Topic: Gridcoin (GRC) - first coin utilizing BOINC - Official Thread - page 254. (Read 597505 times)

One other piece of info: I've been testing this new version for the last hour and mining seems to be working properly again; and also, TribalBob I think this fixes the sluggishness problem you experienced; that was related to the same issue (API talking to dead sockets causing a sluggishness in the UI).

Another known bug we'll be fixing ASAP:  If you make changes to the CgMiner configuration using gridcoin and press save, you have to re-export the settings with "Create New Instance" over again; we'll have to fix that; and you have to do it twice (the first time it closes cgminer - returns an error; second time works; redicules; will fix asap).  Just push it twice if you do that for now.

Rob H.

Have not heard from cryptsy yet (we were hoping to solve the syncing problems first; on that note, we haven't tested the newest version for a full day yet so let's hope this latest version solved it)
BUT, I did receive an e-mail this morning from https://www.coins-e.com/ saying they are considering us for their exchange!

Rob H.

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Hey Everyone,
I'm not able to respond yet to the other posts, but I did reproduce the guiminer issue and the cgminer issue; we haven't changed it to not close cgminer during an exit yet; but a major bug was discovered
where we were closing guiminer and cgminer during certain periods when the window handle lost focus; completely causing problems; I just put out an emergency fix for that issue; just type

UPGRADE

from the RPC console; it appears to be fixed....

Good luck,
Rob H.

If it helps, I have never used the project panel in the wallet and things have worked correctly.  Have you mined a block yet? If so, are you getting a payout above 5 GRC?

Please forgive my bumping this part of my earlier post. I'm still trying to make sense of the BOINC projects panel. I've found old tutorials, but they only show how to set up new BOINC project accounts (assuming that users are new to BOINC) and they refer only to project names hard-coded in the panel.

My situation differs somewhat. I've been using BOINC through BAM since 2009 and my projects were in place before I set up Gridcoin. I've found advice to add projects to the project panel but I've not found a way to do it. Also, the information I've seen advises replacing project IDs at each individual BOINC project home page with a Gridcoin payout addy. This seems onerous and would negate the advantage of dealing with BOINC projects through BAM. Does it really have to be like that or am I finding outdated advice?

In summary:

Is it necessary to use the project panel at all to mine Gridcoin and get credit for BOINC activity?

If so, is there an up-to-date tutorial link, especially one that shows how to enter pre-existing BOINC project data?

Is it really a requirement to enter a Gridcoin payout ID on each relevant BOINC project's home page? If so, explanation might make it a more palatable requirement.

Thanks - I'm getting there - I'm in the top 1% of BOINC users so I'd really like to help the Gridcoin effort.           

I'm sure you checked, but is the sync issue related to pool mining?  This morning, my wallet stopped syncing after 6 hours, I restarted and no sync, I used the rebuild block chain and it did sync,  I mined for about an hour and started getting found blocks that were credited to me (I have been pool mining and I checked the getpoolmining mode and it was true).  First time the miner has given me the coins after a sync issue.  Of course they disappeared after yet another resync.  But it got me to thinking that no one else has implemented an in client pool miner (that I know of) so maybe...
Anyway - great work on the coin.  Love the concept!  It even got me to get BOINC going after a year hiatus.  I even joined the gridcoin team at world community grid!

FYI
I have the latest version (v1.1.4.3-g71-prod)
I use GUIminer inside the client - I have never been able to get CG miner to work with my system (repeated tries with different coins)

Anyone having trouble using guiminer or cgminer within gridcoin: for cgminer: disable the restartwallet with "restartwallet=0" in the config file, after gridcoin starts and cgminer starts click on Show CgMiner for each one and let it run.   I did reproduce the issue where gridcoin is closing cgminer; we will fix this asap.

If you are having problems with the integrated miner, review "scrypt mining litecoin" and then configure and run the miner outside of gridcoin; it is a good learning experience to understand how to scrypt mine.

Rob H.

That seems to be the same for cgminer also. Gridcoin will close other instances of cgminer both when it starts up and when you shut it down. It's annoying at first, but easily worked around by starting Gridcoin first, then the other instances of cgminer and by remembering to restart the other instances if you want them but have to shut down Gridcoin for some reason.

Low priority fix request?       

Good eye! That will be it. Thanks.

Edit: Page 14 seems to be the one - settings needed for boincappfolder and boincdatafolder in the gridcoin.conf file https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.3770250

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it has something to do with the external miners because my external instance of cgminer is crashing every 10 - 15 minutes, I'm sure Rob will have it figured out in no time once he sees the thread.

People having issues with guiminer... do you have guiminer running inside the client or separately? I have it running inside the client's Mining Console and it hasn't given me a problem yet.

So if you're running it outside, do this to run it in the Mining Console. Just make a copy of your guiminer folder, and put it into your AppData\Roaming\Gridcoin folder and make sure its named guiminer.

If you're running it inside the client and it's giving you problems, have you tried executing it separately? I know when Gridcoin starts up, it closes any instances of guiminer already running but I think if you open guiminer while Gridcoin is already running it should be fine.

Do you have BOINC installed in the default location...? It sounds like your Gridcoin client is not communicating with the BOINC client.

If you have BOINC installed somewhere other than the default location you need to add the BOINC folder and BOINC data folder locations to your gridcoin.conf file.

I think someone mentioned the flags for that somewhere in the thread...

I installed the new version about 12 hours ago and it seems to be working normally. It shows only one active connection to the network now, which seems a bit, um, sparse. It reports 36141 blocks of history and updates regularly.

I am trying to understand the BOINC projects panel in the client display. It seems to come preloaded with the names of five projects, a couple of which I sometimes use but have not been accepting tasks from in recent months. The WCG is not among them, and it happens to be the project I spend all my BOINC time on recently. Anyway, is this list customizable, and if so are there instructions for it somewhere that I have overlooked?

Also - the display shows BOINC utilization 50, thread count 6 (sometimes 7) and average daily credits zero, which I think I understand from reading previous posts here. It also shows BOINC MD5 as MD5Error and BOINC Khps as zero, which I don't understand. After about one day of running, the wallet balances are zero - from other posts I got the impression it might have found a block or three at this early stage. I'm not sure whether to look for errors or just wait a while.

Thanks for any suggestions!

For the newest version:

1) Delete "c:\Program Files (x86)\Gridcoin"
2) Rename "%AppData\Roaming\Gridcoin" to "Gridcoin Orig"
3) Download the latest version
4) Install the latest version
5) Copy wallet.dat and gridcoin.conf from "Gridcoin Orig"
6) Run the program, if everything works, you may delete "Gridcoin Orig"

This is EXACTLY what I did to update and it is working just fine for me.

Kudos Rob!

Have you tried the other things already mentioned in this thread (i.e. forwarding the listening port, using the addnodes in your .conf)...?

Hello,

I installed the Gridcoin QT (5.79) and started, but it is not syncing with the network.
Any idea's?

Wow, Rob comes up with THE single most innovative alt-coin (perhaps even more innovative than Bitcoin itself IMHO) which is using a lot of BRAND NEW code (this is NOT a simple cut+paste clone) and all people can do is complain that there are a few bugs here and there or claim that he is simply trying to make himself some coin by just putting out another clone.

Understand this:

Rome was not built in a day. This coin has been out for just about a month and a half, it's bound to have some issues. At least we have a VERY active and VERY capable dev who is working on the situation.

Until YOU have sat at a command line painstakingly debugging code line by line for weeks at a time, you REALLY shouldn't complain.

We're all guilty, but it is getting crazy.  You even say tht beta coin is worth a go. The post after yours is just after a trade out opportunity too. I guess it's a very capitalist society in the alts forum, it's certainly a long way from the origins of bitcoin.

is there any chance that cryptsy or something like that will add gridcoin on his market?