Topic: OLD: BFGMiner 3.10.0: modular ASIC+FPGA, GBT+Strtm, RPC, Mac/Lnx/W64, AntU1, DRB - page 157. (Read 1193364 times)

Further to this: I've now also swapped hubs, and I've also swapped Singles from a 2nd cluster, and saw something interesting.

The original problem was that BFL14 (always #14) was giving the 'Error: Get temp returned empty string". Not immediately, but once it started (typically after a few minutes or hours) it would not recover until bfgminer was restarted.

Now, even with the swapped PC (and OS change from Win7/64 to Win7/32), swapped USB hubs, *and* swapped Singles (I swapped BFL14 for a  'known good' Single from a different cluster), I'm still getting the same error message. The interesting part is that it is being reported on the 'new' BFL14!

Since I replaced basically *everything* and the error did not go away, there's not much else I can do with this cluster. I've since reduced it down to 14 Singles and haven't encountered the error since; the Single I removed is mining elsewhere, and it hasn't had a problem either. Perhaps there is an issue with 15+ USB devices? I suspect this is not a common configuration so it probably does not get a lot of testing.

For now I have a workaround so I'm not particularly concerned. I'm more concerned about the general instability of bfgminer versions higher than 2.9.9 on my systems. I may as well ask: Does anyone else have a 15+ cluster of Singles running on a single instance of bfgminer? If so, what version are you running and what are your experiences?

But not 3.0.0? More info?

BFGminer 3.0.1-.02 crashing no matter what on 6970

I've actually been experiencing a similar problem (same error message) for the past few days, but with bfgminer 2.9.9. Looking into it now. I've swapped PCs and get the same problem. I'm focusing on the hubs right now, seeing if the problem follows the Single or if it stays with the USB port.

Having a problem using bfgminer-3.0.0-win64 with usb hubs.

4 BFL FPGAs tried on Satechi 10-port USB 3.0 hub, Satechi 12-port USB 2.0 hub, and Stratitec 4-port USB 2.0 hub.  All hubs are powered.

bfgminer will find and start all four miners, but almost immediately will start throwing HW error "Error: Get temp returned empty string" for all but the first miner found.  bfgminer runs normally if I plug the miners into 4 of the PC's 2.0 and 3.0 USB ports.

Suggestions?

[Edit] Just to be more clear -- decided to free up the USB ports on my PC so moved the FPGAs to the 4-port hub and saw the errors when I restarted bfgminer.  Tried moving the hub input to different ports on the PC, same result.  Tried switching the FPGAs around on the 4-port and it was always the first detected that ran ok with other three miners throwing the error.  Thought maybe the hub was bad, so tried the 12-port 2.0 hub (it has 2 independently switched banks of 6 powered ports each) -- same result irrespective of ports connected on the hub or the PC.  Next, tried the 10-port 3.0 hub (3 independently switched banks of 3 ports each plus one iphone/ipad charger port) -- same result.  Moved the miners back to ports on the PC, no errors.

BFGminer running for 2 months without issues. Updated to AMD drivers 13.4 today. Now it's crashing on startup everytime. Using AMD HD6850 and Windows 7 x64 SP1 + all windows updates.

Command line: --gpu-threads 1 --queue 0 --intensity=d --gpu-dyninterval 16 --failover-only

I deleted the precompiled kernel and it's not making a new one. There's nothing written to the console.

Problem Event Name:   APPCRASH
  Application Name:   bfgminer.exe
  Application Version:   0.0.0.0
  Application Timestamp:   517cb77a
  Fault Module Name:   bfgminer.exe
  Fault Module Version:   0.0.0.0
  Fault Module Timestamp:   517cb77a
  Exception Code:   c0000005
  Exception Offset:   000000000003c9d9
  OS Version:   6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
  Locale ID:   1033
  Additional Information 1:   e68f
  Additional Information 2:   e68fabd2622a99ce852fcf528f13d88e
  Additional Information 3:   bf43
  Additional Information 4:   bf43415df077bf09da15770f50cc570b


Both 3.0.2 and 2.10.8 crash in the same manner.

EDIT:

Fixed. I am leaving this here for those who end up having my issue.

-Uninstall all ATI software.
-Restart.
-Create a batch file with the following and run it:

@C:
@cd C:\Windows\System32
del SlotMaximizerAg.dll
del SlotMaximizerBe.dll
del amdocl64.dll
del OpenCL.dll
del OpenVideo64.dll
del OVDecode64.dll
@Cd C:\Windows\SysWOW64
del SlotMaximizerAg.dll
Del SlotMaximizerBe.dll
del amdocl.dll
del OpenCL.dll
del OpenVideo.dll
del OVDecode.dll
@rmdir C:\ProgramData\AMD\KDB /S /Q

-Reinstall ATI 13.1 drivers.

thanks

Good day Luke-Jr,

My Internet goes in and out every so often.  Is there a way for the miner to go into standby mode, then continue mining when Internet connection re-establishes, rather than crash?  Thanks in advance for any info provided.

Edit: I noticed the miner went into wait mode when the internet went out for a short period.  I wonder what's be causing it to crash lately, then.

Check out the -d option...
Or just disable/enable the GPUs in the TUI.

Hi,

Currently I'm running BFGMINER (diablo kernel) with my 7950 with good result ~630mh/s
But I have a possibility to have a 5870 old card gift by a friend
It's possible to run 2 separate instance of bfgminer ?

When I'm off (work or sleep) 2 cards run

When I want to play battlefield 3, watching video etc... I turn off the 7950 but the 5870 keep going ?

Thanks you in advance

Dermo

run it from where you compiled the source. So instead of

$ bfgminer ....

Do this

$ cd /path/to/where/it/was/built/
$ ./bfgminer ...

Candoo ganz ehrlich, Dein Enthusiasmus und Engagement in allen Ehren - mein ich wirklich. Aber den Post hättest Dir sparen können.
Mein Englisch is miserabel und es ist nicht verboten zu Fragen ob er jemanden im Team hat der ihn tatkräftig in deutsch unterstützt.

Did you pay for the software "bfgminer". If you didnt pay anything for the software - how should he pay german speaking staff to help users?

Did you donate anything recently? not?

No german support - sorry for ya.

Hello, bfgminer 3.0.2 crashes on me always after one to two days off. (Win7, 64bit, 2 x 7870)

Error Report:


What can I do? Do you have a German support?

I compiled it with instructions I found online. I installed some Ubuntu base updates yesterday. Could that have deleted something?

Edit: It was probably something to do with Ubuntu's updates. I purged bfgminer using the terminal and re-installed it from the PPA. It's working fine now. I'm learning 

How did you install it? Sounds like a file got deleted somehow...

bfgminer had been running great for a week now, but I just went to check it and my pc had restarted. I suspect our cat stepped on the power button(don't know why hp put it on top).

 Now when I try to start bfgminer in the terminal I get this : " error while loading shared libraries: libblkmaker_jansson-0.1.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"
 
What is it? I'm still kind of a linux newbie.

Thanks!

From the README.txt

Luke-Jr, what does "5s" (last 5 seconds?), "avg" (probably average hashrate since started mining) and "u" (this one I have no idea)