Hi, please let me know if I'm making an alethzero newbie error...
After connecting via "connect to peer" and enabling the "Mine" button, my mining is shown as "0kH/s" and looking at my system monitor indicates all my cores are idle. Also, the fancy "mining" graph is flatlined. After running for an hour I still have zero wei.
However, if I click the "Force Mining" button under "Debug", my machine springs into action and all my cores are pegged, as I'd expect... unfortunately it looks like I am then mining blocks at a high rate, as if I'm mining blocks on my own local chain. Also, hitting "Force Mining" seems to disable any future block updates from the peers, further suggesting that I am no longer actively connected to the testnet.
So what am I doing wrong, and how do I get some ether for the testnet? (This is such a basic question I'm a little embarassed that I need to ask it and haven't solved it on my own :-)
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OK, I've compiled ethereumcpp on both windows and ubuntu now, and in both cases it shows 0kH/s when connected to the testnet with mining enabled, and the mining graph is flatlined... I guess I'll just run alethzero for a few days and see if any ether shows up, despite the indications suggesting no mining is happening.
I have the same problems with the latest build. 0.6.8b. I am running the server on Ubuntu 14.04 and I am running the client (alethzero) on OSX acquired using brew.
I can connect but when I press the mine button nothing happens. However when I press the force mining button it starts to mine.
It doesn't make sense to me to force mining.. I am wondering if I am doing something wrong or is it a glitch ?
Gr,
Toshio
Some adittional debug information on server side:
-N- [ 12:03:26 | net | 20 ] Hello: AlethZero/v0.6.8b/Develop/Darwin/clang V[ 0 ] c7cfd24d… [eth] 30303
-N- [ 12:03:26 | net | 20 ] Status: 32 / 0 / 08436a4d… , TD: 131072 = 08436a4d…
-N- [ 12:03:26 | net | 20 ] GetBlockHashes ( 256 entries, 08436a4d… )
-N- [ 12:03:26 | net | 20 ] BlockHashes ( 0 entries)
*N* [ 12:03:26 | net ] Hash-chain COMPLETE: 131072 vs 131072 , 0 ; 1 blocks, ends 08436a4d…
*N* [ 12:03:26 | net ] Difficulty of hashchain HIGHER. Replacing fetch queue.
-N- [ 12:03:26 | net ] Asking for 1 blocks that we don't yet have. 0 blocks still needed, 1 blocks on way.
-N- [ 12:03:26 | net | 20 ] GetBlocks ( 1 entries)
-N- [ 12:03:26 | net | 20 ] Blocks ( 1 entries)
-N- [ 12:03:26 | net | 20 ] 0 known parents, 1 unknown, 0 used.
-N- [ 12:03:26 | net ] Asking for 0 blocks that we don't yet have. 0 blocks still needed, 0 blocks on way.
-N- [ 12:03:26 | net | 20 ] No blocks left to get. Peer doesn't seem to have 0 of our needed blocks.
*N* [ 12:03:26 | net ] Peer given up on blocks fetch.
*N* [ 12:03:26 | net ] No more blocks to get.