Once I download the Verge Debian Wallet and extract the contents, I get VERGEd and VERGE-qt. What now?
Are they the compiled executables for the daemon and the gui wallet? Do I just make them executable (chmod u+x)and run them?
yes those are compiled binaries. although if you're running debian you could just compile it yourself, its fairly quick and easy.
I'm having trouble. I downloaded from GitHub and compiled my own binaries. I started the wallet and after ten seconds it went gray (as if it was busy doing something). I assumed that was the "wait until I am synched with the network" behavior. It has now been running for several days and is still gray. I don't see that it's making any connections. This machine has several wallets on it, and they all are connecting and syncing just fine.
What do I need to do to get my Verge wallet working? Or at least what do I need to report here to get some help troubleshooting?
JC
what kind of ram/cpu do you have? do you have several wallets running at once? try downloading the chain from vergecurrency.de and putting it in the ~/.VERGE data directory
also what version of debian? what version of boost, openssl, and bdb are you using?
I7-7700K/16 GB (CPU load is ~5-8% on 7 cores, 40% on the eighth core, All of the RAM is used and about 8 GB of swap)
Yes. Running 4 other wallets
I will try downloading the block chain and putting it in the directory you suggest
Ubuntu 16.04, I keep the OS and installed software very up-to-date (semi-weekly), but I will verify versions of boost, openssl, bdb.
Since all of the ram is used, I think I will try starting ONLY the Verge wallet after downloading the block chain and report back the result.
Thank you for your help and for giving me some things to check/try!
[EDIT]
Versions:
Boost - 1_58
openssl - 1.0.2g
I can't find a way to verify the version of dbd. Whatever comes with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS...I haven't changed it.
I realized after all the install/delete cycles I've been through, I did not create a VERGE.conf after my last build. So I tried to run VERGEd to get the output to create one and discovered VERGEd does not provide any output (different behavior than I've had before)...
Not sure what might be wrong there but found an old VERGE.conf in the trash and am going to try it. Since this is a new wallet setup I don't have anything to lose if it doesn't work, but am wondering if this is going to mess things up down the road when I'm actually trying to use the wallet to store coins, and also wondering why I do not get output from '''./VERGEd''' and if THAT could be a problem that needs to be fixed before I will be able to get this working. Thoughts?
verged has no output unless you send it rpc calls. it does require a VERGE.conf in the datadirectory with at least rpcuser and rpcpassword configured.
to make rpc calls, you'd do this: ./VERGEd getinfo (returns general network info)
or ./VERGEd getbalance (returns balance of wallet)
etc..
Of course. Sorry for the silly question. I should have read the doc more thoroughly.
After putting an old VERGE.conf i found in the trash into the data directory, and starting the daemon I get
VERGE server starting
but once it's started I can't talk to it.
~/verge/src/]VERGEd getinfo
returns
error: couldn't connect to server
If I try to start VERGEd with getinfo
./VERGEd getinfo
I also get
error: couldn't connect to server
Still stumped. Not sure what to try next.
I have to tell you, I've been a programmer for 35 years, in multiple languages (from FORTRAN and COBOL to Python). I've been running Debian Linux distros on my personal machines, exclusively, for over 5 years. I have a pretty complicated mining setup with ASICS for SCRYPT coins and GPUs for ASIC-proof algos. I'm not a NOOB, but this Verge wallet thing has me completely flummoxed. No problems setting up any other wallets. Don't get me wrong, I'm not blaming anyone. I'm just wondering what tiny little thing I've missed that keeps causing me all this trouble.