Strange event in ASIC logfile. A phantom pool?

ShanghaiTimes

Hi,
Great piece of software by the way. I've pulled it down with github to play with - but,

Running it into my slushpool account, and it works fine. But I keep getting this in the log file

[2016-05-13 14:41:26] Accepted 17107c93 AMU 0 pool 0 Diff 11/8
20s: 1.49 avg: 1.59 u: 1.23 Gh/s | A:14 R:1+0(6.5%) HW:8/7.5%
[2016-05-13 14:41:37] Testing pool http://127.0.0.1:8332/#getcbaddr#allblocks
[2016-05-13 14:41:37] Stratum connect failed to pool 1: Failed connect to 127.0.0.1:8332; Connection refused

I'm using a Bitmain S1 USB device, and it's running fine at 1.54Gh. Fine to play with. I know it's going to take about umpteen thousand years to mine one coin - but I'm just fiddling with this because it's interesting.

Is there a command line option to perhaps turn off it's desire to look at that - non-existant pool?

Is there any chance that the latest bfgminer and cgminer will be maybe incorporated into the build as well? It could probably be done from a command line build, if not from the XCode IDE.

But anyway, again, I'm scratching my head as to why this message is popping up about every 5 or 6 cycles.

Thanks if you have any ideas . if you are still there?

cheers
Robert

FabulousPanda

That's peculiar, it looks as though it's set up for solo mining. I couldn't replicate the issue. What does your config file look like? (Edit config file manually in the window preference panel) Did 127.0.0.1:8332 get in there somehow? And which window are you mining in?

MacMiner has the latest versions of cgminer and bfgminer included, and I've updated the Github to include them there as well.

ShanghaiTimes

Thanks for getting back, This is the bfgurl.conf file
{
"pools" : [
{
"url" : "stratum+tcp://eu.stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333",
"user" : "ShanghaiTimes.worker1",
"pass" : "***"
}
]

}

I wonder if MacMiner is caching something somewhere.?
It's still mining, on the FPGA/ASIC Miner, but it shows in the log of both this one, and the GPU miner as well. So it's picking it up somewhere, and I can't for the life of me find out where.
I'll keep looking....

FabulousPanda

You could try putting --no-default-config in the manual flags - perhaps bfgminer has generated a config file somewhere else on your system?

ShanghaiTimes

Ok, tried that. Sorry, no good. Tomorrow, I'll remove MacMiner completely from the system, including the Application Support directory stuff, clean it all up, then reboot, then reinstall it, and try again ;-) Very strange.

ShanghaiTimes

Ok, its working.
Thanks a lot for the help.
I deleted all the old stuff, re-downloaded MacMiner - and set up the config file where it wanted it, and it's working with no strange errors.

robert

[2016-05-15 09:51:19] Started bfgminer 5.4.2-unknown
[2016-05-15 09:51:19] Loaded configuration file /Users/robert/Library/Application Support/MacMiner/bfgurls.conf

[2016-05-15 09:51:19] Loaded configuration file /Users/robert/Library/Application Support/MacMiner/bfgurls.conf
[2016-05-15 09:51:20] Found AMU 0 at /dev/cu.SLAB_USBtoUART
[2016-05-15 09:52:51] Probing for an alive pool

[2016-05-15 09:52:51] Probing for an alive pool
[2016-05-15 09:52:51] Testing pool stratum+tcp://eu.stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333
[2016-05-15 09:52:51] Stratum authorisation success for pool 0
[2016-05-15 09:52:51] Pool 0 stratum+tcp://eu.stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333 alive

[2016-05-15 09:52:51] Pool 0 stratum+tcp://eu.stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333 alive
[2016-05-15 09:52:51] Pool 0 is hiding block contents from us

[2016-05-15 09:52:51] Pool 0 is hiding block contents from us
[2016-05-15 09:52:51] Network difficulty changed to 194G ( 1.39E)

[2016-05-15 09:52:51] Network difficulty changed to 194G ( 1.39E)
[2016-05-15 09:52:51] New block: ...ea6b49d1918692f9 diff 194G ( 1.39E)
[2016-05-15 09:52:51] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block

[2016-05-15 09:52:51] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block
[2016-05-15 09:52:52] API running in IP access mode on port 4028

[2016-05-15 09:52:52] API running in IP access mode on port 4028
[2016-05-15 09:52:52] AMU 0: Opened /dev/cu.SLAB_USBtoUART
[2016-05-15 09:52:54] New best share: 1
[2016-05-15 09:52:56] New best share: 1
[2016-05-15 09:53:00] New best share: 3
[2016-05-15 09:53:00] New best share: 37

20s: 0.79 avg: 2.05 u: 1.93 Gh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:1/ 10%
20s: 1.30 avg: 2.07 u: 1.82 Gh/s | A:0 R:0+0(none) HW:1/5.6%