RE: [UPDATED 7/6] How-To Mine Steem Power in Windows

[bbqbear]

Even with the new config file by sonarous, (and a witness name in quotes, and miner name and key)
seed-node = seed.steemed.net:2001
witness = "itseasytryit"
miner = ["itseasytryit","5xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"]
mining-threads = 2
it still just crashes on the witness line with this error.
2792457ms th_a witness.cpp:98 plugin_initialize ] _witnesses: ["itseasytryit"]

The cli wallet also crashes immediately with this error:
3250045ms th_a main.cpp:154 main ] wdata.ws_server: ws://localhost:8090
0 exception: unspecified Underlying Transport Error
{"message":"Underlying Transport Error"} asio websocket.cpp:439 operator()
{"uri":"ws://localhost:8090"} th_a websocket.cpp:668 connect
The windows event viewer error says this for every crash (no matter what drive or freshly unpacked files used:
Windows cannot access the file for one of the following reasons: there is a problem with the network connection, the disk that the file is stored on, or the storage drivers installed on this computer; or the disk is missing. Windows closed the program steemd.exe because of this error.

I must be missing some required tools or something.
Has anyone tried it on a fresh windows 7 install? Does this require C++ or some coding tools to be installed?

Comments

[tuck-fheman]

Did you try the fix at the bottom of the guide?

[bbqbear]

Yes. I even added the directories to the PATH. The only difference is if I comment out the miner\witness\threads lines I get this error too
2614689ms th_a application.cpp:299 startup ] Detected unclean shutdown. Replaying blockchain...

[tuck-fheman]

So if you just comment out mining-threads it still crashes?

[bbqbear]

yes

[tuck-fheman]

Try bitcube's miner, I updated Step 1.

[bbqbear]

That works! on one machine anyway. I think the c++ vcredist helped.
The fix for the cli_wallet transport error is to add rpc-endpoint = 127.0.0.1:8090
Thanks for all your help.

[aem]

I also get this same case with the same errors (both in steemd and in the cli_wallet) on an AMD Opteron based Windows 10 machine (Windows just tell me it has stopped working rather than talking about permissions etc.). Another machine I have that is an i7 is able to run the exact same installation and config without any errors. Is your machine AMD? Maybe its something about the hardware that steemd doesn't like?

[bbqbear]

Yes, This is happens an AMD box. I tried it on a different AMD machine and it got 3 blocks downloaded before crashing.
It seems like a required component is missing, since I can't run either exe without a crash.

[tuck-fheman]

Try ...

• overwriting blockchain with pfunk's again
• turning mining off (comment out mining-threads in config.ini)
• start steemd and let it sync until you see the same block # (or as near as possible) as on steemd.com under head_block_number
• then CTRL-C to exit and turn mining back on in config.ini
• restart steemd.exe

[aem]

I overwrote the blockchain and turned mining off but it just crashed again witness.cpp:98

[tuck-fheman]

I overwrote the blockchain and turned mining off but it just crashed again witness.cpp:98

Come into the slack channel and perhaps arhag or someone else can help. I've posted all I know to do on this page so I'm out of options and I got them all from arhag, bhuz or pfunk. ;)

[bbqbear]

Can't join the slack channel, it says

If you have an @steemit.com, @syncad.com or @cryptonaut.vc email address, you can create an account.

[tuck-fheman]

Can't join the slack channel, it says

Sorry, you need to go here to signup...
http://steem.herokuapp.com/

[tuck-fheman]

I'm able to run on AMD A10 so far, but still having issues getting it going on my old i7/860.

[tuck-fheman]

Try bitcube's miner, I updated Step 1.