[ANN][SLR] SolarCoin | PoW to PoS v. 2.0 | Solar Proof of Generation (§1 = 1MWh)

[solarcoiner]

Tried sending slr to bittrex and although the wallet is supposedly up and running it doesnt seem to be showing.

Anyone know whats up?

Please hold off sending any SLR until the syncing issues are resolved. Thanks!

I am fully synced and on the correct fork, any ideas or is it just a case of wait and it will all resolve itself?

If you're fully synced and on the correct chain then your coins aren't lost. Its probably a problem with bittrex's wallet. They will appear in your account once they fix the problem with their wallet

[Scalextrix]

I seem to be back on the long chain again, so far so good

[solarcoiner]

I seem to be back on the long chain again, so far so good

Just installed the new update and reloading blockchain. I will post the results

[onsightit]

I seem to be back on the long chain again, so far so good

Just installed the new update and reloading blockchain. I will post the results

2.1.7.1 is ready to go.  Help->Check for Update, then let me know if you are still having issues.  Thanks, again, everyone.

-Steve

[solarcoiner]

I seem to be back on the long chain again, so far so good

Just installed the new update and reloading blockchain. I will post the results

2.1.7.1 is ready to go.  Help->Check for Update, then let me know if you are still having issues.  Thanks, again, everyone.

-Steve

I'm currently doing a completely fresh install. Will let everyone know once it's done and staking

[nickgogerty]

I seem to be back on the long chain again, so far so good

Just installed the new update and reloading blockchain. I will post the results

2.1.7.1 is ready to go.  Help->Check for Update, then let me know if you are still having issues.  Thanks, again, everyone.

-Steve

I'm currently doing a completely fresh install. Will let everyone know once it's done and staking

just updated. node is now 2.1.7.1 20 connections, staking, blockheight matches and in sync with explorer.  Thanks Steve.

[y_virtual]

I seem to be back on the long chain again, so far so good

Just installed the new update and reloading blockchain. I will post the results

2.1.7.1 is ready to go.  Help->Check for Update, then let me know if you are still having issues.  Thanks, again, everyone.

-Steve

Now it doesn't even try to catch up - it's In Sync right after downloading the bootstrap. I will post a screenshot and a text file with the getpeerinfo. I am connecting from a cellular IP (random within the provider's range).

EDIT: will repeat the bootstrap download, just to be sure it got right.
EDIT2: Now it works! This time it did sync up to the current Explorer block height, and keeps on syncing. Will now go on to upgrade all wallets.
Thank you Steve!

[onsightit]

I seem to be back on the long chain again, so far so good

Just installed the new update and reloading blockchain. I will post the results

2.1.7.1 is ready to go.  Help->Check for Update, then let me know if you are still having issues.  Thanks, again, everyone.

-Steve

Now it doesn't even try to catch up - it's In Sync right after downloading the bootstrap. I will post a screenshot and a text file with the getpeerinfo. I am connecting from a cellular IP (random within the provider's range).

EDIT: will repeat the bootstrap download, just to be sure it got right.
EDIT2: Now it works! This time it did sync up to the current Explorer block height, and keeps on syncing. Will now go on to upgrade all wallets.
Thank you Steve!

Yeah, I created a fresh bootstrap.zip from the master node about an hour ago so you would be almost in sync after bootstrapping.

EDIT: I'm doing some post mortum, and even have a node syncing from the genesis block. That will take a while, but I'll post anything that comes up.

EDIT2: Thanks for the tip, whoever that was.

[corather]

I seem to be back on the long chain again, so far so good

Just installed the new update and reloading blockchain. I will post the results

2.1.7.1 is ready to go.  Help->Check for Update, then let me know if you are still having issues.  Thanks, again, everyone.

-Steve

Now it doesn't even try to catch up - it's In Sync right after downloading the bootstrap. I will post a screenshot and a text file with the getpeerinfo. I am connecting from a cellular IP (random within the provider's range).

EDIT: will repeat the bootstrap download, just to be sure it got right.
EDIT2: Now it works! This time it did sync up to the current Explorer block height, and keeps on syncing. Will now go on to upgrade all wallets.
Thank you Steve!

Yeah, I created a fresh bootstrap.zip from the master node about an hour ago so you would be almost in sync after bootstrapping.

EDIT: I'm doing some post mortum, and even have a node syncing from the genesis block. That will take a while, but I'll post anything that comes up.

Just sent you a 100 SLR tip Steve, thank you for your dedication.

[solarcoiner]

I seem to be back on the long chain again, so far so good

Just installed the new update and reloading blockchain. I will post the results

2.1.7.1 is ready to go.  Help->Check for Update, then let me know if you are still having issues.  Thanks, again, everyone.

-Steve

Now it doesn't even try to catch up - it's In Sync right after downloading the bootstrap. I will post a screenshot and a text file with the getpeerinfo. I am connecting from a cellular IP (random within the provider's range).

EDIT: will repeat the bootstrap download, just to be sure it got right.
EDIT2: Now it works! This time it did sync up to the current Explorer block height, and keeps on syncing. Will now go on to upgrade all wallets.
Thank you Steve!

Yeah, I created a fresh bootstrap.zip from the master node about an hour ago so you would be almost in sync after bootstrapping.

EDIT: I'm doing some post mortum, and even have a node syncing from the genesis block. That will take a while, but I'll post anything that comes up.

Just sent you a 100 SLR tip Steve, thank you for your dedication.

Just reloaded and its still not working. This is starting to piss me off. 4 days of my time wasted.

[solarcoiner]

I seem to be back on the long chain again, so far so good

Just installed the new update and reloading blockchain. I will post the results

2.1.7.1 is ready to go.  Help->Check for Update, then let me know if you are still having issues.  Thanks, again, everyone.

-Steve

Now it doesn't even try to catch up - it's In Sync right after downloading the bootstrap. I will post a screenshot and a text file with the getpeerinfo. I am connecting from a cellular IP (random within the provider's range).

EDIT: will repeat the bootstrap download, just to be sure it got right.
EDIT2: Now it works! This time it did sync up to the current Explorer block height, and keeps on syncing. Will now go on to upgrade all wallets.
Thank you Steve!

Mine wont sync although it says in sync. Im missing about 20 blocks.

[y_virtual]

I seem to be back on the long chain again, so far so good

Just installed the new update and reloading blockchain. I will post the results

2.1.7.1 is ready to go.  Help->Check for Update, then let me know if you are still having issues.  Thanks, again, everyone.

-Steve

Now it doesn't even try to catch up - it's In Sync right after downloading the bootstrap. I will post a screenshot and a text file with the getpeerinfo. I am connecting from a cellular IP (random within the provider's range).

EDIT: will repeat the bootstrap download, just to be sure it got right.
EDIT2: Now it works! This time it did sync up to the current Explorer block height, and keeps on syncing. Will now go on to upgrade all wallets.
Thank you Steve!

Mine wont sync although it says in sync. Im missing about 20 blocks.

When I got back from the cellular IP to my regular LAN/WAN setup, syncing stopped altogether - it does say "In Sync" (with a new empty wallet) and would apparently start staking with a non-empty wallet. As per Steve, my regular IP may have been banned for up to 24 hours, but shouldn't it be trying to sync during the ban, instead of staying In Sync and staking at the wrong block height? This time I need to post a snapshot - back here in a few minutes.

EDIT: uploading snapshot and getpeerinfo.txt, will post links in next edit. In this case it synced up to the lowest (as of the connection time) block height of all current connections. Or may be it has been doing exactly so in my previous observations, too? In any case, it's not (even trying to) syncing to the highest current block height.
EDIT2:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/b0my1o5ots6wcll/NotUpToDateButInSync.png?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xgmpb3srp8flfkk/getpeerinfo.txt?dl=0

btw looks like there is already a fork from 1456166 on... it's now at 1456176

[onsightit]

I seem to be back on the long chain again, so far so good

Just installed the new update and reloading blockchain. I will post the results

2.1.7.1 is ready to go.  Help->Check for Update, then let me know if you are still having issues.  Thanks, again, everyone.

-Steve

Now it doesn't even try to catch up - it's In Sync right after downloading the bootstrap. I will post a screenshot and a text file with the getpeerinfo. I am connecting from a cellular IP (random within the provider's range).

EDIT: will repeat the bootstrap download, just to be sure it got right.
EDIT2: Now it works! This time it did sync up to the current Explorer block height, and keeps on syncing. Will now go on to upgrade all wallets.
Thank you Steve!

Mine wont sync although it says in sync. Im missing about 20 blocks.

When I got back from the cellular IP to my regular LAN/WAN setup, syncing stopped altogether - it does say "In Sync" (with a new empty wallet) and would apparently start staking with a non-empty wallet. As per Steve, my regular IP may have been banned for up to 24 hours, but shouldn't it be trying to sync during the ban, instead of staying In Sync and staking at the wrong block height? This time I need to post a snapshot - back here in a few minutes.

Let me delete the peers.dat on the master node and see if that helps some of you that may be banned.  I'll edit this post when done...

EDIT: Done.

solarcoiner, can you PM me your debug.log file?

[y_virtual]

I seem to be back on the long chain again, so far so good

Just installed the new update and reloading blockchain. I will post the results

2.1.7.1 is ready to go.  Help->Check for Update, then let me know if you are still having issues.  Thanks, again, everyone.

-Steve

Now it doesn't even try to catch up - it's In Sync right after downloading the bootstrap. I will post a screenshot and a text file with the getpeerinfo. I am connecting from a cellular IP (random within the provider's range).

EDIT: will repeat the bootstrap download, just to be sure it got right.
EDIT2: Now it works! This time it did sync up to the current Explorer block height, and keeps on syncing. Will now go on to upgrade all wallets.
Thank you Steve!

Mine wont sync although it says in sync. Im missing about 20 blocks.

When I got back from the cellular IP to my regular LAN/WAN setup, syncing stopped altogether - it does say "In Sync" (with a new empty wallet) and would apparently start staking with a non-empty wallet. As per Steve, my regular IP may have been banned for up to 24 hours, but shouldn't it be trying to sync during the ban, instead of staying In Sync and staking at the wrong block height? This time I need to post a snapshot - back here in a few minutes.

Let me delete the peers.dat on the master node and see if that helps some of you that may be banned.  I'll edit this post when done...

EDIT: Done.

solarcoiner, can you PM me your debug.log file?

OK, I will try it now, but this current logic would still leave the possibility for any IP that gets banned to fork since it will stay In Sync & Staking instead of just hanging in a Syncing state until the ban expires. Or may be that would't be an issue later on? Still the possibility remains that anyone newly connected and syncing will have the (bad) chance to sync to a banned IP and join that fork.

EDIT: Just re-loaded the blockchain from the bootstrap, synced to 1456166... took it a while waiting for 94 more blocks, but eventually decided it's In Sync at 1456166.

[onsightit]

I seem to be back on the long chain again, so far so good

Just installed the new update and reloading blockchain. I will post the results

2.1.7.1 is ready to go.  Help->Check for Update, then let me know if you are still having issues.  Thanks, again, everyone.

-Steve

Now it doesn't even try to catch up - it's In Sync right after downloading the bootstrap. I will post a screenshot and a text file with the getpeerinfo. I am connecting from a cellular IP (random within the provider's range).

EDIT: will repeat the bootstrap download, just to be sure it got right.
EDIT2: Now it works! This time it did sync up to the current Explorer block height, and keeps on syncing. Will now go on to upgrade all wallets.
Thank you Steve!

Mine wont sync although it says in sync. Im missing about 20 blocks.

When I got back from the cellular IP to my regular LAN/WAN setup, syncing stopped altogether - it does say "In Sync" (with a new empty wallet) and would apparently start staking with a non-empty wallet. As per Steve, my regular IP may have been banned for up to 24 hours, but shouldn't it be trying to sync during the ban, instead of staying In Sync and staking at the wrong block height? This time I need to post a snapshot - back here in a few minutes.

Let me delete the peers.dat on the master node and see if that helps some of you that may be banned.  I'll edit this post when done...

EDIT: Done.

solarcoiner, can you PM me your debug.log file?

OK, I will try it now, but this current logic would still leave the possibility for any IP that gets banned to fork since it will stay In Sync & Staking instead of just hanging in a Syncing state until the ban expires. Or may be that would't be an issue later on? Still the possibility remains that anyone newly connected and syncing will have the (bad) chance to sync to a banned IP and join that fork.

EDIT: Just re-loaded the blockchain from the bootstrap, synced to 1456166... took it a while waiting for 94 more blocks, but eventually decided it's In Sync at 1456166.

While I am currently researching the problem (I believe there are still too many forked 2.1.7 nodes, even though 2.1.1 is being successfully blocked), could everyone that is not on the block displayed by CryptoID do the following:

1. Shutdown your wallet.
2. Delete peers.dat.
3. Verify that solarcoin.conf only has the master node: addnode=162.243.214.120
4. Restart the wallet.
5. Reload the Blockchain.

I have just created a fresh bootstrap from the master node.  The reason you stop several blocks short of the longest chain is because the fork you are on is not generating blocks, or doing so slowly.  If you can get past that chain, you should be good.

-Steve

EDIT: 2.1.7 still outnumbers 2.1.7.1 almost 5 to 1, so we need to get more nodes to update.

[solarcoiner]

I'm done for tonight. Already shut down my PC. Unfortunately I need to get up early tomorrow.
I have tried everything I can like 5x already. On top of that it takes twice as long on the intel pc stick so it's really annoying to have to uninstall/install the Wallet and delete/download the blockchain...
The Wallet won't even let me reload the blockchain from the bootstrap now for some reason.

When I have time tomorrow I will try again and I will PM you my debog.log file.

Thank you for your efforts

[onsightit]

I'm done for tonight. Already shut down my PC. Unfortunately I need to get up early tomorrow.
I have tried everything I can like 5x already. On top of that it takes twice as long on the intel pc stick so it's really annoying to have to uninstall/install the Wallet and delete/download the blockchain...
The Wallet won't even let me reload the blockchain from the bootstrap now for some reason.

When I have time tomorrow I will try again and I will PM you my debog.log file.

Thank you for your efforts

Thanks for hanging in there.   No need to reinstall, just stop, delete peers.dat, restart, and reload blockchain.

But if you don't mind, please shutdown your wallet if it is forked. Thanks.

PS: You may have been trying to reload the blockchain while it was being created.

[solarcoiner]

I'm done for tonight. Already shut down my PC. Unfortunately I need to get up early tomorrow.
I have tried everything I can like 5x already. On top of that it takes twice as long on the intel pc stick so it's really annoying to have to uninstall/install the Wallet and delete/download the blockchain...
The Wallet won't even let me reload the blockchain from the bootstrap now for some reason.

When I have time tomorrow I will try again and I will PM you my debog.log file.

Thank you for your efforts

Thanks for hanging in there.   No need to reinstall, just stop, delete peers.dat, restart, and reload blockchain.

But if you don't mind, please shutdown your wallet if it is forked. Thanks.

PS: You may have been trying to reload the blockchain while it was being created.

Giving it one last try right now since I was probably trying to reload while you updated the bootstrap like you said. I deleted all the blockchain data and its reloading now. If it doesn't work I will obviously shut it off before I got to sleep.

Thanks for the effort and hope to get this resolved soon

Edit: Just one last question:

For some reason I try to reload from the bootstrap and the window just randomly disappears so now it's loading from scratch... Can I let it load like this or do I need the bootstrap? (I only have the master node in my config file)

 

[onsightit]

I'm done for tonight. Already shut down my PC. Unfortunately I need to get up early tomorrow.
I have tried everything I can like 5x already. On top of that it takes twice as long on the intel pc stick so it's really annoying to have to uninstall/install the Wallet and delete/download the blockchain...
The Wallet won't even let me reload the blockchain from the bootstrap now for some reason.

When I have time tomorrow I will try again and I will PM you my debog.log file.

Thank you for your efforts

Thanks for hanging in there.   No need to reinstall, just stop, delete peers.dat, restart, and reload blockchain.

But if you don't mind, please shutdown your wallet if it is forked. Thanks.

PS: You may have been trying to reload the blockchain while it was being created.

Giving it one last try right now since I was probably trying to reload while you updated the bootstrap like you said. I deleted all the blockchain data and its reloading now. If it doesn't work I will obviously shut it off before I got to sleep.

Thanks for the effort and hope to get this resolved soon

Edit: Just one last question:

For some reason I try to reload from the bootstrap and the window just randomly disappears so now it's loading from scratch... Can I let it load like this or do I need the bootstrap? (I only have the master node in my config file)

 

Sometimes, if the PC is under load, it appears that the window just suddenly disappears without completing the extraction, but the wallet should restart fine.

[solarcoiner]

My wallet doesnt seem to be updating with new blocks. When i scroll over the icon at the bottom right it says : xxxxx bocks downloaded out of 1456310 (But new blocks are rolling in on the block explorer). My wallet is still syncing but it doesn't seem to update with the blockchain. It basically says that the block height is at 1456310 and its not updating

Edit: It just updated to 1456312
Can anyone confirm that this is the correct chain?