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Topic: OFFICIAL CGMINER mining software thread for linux/win/osx/mips/arm/r-pi 4.11.0 - page 736. (Read 5805998 times)

legendary
Activity: 4634
Merit: 1851
Linux since 1997 RedHat 4
I am having some trouble with the miner, I enter all my pool information and my gpu overclock etc, I then save a config file and quit. But when I restart I have to enter it all into the miner again, my question is how do I load my config file? I am using the windows binary cgminer-2.0.8-win32 miner.

Any help would be appreciated Cheesy
// DeaDTerra
Well I did see one person in the #cgminer irc mention a problem something like that not long ago.
I suggested they report it here or raise an issue on the git - but they didn't seem to want to do that for some stupid reason.

It seemed it may have been writing invalid numbers for one or more of the fields.

Anyway, look for cgminer.conf (I think on windows it ends up in the current directory?)
Then check the contents and see if it is OK.
loading it would be a case of running "cgminer -c cgminer.conf" if it was in the current directory
Since it doens't load it automatically, that possibly means there is something wrong with it.

However, when you save it if you chose some other name or some other directory then of course you need to use that instead.
So where do I run "cgminer -c cgminer.conf" in the cgminer program or in cmd?
Sigh ....
In a command window in the cgminer directory ...

However that should have the same problem.
You need to look at cgminer.conf and see what's wrong with it.
If there is something wrong with it then report it here and then whoever wrote the save code should fix that if it needs fixing.
donator
Activity: 1064
Merit: 1000
I am having some trouble with the miner, I enter all my pool information and my gpu overclock etc, I then save a config file and quit. But when I restart I have to enter it all into the miner again, my question is how do I load my config file? I am using the windows binary cgminer-2.0.8-win32 miner.

Any help would be appreciated Cheesy
// DeaDTerra
Well I did see one person in the #cgminer irc mention a problem something like that not long ago.
I suggested they report it here or raise an issue on the git - but they didn't seem to want to do that for some stupid reason.

It seemed it may have been writing invalid numbers for one or more of the fields.

Anyway, look for cgminer.conf (I think on windows it ends up in the current directory?)
Then check the contents and see if it is OK.
loading it would be a case of running "cgminer -c cgminer.conf" if it was in the current directory
Since it doens't load it automatically, that possibly means there is something wrong with it.

However, when you save it if you chose some other name or some other directory then of course you need to use that instead.
So where do I run "cgminer -c cgminer.conf" in the cgminer program or in cmd?
legendary
Activity: 4634
Merit: 1851
Linux since 1997 RedHat 4
I am having some trouble with the miner, I enter all my pool information and my gpu overclock etc, I then save a config file and quit. But when I restart I have to enter it all into the miner again, my question is how do I load my config file? I am using the windows binary cgminer-2.0.8-win32 miner.

Any help would be appreciated Cheesy
// DeaDTerra
Well I did see one person in the #cgminer irc mention a problem something like that not long ago.
I suggested they report it here or raise an issue on the git - but they didn't seem to want to do that for some stupid reason.

It seemed it may have been writing invalid numbers for one or more of the fields.

Anyway, look for cgminer.conf (I think on windows it ends up in the current directory?)
Then check the contents and see if it is OK.
loading it would be a case of running "cgminer -c cgminer.conf" if it was in the current directory
Since it doens't load it automatically, that possibly means there is something wrong with it.

However, when you save it if you chose some other name or some other directory then of course you need to use that instead.
donator
Activity: 1064
Merit: 1000
I am having some trouble with the miner, I enter all my pool information and my gpu overclock etc, I then save a config file and quit. But when I restart I have to enter it all into the miner again, my question is how do I load my config file? I am using the windows binary cgminer-2.0.8-win32 miner.

Any help would be appreciated Cheesy
// DeaDTerra
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legendary
Activity: 4088
Merit: 1631
Ruu \o/
Um ... read the ARS thread ...

Read the question. The pool being connected to isn't the issue - when disabling a pool in cgminer, it seems that shares are still being submitted to the disabled pool.

I don't have an explanation at the moment. I'd say wait longer or restart cgminer without Ars as a configured pool.

On that note, it is sad to see the Ars pool running down.

Once you disable a pool in cgminer, what it does is stop requesting work from that pool. Now since work may be underway already from that pool, it will continue to look for shares in the existing work until all the work expires. The default expiration for work is set to 60 seconds. Then it will continue to try submitting shares if it has found any until the shares expire. The default expiration is set to 120 seconds. There is no point in throwing away work it has already started on. Anyway the practical upshot of this is that shares may be submitted for up to 2 minutes after you disable a pool. Furthermore, if your primary pool (pool 0) was disabled, the longpoll will still be coming from the primary pool and longpoll itself generates more work so after every longpoll you will still get a few small work items from that pool. I used to make longpoll switch from one pool to another whenever you changed your pool choice, but it led to crashes so it was simpler to just leave longpoll going to the one pool. I may revisit that code in the future but for the most part it doesn't matter who the longpoll comes from unless you're mixing merged mining and non-merged. In that case you should probably be using a merged mining pool as your primary pool so that longpoll goes to that and then you can throw out more work since that's what you want to do when merged...
legendary
Activity: 4634
Merit: 1851
Linux since 1997 RedHat 4
Except that the LP is coming from ARS and that's probably a major part of the problem ... Smiley
legendary
Activity: 1316
Merit: 1005
Um ... read the ARS thread ...

Read the question. The pool being connected to isn't the issue - when disabling a pool in cgminer, it seems that shares are still being submitted to the disabled pool.

I don't have an explanation at the moment. I'd say wait longer or restart cgminer without Ars as a configured pool.

On that note, it is sad to see the Ars pool running down.
legendary
Activity: 4634
Merit: 1851
Linux since 1997 RedHat 4
Um ... read the ARS thread ... ARS is not even maintained properly by BT any more.
Basically ARS is dying and having problem regularly.
hero member
Activity: 807
Merit: 500
How often does anyone use the disable pool management function?  ARS is my pool 0 and it seems to have communication trouble every few days (maybe getting DDoSed, I don't know, but I get long poll is not working messages, then communication failure and resume messages, and some time later it will work fine again).  Instead of racking up a bunch of rejects, I was going to disable it, and I went into pool management (P), chose disable (D), and entered pool 0 (0, Enter).  I then continued to see shares submitted to pool 0 with communication failures in between.  Perhaps it would have started going to pool 1 if I waited longer, but I wouldn't have expected there to be enough shares waiting for solutions to allow multiple submissions and communication disconnects after I disabled the pool (honestly I would expect disabling a pool to take effect immediately, but don't know that is the design).  Is that function not working right, or am I being impatient?
This is 2.0.8 on Fedora 15, compiled from source (I assume ATI versions are irrelevant to this issue)
newbie
Activity: 11
Merit: 0
anyone else having an issue with long polling? ive got my CPU and GPU mining setup but it says connected to (server) without LP as user.....
its btcmine and i know they support long polling, and its worked fine with every other miner ive used.
sr. member
Activity: 349
Merit: 250
They flag this because a couple of botnets use cgminer as well...

Which is a good reason to alert people that the software is potentially unwanted (like AVG does), but its not a good reason to say cgminer is  malware or a trojan, because it clearly isnt.  Its like saying any SMPT server is malware because botnets abuse them.

The naming could've been better, that's true ;-) Also, I think you mean SMTP? ;-) ;-)
hero member
Activity: 518
Merit: 500
They flag this because a couple of botnets use cgminer as well...

Which is a good reason to alert people that the software is potentially unwanted (like AVG does), but its not a good reason to say cgminer is  malware or a trojan, because it clearly isnt.  Its like saying any SMPT server is malware because botnets abuse them.
sr. member
Activity: 349
Merit: 250
Code:
Dear Sir or Madam,

Thank you for your email to Avira's virus lab.
Tracking number: REDACTED.

A listing of files alongside their results can be found below:
File ID Filename Size (Byte) Result
26433696 cgminer.exe 290.5 KB MALWARE


Please find a detailed report concerning each individual sample below:
Filename Result
cgminer.exe MALWARE

The file 'cgminer.exe' has been determined to be 'MALWARE'.Our analysts named the threat TR/Offend.KD.445392.1.The term "TR/" denotes a trojan horse that is able to spy out data, to violate your privacy or carry out unwanted modifications to the system.Detection is added to our virus definition file (VDF) starting with version .

Please note: If you have specific questions please address them to support@avira.com

Kind regards
Avira Virus Lab

I sent them a response email, with a link to the source code, and asking for explicit details why they think its a trojan... maybe they will respond, maybe they wont. in the mean time, this is rather annoying >.>

They flag this because a couple of botnets use cgminer as well...
sr. member
Activity: 420
Merit: 250
Code:
Dear Sir or Madam,

Thank you for your email to Avira's virus lab.
Tracking number: REDACTED.

A listing of files alongside their results can be found below:
File ID Filename Size (Byte) Result
26433696 cgminer.exe 290.5 KB MALWARE


Please find a detailed report concerning each individual sample below:
Filename Result
cgminer.exe MALWARE

The file 'cgminer.exe' has been determined to be 'MALWARE'.Our analysts named the threat TR/Offend.KD.445392.1.The term "TR/" denotes a trojan horse that is able to spy out data, to violate your privacy or carry out unwanted modifications to the system.Detection is added to our virus definition file (VDF) starting with version .

Please note: If you have specific questions please address them to support@avira.com

Kind regards
Avira Virus Lab

I sent them a response email, with a link to the source code, and asking for explicit details why they think its a trojan... maybe they will respond, maybe they wont. in the mean time, this is rather annoying >.>

-edit-

Code:
Dear Sir or Madam,

Thank you for your recent inquiry.

The file you submitted is falsely detected as TR/Offend.KD.445392.1.

This is a false positive detection, which will be fixed with one of the next AntiVir updates. With this update, the file should not be detected anymore.
legendary
Activity: 1022
Merit: 1000
BitMinter
--auto-gpu

cgminer will not assume you want it to automanage anything unless you tell it to


 Wink seem like that was missing.
hero member
Activity: 807
Merit: 500
F-secure gives false positive on this. Generic Trojan or something. Also they seem to see bitcoind as some sort of riskware because I got warning also about that.  Angry
Both should be possible to report the false positives.  For best results tell them what they are and indicate that while they might be potentially unwanted they are certainly not trojans.
newbie
Activity: 20
Merit: 0
F-secure gives false positive on this. Generic Trojan or something. Also they seem to see bitcoind as some sort of riskware because I got warning also about that.  Angry
-ck
legendary
Activity: 4088
Merit: 1631
Ruu \o/
Does the automatic temperature cutoff only work above 85 degree C and will it also work if you don't use cgminers fan and overclock settings ?

The thermal cutoff function kicks in at whatever temp you set. If you don't set anything, it defaults to 95 Celsius.

The 85 Celsius threshold is (by default) when the fan gets cranked up to 100%.

Did not work for me.
cgminer does not touch fan speed unless you enable --auto-fan

What about auto cutoff ? How do i get this to work ?
--auto-gpu

cgminer will not assume you want it to automanage anything unless you tell it to
legendary
Activity: 1022
Merit: 1000
BitMinter
...has to be over 70C. Just stop your fan to test it...

Tnx for the information. I tried it out below 70C just to check and that did not work. Now everything makes sense.
hero member
Activity: 518
Merit: 500
Cut off temperature has nothing to do with fan speed. Its where the gpu is "turned off", for instance if the fan fails. I think its enabled by default, to set the temperature, just click G(pu) > C(hange settings) > GPU #> A(utomatic) > C(utoff) > set temperature. Has to be over 70C. Just stop your fan to test it.
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