Peercoin v0.14 Released, Upgrade by June 3rd, 2024!

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I would look into the health of your SD card too. Those do not last for a super long time attached to a Raspberry Pi. It is a known issue.

Re your suggestion. I had no idea people use that guide from the peercoin.net, I’ve thought people use GitHub - peercoin/deb-repo: Peercoin apt reposititory serving Debian packages which is maintained and kept up to date.

Anyway, I think I know what was the issue. I have just completed a test on my rusty Raspberry Pi 1 B+ and it works.

Updates pushed.

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

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@peerchemist It’s finally working! :partying_face:

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Thank you to everyone who took the time to look into this issue :pray::pray::pray:

Will now leave it to sync

About the setup guide: I’ve always used that one on peercoin.net because it’s the main website, and also it was linked here many times on the forums. I discovered there was a guide on the repo you linked only yesterday, while I was fiddling with the “peercoin.list” file

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I don’t want to surrender, but I’m frustrated.
I managed to:

  • install it correctly in Raspian 10 Buster
  • install it correctly in Raspian 11 Bullseye
  • install it correctly in Raspian 12 Bookworm

I even tried a new SD card.

BUT the process gets killed after a while without a reason, on peercoind it told me something on the lines of “process killed”, no errors.

In bookworm the client starts, but cannot even go to 100% pre-syncing headers. It freezes up the OS.
In both bullseye and buster it starts downloading blocks for some hours then gets killed.

And I hate that everytime I restart the client it starts from scratch from the 1st block. Nothing is saved, nothing is resumed. I’m back on Buster again on a fresh install, I left the gui open this time, for half an hour and it was perfectly downloading blocks. I come back and it’s all closed.

I never had these issues before the update from 0.12 to 0.14… (i’m using this combo since v0.6) I don’t want to surrender, but it’s becoming difficult. Do you have any other ideas?

I will now say something very idiotic, allow me: is there any other way to completely download the whole blocks folder at once and replace it on my peercoin installation?

edit: is there a flag I can use while launching from the terminal that allows me to see debug logs / errors? so at least we can try to understand what’s happening

EDIT:

last night I tried running it many times on buster, I also tried to change the cache to 4MB hoping it would maybe commit some data. It webt for a bit, but… nothing, after around 20k blocks it just suicides.
I cannot pass around the 01-01-2013 block date mark

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It is an OOM killer.

Basically, you don’t have enough RAM to sync peercoin.

What I did to circumvent this is to copy blockchain files manually to .peercoin folder on the Rpi and then run peercoind.

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Damn, I wonder how it managed to work until now
Ok, from where can I download the whole blockchain without using the client? if I can manually wget an archive or something directly from the raspi

Meanwhile I’ll also try if I can borrow some hdd space to swap for RAM usage https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=327238

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You did not sync from scratch since like forever. :slight_smile:

Sync on another computer. Like a server or a desktop? If not, I’ll make a .tar.gzip and send it over.

Yeah ZRAM could also do the trick.

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Made a quick test with “More RAM”, but looks like it froze…
Could you make me a .gzip with the blockchain, as a last try?

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https://files.peercoin.net/download/bootstrap-late-may-2024.tar.xz

sha256sum:

0ce3162ed4163c2e378f34b9f9d01e086b80d0a723d806d19d26e69ae66d113d

peercoind -loadblock=bootstrap.dat
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Peercoin v0.14.4 has been released and repairs a bug found in the implementation of RFC-0028. If you are using v0.14.3, please upgrade to this newer version.

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Great news everyone! I gifted myself a new raspberry pi with Raspberry OS 12 and managed to install, update and run Peercoin-qt v0.14.3.0!
The bootstrap helped a lot!
Thanks to everyone who had helped me :slight_smile:

As soon as I finished with the usual install, it now shows that I should update to v0.14.5ppc, do I have to wait for you to compile the new patch?

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Peercoin v0.14.5 has been released

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I’m now up to date with everything! :pray:

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I followed these instructions, then the Debian install guide in the docs but having issues…

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ wget -O - https://peercoin.github.io/deb-repo/peercoin.apt.key | sudo apt-key add -
–2024-06-21 01:05:42-- https://peercoin.github.io/deb-repo/peercoin.apt.key
Resolving peercoin.github.io (peercoin.github.io)… 2606:50c0:8001::153, 2606:50c0:8002::153, 2606:50c0:8003::153, …
Connecting to peercoin.github.io (peercoin.github.io)|2606:50c0:8001::153|:443… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 2464 (2.4K) [application/vnd.apple.keynote]
Saving to: ‘STDOUT’

  •                                  100%[============================================================================>]   2.41K  --.-KB/s    in 0s

2024-06-21 01:05:42 (6.12 MB/s) - written to stdout [2464/2464]

OK
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo sh -c “echo ‘deb APT repository | deb-repo buster main’ >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/peercoin.list”
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt update
Get:1 APT repository | deb-repo buster InRelease [2,222 B]
Hit:2 Index of /debian buster InRelease
Get:3 Index of /raspbian buster InRelease [15.0 kB]
Fetched 17.2 kB in 2s (10.4 kB/s)
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
All packages are up to date.
W: Skipping acquire of configured file ‘main/binary-armhf/Packages’ as repository ‘APT repository | deb-repo buster InRelease’ doesn’t have the component ‘main’ (component misspelt in sources.list?)
W: Skipping acquire of configured file ‘main/i18n/Translation-en’ as repository ‘APT repository | deb-repo buster InRelease’ doesn’t have the component ‘main’ (component misspelt in sources.list?)
W: Skipping acquire of configured file ‘main/i18n/Translation-en_US’ as repository ‘APT repository | deb-repo buster InRelease’ doesn’t have the component ‘main’ (component misspelt in sources.list?)
W: Skipping acquire of configured file ‘main/i18n/Translation-en_US.UTF-8’ as repository ‘APT repository | deb-repo buster InRelease’ doesn’t have the component ‘main’ (component misspelt in sources.list?)
pi@raspberrypi:~ $
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt install peercoin-qt
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Unable to locate package peercoin-qt
pi@raspberrypi:~ $

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That does not read as a proper way to do it, where are you copying this from?

Clean that up, and please follow instructions at the deb-repo:

cleanup:

sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/peercoin.list

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I just followed the instructions on peercoin.net docs

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Have the new client installed but it keeps crashing on sync

Is this file still relevant?

What are the steps to use it?

Update:

I followed the boostrapping directions in the docs, dropping the boostrap.dat into the .peercoin dir and launching the client.

However, I’m getting the status “synchronizing from network…” not “from disk”

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You are probably encountering the same error as Fabryz had further up this thread. You have an old Raspberry Pi with 1GB or less RAM, however syncing/indexing recent Peercoin requires at least 2 GB.

Peercoin exhaust your RAM and is forcibly killed by the kernel.

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Requirements like this should probably be added to the docs.

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also need to update the Debian install directions

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how do i use the bootstrap.dat file you posted earlier?

I put it in the .peercoin dir but still syncing from network on start

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