EthereumStratum protocol is broken now!

[Rom1kz]

long time i've used 0.14.0.dev1 version of ethminer and all was fine but after upgrade to the last version 0.14.0.rc6 or 0.15.0.dev5 i get problem with EthereumStratum protocol

this script is working ok with version 0.14.0.dev1:

ethminer -U -SP 2 -S s-eu.comining.io:9999 -O AGQZgM6jtuYmVxNenWabGF5.worker

pool trace (i'm pool operator and able to trace requests & pool-side logic):

channel 5 activated
channel 5 stratum data in '{"id": 1, "method": "mining.subscribe", "params": ["ethminer/0.14.0.dev1","EthereumStratum/1.0.0"]}'
channel 5 subscribed
stratum data out: {"id":1,"result":[["mining.notify","a105c2b9b42247bda90e09a7da80486a","EthereumStratum/1.0.0"],"0003"]}
channel 5 stratum data in '{"id": 2, "method": "mining.extranonce.subscribe", "params": []}'
stratum data out: {"id":2,"result":true}
channel 5 stratum data in '{"id": 3, "method": "mining.authorize", "params": ["AGQZgM6jtuYmVxNenWabGF5.worker","AGQZgM6jtuYmVxNenWabGF5.worker"]}'
channel 5 trying login 'AGQZgM6jtuYmVxNenWabGF5' worker 'worker' with stratum protocol
channel 5 worker 'worker' account 'AGQZgM6jtuYmVxNenWabGF5' logged
stratum data out: {"id":3,"result":true}
stratum data out: {"params":[1.1641354547009584],"id":0,"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"mining.set_difficulty"}
stratum data out: {"params":["6235d42c492d42808792d262331445a1","0x5197b2a3898b31d4d8afb33e2216b2ef6e166b09122e514323701e9af3b09643","0x6893bc35d10b111d846116d71669b576b06ad5c61a15858ddfd1dea614a1408b",true],"id":0,"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"mining.notify"}

looks good but lets try version 0.15.0.dev5

channel 6 activated
channel 6 stratum data in '{"id": 1, "method": "mining.subscribe", "params": ["ethminer/0.15.0.dev5","EthereumStratum/1.0.0"]}'
channel 6 subscribed
stratum data out: {"id":1,"result":[["mining.notify","9aac4f02644c473c983704cfeb246ec8","EthereumStratum/1.0.0"],"0004"]}
channel 6 stratum data in '{"id": 2, "method": "mining.extranonce.subscribe", "params": []}'
stratum data out: {"id":2,"result":true}

why ethminer wont send authorize request after mining.subscribe and mining.extranonce.subscribe ? the same result with version 0.14.0rc6 and no luck when i try new -P parameter instead of -SP + -S + -O

ethminer -U -P stratum2+tcp://AGQZgM6jtuYmVxNenWabGF5.worker@s-eu.comining.io:9999

still no authorize request is sent to the pool

miner side output:

./start.bash
  m  01:55:59|ethminer|  ethminer version 0.14.0rc6
  m  01:55:59|ethminer|  Build: linux / release +git. be77227
 cu  01:56:00|ethminer|  Using grid size 8192 , block size 128
  ℹ  01:56:00|ethminer|  Selected pool s-eu.comining.io:9999
  m  01:56:00|ethminer|  not-connected
  ℹ  01:56:00|stratum |  Trying s-eu.comining.io:9999 ...
  ℹ  01:56:00|stratum |  Connected to s-eu.comining.io  [46.4.84.35:9999]
  ℹ  01:56:00|stratum |  Spinning up miners...
  ℹ  01:56:00|cuda-0  |  No work. Pause for 3 s.
  ℹ  01:56:00|cuda-1  |  No work. Pause for 3 s.
  ℹ  01:56:00|cuda-2  |  No work. Pause for 3 s.
  ℹ  01:56:00|cuda-3  |  No work. Pause for 3 s.
  ℹ  01:56:00|cuda-4  |  No work. Pause for 3 s.
  ℹ  01:56:00|cuda-5  |  No work. Pause for 3 s.
  ℹ  01:56:00|stratum |  Extranonce set to 0003
  ℹ  01:56:03|cuda-0  |  No work. Pause for 3 s.
  ℹ  01:56:03|cuda-1  |  No work. Pause for 3 s.
  ℹ  01:56:03|cuda-2  |  No work. Pause for 3 s.
  ℹ  01:56:03|cuda-3  |  No work. Pause for 3 s.
  ℹ  01:56:03|cuda-4  |  No work. Pause for 3 s.
  ℹ  01:56:03|cuda-5  |  No work. Pause for 3 s.

[Rom1kz]

it seems like ethminer should send authorize in "case 2" statement or send it at the same time with mining.extranonce.subscribe (second way much better and corresponds to protocol specification)

[SnowLeopard71]

In 0.14.0-dev1, around line 328 of libstratum/EthStratumClient.cpp mining.extranonce.subscribe is sent upon receiving the response to id 1 request, and also immediately sends the id 3 mining.authorize request without waiting for the response for id 2. Newer releases have been rewritten to libpoolprotocols/stratum/EthStratumClient.cpp The mining.authorize request probably also needs to be in case 2:, which is the response to the mining.extranonce.subscribe.
It looks like this only affects stratum2 and not stratum1, can you test and confirm?

[Rom1kz]

Yes, only stratum2 is affected but, by the specification, pool may not answering to mining.extranonce.subscribe at all in this case miner must send authorize without waiting for mining.extranonce.subscribe answer

[AndreaLanfranchi]

Problem is a little more complex. There has never been (in ethminer) a distinction between jsonrpc v1 and v2 : those two endorse a completely different way to implement positive vs negative responses.

Long story short: working on it. Keep an eye on Stratum branch,

[Rom1kz]

im looking forward to solution asap

thank you

[smurfy]

@AndreaLanfranchi your commit #ff4bd4f2dbd1f2d935c643a30b80b17d7cef1560 broke it within the method EthStratumClient::processReponse

Old logic: (working) Always send mining.authorize message except for ETHPROXY mode. Use something different there. IF EthStratumClient::ETHEREUMSTRATUM (stratum mode 2) it also sends mining.extranonce.subscribe

New logic: (not working) You wanted to optimize it, but you changed that only in normal stratum mode the mining.authorize is sent and in stratum mode 2 only mining.extranonce.subscribe is sent.

Hope i made myself clear :)

[AndreaLanfranchi]

Think I got it. Just for info ... is there any exhaustive documentation about ETHEREUMSTRATUM

Only I could find is this https://github.com/nicehash/Specifications/blob/master/EthereumStratum_NiceHash_v1.0.0.txt

[Rom1kz]

Yes. this is the only documentation i've used to implement the protocol on comining.io

[chfast]

That's actually the only Ethereum startum protocol documented :) But still has issues, see https://github.com/nicehash/Specifications/issues/5.

[AndreaLanfranchi]

Solved in

• 0.14.rc7
• 0.15.dev6