[Minera v0.9.1] Your next mining dashboard - Antminer/CPUminer/CGminer/BFGminer

[pictsidhe]

My minera installation has developed some serious problems overnight after only a few days

the minerd process had hanged while working on Michelle's pool, maybe that silly difficulty (still 16) crashed something, I'm up to 66MH on this rig now, it was struggling with 44MH the other night. I'm not inclined to let it mine there in future. I'm happy to donate, but not if it trashes my system

I can't log into the web gui, I've tried resetting the pass word with
sudo redis-cli set minera_password <yournewpass>
but no luck

I've rebooted it, but the web gui is still inaccessible. screen and cpuminer have started up, but I can't detach the screen with ctrl AD now. looks like a new image is needed.
still have plenty of disk space left, load average is ~0.4, low for 32 devices with this, no doubt due the webgui not running. If you want some logs, let me know which. I'm not sure how to delete Michelles pool and timer without the webgui so I'll just wipe the whole thing before bed tonight.

I need something that doesn't crash as this will be left unattended in a month for 3 months. GUI frills are just a nice bonus. It's hashing atm so I'll leave it while setting up other rigs.

[giantkin]

Someone earlier said something simliar...

Minera was working ok (fnally) got the settings ok.

Shut it off for the night, start up in morning....   alot of errors, again. 

i go back to the notebook running cgminer 3.1.1 curses version.

(gaw falcon)

i try it again tonight, the donation pool takes over,   repeats itself 20 times.

i delte em all, put in the one i want, before i finish, scrren line flashes, and donation ppol shows up.


i figure corruption...

i ro do the sd card. 

it does the same thing.



just not meant to use a raspberry pi i guess.

g

[pictsidhe]

Someone earlier said something simliar...

Minera was working ok (fnally) got the settings ok.

Shut it off for the night, start up in morning....   alot of errors, again. 

i go back to the notebook running cgminer 3.1.1 curses version.

(gaw falcon)

i try it again tonight, the donation pool takes over,   repeats itself 20 times.

i delete em all, put in the one i want, before i finish, scrren line flashes, and donation ppol shows up.


i figure corruption...

i ro do the sd card. 

it does the same thing.



just not meant to use a raspberry pi i guess.

g

Not all sd cards work well with Pis, I've found that Transcend ones work for me, I've not even had one die yet, either. I won't touch sandisk anymore and kingston are hit and miss, some are fine, some are not.
pulling the power is a good way to trash a sd card in pi, try your best to shut them down cleanly.
The donation pool is low difficulty, that's a problem for anyone with more than a few MH/s. I watched a 44MH rig choke on it the other night, it only earned 1% of what it would have done on my main pool, the next night, upped to 65MH/s, it crashed while mining the donation pool and managed to break the web server. I dunno why Michelle doesn't fix that, she's losing a lot of coin leaving it with a rig overloading difficulty, it just doesn't work on a multi MH rig. I've cleaned the donation pool out and shouldn't have any more problems. I had some usb hub weirdness, but that's fixed now.

I have another pi with  a barebones rasbian install plus sandors cpuminer that's happily run 2 dozen gridseed minis for months without crashing or stopping, so Pis can do the job, with the right software. Or maybe just without the wrong software I'm testing a 65MH/s underclocked 14 gridseed rig atm, seems ok if kept away from low difficulty pools, if that works ok, there's more that size to convert to minera

[Flep182]

Maybe make 3 donation pool options with different difficulty which you can select based on your rig.

(or the system chooses the safest one based on reported speed)

In MinePeon there is no donationpool visible at all, it just switches to it for the chosen amount of minutes per day. Is it possible to make that too for Minera?

[Flep182]

I've just added my rig to miningrigrentals.com. Had to use this trick to get it working as it needs some special port to work.

Does anybody who's with Minera on MRR have experienced any problems over time? Or was everything working smoothly after adding the right port?

[Count_Frackula]

I've just added my rig to miningrigrentals.com. Had to use this trick to get it working as it needs some special port to work.

Does anybody who's with Minera on MRR have experienced any problems over time? Or was everything working smoothly after adding the right port?

I had the same issue getting it working and gave up and went to BFGminer with my blade, only to find that BFGminer didn't run as smoothly as CPUminer, and had performance issues.  Went back to CPUminer and skipped MRR.

[bones]

Hi, looking for a little help getting my blades to work.
I was using a pc but cgminer kept crashing so bought a rasp pi B+.
Ive installed the image and can ssh into the pi.
I have put in my pool details and left the miner as cpu miner, but my blades will not hash.

Maybe something simple I am missing, never used minera before.
Any help greatly appreciated.  TIA.

May be important , not sure, as pi boots, get alot of messages saying....

warning: inet_protocols: disabling ipv6 name/add support: add family not supported by protocol

and

warning: /etc/postfix/main.cf unused parameter: inet_protocol=ipv4

[chadwickx16]

I've just added my rig to miningrigrentals.com. Had to use this trick to get it working as it needs some special port to work.

Does anybody who's with Minera on MRR have experienced any problems over time? Or was everything working smoothly after adding the right port?

You will be fine over time, unless you stop using MRR for a period of 24+hours, then you will need to repeat the steps.

[zdaz14]

I'm getting a second Fury Monday. I can just plug into my RPi, reset Minera, and it'll then have my two miners running on there right?

Is there a way to run two Mineras at once on the same RPi? I have someone renting who prefers to mine with 1.3 Mh each miners instead of 2.6 at a time.

Mostly curious

[Axiste]

you can run multiple miner instances on it, but only one will be shown by minera dashboard. Setup the first using minera dashboard as usual, the second you have to start as command line in the rc.local box on the settings page.

[compumine]

Hey guys,

My minerd is not running!!  I tried to reboot, shutdown and restart the miners, changed pools, same thing.

Can anyone suggest something please?

[Axiste]

click on the little play button to see what the output is in the console window, it will probably show an error (like unknown option etc)

[Flep182]

I've just added my rig to miningrigrentals.com. Had to use this trick to get it working as it needs some special port to work.

Does anybody who's with Minera on MRR have experienced any problems over time? Or was everything working smoothly after adding the right port?

You will be fine over time, unless you stop using MRR for a period of 24+hours, then you will need to repeat the steps.

Thanks for that info. Because then it's not safe to leave it running with no control over it for longer than a day or so.

Michelem, is it possible to do something about that? Or is it just something in CPUminer?

[zdaz14]

Hey guys,

My minerd is not running!!  I tried to reboot, shutdown and restart the miners, changed pools, same thing.

Can anyone suggest something please?

Reinstall Minera. Thats the quickest fix to be honest. I've had it happen when changing things...just power it off, reinstall (copy/paste your settings else where to paste in after), and you'll be fixed in under 10 minutes.

[zdaz14]

you can run multiple miner instances on it, but only one will be shown by minera dashboard. Setup the first using minera dashboard as usual, the second you have to start as command line in the rc.local box on the settings page.

What would be the command to launch the second miner? I'm using cgminer right now (Dmax Zeus). Would I put it in the Extra options or the Startup Extra Commands?

[Trimegistus]

What would be the command to launch the second miner? I'm using cgminer right now (Dmax Zeus). Would I put it in the Extra options or the Startup Extra Commands?

This is an example taken from my rc.local file

Code:

sleep 5
su - minera -c "/usr/bin/screen -dmS cpuminer sudo /var/www/minera/minera-bin/minerd --gc3355=/dev/ttyACM0,/dev/ttyACM3 --gc3355-chips=40 --gc3355-timeout=120 --freq=820 --retries=1 -c /var/www/minera/conf/miner_conf.json"
sleep 20
su - minera -c "/usr/bin/screen -dmS cgminer sudo /var/www/minera/minera-bin/cgminer-dmaxl-zeus --usb 1:7,1:8 --retries=1 --scrypt --gridseed-options freq=825,chips=40 -c /var/www/minera/conf/miner_conf.json1"

It will start cpuminer with two blades and cgminer-zeus with other two but only cpuminer will be monitored by Minera.

[zdaz14]

What would be the command to launch the second miner? I'm using cgminer right now (Dmax Zeus). Would I put it in the Extra options or the Startup Extra Commands?

This is an example taken from my rc.local file

Code:

sleep 5
su - minera -c "/usr/bin/screen -dmS cpuminer sudo /var/www/minera/minera-bin/minerd --gc3355=/dev/ttyACM0,/dev/ttyACM3 --gc3355-chips=40 --gc3355-timeout=120 --freq=820 --retries=1 -c /var/www/minera/conf/miner_conf.json"
sleep 20
su - minera -c "/usr/bin/screen -dmS cgminer sudo /var/www/minera/minera-bin/cgminer-dmaxl-zeus --usb 1:7,1:8 --retries=1 --scrypt --gridseed-options freq=825,chips=40 -c /var/www/minera/conf/miner_conf.json1"

It will start cpuminer with two blades and cgminer-zeus with other two but only cpuminer will be monitored by Minera.

So if I have two Furys I would write this to activate the second? (With the first running natively in Minera. Or do I need to put that in the rc.local too?)

Code:

su - minera -c "/usr/bin/screen -dmS cgminer sudo /var/www/minera/minera-bin/cgminer-dmaxl-zeus --usb 1:7,1:8 --retries=1 --scrypt --fury-options freq=340,chips=6 -c /var/www/minera/conf/miner_conf.json1"

May I ask what the --usb command is for? I'll just have it plugged into the second USB slot on my RPi. Should I just change the --usb code to 1:2 then?

Thanks for the help by the way.

[Flep182]

Hey guys,

My minerd is not running!!  I tried to reboot, shutdown and restart the miners, changed pools, same thing.

Can anyone suggest something please?

I've had the same thing. Full reboot was the only option.

[Trimegistus]

May I ask what the --usb command is for? I'll just have it plugged into the second USB slot on my RPi. Should I just change the --usb code to 1:2 then?

Thanks for the help by the way.

The --usb option will allow you to add a parameter to select the devices to be used by your miner software. You have to test and see where your harware is connected.

Try this command:

Code:

lsusb

It will list your devices so that you can choose the ones to use with your software

[g_d]

Just wanted to say big THANKS to all the great people behind the Minera project. Since the last update (0.3.5) my RasPis  are ROCK SOLID. I have never seen them go for so long non-stop, without a single freeze or even a restart. Stable hash with my Zeus rig for almost a week now. Any previous version was nowhere near that good.

THANKS AGAIN! ONE HAPPY MINER HERE!