[4+ EH] Slush Pool (slushpool.com); Overt AsicBoost; World First Mining Pool

[BinoX]

I don't really know python, but after having a look through the source code and following it through to the point at which the error occurs it seems to be a problem with submitting a found result... But it does appear to keep looking even though it doesn't seem able to send them. Which is why the computers still seem to be busy.

[slush]

I don't have an idea why GUI miner is failing, but the bug appear also on other pools and I didn't modified pool core in last few days. I think it is something strange in gui miner...

[notmove]

Happened to me too right now, i changed over to phoenix works well

[[Tycho]]

I got some user reports about this too.
At my end it looks just like poclbm suddenly stops submitting any shares.

Very sad to hear, poclbm was the best miner ever...

[BinoX]

Maybe it'll magically work again tomorrow?

[[Tycho]]

Maybe it'll magically work again tomorrow?

I was even suspecting some http-related library was automatically updated by Windows.
Or some updated antivirus software...

[BinoX]

I was even suspecting some http-related library was automatically updated by Windows.
Or some updated antivirus software...

One of my systems that isn't working with guiminer doesn't have anti-virus or any windows updating stuff on it.

If I get the time I'll have a play with it tomorrow and see if I can work out what's broken in it... It must be something that happens at initialization because I have one machine here that's still happily running with guiminer using poclbm that's been going for over a week (and is still submitting shares as I type this)

[Patrick||Rodgers]

problems on 2 separate Ubuntu 10.04 boxes.          one updated 2 weeks, ago one updated today

-poclbm breaks after stopping and restarting miners.
-Problem occurs on all pools
- miners that were not restarted are working fine so far



one month old poclbm error message

Exception in thread Thread-2:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 552, in __bootstrap_inner
    self.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 505, in run
    self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
  File "/home/xxxx/poclbm/HttpTransport.py", line 164, in long_poll_thread
    self.queue_work(result['result'])
  File "/home/xxxx/poclbm/Transport.py", line 117, in queue_work
    self.process(work)
  File "/home/xxxx/poclbm/Transport.py", line 76, in process
    self.set_difficulty(work.difficulty)
  File "/home/xxxx/poclbm/Transport.py", line 71, in set_difficulty
    self.true_target = np.array(unpack('IIIIIIII', true_target.decode('hex')), dtype=np.uint32)
error: unpack requires a string argument of length 32



most recent poclbm

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/xxxx/poclbm/HttpTransport.py", line 51, in loop_internal
    rv = self.send(result)
  File "/home/xxxx/poclbm/Transport.py", line 115, in send
    is_block = belowOrEquals(h[:7], self.true_target[:7])
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not subscriptable



phoenix miner works correctly (run w/ phatk2)

[bitcool]

Hmmm, I thought it was caused by Windows Update, but Ubuntu?

One out of my 3 Win7 has the error.

Is the pool server a Windows server?

[cbeast]

The failure of GUIminer has forced me to switch to CGminer. That works fine, it's just ugly.

[kkurtmann]

so far no problems with my GUIMiner on win7 64 and two other winxp pro 32
GUIMiner v2011-07-01

[disclaimer201]

Same mistake with some miners over here. No updates were installed. What else has changed these past few days that could have an effect on guiminer? Some machines I will not be able to check up on for 2 weeks. So, if the problem continues, my hashrate will go down and stay down. Damn. And thank you for your tips considering solo mining. But 7 months is quite a long time sample I would say. Can't say that it was in the beginning only. In fact, I didn't find any blocks for the first 4 months. I will watch closely for the next few months, but my guess is I will have found considerably more blocks than being paid for.

[Portnoy]

so far no problems with my GUIMiner on win7 64 and two other winxp pro 32
GUIMiner v2011-07-01

GUIMiner wasn't working for me on win7 64. I switched back to v2011-07-01 and now it is. But my hash rate has dropped from ~440 down to ~422, so I hope someone finds a fix for the latest version of GUIMiner.  

[tinman951]

6+ hours.
Are we that unlucky.  It has been a bad day with several 3+ hour blocks.

[allinvain]

Yeah tell me about it..7 hours  That has got to be the longest round evah! :p

[tinman951]

Yeah tell me about it..7 hours  That has got to be the longest round evah! :p

After the DDoS attack there was a 16 hour round. I've seen some other long ones during normal unlucky days.

[Clipse]

Longest round on any pool Ive noticed was on deepbit and it was 21million shares.

[naypalm]

Yeah tell me about it..7 hours  That has got to be the longest round evah! :p

It Seems to be going along fine now

[slush]

Yeah tell me about it..7 hours  That has got to be the longest round evah! :p

Longest round on the pool was 12+mil shares, so we (fortunately) didn't make the record today :-)

[digital]

Man, it sure is nice to see that percentage going back up again...