anything I could do to have less GPU usage while not maxing CPU usage?

EDIT: To answer my question: Everything works fine when I set "gpu-threads" : "1", in the conf file.
I have tried: "bfgminer -g 1 -I -5" but it is completely ignored when a .conf file is present.

[candoo]

using bfgminer 3.1.1, I get around 11% HW-erros with my Jalapeno.
is this normal? I gander it's not.

what to do, what to do?

edit: I have 8 Erupters on another BFGminer instance.

Do you face this problem only with bfgminer? Your jalapeno might suffer from insufficient cooling.

[davidspitzer]

using bfgminer 3.1.1, I get around 11% HW-erros with my Jalapeno.
is this normal? I gander it's not.

what to do, what to do?

edit: I have 8 Erupters on another BFGminer instance.

Most of my jalapenos have a lot of hardware errors but the high error ones still submit more accepted shares than the slightly slower ones with less hardware errors so it seems to me that the number of hardware errors is not directly relatable to the amount of share accepted - I am getting the approximate return rate based on my hash rate so i am not too concerned

[Luke-Jr]

using bfgminer 3.1.1, I get around 11% HW-erros with my Jalapeno.
is this normal? I gander it's not.

what to do, what to do?

edit: I have 8 Erupters on another BFGminer instance.

How are you proposing to measure hw error as a percentage?
Not all hw errors are nonces returned, and not all nonces returned are shares, so there is really no percentage...

[A_Member]

I am trying to set up a BFL ASIC single for a friend.  I have worked on it for maybe 4 or 5 hours now and can't figure out how to get it working.  I have tried my best to find the answer on my own, but I've reached my limit.  It's time to ask the community, so here it goes:

I am using Mac OSX 10.7

I invoke cgminer with the following command:
/Applications/MacMiner.app/Contents/Resources/bfgminer/bin/bfgminer -S /dev/cu.usbserial-00002026 -o stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334 -O MyBitcoinAddress

Running the command "ls /dev/cu.*" in terminal shows "/dev/cu.usbserial-00002026" as one of the devices.

I get the following error:
 [2013-06-23 20:34:10] Error -54: Enqueueing kernel onto command queue. (clEnque
ueNDRangeKernel)
 [2013-06-23 20:34:10] OCL 0 failure, attempting to reinitialize
 [2013-06-23 20:34:10] Error -54: Enqueueing kernel onto command queue. (clEnque
ueNDRangeKernel)
 [2013-06-23 20:34:10] OCL 0 failure, disabling!
 [2013-06-23 20:34:10] OCL 0 (thread 0) being disabled
 [2013-06-23 20:34:10] Error -54: Enqueueing kernel onto command queue. (clEnque
ueNDRangeKernel)
 [2013-06-23 20:34:10] OCL 0 failure, attempting to reinitialize
 [2013-06-23 20:34:10] OCL 0 (thread 1) being disabled

If I leave it running it gives me more of the same errors.

As I said before, I have spent hours trying to figure this out on my own, so I think I am clear of the accusation of being a help vampire.  Someone with better Googleing skills could probably figure it out pretty quickly.

Thanks in advance for the help

OCL is the GPU stuff. Try disabling it with -G

Adding the -G parameter gives me the following:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 CPU 0:                | 649.3/695.1/  0.0kh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0
 CPU 1:                | 654.7/670.2/  0.0kh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

So it looks like I'm doing CPU mining now.  Why doesn't it detect my BFL device?  Does -G also turn off ASIC devices?

[Luke-Jr]

Why doesn't it detect my BFL device?

Paste the output from

Code:

bfgminer -D -T -d?

Does -G also turn off ASIC devices?

No.

[2weiX]

using bfgminer 3.1.1, I get around 11% HW-erros with my Jalapeno.
is this normal? I gander it's not.

what to do, what to do?

edit: I have 8 Erupters on another BFGminer instance.

How are you proposing to measure hw error as a percentage?
Not all hw errors are nonces returned, and not all nonces returned are shares, so there is really no percentage...

HW / A is how I "measure" it.
Question is if that's a normal rate.

[2weiX]

using bfgminer 3.1.1, I get around 11% HW-erros with my Jalapeno.
is this normal? I gander it's not.

what to do, what to do?

edit: I have 8 Erupters on another BFGminer instance.

Do you face this problem only with bfgminer? Your jalapeno might suffer from insufficient cooling.

The Jala runs at 39°, is that too hot already?

[Luke-Jr]

using bfgminer 3.1.1, I get around 11% HW-erros with my Jalapeno.
is this normal? I gander it's not.

what to do, what to do?

edit: I have 8 Erupters on another BFGminer instance.

How are you proposing to measure hw error as a percentage?
Not all hw errors are nonces returned, and not all nonces returned are shares, so there is really no percentage...

HW / A is how I "measure" it.
Question is if that's a normal rate.

HW/A is meaningless.

[2weiX]

using bfgminer 3.1.1, I get around 11% HW-erros with my Jalapeno.
is this normal? I gander it's not.

what to do, what to do?

edit: I have 8 Erupters on another BFGminer instance.

How are you proposing to measure hw error as a percentage?
Not all hw errors are nonces returned, and not all nonces returned are shares, so there is really no percentage...

HW / A is how I "measure" it.
Question is if that's a normal rate.

HW/A is meaningless.

That's how I gleaned to calc it from other threads.
Point me to a (non-technical, if possible) explanation of what a "HW" is, anyone - and what rate is acceptable under which circumstances?

[A_Member]

Paste the output from

Code:

bfgminer -D -T -d?

I get:

Code:

[2013-06-24 20:53:24] /Applications/MacMiner.app/Contents/Resources/bfgminer/bin/bfgminer: -d: requires an argument  

Looking at the documentation, it seems that I need a device number.  I don't know what that is.

If I remove the -d, I get:

Code:

 [2013-06-24 20:56:04] setrlimit: Failed to increase soft fd limit from 256 to hard limit of 9223372036854775807                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:05] ft232r_scan: Found 05ac:8005 - not a ft232r                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:05] ft232r_scan: Found 05ac:8242 - not a ft232r                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:05] ft232r_scan: Found 05ac:0236 - not a ft232r                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:05] ft232r_scan: Found 05ac:8006 - not a ft232r                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:05] ft232r_scan: Found 05ac:8507 - not a ft232r                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:05] ft232r_scan: Found 05ac:8005 - not a ft232r                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:05] ft232r_scan: Found 05ac:8006 - not a ft232r                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:05] ft232r_scan: Found 0403:6014 - not a ft232r                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:05] Started bfgminer 3.1.0                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:05] Icarus Detect: Attempting to open /dev/cu.usbserial-00002026                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:05] Icarus Read: No data in 0.10 seconds                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:05] Icarus Detect: Test failed at /dev/cu.usbserial-00002026: get 00000000, should: 000187a2                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:05] BFL: Attempting to open /dev/cu.usbserial-00002026                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:05] Found BitForce device on /dev/cu.usbserial-00002026                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:05]   >>>ID: BitFORCE SHA256 Version 1.0>>>                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:05]   Firmware: signature detected!                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:05]   Firmware signature (SHA256):                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:05]   -- 2f33a240bd6785caed5b67b4122079dd9359004ae23c64512c5c2dfbce097b08                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:05]   Firmware name: alphaminer_864.bfl                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:05]   Firmware integrity check passed successfully.                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:05]   No. Processors: [ 0 ]                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:05]   Total processing power: 0 RAW SHA256 MH/s (0 BTC MH/s)                     
 [2013-06-24 20:56:06] Not a ZTEX device 05ac:8005                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:06] Not a ZTEX device 05ac:8242                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:06] Not a ZTEX device 05ac:0236                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:06] Not a ZTEX device 05ac:8006                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:06] Not a ZTEX device 05ac:8507                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:06] Not a ZTEX device 05ac:8005                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:06] Not a ZTEX device 05ac:8006                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:06] Not a ZTEX device 0403:6014                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:06] BFL 0 : Set temperature config: target=89 cutoff=95                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:06] Probing for an alive pool                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:06] Testing pool stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:06] Popping work to stage thread                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:06] HTTP request failed: Protocol stratum+tcp not supported or disabled in libcurl                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:06] Failed to connect in json_rpc_call                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:06] initiate_stratum with sockbuf=0x0                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:08] Pool 0 stratum session id: 50b14312000000001                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:08] Pool 0 stratum bdifficulty set to 0.999985                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:08] Received stratum notify from pool 0 with job_id=1372125325 14046                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:08] Stratum authorisation success for pool 0                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:08] Pool 0 stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334 alive                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:08] Generated stratum merkle 2b325650d869ab070f3362ebcbd4f078837ece5391c987ea902ffef148e2701a                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:08] Generated stratum header 00000002699fc0f4fb42ba728d4910b87cee871de43d7872ec4b4c7f0000004a000000002b325650d869ab070f3362ebcbd4f078837ece5391c987ea902ffef148e2701a51c8f88d1a00de1500000000000000800000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000080020000                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:08] Work job_id 1372125325 14046 nonce2 00000000 ntime 51c8f88d                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:08] Generated target 00000000ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:08] Learned that block id 699fc0f4 is height 243187                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:08] Network difficulty changed to 19.3M (138.4Th/s)                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:08] New block: ...699fc0f4 #243187 diff 19.3M (138.4Th/s)                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:08] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:08] Unknown stratum msg: {"result": null, "id": "txlist1372125325 14046", "error": [-3, "Method 'mining.get_transactions' not found", null]}                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:08] Unknown stratum msg: {"result": null, "id": "txlist1372125325 14046", "error": [-3, "Method 'mining.get_transactions' not found", null]}                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:08] BFL 0: Opened /dev/cu.usbserial-00002026                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:08] Waking up thread 0                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:08] 0 gpu miner threads started                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:08] 0 cpu miner threads started, using SHA256 'fastauto' algorithm.                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:08] BFL 0: Board 0: BFL 0-BFL 0                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:08] BFL 0: Delaying start by 0ms                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:08] Popping ping in miner thread                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:08] Creating extra submit work thread                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:08] BFL 0: Popping work from get queue to get work                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:08] API not running - API will not be available                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:08] Generated stratum merkle 61b88cfde90aba4803e2354395364d100f534196cdaf5c875df990352b9c71a7                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:08] Generated stratum header 00000002699fc0f4fb42ba728d4910b87cee871de43d7872ec4b4c7f0000004a0000000061b88cfde90aba4803e2354395364d100f534196cdaf5c875df990352b9c71a751c8f88d1a00de1500000000000000800000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000080020000                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:08] Work job_id 1372125325 14046 nonce2 01000000 ntime 51c8f88d                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:08] Generated target 00000000ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:08] Generated stratum work                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:08] Pushing work from pool 0 to hash queue                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:08] Generated stratum merkle c2010480eb9a6d0b97d6bbea835cbe9d7b77e9f2888ffcc63bd7d2ca3cf06f6b                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:08] Generated stratum header 00000002699fc0f4fb42ba728d4910b87cee871de43d7872ec4b4c7f0000004a00000000c2010480eb9a6d0b97d6bbea835cbe9d7b77e9f2888ffcc63bd7d2ca3cf06f6b51c8f88d1a00de1500000000000000800000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000080020000                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:08] Work job_id 1372125325 14046 nonce2 02000000 ntime 51c8f88d                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:08] Generated target 00000000ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:08] Generated stratum work                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:08] Pushing work from pool 0 to hash queue                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:08] BFL 0: Got work from get queue to get work for thread 0                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:08] Generated stratum merkle 12cdc3da891a968f22036c792fa8e451bea3a70932cea1922e3eb2e233b5e99b                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:08] Generated stratum header 00000002699fc0f4fb42ba728d4910b87cee871de43d7872ec4b4c7f0000004a0000000012cdc3da891a968f22036c792fa8e451bea3a70932cea1922e3eb2e233b5e99b51c8f88d1a00de1500000000000000800000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000080020000                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:08] Work job_id 1372125325 14046 nonce2 03000000 ntime 51c8f88d                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:08] Generated target 00000000ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:08] Generated stratum work                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:08] Pushing work from pool 0 to hash queue                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:08] BFL 0: block data: d1b8456c78235e7196c016b98530745141b21f6483003d701c15dff2c35bded32b9c71a751c8f88d1a00de15                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:11] BFL 0: Popping work from get queue to get work                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:11] BFL 0: Got work from get queue to get work for thread 0                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:11] Generated stratum merkle 8ab5c32b660c682f65c8340e6e29249f89ebad18af7bb8f6484216e0afd293be                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:11] Generated stratum header 00000002699fc0f4fb42ba728d4910b87cee871de43d7872ec4b4c7f0000004a000000008ab5c32b660c682f65c8340e6e29249f89ebad18af7bb8f6484216e0afd293be51c8f88d1a00de1500000000000000800000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000080020000                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:11] Work job_id 1372125325 14046 nonce2 04000000 ntime 51c8f88d                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:11] Generated target 00000000ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:11] Generated stratum work                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:11] Pushing work from pool 0 to hash queue                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:26] BFL 0: took 17823ms - longer than 7000ms                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:26] BFL 0: block data: 622f699a176b28d266f7f04ecb5d4ee078232da944d3b73e01b505334a9d08213cf06f6b51c8f88d1a00de15                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:26] [thread 0: 4294967295 hashes, 240075.1 khash/sec]                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:29] BFL 0: Popping work from get queue to get work                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:29] BFL 0: Got work from get queue to get work for thread 0                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:29] Generated stratum merkle e89d8fcf35190182d9dcf5a130df0d2058ac3080186e650a2c746641e86cee33                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:29] Generated stratum header 00000002699fc0f4fb42ba728d4910b87cee871de43d7872ec4b4c7f0000004a00000000e89d8fcf35190182d9dcf5a130df0d2058ac3080186e650a2c746641e86cee3351c8f88d1a00de1500000000000000800000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000080020000                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:29] Work job_id 1372125325 14046 nonce2 05000000 ntime 51c8f88d                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:29] Generated target 00000000ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:29] Generated stratum work                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:29] Pushing work from pool 0 to hash queue                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:44] BFL 0: took 17823ms - longer than 7000ms                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:44] BFL 0: block data: f5ccd8548f33c026b22a85f2c1bcf647bbb8951c7de9af5ba6264725345319c333b5e99b51c8f88d1a00de15                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:44] [thread 0: 4294967295 hashes, 240537.7 khash/sec]                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:46] BFL 0: Popping work from get queue to get work                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:46] BFL 0: Got work from get queue to get work for thread 0                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:46] Generated stratum merkle 1d987b20bf6dccd59dd868ef9b836255cb347ad9cbe2eb7bcd186d26b041eac8                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:46] Generated stratum header 00000002699fc0f4fb42ba728d4910b87cee871de43d7872ec4b4c7f0000004a000000001d987b20bf6dccd59dd868ef9b836255cb347ad9cbe2eb7bcd186d26b041eac851c8f88d1a00de1500000000000000800000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000080020000                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:46] Work job_id 1372125325 14046 nonce2 06000000 ntime 51c8f88d                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:46] Generated target 00000000ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:46] Generated stratum work                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:46] Pushing work from pool 0 to hash queue                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:51] Received stratum notify from pool 0 with job_id=1372125380 14047                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:51] Generated stratum merkle 8e7f01d60fe49a06adfde1cd231903e17ebac168fbb1c711ab12e92eabe58f74                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:51] Generated stratum header 00000002699fc0f4fb42ba728d4910b87cee871de43d7872ec4b4c7f0000004a000000008e7f01d60fe49a06adfde1cd231903e17ebac168fbb1c711ab12e92eabe58f7451c8f8c41a00de1500000000000000800000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000080020000                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:51] Work job_id 1372125380 14047 nonce2 07000000 ntime 51c8f8c4                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:51] Generated target 00000000ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:51] Work stale due to work update (01 != 02)                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:51] Discarded work                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:51] Work stale due to work update (01 != 02)                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:51] Discarded work                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:51] Discarded 2 stales that didn't match current hash                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:51] Stratum from pool 0 requested work update                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:51] Pool 0 is hiding block contents from us                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:51] Generated stratum merkle 2d25d0f757d5f5486c7cb7788d2abcb20c38ff94cdcc3ab5c4eea473decaa5cc                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:51] Generated stratum header 00000002699fc0f4fb42ba728d4910b87cee871de43d7872ec4b4c7f0000004a000000002d25d0f757d5f5486c7cb7788d2abcb20c38ff94cdcc3ab5c4eea473decaa5cc51c8f8c41a00de1500000000000000800000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000080020000                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:51] Work job_id 1372125380 14047 nonce2 08000000 ntime 51c8f8c4                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:51] Generated target 00000000ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:51] Generated stratum work                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:51] Pushing work from pool 0 to hash queue                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:51] Generated stratum merkle 91fdc0fc7696eee53480691a0787e365d132a8363287c7a42fc6857fd195e56f                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:51] Generated stratum header 00000002699fc0f4fb42ba728d4910b87cee871de43d7872ec4b4c7f0000004a0000000091fdc0fc7696eee53480691a0787e365d132a8363287c7a42fc6857fd195e56f51c8f8c41a00de1500000000000000800000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000080020000                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:51] Work job_id 1372125380 14047 nonce2 09000000 ntime 51c8f8c4                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:51] Generated target 00000000ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:51] Generated stratum work                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:51] Pushing work from pool 0 to hash queue                    
 [2013-06-24 20:56:51] Unknown stratum msg: {"result": null, "id": "txlist1372125380 14047", "error": [-3, "Method 'mining.get_transactions' not found", null]}                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:02] BFL 0: took 17823ms - longer than 7000ms                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:02] BFL 0: block data: f3ee7788f11489e3680fbf4685565b93d872b99aa5bba0d3c0c3f2c49a0b275cafd293be51c8f88d1a00de15                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:02] [thread 0: 4294967295 hashes, 240544.1 khash/sec]                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:02] BFL 0: Popping work from get queue to get work                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:02] BFL 0: Got work from get queue to get work for thread 0                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:02] Generated stratum merkle 8b5b650aed69a81b9d8c51ed5466848bf04d294b488ede078012acd97beaddf5                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:02] Generated stratum header 00000002699fc0f4fb42ba728d4910b87cee871de43d7872ec4b4c7f0000004a000000008b5b650aed69a81b9d8c51ed5466848bf04d294b488ede078012acd97beaddf551c8f8c41a00de1500000000000000800000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000080020000                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:02] Work job_id 1372125380 14047 nonce2 0a000000 ntime 51c8f8c4                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:02] Generated target 00000000ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:02] Generated stratum work                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:02] Pushing work from pool 0 to hash queue                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:20] BFL 0: took 17823ms - longer than 7000ms                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:20] BFL 0: block data: 7c7a6bbfa6d857b837a4ecba7f84cdcdf7205305711ee37e5f0e2661c6b475a6decaa5cc51c8f8c41a00de15                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:20] [thread 0: 4294967295 hashes, 240542.1 khash/sec]                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:20] Received stratum notify from pool 0 with job_id=1372125410 14048                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:20] Generated stratum merkle 154306e6d12cac8fdcb1e87ffee61a10118645f4833bf31cda7757e26f513183                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:20] Generated stratum header 00000002bb0bc24a2856a48afc18179443b60afd873d97dabbe6d9120000006700000000154306e6d12cac8fdcb1e87ffee61a10118645f4833bf31cda7757e26f51318351c8f8e21a00de1500000000000000800000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000080020000                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:20] Work job_id 1372125410 14048 nonce2 00000000 ntime 51c8f8e2                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:20] Generated target 00000000ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:20] Learned that block id bb0bc24a is height 243188                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:20] New block: ...bb0bc24a #243188 diff 19.3M (138.4Th/s)                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:20] Work stale due to block mismatch (f4c09f69 != 1 ? 4ac20bbb : 4ac20bbb)                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:20] Discarded work                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:20] Work stale due to block mismatch (f4c09f69 != 1 ? 4ac20bbb : 4ac20bbb)                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:20] Discarded work                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:20] Discarded 2 stales that didn't match current hash                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:20] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:20] BFL 0: Popping work from get queue to get work                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:20] Generated stratum merkle e3815ac8642026bdbbbd092515655843e77b08d89909b1eb1e8b9dbb5da51930                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:20] Generated stratum header 00000002bb0bc24a2856a48afc18179443b60afd873d97dabbe6d9120000006700000000e3815ac8642026bdbbbd092515655843e77b08d89909b1eb1e8b9dbb5da5193051c8f8e21a00de1500000000000000800000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000080020000                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:20] Work job_id 1372125410 14048 nonce2 01000000 ntime 51c8f8e2                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:20] Generated target 00000000ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:20] Generated stratum work                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:20] Pushing work from pool 0 to hash queue                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:20] Generated stratum merkle b7e9631820f1678326f908c70d9a3f0f54f022f14305352de8c2d06558f0521b                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:20] Generated stratum header 00000002bb0bc24a2856a48afc18179443b60afd873d97dabbe6d9120000006700000000b7e9631820f1678326f908c70d9a3f0f54f022f14305352de8c2d06558f0521b51c8f8e21a00de1500000000000000800000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000080020000                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:20] Work job_id 1372125410 14048 nonce2 02000000 ntime 51c8f8e2                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:20] Generated target 00000000ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:20] Generated stratum work                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:20] Pushing work from pool 0 to hash queue                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:20] BFL 0: Got work from get queue to get work for thread 0                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:20] Share stale due to block mismatch (f4c09f69 != 4ac20bbb)                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:20] Generated stratum merkle c3a9609506c8faf0fc56bb0614354120b58b2eeb8e59048eb1aaeb09bc788ad8                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:20] Generated stratum header 00000002bb0bc24a2856a48afc18179443b60afd873d97dabbe6d9120000006700000000c3a9609506c8faf0fc56bb0614354120b58b2eeb8e59048eb1aaeb09bc788ad851c8f8e21a00de1500000000000000800000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000080020000                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:20] Work job_id 1372125410 14048 nonce2 03000000 ntime 51c8f8e2                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:20] Generated target 00000000ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:20] Generated stratum work                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:20] Pushing work from pool 0 to hash queue                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:21] Received stratum notify from pool 0 with job_id=1372125411 14049                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:21] Generated stratum merkle 0675a043aef3798b5c63c8f2258e1ac63b31b654c0cbea889938ba242ee7a1fe                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:21] Generated stratum header 00000002bb0bc24a2856a48afc18179443b60afd873d97dabbe6d91200000067000000000675a043aef3798b5c63c8f2258e1ac63b31b654c0cbea889938ba242ee7a1fe51c8f8e31a00de1500000000000000800000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000080020000                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:21] Work job_id 1372125411 14049 nonce2 04000000 ntime 51c8f8e3                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:21] Generated target 00000000ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:21] Work stale due to work update (03 != 04)                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:21] Discarded work                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:21] Work stale due to work update (03 != 04)                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:21] Discarded work                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:21] Discarded 2 stales that didn't match current hash                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:21] Stratum from pool 0 requested work update                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:21] Generated stratum merkle b1815bd5c511b46fb0ff2806f010f1f67d7a311e4251571c40753c89f2e618c9                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:21] Generated stratum header 00000002bb0bc24a2856a48afc18179443b60afd873d97dabbe6d9120000006700000000b1815bd5c511b46fb0ff2806f010f1f67d7a311e4251571c40753c89f2e618c951c8f8e31a00de1500000000000000800000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000080020000                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:21] Work job_id 1372125411 14049 nonce2 05000000 ntime 51c8f8e3                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:21] Generated target 00000000ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:21] Generated stratum work                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:21] Pushing work from pool 0 to hash queue                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:21] Generated stratum merkle 1cee5b60dd25d61aa0e9b4f8c1b785f49021fbf54805da4660c9ec697efce0a4                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:21] Generated stratum header 00000002bb0bc24a2856a48afc18179443b60afd873d97dabbe6d91200000067000000001cee5b60dd25d61aa0e9b4f8c1b785f49021fbf54805da4660c9ec697efce0a451c8f8e31a00de1500000000000000800000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000080020000                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:21] Work job_id 1372125411 14049 nonce2 06000000 ntime 51c8f8e3                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:21] Generated target 00000000ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:21] Generated stratum work                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:21] Pushing work from pool 0 to hash queue                    
 [2013-06-24 20:57:21] Unknown stratum msg: {"result": null, "id": "txlist1372125411 14049", "error": [-3, "Method 'mining.get_transactions' not found", null]} 

When I killed bfgminer, it gave me the following summary:

Code:

[2013-06-24 20:58:41] Started at [2013-06-24 20:56:08]                    
 [2013-06-24 20:58:41] Pool: stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334                    
 [2013-06-24 20:58:41] Runtime: 0 hrs : 2 mins : 32 secs                    
 [2013-06-24 20:58:41] Average hashrate: 228.9 Megahash/s                    
 [2013-06-24 20:58:41] Solved blocks: 0                    
 [2013-06-24 20:58:41] Best share difficulty: 0                    
 [2013-06-24 20:58:41] Share submissions: 0                    
 [2013-06-24 20:58:41] Accepted shares: 0                    
 [2013-06-24 20:58:41] Rejected shares: 0 + 0 stale (nan%)                    
 [2013-06-24 20:58:41] Accepted difficulty shares: 0                    
 [2013-06-24 20:58:41] Rejected difficulty shares: 0                    
 [2013-06-24 20:58:41] Hardware errors: 8                    
 [2013-06-24 20:58:41] Efficiency (accepted shares * difficulty / 2 KB): 0.00                    
 [2013-06-24 20:58:41] Utility (accepted shares / min): 0.00/min
                    
 [2013-06-24 20:58:41] Unable to get work from server occasions: 0                    
 [2013-06-24 20:58:41] Work items generated locally: 25                    
 [2013-06-24 20:58:41] Submitting work remotely delay occasions: 0                    
 [2013-06-24 20:58:41] New blocks detected on network: 2
                    
 [2013-06-24 20:58:41] Summary of per device statistics:
                    
 [2013-06-24 20:58:41] BFL0  38.8C         | 5s:231.9 avg:228.9 u:  0.0 Mh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:8                    
 [2013-06-24 20:58:41]                      

228 Mh/s is definitely not coming from my GPU, but it's pretty measly for my miner.  (It's supposed to do ~700 Mh/s.)

All this makes me tempted to believe what a friend suggested to me: maybe I need to install different firmware.  This goes along with a topic from the BFL support forums where the problem was caused by using the Auto-Tune firmware.  Apparently, Auto-Tune doesn't always get it right.

[Epoch]

NEW VERSION 3.1.1, JUNE 22 2013
...

• Windows: Now compiled with debugging information and new backtrace.dll to print usable backtraces to stderr on crash.

Luke, I noticed that when 3.1.1. crashes on Win7, it does NOT bring up a Windows error dialog (i.e. "bgminer.exe has stopped working ... close or debug"). It just gracefully, silently, exits. Do you happen to know the reason for this?

This is actually great because I can now run it from a .bat file that has a loop; if it crashes, the .bat file just restarts it and all is well again. I no longer have to worry about losing a night's worth of mining when I get a crash during the night.

Can this 'non-interactive' crash behaviour be included in future releases as well? Or, at least enabled by a command-line switch? It is something that would be of benefit to many, I suspect.

[shawtux]

using rpc to get info... and the screen info does not match the data.
for example

the red text is nowhere to be found  

bfgminer info

5s: 1.58 avg: 1.38 u: 0.98 Gh/s | A:66 R:0+0(none) HW:1
 ST: 2  GF: 0  NB: 3  AS: 0  RF: 0  E: 4.63  U:13.6/m  BS:84
 Connected to stratum.bitcoin.cz diff 1 with stratum as user .........
 Block: ...5807321a #243356  Diff:19.3M (138.4Th/s)  Started: [22:57:46]



rpc call

{u'STATUS': [{u'STATUS': u'S', u'Msg': u'Summary', u'Code': 11, u'When': 1372215556, u'Description': u'bfgminer 3.1.1'}], u'id': 1, u'SUMMARY': [{u'Get Failures': 0, u'Getworks': 10, u'Network Blocks': 3, u'Difficulty Accepted': 73.00111391, u'Total MH': 435713.7822, u'Found Blocks': 0, u'Work Utility': 14.29, u'Rejected': 0, u'Elapsed': 311, u'Discarded': 16, u'Best Share': 84, u'Hardware Errors': 1, u'Difficulty Rejected': 0.0, u'Difficulty Stale': 0.0, u'Stale': 0, u'Accepted': 73, u'Remote Failures': 0, u'MHS av': 1402.319, u'Local Work': 381, u'Utility': 14.097}]}




is there something wrong?


edit:
dont know what happened but now works ok. it used to say something around total mh in the 1.4G while my HW only did 800M

edit2:
yup its back.

-
 5s: 1.59 avg: 1.38 u: 0.87 Gh/s | A:227 R:0+0(none) HW:9
 ST: 2  GF: 0  NB: 4  AS: 0  RF: 0  E: 5.07  U:12.2/m  BS:885
 Connected to stratum.bitcoin.cz diff 1 with stratum as user .....
 Block: ...2b10767c #243357  Diff:19.3M (138.4Th/s)  Started: [23:03:05]




{u'STATUS': [{u'STATUS': u'S', u'Msg': u'Summary', u'Code': 11, u'When': 1372216378, u'Description': u'bfgminer 3.1.1'}], u'id': 1, u'SUMMARY': [{u'Get Failures': 0, u'Getworks': 26, u'Network Blocks': 4, u'Difficulty Accepted': 229.00349432, u'Total MH': 1576759.9232, u'Found Blocks': 0, u'Work Utility': 12.578, u'Rejected': 0, u'Elapsed': 1135, u'Discarded': 48, u'Best Share': 885, u'Hardware Errors': 9, u'Difficulty Rejected': 0.0, u'Difficulty Stale': 0.0, u'Stale': 0, u'Accepted': 229, u'Remote Failures': 0, u'MHS av': 1388.861, u'Local Work': 1267, u'Utility': 12.103}]}

edit 3:
so it seems that in rpc call i cant get the red text in an easy way. would seem to need instead of summary command the stat command and add each one up.

[A_Member]

Thanks Luke-Jr for your help.  With your advice and some tinkering, I succeeded in getting my single working.  I set it up with a windows virtual machine and the easyminer program, and it got ~250 Mh/s just like on bfgminer.  If I looked at the log, I could see it was spitting out lots of errors just like before.  I ran a diagnostic and it said, "Unknown error.  Device did not return any nonces!"  Next I tried installing the auto-tune driver, and it tuned it up about 870 Mh/s.  I switched back to bfgminer on my mac and at first I got 900 Mh/s!  It stabilized right around 870 Mh/s again.

Although the problem really wasn't with bfgimer, all the suggestions kept me going to find the answer on my own.

[gmannn]

NEW VERSION 3.1.1, JUNE 22 2013
...

• Windows: Now compiled with debugging information and new backtrace.dll to print usable backtraces to stderr on crash.

Luke, I noticed that when 3.1.1. crashes on Win7, it does NOT bring up a Windows error dialog (i.e. "bgminer.exe has stopped working ... close or debug"). It just gracefully, silently, exits. Do you happen to know the reason for this?

This is actually great because I can now run it from a .bat file that has a loop; if it crashes, the .bat file just restarts it and all is well again. I no longer have to worry about losing a night's worth of mining when I get a crash during the night.

Can this 'non-interactive' crash behaviour be included in future releases as well? Or, at least enabled by a command-line switch? It is something that would be of benefit to many, I suspect.

Can you share your looped batch file?  the best i could do was to run a batch file under scheduled tasks, and the script checks if bfgminer.exe is running or not.

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Can you share your looped batch file?  the best i could do was to run a batch file under scheduled tasks, and the script checks if bfgminer.exe is running or not.

Since I've received a lot of interest in this over the past few days, a 'looped .bat file' can be created like this (obviously edit your bfgminer parameters to be whatever you need them to be for your own specific case):

Code:

cd bfgminer-3.1.1-win32

:loop

bfgminer ^
-o http://pool1.com:3333 -u user1 -p pass1 ^
-o http://pool2.com:3333 -u user2 -p pass2 ^
-o http://pool3.com:3333 -u user3 -p pass3 ^
--disable-gpu --no-submit-stale ^
-S all

waitfor /t 10 dummy

goto loop

The 'waitfor' command may not be necessary but it doesn't hurt to give the hardware (BFL Singles in my case) some time to clear off any work they were still chewing on when the crash occured.

I've had reports of the Windows error dialog still coming up for some people. If it does, and you want to prevent it from appearing (so that your 'looped .bat file' can run unimpeded), follow these steps:

Open regedit.exe (type it in the Start Menu or launch through Task Manager)
Navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting
Right-click on Windows Error Reporting, go to New and select DWORD (32-bit) Value
Give it the name DontShowUI (exactly as written)
Open it (double-click) and in the field “Value data” type in the number 1

You’re done. You may need to reboot your PC for this to take effect. No more “Has stopped working” dialogs should appear. And, if you decide to turn them back on, just change the value of DontShowUI to the number 0, or just delete DontShowUI.