Agent faulty reported dead, minerfarm restart on rigg restore connection.

[agkbill]

Hi,

have for some time experienced problem with that agents are reported dead.

In picture below, agen "RX-480 Clare P2.5" is reported dead, but if I SSH to the rigg and look in minerfarm all is OK. This is confirmed if I look at the mining pool that Clare is connected to.

Restart of minerfarm (first press 'x' and then 'o') agent start to report OK again.

Any ideas how to troubleshoot or solve this would be fantastic.

All the best you you all!
Christer

[lily]

Please ensure the time on the rig is current. Offset by more than a minute will cause agent reporting issues.

[agkbill]

On one of my riggs I have.

[/root]:# timedatectl status
Local time: Mon 2018-03-12 16:47:14 EDT
Universal time: Mon 2018-03-12 20:47:14 UTC
RTC time: Mon 2018-03-12 20:47:14
Time zone: America/New_York (EDT, -0400)
Network time on: yes
NTP synchronized: yes
RTC in local TZ: no
[Agent:

Looks quite OK, but timezone is all off, I'm in Stockholm/Europe Zone. will change that and se what happen.

[lily]

In general, you should not need to change any of the time settings on your pimp rig. However, sometimes the time drifts on a rig. ntpd is a time daemon that should keep it in sync but if the gap is too large it will sometimes refuse to update things. In the event that your rig is at the wrong time, you can do:

'sytemctl stop ntp; ntpdate time.nist.gov; systemctl start ntp'

This series of three commands stops the ntp service, updates your clock to time.nist.gov then restarts the ntp service.

[info21]

The above commands arent working, please help....

[Anjin]

ntpdate may need to be updated/installed. Simply try the following. First we install ntpdate using apt-get install ntpdate, and then we follow lily's advice above.

[/root]:# apt-get install ntpdate
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  ntpdate
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 18 not upgraded.
Need to get 48.7 kB of archives.
After this operation, 173 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 ntpdate amd64 1:4.2.8p4+dfsg-3ubuntu5.8 [48.7 kB]
Fetched 48.7 kB in 0s (573 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package ntpdate.
(Reading database ... 156439 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../ntpdate_1%3a4.2.8p4+dfsg-3ubuntu5.8_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking ntpdate (1:4.2.8p4+dfsg-3ubuntu5.8) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Setting up ntpdate (1:4.2.8p4+dfsg-3ubuntu5.8) ...
[Agent: m204-anjinRulez (Running) Total HR: [40.74Mh/s] Miners running [1] GPUs [AA]]
[11:35 AM][Uptime: 0d 3:33][root@pimp2(10.0.0.204)]
[/root]:# ntpdate time.nist.gov
18 Jun 11:36:04 ntpdate[10423]: the NTP socket is in use, exiting
[Agent: m204-anjinRulez (Running) Total HR: [40.89Mh/s] Miners running [1] GPUs [AA]]
[11:36 AM][Uptime: 0d 3:33][root@pimp2(10.0.0.204)]
[/root]:# systemctl stop ntp
[Agent: m204-anjinRulez (Running) Total HR: [40.89Mh/s] Miners running [1] GPUs [AA]]
[11:36 AM][Uptime: 0d 3:33][root@pimp2(10.0.0.204)]
[/root]:# ntpdate time.nist.gov
18 Jun 10:36:41 ntpdate[10734]: step time server 129.6.15.29 offset -3583.565055 sec
[Agent: m204-anjinRulez (Running) Total HR: [40.82Mh/s] Miners running [1] GPUs [AA]]
[10:36 AM][Uptime: 0d 3:33][root@pimp2(10.0.0.204)]
[/root]:# date
Mon Jun 18 10:36:42 EDT 2018
[Agent: m204-anjinRulez (Running) Total HR: [40.82Mh/s] Miners running [1] GPUs [AA]]
[10:36 AM][Uptime: 0d 3:33][root@pimp2(10.0.0.204)]
[/root]:# systemctl start ntl
Failed to start ntl.service: Unit ntl.service not found.
[Agent: m204-anjinRulez (Running) Total HR: [40.82Mh/s] Miners running [1] GPUs [AA]]
[10:36 AM][Uptime: 0d 3:33][root@pimp2(10.0.0.204)]
[/root]:# systemctl start ntp
[Agent: m204-anjinRulez (Running) Total HR: [40.82Mh/s] Miners running [1] GPUs [AA]]
[10:36 AM][Uptime: 0d 3:33][root@pimp2(10.0.0.204)]
[/root]:# 

I have also posted on another thread of yours instructions for manually setting time. Goodluck and happy mining!

[info21]

Many thanks for your instructions, I have replied to your comment on the other post.