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Re: CGMINER ASIC FPGA GPU overc monit fanspd RPC linux/win/osx/mip/r-pi 3.5.0
by
spacebob
on 07/10/2013, 12:46:14 UTC
....
Ok I will give upgrading a shot. Thanks.
I've just built and run mine on raspbian
and it seems to be fine .. however I do it like :-
ver=3.5.0
wget http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/cgminer-$ver.tar.bz2
tar xf cgminer-$ver.tar.bz2
cd cgminer-$ver
mkdir libusb
cd libusb
wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/libusb/files/libusb-1.0/libusb-1.0.16-rc10/libusb-1.0.16-rc10.tar.bz2
tar -xf libusb-1.0.16-rc10.tar.bz2
cd libusb-1.0.16-rc10
./configure
make CC=distcc
cd ../..
LIBUSB_CFLAGS="-I./libusb/libusb-1.0.16-rc10/libusb" LIBUSB_LIBS="./libusb/libusb-1.0.16-rc10/libusb/.libs/libusb-1.0.a -ludev" ./configure --enable-icarus --enable-bitfury --disable-opencl
make CC=distcc


I think the problem was I just hadn't updated anything when I re flashed the sd card.

I had a similar error and I solved it by adding slub_debug=FP to /boot/cmdline.txt. I talked about it over at the Raspberry Pi support forums. http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=55370
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Re: CGMINER ASIC FPGA GPU overc monit fanspd RPC linux/win/osx/mip/r-pi 3.4.2
by
spacebob
on 12/09/2013, 12:47:37 UTC
Yeah your kernel crashed on you.
99.9999% likely an SD card problem.
Get a new SD and also make sure it is Class 10.
(and always make sure you shut it own properly, don't just switch it off)

So I brought up this issue over at the Raspberry Pi support Forums and it sounds like this is probably a kernel bug.

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=55370
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Re: CGMINER ASIC FPGA GPU overc monit fanspd RPC linux/win/osx/mip/r-pi 3.4.2
by
spacebob
on 11/09/2013, 14:58:04 UTC
Yeah your kernel crashed on you.
99.9999% likely an SD card problem.
Get a new SD and also make sure it is Class 10.
(and always make sure you shut it own properly, don't just switch it off)

The one I have now is a SanDisk 16GB Class 10. Perhaps I just got a junk one...
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Re: CGMINER ASIC FPGA GPU overc monit fanspd RPC linux/win/osx/mip/r-pi 3.4.2
by
spacebob
on 11/09/2013, 14:06:36 UTC
No idea then sorry. Perhaps your Pi is coincidentally failing or as you say, some upgraded other package is responsible.

I was able t get a screen cap of the error when the system locks up

http://i.imgur.com/7sSZPU2.jpg

I'm not sure what this error means but I'm leaning towards that there was some kind of disk access error. Perhaps the SD card on my Pi is corrupted?
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Re: USB ASIC ERUPTER - Setup & Config. BCG Miner, cgminer & Hubs "Oh Pi"!
by
spacebob
on 10/09/2013, 12:56:43 UTC
So I got a kinda weird issue.

I started mining on my Raspberry Pi (O/S: Raspian) with 5 Block Eruptors on a DLink DUB-7 on August 19th using cgminer 3.3.4 and followed the included instructions on how to compile the libusb libraries myself. It worked great and it ran non-stop for a few weeks. The other day I decided to update cgminer to 3.4.2. After mining for about 20 minutes the Pi seemed to locked up. My SSH session died and I couldn't ping the Pi anymore. I figured it was just a fluke so I restarted the Pi but, again, after mining for about 20 minutes the Pi locks up.

I figured that this must have just been an issue with the newest version of cgminer so I went back to 3.3.4 with no luck. 3.3.4 now causes the Pi to lock up as well. I thought that maybe the Pi was overheating so I tried doing something else intensive; watching a 1080p movie over my LAN for 2hrs+ but it worked great and never locked up. I also tried mining just with 1 miner but the Pi still locked up.

Perhaps there is an issue with the newest packages for the Pi? How can I provide some more detailed info to see what is going on? Anything else I can try to resolve the issue?

I've also posted this issue in the cgminer thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=28402.msg3121424#msg3121424
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Re: CGMINER ASIC FPGA GPU overc monit fanspd RPC linux/win/osx/mip/r-pi 3.4.2
by
spacebob
on 10/09/2013, 12:43:49 UTC
So I got a kinda weird issue.

I started mining on my Raspberry Pi (O/S: Raspian) with 5 Block Eruptors on a DLink DUB-7 on August 19th using cgminer 3.3.4 and followed the included instructions on how to compile the libusb libraries myself. It worked great and it ran non-stop for a few weeks. The other day I decided to update cgminer to 3.4.2. After mining for about 20 minutes the Pi seemed to locked up. My SSH session died and I couldn't ping the Pi anymore. I figured it was just a fluke so I restarted the Pi but, again, after mining for about 20 minutes the Pi locks up.

I figured that this must have just been an issue with the newest version of cgminer so I went back to 3.3.4 with no luck. 3.3.4 now causes the Pi to lock up as well. I thought that maybe the Pi was overheating so I tried doing something else intensive; watching a 1080p movie over my LAN for 2hrs+ but it worked great and never locked up. I also tried mining just with 1 miner but the Pi still locked up.

Perhaps there is an issue with the newest packages for the Pi? How can I provide some more detailed info to see what is going on? Anything else I can try to resolve the issue?
If going back to the previous version doesn't resolve the issue, how can the new version be responsible?

I'm not saying the newest version is responsible for the issue. I was just describing what I've tried so far.

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Perhaps there is an issue with the newest packages for the Pi
What I meant by this is maybe updating my Pi's firmware and packages are causing the issue.
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Re: CGMINER ASIC FPGA GPU overc monit fanspd RPC linux/win/osx/mip/r-pi 3.4.2
by
spacebob
on 10/09/2013, 12:23:33 UTC
So I got a kinda weird issue.

I started mining on my Raspberry Pi (O/S: Raspian) with 5 Block Eruptors on a DLink DUB-7 on August 19th using cgminer 3.3.4 and followed the included instructions on how to compile the libusb libraries myself. It worked great and it ran non-stop for a few weeks. The other day I decided to update cgminer to 3.4.2. After mining for about 20 minutes the Pi seemed to locked up. My SSH session died and I couldn't ping the Pi anymore. I figured it was just a fluke so I restarted the Pi but, again, after mining for about 20 minutes the Pi locks up.

I figured that this must have just been an issue with the newest version of cgminer so I went back to 3.3.4 with no luck. 3.3.4 now causes the Pi to lock up as well. I thought that maybe the Pi was overheating so I tried doing something else intensive; watching a 1080p movie over my LAN for 2hrs+ but it worked great and never locked up. I also tried mining just with 1 miner but the Pi still locked up.

Perhaps there is an issue with the newest packages for the Pi? How can I provide some more detailed info to see what is going on? Anything else I can try to resolve the issue?
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Re: [OPEN - IN STOCK - SHIPPING] batch #22/23 ASICMiner USB + Blade miners
by
spacebob
on 22/08/2013, 12:55:57 UTC
spacebob; 2; 0.66; 1F7ffnSiory39P3J8WBbt1XXJcr2dHqXWF
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Re: USB ASIC ERUPTER - Setup & Config. BCG Miner, cgminer & Hubs "Oh Pi"!
by
spacebob
on 19/08/2013, 20:29:53 UTC
Got my Raspberry Pi / ASMICMiner Block Erupter / DLink DUB-7 setup working.

http://i.imgur.com/lftTewv.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/5RFlr9T.png

I'll probably look into getting a newer version of cgminer working by building libusb myself but for right now this is humming along quite nicely. I'll probably buy 2 more sticks once these guys have hopefully mined a few BTC. I have no aspirations of getting a ROI, just doing this for fun.

While the sicks do get hot they don't get as hot as I thought they would. That could be because the fan is doing a great job or I haven't really run them long enough to generate much heat (<4 hours)
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Re: [CLOSED] batch #20/21 .31 - .35 btc for USB miners & 10.25 blades - USA only
by
spacebob
on 19/08/2013, 16:11:15 UTC
Received my 2 Eligius orders and am mining away on my Raspberry Pi
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Re: [CLOSED] batch #20/21 .31 - .35 btc for USB miners & 10.25 blades - USA only
by
spacebob
on 17/08/2013, 11:02:09 UTC
time to get some rest. good night all!

heya heya! You deserve your rest...but for in the morning...I got my confirmation for my Eligius order but after the part where it says "and your tracking number is" its just blank. Then when you click on the link that says "You an also view your order information here" the page it takes me to has the title of "Access denied | ELIGIUS" and the body states "You are not authorized to access this page."

Sooo...I'm gonna go ahead and assume my order is on its way and this is just an informative message for you in case the same thing happened to all Eligius orders...OR tomorrow at some point you will reply to this asking for my particular Eligius order number to double check things...OR its very late, I'm very tired, and completely reading everything wrong.

Whatever the case may be this has been an amazing thread to watch and I'm excited and hopeful that a goodie may arrive for me some time next week. Keep up the great work! Cheesy

Same here. It's nice to know that my order shipped but a tracking number would be nice too.
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Re: [SHIPPING] batch #20/21 .31 - .35 btc for USB miners & 10.25 blades - USA only
by
spacebob
on 15/08/2013, 01:00:34 UTC
WooHoo! Can't wait to get my first miner.
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CPU usage of cgminer on Raspberry Pi
by
spacebob
on 14/08/2013, 12:45:21 UTC
I bought a couple ASIC Block Erupters from CanaryInTheMine and plan on mining on my Raspberry Pi. I love using my RPi as a HTPC to play videos on my LAN and would prefer not do dedicate it to just mining. Does cgminer use so much CPU that I wouldn't be able play videos at the same time? I know, for HD videos, most of the processing is done on the GPU for video processing but some CPU must be used for fetching content on the network.

Can both cgminer and HD video be played at the same time?