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Topic: OFFICIAL CGMINER mining software thread for linux/win/osx/mips/arm/r-pi 4.11.0 - page 551. (Read 5805546 times)

sr. member
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This just started this weekend.  I'm running cgminer 2.4.3 on Ubuntu 11.04.  I've been running this no problem since it was released.  This weekend I rebooted every computer (11 in total) while I measured the power consumption just to make sure everything was OK.  Since then all my Linux miners have been spontaneously stopping without any good reason.  They arn't too hot.  I didn't change any parameters. All I did was turn them off, attach a Kill-a-watt, turn them on, then off, then remove the Kill-a-watt and turn them on again.

Each miner will run from about 1 hour to 6 hours before it just turns off.  No crash. Cgminer just ends.  I piped the output into a file and found nothing.

Any thing I should know about this version that might cause this?

Sam
legendary
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Linux since 1997 RedHat 4
makes me worry
BFL 2:  33.9C         | 779.0/665.5Mh/s | A:260 R:7 HW:0 U: 9.09/m
after 30 minutes... the rest has ~800
Check the heat sink.
i.e. read this from beginning to end:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/question-to-multi-bfl-single-miners-temperature-and-throttling-issues-78256
hero member
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Reinstalled Ubuntu, installed Catalyst 12.1, installed SDK 2.5 using kano's method and I'm STILL getting a segfault. This is getting ridiculous now.

EDIT: Got it working by wiping out the Catalyst driver and the SDK files and just installing Catalyst. Seriously, how do people get 12.1 installed while still being able to use a decent SDK?
sr. member
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makes me worry
BFL 2:  33.9C         | 779.0/665.5Mh/s | A:260 R:7 HW:0 U: 9.09/m
after 30 minutes... the rest has ~800
hero member
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Mining since May 2011.
OK!!!
It works now.
Took me a while to figure. But i must say. It`s hard to catch simplest facts.

Good to hear, welcome to the club.  Wink
sr. member
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OK!!!
It works now.
Took me a while to figure. But i must say. It`s hard to catch simplest facts.
hero member
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Mining since May 2011.
I don't know how reliable auto is. ...kinda looks like it's not.
Better to manually specify each device:
-S -S
etc
Look at the readme.

Yeah you need to add the USB ports:

Try adding: (Example for 2 BLFs, look in /dev and see how many ttyUSBx show up)
Code:
-S /dev/ttyUSB0 -S /dev/ttyUSB1

Add more -S /dev/ttyUSBx if you have more BFL's plugged in.
legendary
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This is not OK.
I don't know how reliable auto is. ...kinda looks like it's not.
Better to manually specify each device:
-S -S
etc
Look at the readme.
sr. member
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I`m using auto, just auto.
What else should i use ?
legendary
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This is not OK.
What's your command line?

You need a -S for each unit.
sr. member
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1 of 2 BFL`s works now....
THX kano Smiley
any adwice haw to kick the other one ??

Code:
 cgminer version 2.4.3 - Started: [2012-06-25 20:12:24]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 (5s):330.1 (avg):651.3 Mh/s | Q:7  A:27  R:0  HW:0  E:386%  U:9.1/m
 TQ: 2  ST: 2  SS: 0  DW: 1  NB: 1  LW: 27  GF: 0  RF: 0
 Connected to http://polmine.pl:8347 without LP as user Zulusman1059GNG
 Block: 000001c1d6fc3c73153eb9f0d2ac0fe0...  Started: [20:12:24]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [P]ool management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 BFL 0:  35.0C         | 754.9/651.3Mh/s | A:27 R:0 HW:0 U: 9.10/m
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 [2012-06-25 20:13:58] Accepted fc4f142f.4cfd227c BFL 0
 [2012-06-25 20:13:58] Accepted 1aed3243.3ec34125 BFL 0

I can run one, or another, but newer bouth :"/

"single" update
Code:
Bus 001 Device 023: ID 0403:6014 Future Technology Devices International, Ltd
Bus 001 Device 022: ID 0403:6014 Future Technology Devices International, Ltd
Bus 001 Device 021: ID 0403:6014 Future Technology Devices International, Ltd
legendary
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Linux since 1997 RedHat 4
Possibly:
sudo modprobe ftdi_sio vendor=0x0403 product=0x6014
sr. member
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Hi
sorry for tat, but i have to ask.

I just got my 3 singles, and trying to get it working with cgminer.
Downloaded 2.4.3 and compiled on my own, whitch is creazy Wink
Code:
CFLAGS="-O2 -Wall" ./configure --enable-bitforce
make
lsusb gives me
Code:
Bus 001 Device 014: ID 0403:6014 Future Technology Devices International, Ltd
Bus 001 Device 013: ID 0403:6014 Future Technology Devices International, Ltd
but cgminer gives me:
Code:
All devices disabled, cannot mine!

Am i missing somme sort of driver or what ? pliss help
hero member
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Sorry - no idea - other than what I've already said.
However, yes, 12.x installs the SDK also (as alluded to in my script)
But once a single set of everything is installed you will most likely need to recompile cgminer ...

I've never used upgrade coz it depends on every single developer out there knowing how to handle an upgrade to their software and doing it correctly each their own way ...
Damn, so I'll just have to reinstall Ubuntu then...again. So then does 12.1 install the 2.5 SDK also? Or what order should they be installed in?
legendary
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Did you ever actually install a version of fglrx some other way than apt-get?
At a guess that is most likely the cause.
And my guess would be that the install setup some env variable that points at the wrong directory for a library.
I just did a reinstall of fglrx a couple days ago where I removed the one that was installed in the software center and installed the 12.1 driver. For the SDK, I had originally installed 2.5 using your guide, but when I upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04, it updated itself to 2.6 (probably came with the fglrx update that I didn't realize was being installed). If you could tell me how to get rid of all of it so I can start fresh, that'd be great. Smiley
Sorry - no idea - other than what I've already said.
However, yes, 12.x installs the SDK also (as alluded to in my script)
But once a single set of everything is installed you will most likely need to recompile cgminer ...

I've never used upgrade coz it depends on every single developer out there knowing how to handle an upgrade to their software and doing it correctly each their own way ...
hero member
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Did you ever actually install a version of fglrx some other way than apt-get?
At a guess that is most likely the cause.
And my guess would be that the install setup some env variable that points at the wrong directory for a library.
I just did a reinstall of fglrx a couple days ago where I removed the one that was installed in the software center and installed the 12.1 driver. For the SDK, I had originally installed 2.5 using your guide, but when I upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04, it updated itself to 2.6 (probably came with the fglrx update that I didn't realize was being installed). If you could tell me how to get rid of all of it so I can start fresh, that'd be great. Smiley
newbie
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re: anti-virus declaring a Trojans.
I just downloaded the cgminer-2.4.3-Win2.zip
-Jesse


It's in the FAQ portion on page 1: (You're safe)
Quote
Q: Is this a virus?
A: Cgminer is being packaged with other trojan scripts and some antivirus
software is falsely accusing cgminer.exe as being the actual virus, rather
than whatever it is being packaged with. If you installed cgminer yourself,
then you do not have a virus on your computer. Complain to your antivirus
software company.

Understood. (And I had read the FAQ, but thanks. Smiley)
I mentioned it here because I downloaded it from the official pristine location, linked in the topmost post.
If the official version accidentally packaged up a trojan version of a 3rd party library (libpdcurses) it seemed worth mentioning.

-Jesse
legendary
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Linux since 1997 RedHat 4
Did you ever actually install a version of fglrx some other way than apt-get?
At a guess that is most likely the cause.
And my guess would be that the install setup some env variable that points at the wrong directory for a library.

The manual cgminer (mine and ckolivas') SDK procedure puts files in 3 places
 /usr/lib/
 /etc/OpenCL/
 /usr/include/CL/

The installs that people download or follow from other people can also redirects the system to look for those files in other places.
(and I have no idea if there are some weird flavours of linux that do this in strange ways)

My original comment was basically saying that I think you've done something different to the script and that's the problem, thus you'll have to sort out what you did.
You could just manually remove all the drivers and SDK and reinstall it from scratch
Manual removal may cause problems with apt - so you may need to work out how to tell apt stuff is removed also (or use apt to remove it as long as it doesn't try to uninstal half of linux along with whatever you remove)

Aside: a system install of linux is very simple and quick ... I've even written a script on how to do that with xubu 11.04 Smiley
So unless you have 7xxx cards ... though that can be handled with ... my SDK script Smiley
hero member
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Segfaults at startup are usually mixed sdk files +/- bin files.
I know that, that's why I was telling him. Something's missing from his instructions.

EDIT: Now I've tried installing 2.4, 2.6 and 2.7 with those instructions, all resulting in a segfault (or in the case of 2.7, it told me that all devices were disabled).
So any ideas about maybe getting rid of the SDK completely and reinstalling or am I gonna have to reinstall Ubuntu again?
hero member
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Mining since May 2011.
re: anti-virus declaring a Trojans.

I just downloaded the cgminer-2.4.3-Win2.zip

I use AVG anti-virus, and it said that libpdcurses.dll contained a Key Logger Trojan.

On the one hand, I suspect it is a false positive.
On the other hand I don't mind getting a new copy of a library from a trusted source just to be safe.

-Jesse


It's in the FAQ portion on page 1: (You're safe)
Quote
Q: Is this a virus?
A: Cgminer is being packaged with other trojan scripts and some antivirus
software is falsely accusing cgminer.exe as being the actual virus, rather
than whatever it is being packaged with. If you installed cgminer yourself,
then you do not have a virus on your computer. Complain to your antivirus
software company.
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