4.9.2.6 downloading miners again and again, mining never starts

bredita commented 3 months ago

after upgrading to 4.9.2.6, rainbowminer keeps downloading the same miners over and over again.

Even after installing RBM in a new folder and going through setup in the console window, I have the same issue.

The console says: WARNING: Download in progress: 40 miners left. Command windows might popup during extraction. WARNING: Download in progress: 2 mining pre-requisites left.

The downloads appear in the downloads folder, but the log says: [2024-06-02 11:23:54] WARNING: Downloader-error: Cannot find path 'D:\mining\RainbowMinerV4.9.2.6\Bin\gminer_2_94_windows64' because it does not exist. [2024-06-02 11:23:54] WARNING: Cannot download D:\mining\RainbowMinerV4.9.2.6\Bin\GPU-Gminer294\miner.exe distributed at https://github.com/RainbowMiner/miner-binaries/releases/download/v2.94-gminer/gminer_2_94_windows64.zip. [2024-06-02 11:23:59] WARNING: Downloader-error: Cannot find path 'D:\mining\RainbowMinerV4.9.2.6\Bin\gminer_2_75_windows64' because it does not exist. ...

on every new round, RBM downloads the same miners again, and the zip appears in the download folder.

If I create the bin folder for a miner manually, it gets deleted when I start RBM.

If I try to download the files manually in my browser, they download just fine.

Mining never starts.

bredita commented 3 months ago

http://localhost:4000/downloadlist (from my old installation, not the fresh install):

RainbowMiner commented 3 months ago

Oh dear! Might be the new download strategy. I will check asap!

RainbowMiner commented 3 months ago

Just a short question: is the RainbowMiner path excluded from your antivirus? Sometimes miners get quarantained just after the download.

bredita commented 3 months ago

yes (and the downloaded files stay in the downloads folder, so it's noth the AV:

D:\mining\RainbowMiner\Downloads>dir
 Volume in drive D is SSD_NVME_2TB
 Volume Serial Number is 46F2-0D50

 Directory of D:\mining\RainbowMiner\Downloads

02.06.2024  13:35    <DIR>          .
02.06.2024  10:35    <DIR>          ..
02.06.2024  10:35    <DIR>          bzminer_v21.1.5_windows
02.06.2024  13:35        45 721 013 bzminer_v21.1.5_windows.zip
02.06.2024  13:28                68 config.json
02.06.2024  13:35        18 341 363 cpuminer-opt-24.3-windows.zip
02.06.2024  10:35    <DIR>          RainbowMinerV4.9.2.6_win
30.05.2024  23:25        25 142 432 RainbowMinerV4.9.2.6_win.zip
02.06.2024  13:35        34 772 616 rigel-1.17.3-win.zip
02.06.2024  13:35        37 466 578 SRBMiner-Multi-2-5-5-win64.zip
02.06.2024  13:35        17 808 185 TeamBlackMiner_2_25_cuda_12_2.7z
02.06.2024  13:35         2 841 408 xmrig-6.21.3.11-msvc-win64.7z
               8 File(s)    182 093 663 bytes
               4 Dir(s)  1 109 970 567 168 bytes free

bredita commented 3 months ago

auto update to 4.9.2.6 from 4.9.2.4 failed (on "Timestamp": "5/30/2024 8:30:41 PM")

and I updated manually as described in the docs (unzipped new files into the folder).

but thats probably not relevant, as i also tried a new fresh install to another folder today, and it still has the same issue

RainbowMiner commented 3 months ago

Thank you for your reply! How did the auto-update fail? Was there any error message?

bredita commented 3 months ago

can't remember what the error message was exactly, sorry.

But it told me in the console that auto update had failed. So I did the manual update as described here: https://github.com/RainbowMiner/RainbowMiner/blob/master/Doc/UPDATE.md

But again, I downloaded it again today, unzipped to a new folder below my mining folder (which is excluded from windows defender/AV) and that didn't work either. Then it wanted to download all miners again, and all seemed to fail.

Does it work for you if you just unzip rainbowminer to a new folder and create a new setup the normal way using install.bat?

RainbowMiner commented 3 months ago

I just tried the update path for an old instance - worked. Now I will try a new install onto a drive other that C:

bredita commented 3 months ago

It works here too, mining is OK on the old instance I have always been using. It just downloads those 6 miners on every new round, fails to install them, then repeats.

I noticed the problem in my network yesterday, noticed that my pc had been download some 150+ GB from github in the last 24 hours or so.

RainbowMiner commented 3 months ago

My new install on drive D: works too. All miners downloaded. So it's only these 6 miners hanging? I will try to remove them from one of the miners and see what happens.

bredita commented 3 months ago

Must be something at my end then. Will try another fresh install when i get home.

bredita commented 3 months ago

So, I've tried a clean install from the large zip file in releases, the small zip file, and I've also tried cloning the git repository into a folder.

I can't get any of them to work.

Have tried with windows AV disabled.

all settings default, with just a btc address added, selected: no API user/pw, no nicehash, enable cpu mining

The log says:

`[2024-06-02 18:41:23] WARNING: Download in progress: 46 miners left. Command windows might popup during extraction. [2024-06-02 18:41:23] WARNING: Download in progress: 2 mining pre-requisites left. [2024-06-02 18:41:23] INFO: Start waiting 48 seconds before next run. [2024-06-02 18:41:25] WARNING: Downloader-error: Cannot find path 'C:\mining_test2\RainbowMiner_GIT\RainbowMiner\Bin\t-rex-0.19.14-win-cuda11.1' because it does not exist. [2024-06-02 18:41:25] WARNING: Cannot download C:\mining_test2\RainbowMiner_GIT\RainbowMiner\Bin\NVIDIA-Trex19\t-rex.exe distributed at https://github.com/RainbowMiner/miner-binaries/releases/download/v0.19.14-trex/t-rex-0.19.14-win-cuda11.1.zip. [2024-06-02 18:41:28] WARNING: Downloader-error: Cannot find path 'C:\mining_test2\RainbowMiner_GIT\RainbowMiner\Bin\t-rex-0.26.8-win' because it does not exist. [2024-06-02 18:41:28] WARNING: Cannot download C:\mining_test2\RainbowMiner_GIT\RainbowMiner\Bin\NVIDIA-Trex\t-rex.exe distributed at https://github.com/RainbowMiner/miner-binaries/releases/download/v0.26.8-trex/t-rex-0.26.8-win.zip.

...

And yes, I am running it as admin

RainbowMiner commented 3 months ago

How superstrange! Can you send me a zip of your Logs folder by email to info@rbminer.net, please?

RainbowMiner commented 3 months ago

One idea: could you try to install the older release v4.9.2.4 (the small zip file) and try with that? If this install doesn't fail, we could at least rule out external problems.

PS: thank you for your help!

bredita commented 3 months ago

Thank YOU for your help.

I have tried all these:

02.06.2024  20:54    <DIR>         RainbowMinerV4.8.8.2_win
02.06.2024  20:40    <DIR>          RainbowMinerV4.9.1.7_win
02.06.2024  20:35    <DIR>          RainbowMinerV4.9.1.9_win
02.06.2024  20:31    <DIR>          RainbowMinerV4.9.2.2_win
02.06.2024  20:26    <DIR>          RainbowMinerV4.9.2.3_win
02.06.2024  20:19    <DIR>          RainbowMinerV4.9.2.4_win

and they all do exactly the same. They say they want to download X miners. They start downloading. After a while there are X+1 files in the download folder (the extra file is the config file) Then one file disappears, and a short while later it re-appears with a new timestamp. This repeats until I kill it.

Must be something strange with my pc.

I have also tried on the two other user accounts I have on this pc, same problem there.

Have checked if any new apps have been installed on my pc. Nothing very exciting in the last few weeks, but a few windows/edge browser updates. There's one big update waiting. "cumulative update preview for Win 11 version 32H2". Installing that now.

I understand if you want to give up. I do.

Edit: the windows update didn't do anything.

RainbowMiner commented 3 months ago

and they all do exactly the same.

That is in fact good news. It must be some strange problem with your PC, then, because I can rule out the new download strategy.

Let's see - one thing you could try is: open cmd window cd to your RainbowMiner folder enter 7z.exe Does it start the 7z - and what is the version? It should be 7-Zip 19.00 (x64) : Copyright (c) 1999-2018 Igor Pavlov : 2019-02-21 written at the beginning

RainbowMiner commented 3 months ago

Have tried with windows AV disabled.

Don't disable it - add the RainbowMiner installation path to the exceptions of Defender.

bredita commented 3 months ago

and they all do exactly the same.

That is in fact good news. It must be some strange problem with your PC, then, because I can rule out the new download strategy.

Let's see - one thing you could try is: open cmd window cd to your RainbowMiner folder enter 7z.exe Does it start the 7z - and what is the version? It should be 7-Zip 19.00 (x64) : Copyright (c) 1999-2018 Igor Pavlov : 2019-02-21 written at the beginning

thats the one.

C:\mining_test2\RainbowMiner_GIT\RainbowMiner>7z.exe

whitindllc commented 3 months ago

have you disabled built in av for the time being?

bredita commented 3 months ago

have you disabled built in av for the time being?

No. It's back on. disabling it didnt help. The folder is on the list of exceptions.

bredita commented 3 months ago

it's obviously able to download the miners. How can I check if it does the right thing after having downloaded it?

what is supposed to happen?

should it download one miner, unzip it (to where?), install it (to where?) and then move on to install the next miner? or
should it download all miners, then unzip and install them?

Edit: If I manually unzip the miner to Bin/miner_name, it downloads the miner, then deletes the folder Bin/miner_name. So it has permissions to write there, as it's able to delete the folder... . Don't know why it won't unzip the miner to there...

What program handles the download/unzipping etc of a miner?

bredita commented 3 months ago

I may have fixed it for you:

Modules/Include.psm1, line 2782, changed from:

        } else {
            $Params = @{
                FilePath     = "7z.exe"
                ArgumentList = "x `"$FromFullPath`" -o`"$ToFullPath`" -y -spe"
                WindowStyle  = "Hidden"
            }
        }

to:

        } else {
    Write-Log -Level Info "we're NOT running on linux...."
            $Params = @{
                FilePath     = ".\7z.exe"
                ArgumentList = "x `"$FromFullPath`" -o`"$ToFullPath`" -y -spe"
                WindowStyle  = "Hidden"
            }
        }

And now it downloads miners, unzips them to the bin folder, and does whatever it is supposed to do after that.

(Ignore that Write-Log line, I added lots of debug-logging to pinpoint the issue)

please don't ask me why it works with ./ and not without ./ before 7z.exe

whitindllc commented 3 months ago

are you running start,exe as admin? i have that same parameter and don't have that issue at all

bredita commented 3 months ago

Yes, I'm running it as admin, ofcourse.

I found out what caused the issue.

I installed LUA in order to make that script i mentioned in issue "update powerprice via script? #2769", the script that currently calculates my powerprice every 5 mins and switches on my asic miners via some "home automation" switches when it's profitable to do so.

This LUA install put an old version of 7z in my path:


C:\Windows\System32>where 7z
C:\Program Files (x86)\Lua\5.1\7z.exe

C:\Windows\System32>7z
7-Zip 9.10 beta  Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Igor Pavlov  2009-12-22

This version of 7z does not work with RainbowMiner, I guess.

After forcing rainbowminer to use its own 7z.exe (by adding .\ first in the FilePath parameter), everything works again.

All miners have now been downloaded in my 4.9.2.6 instance, using all my old settings. RainbowMiner is finally mining again on my "Gaming PC" :)

One question: What's the difference between profit and earnings? Total profit/earnings: 0.536/0.684 USD/Day

RainbowMiner commented 3 months ago

Woa! Perfect. Then we were on the right track, questioning the 7z.exe. Thank you!

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