Topic: OFFICIAL CGMINER mining software thread for linux/win/osx/mips/arm/r-pi 4.11.0 - page 182. (Read 5805670 times)

It's off to a good start for me (Windows zip version).

3.7.2 uploading as we speak/type. Besides, even numbers always sound more stable.

EDIT: And it's up.

Shit shit shit, last minute breakage 

pretend you didn't see 3.7.1

3.7.1 doesn't start up for me - it just hangs and doesn't turn off any of the AMU LEDs.  No screen display.  I've tried both zip and 7z archives, running cgminer with my usual conf file, and also cgminer-nogpu.  No dice.  Tried a few times, then back to 3.5.1 which started up ok.  I guess it's not just me, seeing the previous post from aigeezer.
 

3.7.1 froze on startup for me and did not respond to the Q command. I tried it twice, then reverted to 3.7.0 which seems to be running fine. Prior to that, 3.7.0 had run without error for 24 hours before I tried the update to 3.7.1.

is this planed to add?

No

Does sgminer run with Nanofury NF1 USB-sticks?

If yes - how can i get it to work?

Thanks for that. 3.7.1 is closest to -et in behaviour.

Appreciate your dedication to this, I'll stick with it for as long as you want to keep testing, but quite willing to stick with the older version if you want to spend your time more productively!

So, latest test results. Nothing to very hopeful, at least to my untrained eye:
Started cgminer-lt @10:21, zombie at 11:01. Test ended
Started cgminer-nt @11:06, zombie at 12:07. Test ended

Started cgminer-et at 12:11. First zombie AMU29 appeared at 12:18 just as I started uploading to Flickr aagin (coincidence?). The offending AMU was replugged at 12:22 and started working again as AMU 34.

Two AMU LEDs came on full and 2 zombies appeared in the display at 12:25, AMU 14&16, but AMU 16 started working again. Tis behaviour is new, perhaps?  It was removed from the table and reappeared as AMU 35. AMU 14 was still reported as zombie, but there was no corresponding "NO_DEVICE" in the logfile for either of these two. Strange?

I tried re-plugging AMU 14 @12:30 but it did not get recognised again (LED came back full on and the zombie remained in the display table). Test ended...

Edit to add logfile links:
 https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/44240170/logfile-lt.txt
 https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/44240170/logfile-nt.txt
 https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/44240170/logfile-et.txt

Edit: Just noticed the 3.7.1 release.  I'll give it a try. You never know!
 

New version: 3.7.2, 5th November 2013

In the interests of not leaving a relatively unstable release out there, here's a pure bugfix release.


Human readable changelog:

- Fix for crashes on startup and hotplug.
- Fix for hangs doing no further work after a block change.
- Fix yet again scrypt showing a block solve with every highish diff share.
- Try to find a compromise between the various ends of the windows+AMU timeout issue spectrum.
- Write errors will cause a device failure, allowing cgminer to attempt to hotplug them again.
- Icarus based devices will hopefully align on the display with others.
- Fix for short periods of no/idled work on avalon devices due to async restarts with block changes.
- Fix for diff shown on big endian machines
- Fix for building with curses disabled.
- Other low level clean ups.


Full changelog:

- Clean up completely on avalon shutdown.
- Use cgsem timed waits in avalon driver to not miss any queued wake ups to
account for async messages coming during a flush work.
- Statline before is too long on icarus that doesn't have monitoring.
- Different windows+usb combinations respond with varying levels of reliability
wrt timeouts so use a nominal extra 40ms before cancelling transfers that fail
to time out on their own.
- Do all hotplug_process under the write mining_thr_lock
- Fix for opt_worktime on big endian machines.
- Correct set_blockdiff for big endian machines.
- Make sure cgpu exists in the restart threads loop in cases of hotplug etc.
- Treat usb write timeout errors as unrecoverable.
- Transfer errors are filtered out in usbutils now so no need to look for them
in NODEV checks.
- Remove now unused entries from struct cg_usb_device
- Do not double up with checking for end of timeout measurements in usb
read/write.
- Do get_work in fill_queue without holding other locks.
- Initialise usb after all the locks and conditionals are initialised.
- Use only a trylock in flush queue to prevent deadlocks.
- Add a wr_trylock wrapper for pthread rw lock write trylock.
- Scale diff for scrypt when testing for block solves.
- Fix for non curses build.

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=54176&p=417366#p417366
works for me raspbian no issues,

for 3.6.1
I don't bother with the libusb just plain cgminer

Don't use Raspbian. Please. All my runtime issues disappeared when working under arch. Please use arch.

If you must use raspbian here is what I did to get everything setup....
First install the requirements to build cgminer. (I would as it makes hotfixes on git useable).
Some of these aren't strictly required. Like you don't need vim or screen. Screen is just awesome though.

Next build instructions.
Each line is its own command.

Again I would likely use Pacman to get the packages you need to build your own. Pacman is on Arch (What mine peon runs) and works just fine. Hopefully the USB/Memory errors on Raspbian get worked out soon but I got tired of waiting.

EDIT: My instructions are likely dated but the package list is from things Kano and CK posted. The rest are just things I wrote down so I wouldn't forget.

EDIT2: There is one file that needs copied. Look in the readme and follow the code. Really it isn't hard to set it up.

Follow this guide. But change 3.3.4 to 3.7.0
http://www.huement.com/blog/?p=941

Hello forum!

Can anybody help me with setting up cgminer on a RPi?
I'm nwe to the RPi and don't really know what i'm doing....
At this time i'm using minepeon and it works so far.
But i want to set up cgminer on Raspbian. Is there a "How to" guide somewhere in the last 666 sides tread

Hope someone has the time to take care of a newbie

Thanks!

10X
But on my tplinks it sill segfaults from time to times because of it - drv->flush-queue . It is a temporally fix probably. But unfortunately no gdb on my tplink. I hope you will see it on your Avalon unit...

Thank you
Best

Updated git. The mining thread shouldn't appear with read lock held so see if that code suffices.

if (cgpu && cgpu->deven == DEV_ENABLED) cgpu->drv->flush_work(cgpu);

flush work is not initialized  in this case 

Oh I see, thanks.

10X Con

but after your latest changes (rev 6bc691adb26cad59f0598882cb85488f3f5edbe6 1 parent 42b3cf1
ckolivas authored 18 minutes ago ) it is still not working

What works for me is:

for (i = 0; i < mining_threads; i++) {
      cgpu = mining_thr->cgpu;
      mining_thr->work_restart = true;
      if (cgpu && cgpu->deven == DEV_ENABLED) {
         flush_queue(cgpu);
         cgpu->drv->flush_work(cgpu);
      }
   }


        __func__ = "restart_threads"
#1  0x0000000000412ae6 in test_work_current (work=0x7fe9bc0771f0)
    at cgminer.c:4347
        pool = 0x18577d0
        bedata = "\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\003\263\f2c\020\373\024\065RÕ¡ß¡/\305\375\325\304\325\351%\224",
        hexstr = '0' , "3b30c326310fb143552d5a1dfa12fc5fdd5c4d5e925946be7\000g\363Z"
        ret = true
        __func__ = "test_work_current"
#2  0x000000000041bc02 in stratum_rthread (userdata=0x18577d0)
    at cgminer.c:5711
        work = 0x7fe9bc0771f0
        timeout = {tv_sec = 90, tv_usec = 0}
        sel_ret =
        rd = {fds_bits = {1024, 0 }}
        s = 0x7fe9bc0771f0 ""
        pool = 0x18577d0
        threadname = "StratumR/0\000\000\000\000\000"
#3  0x00007fe9cba15e9a in start_thread (arg=0x7fe9b75f6700)
    at pthread_create.c:308
        __res =
        pd = 0x7fe9b75f6700
        now =
        unwind_buf = {cancel_jmp_buf = {{jmp_buf = {0, -183325595836687369,
---Type to continue, or q to quit---
                140642120497280, 140641780591040, 0, 3, 191364403420650487,
                191162282270186487}, mask_was_saved = 0}}, priv = {pad = {0x0,
              0x0, 0x0, 0x0}, data = {prev = 0x0, cleanup = 0x0,
              canceltype = 0}}}
        not_first_call = 0
        pagesize_m1 =
        sp =
        freesize =
        __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "start_thread"
#4  0x00007fe9cb7423fd in clone ()
    at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone.S:112
No locals.
#5  0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.