CPU miner working but not in API output, GPU & CGminer aren't working

Chris Nochance

So CPU miner is up & running. But my GPU miner isn't. I've installed Xcode & nothing, command line tools, nothing, nvidia tools, nothing, nvidia dev kit, nothing. I'm over at wemineltc it says my cpu isn't even running (when it is) as per the application & the pool. But my info isn't getting sent back for some reason? I have different url's & un's for CPU / GPU's are the 2 the same app underneath & that's why I'm having problems? What am I doing wrong? My GPU is saying OpenCL isn't installed but it comes with Mavericks 10.9.2. 

Reply was 'STATUS=S,When=1398849230,Code=9,Msg=2 GPU(s) - 0 PGA(s) - 0 CPU(s),Description=bfgminer 3.10.0|GPU=0,Name=OCL,ID=0,Enabled=Y,Status=Alive,Device Elapsed=3484,MHS av=0.000,MHS 5s=0.000,Accepted=0,Rejected=0,Hardware Errors=0,Utility=0.000,Stale=0,Last Share Pool=0,Last Share Time=0,Total MH=0.0000,Diff1 Work=0,Work Utility=0.000,Difficulty Accepted=0.00000000,Difficulty Rejected=0.00000000,Difficulty Stale=0.00000000,Last Valid Work=1398845744,Device Hardware%=0.0000,Device Rejected%=0.0000,Fan Speed=0,Fan Percent=0,GPU Clock=0,Memory Clock=0,GPU Voltage=0.000,GPU Activity=0,Powertune=0,Intensity=8|GPU=1,Name=OCL,ID=1,Enabled=N,Status=NoStart,Device Elapsed=3480,MHS av=0.000,MHS 5s=0.000,Accepted=0,Rejected=0,Hardware Errors=0,Utility=0.000,Stale=0,Last Share Pool=0,Last Share Time=0,Total MH=0.0000,Diff1 Work=0,Work Utility=0.000,Difficulty Accepted=0.00000000,Difficulty Rejected=0.00000000,Difficulty Stale=0.00000000,Last Valid Work=1398845744,Device Hardware%=0.0000,Device Rejected%=0.0000,Fan Speed=0,Fan Percent=0,GPU Clock=0,Memory Clock=0,GPU Voltage=0.000,GPU Activity=0,Powertune=0,Intensity=2|'

FabulousPanda

CPU miner doesn't update API window yet as it doesn't use the same API as the others. It can take a while to show work on heavily mined coins due to high difficulty. Can you post specifically what it says about OpenCL please? It sounds like it's not using a GPU fit for mining, check in Sys Prefs that it's set to always use your better GPU if you're using a relevant MacBook.

Chris Nochance

Changed the graphics card to the "better one". Now I'm getting, 

Your miner was restarted automatically after a sudden stop at 20:48:12.

CPU miner & GPU miner both just start over & over again. I tried to past more of what's going on the last time I was in here but it wouldn't let me post that much.  

GPU Miner reporting:

 [2014-05-05 20:56:04] Started bfgminer 3.10.0

 [2014-05-05 20:56:04] Loaded configuration file /Users/chris/Library/Application Support/MacMiner/ltcurls.conf

 [2014-05-05 20:56:04] CL Platform 0 vendor: Apple

 [2014-05-05 20:56:04] CL Platform 0 name: Apple

 [2014-05-05 20:56:04] CL Platform 0 version: OpenCL 1.2 (Dec  8 2013 21:07:05)

 [2014-05-05 20:56:05] Platform 0 devices: 2

 [2014-05-05 20:56:05] 0 GeForce 9600M GT

 [2014-05-05 20:56:05] 1 GeForce 9400M

 [2014-05-05 20:56:05] Unable to load ati adl library

 [2014-05-05 20:56:05] Probing for an alive pool

 [2014-05-05 20:56:05] Testing pool stratum+tcp://crypto-coin-pool.com:3335

 [2014-05-05 20:56:05] HTTP request failed: Protocol stratum+tcp not supported or disabled in libcurl

 [2014-05-05 20:56:05] Stratum connect failed to pool 0: Failed connect to crypto-coin-pool.com:3335; Connection refused

 [2014-05-05 20:56:06] No servers were found that could be used to get work from.

 [2014-05-05 20:56:06] Please check the details from the list below of the servers you have input

 [2014-05-05 20:56:06] Most likely you have input the wrong URL, forgotten to add a port, or have not set up workers

 [2014-05-05 20:56:06] Pool: 0  URL: stratum+tcp://crypto-coin-pool.com:3335  User: orcaman42.gpu  Password: x

No servers could be used! Exiting.

 [2014-05-05 20:56:04] Started bfgminer 3.10.0                    

 [2014-05-05 20:56:04] Loaded configuration file /Users/chris/Library/Application Support/MacMiner/ltcurls.conf                    

 [2014-05-05 20:56:05] Probing for an alive pool                    

 [2014-05-05 20:56:06] No servers were found that could be used to get work from.                    

 [2014-05-05 20:56:06] Please check the details from the list below of the servers you have input                    

 [2014-05-05 20:56:06] Most likely you have input the wrong URL, forgotten to add a port, or have not set up workers                    

 [2014-05-05 20:56:06] Pool: 0  URL: stratum+tcp://crypto-coin-pool.com:3335  User: orcaman42.gpu  Password: x                    

Half way in the middle it says the thing @ the top in an error message. 

CG miner just tries to log into fabpanda w/ no un / pw & errors out...

FabulousPanda

you're having a problem with your pool setup, check the address username and password again

Chris Nochance

No, I'm not...

Chris Nochance

I've even changed my settings to another pool & back & I'm getting the same problem. I've rebooted & tried again & I'm getting the same problem. My UN & PW's are EXTREMELY simple. Besides, all I have to do is copy & paste it into the fields... The software isn't working correctly & I don't know why? Even when I change pools I can log into both pools & I get the same types of error messages...

Chris Nochance

[2014-05-06 10:59:22] 2 miner threads started, using 'scrypt' algorithm.

[2014-05-06 10:59:22] Starting Stratum on stratum+tcp://usa4.wemineltc.com:3333

[2014-05-06 10:59:22] Binding thread 0 to cpu 0

[2014-05-06 10:59:22] Binding thread 1 to cpu 1

[2014-05-06 10:59:23] Stratum detected new block

[2014-05-06 10:59:25] thread 1: 4104 hashes, 3.60 khash/s

[2014-05-06 10:59:25] thread 0: 4104 hashes, 3.49 khash/s

[2014-05-06 10:59:27] Stratum detected new block

[2014-05-06 10:59:27] thread 0: 8088 hashes, 3.76 khash/s

[2014-05-06 10:59:27] thread 1: 8148 hashes, 3.71 khash/s

[2014-05-06 11:00:27] stratum_recv_line failed

[2014-05-06 11:00:27] Stratum connection interrupted

Chris Nochance

see how it says, "stratum_recv_line failed" I'll get that over & over again...

FabulousPanda

Does the work from the CPU miner show up on wemineltc at all? The log from BFG suggests a problem handling the pool details

 [2014-05-05 20:56:05] Stratum connect failed to pool 0: Failed connect to crypto-coin-pool.com:3335; Connection refused

 [2014-05-05 20:56:06] No servers were found that could be used to get work from.

 [2014-05-05 20:56:06] Please check the details from the list below of the servers you have input

 [2014-05-05 20:56:06] Most likely you have input the wrong URL, forgotten to add a port, or have not set up workers

 [2014-05-05 20:56:06] Pool: 0  URL: stratum+tcp://crypto-coin-pool.com:3335  User: orcaman42.gpu  Password: x

No servers could be used! Exiting.

It could be as simple as replacing stratum+tcp:// with http://

I can't see how that pool wants to be set up though. To get to the root of the problem you could try setting up with P2Pool just to see whether it works

pool

http://pool.fabulouspanda.co.uk:9327 (for LTC port 9332 for BTC)

then LTC/BTC address for both username and password

Chris Nochance

When I log into wemineltc.com initially it would show x received x accepted (on the MacMiner window). On the site it would say 0 active miners, but the work would post & it did accumulate, for a while, then it stopped all together. I even tried mining @ a new account that I created again it's showing work is getting done here for a while, then no active workers but work applied to my account? I don't get it? When I log into crypto-coin it's showing me no active pool activity. So I guess I was to assume the pool was down? That's why I switched pools. When that didn't work I tried a new one? Again it would work for a while & then drop off & stop working. As you can see I've pulled my hair out over the issue I don't know what else I could / should do?

FabulousPanda

I see - which version did you start with? I think this might be a problem resulting from my using the gridseed cpuminer in the latest version

Chris Nochance

1.5.18e I upgraded to the "newer" version & I still get the same error messages.  

FabulousPanda

Please grab 1.5.20b3 and let me know whether you have any better luck!

Chris Nochance

Installed 1.5.20b3, rebooted:

GPU Miner:

 [2014-05-10 21:21:07] /Applications/MacMiner.app/Contents/Resources/bfgminer/bin/bfgminer: -c: JSON decode of file '/Users/chris/Library/Application Support/MacMiner/ltcurls.conf' failed

 string or '}' expected near '}'

 [2014-05-10 21:21:07] /Applications/MacMiner.app/Contents/Resources/bfgminer/bin/bfgminer: -c: JSON decode of file '/Users/chris/Library/Application Support/MacMiner/ltcurls.conf' failed

 string or '}' expected near '}'

Error repeats & restarts until MacMiner is quit.

CPU Miner:

[2014-05-10 21:33:52] 2 miner threads started, using 'scrypt' algorithm.

[2014-05-10 21:33:52] Starting Stratum on stratum+tcp://usa4.wemineltc.com:3333

[2014-05-10 21:33:52] Binding thread 0 to cpu 0

[2014-05-10 21:33:52] Binding thread 1 to cpu 1

[2014-05-10 21:33:52] Stratum detected new block

[2014-05-10 21:33:55] thread 1: 4104 hashes, 2.04 khash/s

[2014-05-10 21:33:55] thread 0: 4104 hashes, 1.93 khash/s

[2014-05-10 21:34:38] thread 0: 115824 hashes, 2.70 khash/s

[2014-05-10 21:34:40] thread 1: 122700 hashes, 2.73 khash/s

[2014-05-10 21:35:00] stratum_recv_line failed

[2014-05-10 21:35:00] Stratum connection interrupted

Keep getting the line failed connection interrupted lines. I'm also getting a notification from the app saying:

You have version 1520b3, 1518e is available. Wouldn't that be a downgrade?

Chris Nochance

Just for fun I left it on over night & I pointed it at an altcoin. By morning I got several emails saying my worker was idle.

FabulousPanda

Does downgrading fix the issue?

FabulousPanda

I don't see the same incorrect upgrade message as you, and it shouldn't be shown - if you click 'Check for updates' in the MacMiner menu does it say the same?

Chris Nochance

Yes I've updated to 1.5.20gm, No I'm not seeing any difference in performance. & No downgrading didn't fix the issue.

CPU Miner:

[2014-05-13 07:00:31] 2 miner threads started, using 'scrypt' algorithm.

[2014-05-13 07:00:31] Starting Stratum on stratum+tcp://crypto-coin-pool.com:3335

[2014-05-13 07:00:31] Binding thread 0 to cpu 0

[2014-05-13 07:00:31] Binding thread 1 to cpu 1

[2014-05-13 07:00:32] Stratum connection failed: Failed connect to crypto-coin-pool.com:3335; Connection refused

[2014-05-13 07:00:32] ...retry after 30 seconds

[2014-05-13 07:01:02] Stratum connection failed: Failed connect to crypto-coin-pool.com:3335; Connection refused

[2014-05-13 07:01:02] ...retry after 30 seconds

GPU Miner:

 [2014-05-13 07:02:16] /Applications/MacMiner.app/Contents/Resources/bfgminer/bin/bfgminer: -c: JSON decode of file '/Users/chris/Library/Application Support/MacMiner/ltcurls.conf' failed

 string or '}' expected near '}'

 [2014-05-13 07:02:16] /Applications/MacMiner.app/Contents/Resources/bfgminer/bin/bfgminer: -c: JSON decode of file '/Users/chris/Library/Application Support/MacMiner/ltcurls.conf' failed

string or '}' expected near '}'                    

I don't know what other information I could give you to help us figure out the problem here?

FabulousPanda

That GPU miner bug indicates something has gone wrong with the LTC conf file - reapplying the pool settings for LTC should fix it! I wonder whether that's the root of both problems?

Chris Nochance

Settings changed over to wemineltc.com 

CPU Miner:

[2014-05-13 08:01:37] 2 miner threads started, using 'scrypt' algorithm.

[2014-05-13 08:01:37] Starting Stratum on stratum+tcp://usa4.wemineltc.com:3333

[2014-05-13 08:01:37] Binding thread 0 to cpu 0

[2014-05-13 08:01:37] Binding thread 1 to cpu 1

[2014-05-13 08:01:39] Stratum detected new block

[2014-05-13 08:01:41] thread 0: 4104 hashes, 2.48 khash/s

[2014-05-13 08:01:41] thread 1: 4104 hashes, 2.30 khash/s

[2014-05-13 08:01:51] Stratum detected new block

[2014-05-13 08:01:51] thread 1: 25932 hashes, 2.52 khash/s

[2014-05-13 08:01:51] thread 0: 25848 hashes, 2.49 khash/s

[2014-05-13 08:02:46] thread 0: 149124 hashes, 2.73 khash/s

[2014-05-13 08:02:47] thread 1: 151272 hashes, 2.73 khash/s

[2014-05-13 08:02:51] stratum_recv_line failed

[2014-05-13 08:02:51] Stratum connection interrupted

[2014-05-13 08:02:52] thread 0: 15216 hashes, 2.81 khash/s

[2014-05-13 08:02:52] thread 1: 12744 hashes, 2.75 khash/s

[2014-05-13 08:02:52] Stratum detected new block

[2014-05-13 08:03:18] Stratum detected new block

[2014-05-13 08:03:18] thread 1: 72264 hashes, 2.83 khash/s

[2014-05-13 08:03:18] thread 0: 72180 hashes, 2.83 khash/s

GPU Miner:

 [2014-05-13 08:00:49] /Applications/MacMiner.app/Contents/Resources/bfgminer/bin/bfgminer: -c: JSON decode of file '/Users/chris/Library/Application Support/MacMiner/ltcurls.conf' failed

 string or '}' expected near '}'

 [2014-05-13 08:00:49] /Applications/MacMiner.app/Contents/Resources/bfgminer/bin/bfgminer: -c: JSON decode of file '/Users/chris/Library/Application Support/MacMiner/ltcurls.conf' failed

 string or '}' expected near '}'                    

Then I get an alert saying the settings have changed & get the same response again, then it says it's restarting, then I get the same results again & around we go...

FabulousPanda

How did you change the pool, manually via the conf or via the simple GUI?

Chris Nochance

With the buttons on my screen, I clicked the gear, I clicked "Edit Pool Settings", the preferences window came up, I copied & pasted my settings in, I clicked Save then Apply (such a pc move ), Then I clicked "Start".

FabulousPanda

Can you please post the pool, username and password here (changing those afterwards if you like) - perhaps some special character is breaking the setup?

Chris Nochance

.KFVGHAO;IHGKSFA.DKLFNA/LSKNG

FabulousPanda

and can you please open 

/Users/chris/Library/Application Support/MacMiner/ltcurls.conf

and post the contents here?

Chris Nochance

Open with? Xcode, TextEdit?

FabulousPanda

TextEdit please

Chris Nochance

a;sdifjasoighjas

FabulousPanda

ooof, Stupid mistake on my part which I'll fix for the next release, thanks for the continued help! Please remove the last comma "," in there which comes after the square closing bracket "]", making sure auto-replace doesn't swap out anything like quotes for curly quotes

FabulousPanda

Alternately, in the pool setup click use legacy and setup that way for now

Chris Nochance

Still getting the same output

Cpu Miner:

[2014-05-13 08:33:22] 2 miner threads started, using 'scrypt' algorithm.

[2014-05-13 08:33:22] Starting Stratum on stratum+tcp://usa4.wemineltc.com:3333

[2014-05-13 08:33:22] Binding thread 0 to cpu 0

[2014-05-13 08:33:22] Binding thread 1 to cpu 1

[2014-05-13 08:33:23] Stratum detected new block

[2014-05-13 08:33:25] thread 1: 4104 hashes, 2.35 khash/s

[2014-05-13 08:33:25] thread 0: 4104 hashes, 2.33 khash/s

[2014-05-13 08:33:40] Stratum detected new block

[2014-05-13 08:33:40] thread 1: 40968 hashes, 2.77 khash/s

[2014-05-13 08:33:40] thread 0: 40812 hashes, 2.76 khash/s

[2014-05-13 08:34:19] Stratum detected new block

[2014-05-13 08:34:19] thread 1: 110172 hashes, 2.80 khash/s

[2014-05-13 08:34:19] thread 0: 110172 hashes, 2.80 khash/s

[2014-05-13 08:35:18] thread 1: 168180 hashes, 2.85 khash/s

[2014-05-13 08:35:18] thread 0: 168168 hashes, 2.85 khash/s

[2014-05-13 08:35:19] stratum_recv_line failed

[2014-05-13 08:35:19] Stratum connection interrupted

[2014-05-13 08:35:19] thread 0: 1080 hashes, 2.57 khash/s

[2014-05-13 08:35:19] thread 1: 1392 hashes, 2.66 khash/s

[2014-05-13 08:35:19] Stratum detected new block

[2014-05-13 08:36:14] thread 0: 154320 hashes, 2.86 khash/s

[2014-05-13 08:36:15] thread 1: 159540 hashes, 2.86 khash/s

GPU Miner:

 [2014-05-13 08:38:13] Started bfgminer 3.99.0

 [2014-05-13 08:38:13] Loaded configuration file /Users/chris/Library/Application Support/MacMiner/ltcurls.conf

 [2014-05-13 08:38:14] CL Platform 0 vendor: Apple

 [2014-05-13 08:38:14] CL Platform 0 name: Apple

 [2014-05-13 08:38:14] CL Platform 0 version: OpenCL 1.2 (Dec  8 2013 21:07:05)

 [2014-05-13 08:38:18] Platform 0 devices: 2

 [2014-05-13 08:38:18] 0 GeForce 9400M

 [2014-05-13 08:38:18] 1 GeForce 9600M GT

 [2014-05-13 08:38:18] Unable to load ati adl library

 [2014-05-13 08:38:18] Probing for an alive pool

 [2014-05-13 08:38:19] Testing pool stratum+tcp://usa4.wemineltc.com:3333

 [2014-05-13 08:38:20] HTTP request failed: Protocol stratum+tcp not supported or disabled in libcurl

 [2014-05-13 08:38:21] Stratum authorisation success for pool 0

 [2014-05-13 08:38:21] Pool 0 stratum+tcp://usa4.wemineltc.com:3333 alive

 [2014-05-13 08:38:22] Pool 0 is hiding block contents from us

 [2014-05-13 08:38:22] Init GPU thread 0 GPU 0 virtual GPU 0

 [2014-05-13 08:38:22] Network difficulty changed to 6.82k (48.78G)

 [2014-05-13 08:38:22] New block: ...0199d366 #566355 diff 6.82k (48.78G)

 [2014-05-13 08:38:22] CL Platform vendor: Apple

 [2014-05-13 08:38:22] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block

 [2014-05-13 08:38:22] CL Platform name: Apple

 [2014-05-13 08:38:22] CL Platform version: OpenCL 1.2 (Dec  8 2013 21:07:05)

 [2014-05-13 08:38:22] List of devices:

 [2014-05-13 08:38:22] 0 GeForce 9400M

 [2014-05-13 08:38:22] 1 GeForce 9600M GT

 [2014-05-13 08:38:22] Selected 0: GeForce 9400M

 [2014-05-13 08:38:23] Selecting scrypt kernel

 [2014-05-13 08:39:33] Initialising kernel scrypt.cl without bitalign, 1 vectors and worksize 256

 [2014-05-13 08:39:33] initCl() finished. Found GeForce 9400M

 [2014-05-13 08:39:33] Init GPU thread 1 GPU 1 virtual GPU 1

 [2014-05-13 08:39:33] CL Platform vendor: Apple

 [2014-05-13 08:39:33] CL Platform name: Apple

 [2014-05-13 08:39:33] CL Platform version: OpenCL 1.2 (Dec  8 2013 21:07:05)