I solo mine with latest Geth (1.2.2) and ethminer. When there is a network disruption, the Geth stopped getting new blocks, and stuck. My ethminer still mines, wasting power. If I start a new Geth, it will show that there is an exinsting Geth thread and cannot launch. I have to kill the old Geth.
Does anybody have such problem?
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But yes, whenever there is a 24/7 DC I now restart geth to avoid this issue
Also try removing your chain data and download it again.
ethminer different with SGminer, you can see which card stopping. only using your experience and make sure hardware everything ok. i got 600pcs. also one by one to checking.
so you need hard working. other tips, build wallet on service(VPS), it's better than local wallet.
same problem. Geth stops working almost every night - but keeps mining and wasting energy. While desync you will also mine blocks and get ETH rewards but they just disappeare after synchronising.
Any workaround? Probably a network monitor witch sends a mail when internet connection is lost?!
I have setup a batch file to automatically cycle geth.exe every 30 minutes because of this. I lose about 15 seconds of hashing, but even if it goes down, the longest I ever lose is 30minutes and I don't have to constantly watch it. My internet is good but sometimes firewalls/routers get overloaded and after they auto-cycle geth stops receiving new block info.
Hope they fix it ..
@echo on
timeout /t 10
start geth --rpc --rpcaddr 192.168.1.101 --rpcport 8545 --maxpeers 128 console
:loop
timeout /t 3600
taskkill /im "geth.exe" /f
timeout /t 2
start geth --rpc --rpcaddr 192.168.1.101 --rpcport 8545 --maxpeers 128 console
goto loop
Even the latest version still does it, but not as frequently. It's less of an issue now that I'm no longer solo mining. But Geth still seems like it has a lot of stability problems.
I have no idea how the large pools are handling it. They must periodically restart it in order to guarantee it's a fresh startup that hasn't been running for days/weeks, because that seems to be when it starts to become unstable.
Woke up in the morning to find that ethminer was still working on the same block for 2 hours before successfully "mining" it while Geth did not provide the next blocks for ethminer to work on.