[Bug] Shadow pools that I never have added myself

[andriitalkstech]

What happened?

Pools list keeps showing me pools that I have never added myself.

I have tried to remove it from config.yaml but they keep popping up once in 2 runs. How do I delete/disable shadow pools forever?

Version

1.2.11

What platform are you using?

Windows

What ui mode are you using?

GUI

Relevant log output

No response

[loppefaaret]

There was a dev build released based on main branch a little whole ago, that had a bugged wallet that caused these random plotNFT's to show up. it will cause you to have invalid data in a couple of places, that you need to manually clean out:

• config.yaml (the pool_list: section)
• the Wallet database (~\.chia\mainnet\wallet\db\blockchain*)
• the cached data under '%appdata%\Chia Blockchain' (~\AppData\Roaming\Chia Blockchain)

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the heavy handed method to clean this out from your install: Close down Chia move out affected folders, ei. using PowerShell:

mv '~\AppData\Roaming\Chia Blockchain' ~\Desktop\

mv ~\.chia\mainnet\wallet\db\block* ~\Desktop\

mv ~\.chia\mainnet\config\config.yaml ~\Desktop\

This should have you ready to start up Chia again - having lost all settings, such as log level, UPNP, plot directories, and whatever else you had in config.yaml it will also wipe out any plotNFT's you had under the "Pools" tab it will also require your wallet to sync back up from 0 - and until it passes the last edit to your pooling plotNFT on the blockchain, it will not farm correctly!

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Now if you want to "cheat" a bit here, some stuff you can do is:

• Sync the wallet on another node from 0, and move the wallet database over to skip the downtime of syncing it from 0 on the farmer machine
• manually edit config.yaml and remove the "shadow" entries under the pool_list: section (done when you switch wallet database)

Remember the cache data under ~\AppData\Roaming\Chia Blockchain needs to go as well.

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