I'm brand new at this and don't really know what I'm doing. I have a Mac with the most recent iOS. I also have an ASIC USB miner. How do I make all this stuff work together?
I think its a block erupter. First off, Mac Miner keeps 'quitting unexpectedly'. Maybe I'm over-working it in the settings. It also says that the erupted is being used by another process.This is what it reads:
[2015-03-22 13:44:33] Started bfgminer 5.1.0-unknown
Ah, what were you doing when it quit unexpectedly? Can you reproduce the crash and if so, when the panel comes up click 'report' and paste the debug info for me here please?
The problem you've having now is that because it quit unexpectedly it didn't stop the bfgminer process so it is actually still mining, disconnected from MacMiner.
Open Activity Monitor in your Utilities folder which is in the Applications folder and in activity monitor sort alphabetically and find any processes named bfgminer and force quit them all. That will stop the in use problem
Thanks for posting all that, I think I got what I needed from the bit that says thread 6 crashed. Seems to be expected a string to be something it's not…
Probably won't make a difference, but could you please move MacMiner to your Applications folder and see whether the crashes continue?
Are they happening when MacMiner is running in the background, and you're not interacting with it?
Did you try moving it to your Applications folder?
Are you only using the ASIC window, and do you have MobileMiner set up? Please let me know every setting you changed so I can attempt to reproduce the error.
as it seems to be a problem changing a string, I might just find and replace non-editable NSStrings with editable NSMutableStrings in the relevant code files for a test version to see whether that fixes things for you.
I'm going to leave mine running with quiet output and just a block erupter connected and see whether I can reproduce the issue… I'm guessing it usually take a few hours to crash? I'll update you tomorrow…
Thanks so much for all of your help. I've never had anyone be so attentive on a forum before. I'll take a tequila shot for you at Karaoke tonight. lol!
Weird, I left mine running since I last posted with no problem - did you move it to the applications folder? Unfortunately I'm really busy the next few days, but when I get a chance I'll check whether it's releasing something it shouldn't be or mishandling strings. Don't suppose you have Xcode installed and could follow a simple walkthrough that might point out the line of code causing the problem? I can't make the crash happen on my end so I can't do that test
You'll have to check on that with your pool/wallet. But if you're just using your computer (rather than an ASIC) and mining BTC I kinda doubt it, difficulty is too hard these days.
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[2015-03-22 13:44:33] Started bfgminer 5.1.0-unknown
[2015-03-22 13:44:33] Loaded configuration file /Users/AlejandroGomez/Library/Application Support/MacMiner/bfgurls.conf
[2015-03-22 13:44:33] /dev/cu.SLAB_USBtoUART is already in use by another process
[2015-03-22 13:44:33] /dev/cu.SLAB_USBtoUART is already in use by another process
[2015-03-22 13:44:33] /dev/cu.SLAB_USBtoUART is already in use by another process
[2015-03-22 13:44:33] /dev/cu.SLAB_USBtoUART is already in use by another process
[2015-03-22 13:44:33] /dev/cu.SLAB_USBtoUART is already in use by another process
[2015-03-22 13:44:33] /dev/cu.SLAB_USBtoUART is already in use by another process
[2015-03-22 13:44:33] /dev/cu.SLAB_USBtoUART is already in use by another process
[2015-03-22 13:44:33] /dev/cu.SLAB_USBtoUART is already in use by another process
[2015-03-22 13:44:33] /dev/cu.SLAB_USBtoUART is already in use by another process
[2015-03-22 13:44:33] /dev/cu.SLAB_USBtoUART is already in use by another process
[2015-03-22 13:44:33] No devices detected!
[2015-03-22 13:44:33] Waiting for devices
[2015-03-22 13:44:33] Probing for an alive pool
[2015-03-22 13:44:33] Testing pool http://stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333
[2015-03-22 13:44:34] HTTP request failed: Empty reply from server
[2015-03-22 13:44:34] HTTP request failed: Empty reply from server
[2015-03-22 13:44:35] Stratum authorisation success for pool 0
[2015-03-22 13:44:35] Pool 0 http://stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333 alive
[2015-03-22 13:44:35] Pool 0 is hiding block contents from us
[2015-03-22 13:44:35] Network difficulty changed to 47.4G (339.5P)
[2015-03-22 13:44:35] New block: ...642aa7f87efc58e3 diff 47.4G (339.5P)
[2015-03-22 13:44:35] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block
[2015-03-22 13:44:35] API bind to port 4028 failed - trying again in 30sec
20s: 0.0 avg: 0.0 u: 0.0 h/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none
[2015-03-22 13:45:05] API bind to port 4028 failed - trying again in 30sec
20s: 0.0 avg: 0.0 u: 0.0 h/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none
[2015-03-22 13:45:35] API bind to port 4028 failed - trying again in 30sec
20s: 0.0 avg: 0.0 u: 0.0 h/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none
20s: 0.0 avg: 0.0 u: 0.0 h/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none
[2015-03-22 13:46:05] API bind to port 4028 failed (Address already in use) - API will not be available
[2015-03-22 13:46:05] API bind to port 4028 failed (Address already in use) - API will not be available
20s: 0.0 avg: 0.0 u: 0.0 h/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none
20s: 0.0 avg: 0.0 u: 0.0 h/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none
20s: 0.0 avg: 0.0 u: 0.0 h/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none
20s: 0.0 avg: 0.0 u: 0.0 h/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none
20s: 0.0 avg: 0.0 u: 0.0 h/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none
20s: 0.0 avg: 0.0 u: 0.0 h/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none
20s: 0.0 avg: 0.0 u: 0.0 h/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none
20s: 0.0 avg: 0.0 u: 0.0 h/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none
https://www.antpool.com/?lang=en
the url should be
stratum+tcp://stratum.antpool.com:3333