Prerequisites For Mainnet. Unofficial Airdrop Import & Mining Guide. Use At Your Own Risk!

Oh well, it's safe to say at least 280(?) coins are already lost in space.

I should open more threads in the future before trying my luck with the wallet.

 

Ok, it's enough for tonight. pool mining doesn't work for me for whatever reason and my other terminals seem to be in trouble with my wallet disconnecting and stuff. Going to bed and shutting down the computer for the night. Don't even know how to verify where are my coins and how many i have.

Good night and a very big thank you to those who have helped.

 

~!@#$%^&*()_+-=`[]\{}|;':",./<>?

I dont know if all of them are illegal, but i wasnt able to get the wallet to run after creating a wallet that had some of those in the public and private passphrases. However when i used just upper case, lower case, and numbers i was able to get the dcrwallet to run.

 

I have not used your file but got back to the first page and now i get this:

[2016-02-08 23:26:06] Started cgminer 3.7.2
[2016-02-08 23:26:06] Probing for an alive pool
[2016-02-08 23:26:07] Network diff set to 32.8K (target 1b01ffff)
[2016-02-08 23:26:07] Long-polling activated for http://dcr.pool.mn:4722/LP


I guess it is ok. I don't have the inavlid address problem anymore.

UH?
[2016-02-08 23:28:17] Waiting for work to be available from pools.
[2016-02-08 23:29:01] Work available from pools, resuming.

 

the characters " and \ are very difficult in Linux as they have special meaning in the command interpreter.

 

Thanks for the advice. I have an NVIDIA GPU, so I'm trying to mine with cgminer (on Linux).

First, --blake256 is not recognized. Can anyone explain briefly the meaning of that option? Perhaps I can find the equivalent.

Running without the --blake256 option, I get

Of course, that might be due to the lack of whatever --blake256 provides.

Thanks,

Mike O'Donnel

 

Blake256 is the hashing algorithm for Decred, so no, you can't go without it. You should probably provide more info on what error you are getting.

 

Mining with NVIDIA GPUs.
Daemon runs perfectly.
Wallet runs perfectly.
cgminer(0.0.4) crashes along with nvopencl.dll.

Is it a drivers issue?
Did anybody stumbled upon it?

Thanks

 

I am trying to mine Decred using the forked cgminer with the blake256 algorithm (thanks for straightening out my use of the wrong version of cgminer).

I think that my problems have wandered beyond the scope of the Decred forum, but I'll mention them in case I get lucky and someone can point me toward a solution. Read on only if you feel especially generous with advice ;^D

When I execute cgminer:

I see no further output from cgminer, and it appears to have halted.

Other probes indicate that the NVIDIA gpu is not accessible, and that this is a Linux configuration problem rather than a Decred or cgminer problem. There is no NVIDIA device shown in /dev.

I am running the latest Ubuntu with a low latency kernel on a Lenovo T420, which has a built-in Intel graphics chip, as well as an NVIDIA. The BIOS is set up to choose one graphics support at boot time, and turn the other one off. I have occasionally succeeded in running both chips as video drivers using Bumblebee software, but I broke the configuration many months ago and gave up on it. Since the NVIDIA runs quite hot, and only helps with one program that I run, I fell back on the Intel.

I have no idea how the use of a GPU for mining interacts with the use for video support through X. I was hoping to continue to use the Intel graphics for video, and somehow get to the NVIDIA GPU for mining. No clue so far how to do that.

So, I don't expect much at this point, but any inspired pointers will be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Mike O'Donnell

 

You need the nVidia binary drivers (System Settings -> Software and Updates -> Additional Drivers tab) and you need openCL installed.

 

Thanks. I seem to have had the nVidia 3.40 driver already installed, and according to System Settings, "in use". I updated to 3.52. I had lots of opencl packages, including nvidia-opencl-icd-352-updates, but perhaps not the right ones. I added nvidia-opencl-dev and rebooted, but still no nvidia devices apparent in /dev, and cgminer fails:

The mention of "OpenCL SDK" suggests that I don't have all of the required opencl stuff. I'm studying the nVidia OpenCL page at https://developer.nvidia.com/opencl, but so far the only SDK items i find are code samples, which doesn't sound helpful.

I also wonder whether I'm failing to start some required kernel modules.

This may or may not constitute progress ;^D

Mike O'Donnell

 

I'm getting that "loadConfig: Mainnet is currently inaccessible, please use testnet or simnet
Use dcrd -h to show usage" thing as well when I try to start up dcrd as specified at the beginning of the guide. Noticed at least one other person was having the same problem.

I'm running Lubuntu, have created the wallet and everything else seems fine. Anybody?

 

shout out to @sambiohazard for a great guide!

Couple of things I have noticed for windows users:-

cgminer --blake256 -o https://127.0.0.1:9109 -u user -p pass --cert "%LOCALAPPDATA%\Dcrd\rpc.cert"

If you launch and the screen goes blank or has flashing cursor, try the following command instead:-

cgminer --blake256 -o https://127.0.0.1:9109 -u user -p pass --cert "%LOCALAPPDATA%\Dcrd\rpc.cert" -T

That should at least give you the onscreen hashrate, press crtl+c to quit and get your stats.
No suitable long-poll found for https://127.0.0.1:9109 is an expected message if you are solo mining.

TLS errors are related to user/password or authentication failure (using http: instead of https: in batch /config files etc).

If you still have the testnet files/certs etc in "%LOCALAPPDATA%\Dcrd or dcrdwallet folders, best to remove everything (MAKE SURE YOU STILL HAVE MAINNET WALLET SEED BEFORE DELETING ANYTHING). You will need the seed if you delete the wallet to restore any decreds you may have.

Delete all drcd and dcrdwallet folders including previously extracted zip's. Download the latest binaries and cgminer again and extract them into new folders.

Start guide from scratch.

Cheers,
sw1

 

@sambiohazard Thanks so much for this guide, I honestly couldn't have set this up without your step by step info, apreesh man.

Blessings,
Evan