Ok, just for the noobs like me:
finally it works!
i have a ubuntu 14.04 LTS running on an old sys (athlon x2 2ghz, 4gb ram, 20gb hdd) and installed it following this howto as a p2pool node.
http://coingolem.com/how-to-setup-your-own-p2pool-node-144/tip one: read it without touching your wannabe-node from top to bottom!
tip two: follow the
white rabbit instructions! (vertcoind --daemon takes some time!)
after installing the vertcoind and p2pool software i installed the monocled, edited the /home/*your_name*/.monocle/monocle.conf and started monocled --daemon.
after i installed all, i was searching for some data... is this thing running? only info i got was for the p2pool_run... showing me some data about vtc.
i pointed my 2 rigs (~1.1mh/s together) to my node and checked if they are shown in my browser pointed to my p2pool node (for me: 192.168.0.109:9171) and waited... and waited... and spamed the forum here... and waited, getting bored, waited some more... falling asleep!
this morning i checked with
monocled listtransactions
and see what i found!
[
{
"account" : "",
"address" : "M8qqY2r9RBnVnk2WaQBmcvpm6KFUVzkY6v",
"category" : "immature",
"amount" : 8.04000000,
"confirmations" : 72,
"generated" : true,
"blockhash" : "ec3c217b8b33e1c560c5c012f2a8e52004ed0cecf8f2ada880947b13768171af",
"blockindex" : 0,
"blocktime" : 1399100550,
"txid" : "c9d558490224d51592ce2f2a3758e970df62d4537087e0b5e7c0c5e8a444f0bc",
"normtxid" : "77f8eb815cb8f340d419119640da226ef53f04691e9edae2aef6742c9a541c57",
"time" : 1399100550,
"timereceived" : 1399100608
}
]
OK... to say it clear and without any chance of misunderstanding:
If you setup your own (private) p2pool node you will mining monocle solo!so here comes the jedi academy pro tip:
be patience young padawan!
ps: i'll write a howto/summary for seting up a p2pool (private) node after my shopping and household stuff...
After 14 hours of mining with 0.6 Mh/s, monocled listtransactions still outputs :
The only thing I did different from you is have the monocle.conf in the same place the vertcoin how to stated:
I don't see what difference that should make, because if the config was inaccessible then p2pool would surely show an error when running with the --merge:
I still have no idea if I'm actually mining MON. All I know for sure is that I'm getting paid VTC so at least my mining time isn't being completely wasted.