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mirrax

@all What makes you think v0.9.3 is correct while v0.8.7 and v0.11.2 are not?

good question!

Wellenreiter

@ghostlander
more or less because 0.9.3 is up to date with blocks, while 0.11.X is stuck at a block with time stamp 2016-03-04 01:18:53

ghostlander

What’s the current version of the ACP master?

Wellenreiter

good question
it’s on 0.8.7
I just got the login
will upgrade now

ghostlander

Restart your v0.8.7 or v0.11.2 or whatever clients with -disablesafemode to get past block 1114310:

getmininginfo

{
“blocks” : 1114311,
“currentblocksize” : 0,
“currentblocktx” : 0,
“difficulty” : 3.18099943,
“errors” : “Warning: Displayed transactions may not be correct! You may need to upgrade, or other nodes may need to upgrade.”,
“generate” : false,
“genproclimit” : 2,
“hashespersec” : 0,
“networkhashps” : 7255790,
“pooledtx” : 0,
“testnet” : false
}

getblockhash 1114311

93515f222f16a9ff3db6594e5ee7c12924cff9ba05b01dbe551d0a9e65dd141f

getblock 93515f222f16a9ff3db6594e5ee7c12924cff9ba05b01dbe551d0a9e65dd141f

{
“hash” : “93515f222f16a9ff3db6594e5ee7c12924cff9ba05b01dbe551d0a9e65dd141f”,
“confirmations” : 1,
“size” : 699,
“height” : 1114311,
“version” : 2,
“merkleroot” : “66820d69d4182bbed60e5e16c44abf41bfc0ba0b502ed0045977c09b48a0751e”,
“tx” : [
“66d9ad39a53a125af297f29c854b8a601c94a90a1db50ba66dcff4455ab4b4f5”,
“0279c10941069002cd8dff09131796d11d214820287f98bd3eb7e1b176b3fa5a”,
“400f7f8ec558f427cb4207deea196cb20cccc403da0c971225dec1f9394ec100”
],
“time” : 1457105972,
“nonce” : 30598,
“bits” : “1c507a04”,
“difficulty” : 3.18099943,
“previousblockhash” : “944a95ddacb5b567448ee450b0f0f4c328e4cfff92c7ad2f255d199ef53e0641”
}

BTW, I think it’s a nonsense to disable RPC in safe mode.

ghostlander

If most pools and exchanges follow v0.8.7 and v0.11.2, maybe it’s better to follow this fork and investigate incompatibility with v0.9.x. When BTC forked in 2013 due to differences between LevelDB (v0.8) and BerkeleyDB (v0.7 and earlier), they reverted to the v0.7 chain.

https://bitcoin.org/en/alert/2013-03-11-chain-fork

tmuir12

I’ve got my 0.8.7 node back up

bsotnikow

@uncle_muddy Thanks. OK. Is it best I just wait, don’t open it and worry about it when its resolved? Or should I try disablesafemode? . . .I would need someone to walk me through exactly how to do that.

AmDD

is there a 0.9.5 for mac? Im having luck with 0.9.5 on windows.

ghostlander

When non-v0.9 wallets recognised they are on a shorter chain and couldn’t reorganise to the v0.9 chain, they dropped into safe mode. The Bitcoin Core developers decided some time ago when a wallet drops into safe mode, it disables all RPC commands. This is dangerous. Therefore pools had their Stratum front ends running, but couldn’t submit any work to their daemons. They were stuck.

bsotnikow

@ghostlander Hey guys, sorry to be the biggest dummy in the room. OK so to be sure I have this right. I’m going into my console on 8.7.1 and entering the -disablesafemode command. . . . Then I’m entering the lines ghostlander posted above? Is that right?

ghostlander

Run feathercoin-qt -disablesafemode
or put disablesafemode=1 to your feathercoin.conf

bsotnikow

@ghostlander hmm, thanks. I’m on mac though so I have no “Run” feature, is this something i do using terminal? I also did a full scan of my drive and have no files named feathercoin.conf. Also looked in applications support and the feathercoin-qt package contents myself as well, no luck.

RIPPEDDRAGON

I would guess as apple is a unix system that would would have to do it command line

bsotnikow

@RIPPEDDRAGON No luck. I can open feathercoin-qt, but the -disablesafemode command is not valid.

Here’s what I enter:
open -a feathercoin-qt -disablesafemode

And this is what i get back:
open: invalid option – d

Wellenreiter

@bsotnikow

try a double -

so ‘–disable safemode’

ghostlander

@bsotnikow Locate .feathercoin directory in your home directory and create a feathercoin.conf file there.

We have a problem with v0.9 rather than other releases. A pool operator reported more orphans than valid blocks for his pool 2 weeks ago.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178286.msg13944056#msg13944056

When he downgraded v0.9.3 to v0.8.7 per my advise, no more excessive orphans. I didn’t investigate it any further, though noted. It seems v0.9 has compatibility issues. I’m sure it isn’t NeoScrypt related. Maybe something transaction related. If v0.9 accepts certain transactions as valid while v0.8 and v0.11 don’t, we can have such a situation.

bsotnikow

Thanks! Creating a .conf file worked. I’m synced again.

bsotnikow

If its transaction related, I wonder if increased traffic from the recent price spike and trade volume contributed.

GMC

@ghostlander
Where do we stand? At give-me-coins we have been mining a bunch of blocks with 0.9.3.