Hi,
I am using Ethereum (++) 0.6.8d on an Ubuntu 14.04.01 VM. I am trying unsuccessfully to mine on the global testnet.
I run alethzero, click "Connect To Peer" and connect to the default global testnet (poc-6.ethdev.com:30303). At this point all sorts of good stuff starts happening:
- The accounts section is filled out with things like NameReg and GavCoin
- Peers is filled out with 5 peers, some low "ping times" even
- A whole load of Contracts appear
- The block chain seems to be downloaded, seems there has been one block (1264) added in the last day though??
So this is all terribly exciting, and looks good, though the messages i am getting indicate a few problems such as:
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 2055, resource id: 0, major code: 15 (QueryTree), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 2360, resource id: 0, major code: 15 (QueryTree), minor code: 0
*N* [ 09:03:03 AM | p2p | 43 ] GIVE UP FETCH
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 4440, resource id: 0, major code: 15 (QueryTree), minor code: 0
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 4644, resource id: 0, major code: 15 (QueryTree), minor code: 0
Now I am trying to get some gas so i can run my first test contract, so I click the "Mine" button. And nothing seems to happen, looking again at the log messages i see the somewhat encouraging messages:
*** [ 09:07:19 AM | miner-0 ] Committing to mine on block c2ddf491…
*** [ 09:07:19 AM | miner-0 ] Post-reward stateRoot: 6f1c7067…
*** [ 09:07:19 AM | miner-1 ] Committing to mine on block c2ddf491…
*** [ 09:07:19 AM | miner-1 ] Post-reward stateRoot: 6f1c7067…
But nothing else, so I leave it for 30 minutes and still nothing, my balance remains at "0 wei", the mining graph has nothing on it.
I have attached a screenshot of alethzero.
Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong please?
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EDIT: please only use 'force mining' for a short while, just enough to get ether for your contracts. Alternatively (and preferably), use the wei faucet at zerogox.com/ethereum/wei_faucet
I just realized you had answered my question in the first dapp post, I hadn't got that far as i was following the links before it to get mining/testnet working, sorry about that.
I got off on a tangent because my client didn't look like your image.
Maybe its an idea to replace that pic with what a brand new user would actually see at that point in the process.
I reset alethzero and deleted the blockchain and got this clean image if you want it.
I figured out how to force mining with the command line client, but can't find it in alethzero.
And yes, I understand that this is a debug network. I won't leave the mining on, promise! It's just frustrating that I can't play with it now.
Now, if that gets too frustrating, you could also completely delete ~/Library/Preferences/com.ethereum.alethzero.plist (if you're on OSX) and it will reset the layout to default.