Topic: STAR COIN [STR] - The coin with bonus STAR blocks - page 36. (Read 143782 times)

Setting up the uPNP port fixed my issue and now I am fully synced.

Does anybody know how to contact the admin of the STR pool: http://str.minar.cc/index.php
I've found many confirmed blocks for them today and my account still shows zero unconfirmed and zero confirmed.
The web contact form uses a broken captcha and won't submit my message.

Firstly let me just say a big THANKS to everyone that actually gave a fuck enough to try and help me troubleshoot! CHEERS!

SO I GOT ALL MY COINS BACK AND MY CLIENT PROPERLY IN SYNC

Here's how I did it:

BTW there are multiple chains happening so make sure you are 100% up to date with the blockviewer before your client starts generating pos blocks.. i'll explain below...

Okay after restoring my backup wallet, I attempted re-sync from scratch for the third time, this time remembering to unlock my wallet at the beginning of the resync...

So all the transactions happened like the 2nd time, about 4/5's of the way through my coins started appearing but this time instead of the coins disappearing after they showed up, my balance started to increase *sigh of relief*..

I kept syncing to realising that I had only lost 2 days worth of transactions now at least!

It made it all the way 199456, then slowed right down and started to generate POS blocks... after checking my other clients I realised these blocks must be stale and to allow the client to keep on regenerating them would just put it out of sync again I closed the client.

I installed a fresh client on another computer and started a resync, this went fine and completed to the correct amount as stated by the blockviewer, I closed the client and I copied the correctly completed blocks to the other computer with my original wallet overwriting the invalid block... I re-opened the client...

I then used repairwallet to restore the coins that were staked for the invalid pos blocks

SO NOW WE ARE ALL GOOD - Completely in SYNC, AWESOME..

Also I have made some changes to the conf file that will force the client to sync off of the good clients that I have found for the time being to prevent this happening again from bad clients... If anyone needs a hand just give me a yell...

Additionally if you are feeling generous feel free to send me some STR: sYYUD6zyyYpswwckX2pco8LbyxpE8FAqB5

Plz allow me to answer that with another question.

How many multi-pool friendly coins are having these problems ?

Are you sure?  I'm running starcoin-qt on Windows 7 and have inbound connections, but I haven't configured anything special on my router.

swiftshoot: did that fix the syncing issue for you? has anyone noticed after installing a new client and syncing that the "estimated total blocks" drops from the "current number of blocks" (202517 currently) to 129471?

Ok found the listen=1 bug.  Starcoin has no uPnP capability and therefore the ports don't get forwarded to your Router.
You will need to add an entry into your Router or uPnP settings within Windows to allow users to connect to you.

Yes of course   although this remains on forum even if you send client and data dir to recycle bin.

You could backup your current data dir, e.g rename Starcoin.bak, don't move or copy your wallet.dat, you want to generate a new one.
Run client again, if it syncs, is not network problem...

The IP addresses in getpeerinfo is public domain.  Anyone can get this information either way.  Not posting IPs does not mean it makes you safe.  All they need to get your IPs are to run getpeerinfo themselves.  Hack attempts are not welcomed but this is the only way letting the general public know of possible issues.

If you are afraid of getting hacked, start learning about security and setting up defenses or the Internet is not a place for you to toy around in.

Personally, I am not afraid of people getting my IP Address.  My Honeypots will do their job in detecting intrusions and record/report infiltrations.

Paranoid users can simply do one thing right... power off their Internet connection.

Can you update page 1 with the proper version we need to run?  I am still running the version that is from 2013/09/20 as per Page 1. 

Dreamhouse or NZDude, can you help with our coin loss/re-sync issues!!??


Swiftshoot my client is set to listen=1 and I have set to irc=1 and dnsseed=1 also, I checked getpeerinfo and you are right none of my peers are sharing their chain either, if you want to PM me your IP i will do the same and we can start by sharing with each other.... if that will help..

but just to clarify how exactly are you coming to that conclusion?


HippieTech, could you please elaborate on that?

regards,

infin.

Have updated the blockviewer. check you are up to the same blocks
http://starcoin.info/blockviewer/

posts like the above list IP addresses and people don't like their IP published on some forum frequented by hackers and scammers, makes easy target, and you're likely to know what you'll find there. Perhaps there should be a rule of only sending peer info via PM at request.

They seem to be set that way on purpose.

Other coins are having similar issues.

These are the only clients connected to Starcoin and they are not sharing their blockchains.  Please update your wallets so they act as listeners on the network and help others to get the chain.  Otherwise, Starcoin will die.

02:33:31

getpeerinfo


02:33:31

[
{
"addr" : "63.246.129.56:18216",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1382250810,
"lastrecv" : 1382250810,
"conntime" : 1382249788,
"version" : 60006,
"subver" : "/Satoshi:0.7.2/",
"inbound" : false,
"releasetime" : 0,
"startingheight" : 202964,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "216.155.151.242:18216",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1382250810,
"lastrecv" : 1382250810,
"conntime" : 1382249838,
"version" : 60006,
"subver" : "/Satoshi:0.7.2/",
"inbound" : false,
"releasetime" : 0,
"startingheight" : 202965,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "82.9.77.178:18216",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1382250811,
"lastrecv" : 1382250810,
"conntime" : 1382249855,
"version" : 60006,
"subver" : "/Satoshi:0.7.2/",
"inbound" : false,
"releasetime" : 0,
"startingheight" : 202966,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "188.252.16.109:18216",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1382249983,
"lastrecv" : 1382249997,
"conntime" : 1382249982,
"version" : 60006,
"subver" : "/Satoshi:0.7.2/",
"inbound" : false,
"releasetime" : 0,
"startingheight" : 129451,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "37.229.117.57:18216",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1382250811,
"lastrecv" : 1382250811,
"conntime" : 1382250006,
"version" : 60006,
"subver" : "/Satoshi:0.7.2/",
"inbound" : false,
"releasetime" : 0,
"startingheight" : 202970,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "212.119.171.18:18216",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1382250810,
"lastrecv" : 1382250810,
"conntime" : 1382250028,
"version" : 60006,
"subver" : "/Satoshi:0.7.2/",
"inbound" : false,
"releasetime" : 0,
"startingheight" : 202971,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "81.53.162.166:18216",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1382250732,
"lastrecv" : 1382250746,
"conntime" : 1382250730,
"version" : 60006,
"subver" : "/Satoshi:0.7.2/",
"inbound" : false,
"releasetime" : 0,
"startingheight" : 202999,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "198.211.116.19:18216",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1382250782,
"lastrecv" : 1382250783,
"conntime" : 1382250780,
"version" : 60006,
"subver" : "/Satoshi:0.7.2/",
"inbound" : false,
"releasetime" : 0,
"startingheight" : 129451,
"banscore" : 0
}
]

This could be because most if not all your peer connections have listen=0 set in their config.  I am having difficulty getting updated to latest version because nobody wants their wallet to be shared with others...

add
listen=1
maxconnections=15

to allow others to download/update your wallet correctly and hopefully it would fix your issue too.

I just checked my wallet and all peer clients (8 of them) has listen set to 0.  Therefore, it tells me I need to download blocks but can't cause none of them are allowing me to download it.  Guys check your starcoin.conf and add the 2 lines listed above.  Help the community to grow and work together.

sync from scratch with 1.5 show balance down 26.5k.

edit: fixed, thanks to infinitevs for the post - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.3375779

I have same problem, but it "resolving" every time bay restoring wallet from early backup.

Hi Swiftshoot,

Yeah that was my first thought, but the check came back no errors???

Any other ideas??

DId you issue the command "checkwallet" after syncing?

goto the console and type help