Questions tagged [ubuntu]

Questions about Monero that are specific to the Ubuntu operating system

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How to achieve uniform hash rate

I am trying to learn about mining and am using xmr-stak-cpu on Ubuntu 17.10 to mine with an AMD a10 6800k processor. I haven't seen a single time my miner reporting 100H/s but the stats of my miner on the pool say I have been at that rate for some…
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How can I verify the SHA256 hash of 0.10.3 "Wolfram Warptangent" on Ubuntu?

How can I verify the SHA256 hash published for the official 0.10.3 release matches the file that I downloaded for Linux, 64-bit?
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How to mining on Ubuntu 18.04 with AMD cards

The new Ubuntu system is about to be released, how could you set it to mining Monero with AMD cards? AMD new drivers on the horizon?
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Trouble compiling aeon node on ubuntu 16.10

I have a question, following the instructions on here: How do I install Aeon on Ubuntu? I cannot get the node to compile on ubuntu 16.10. Here is what shows in the terminal: make mkdir -p build/release cd build/release && cmake -D…
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Installing XMR-stak CPU only on Ubuntu 18.04

Where can I find instructions for installing XMR-stak CPU on Ubuntu 18.04. I notice every one are having issues with their graphic cards, however I just want to use my CPU. That being said I am still having issues installing and or loading the…
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How to run xmr-stak with AMD gpu on Ubuntu 18.04

I have tried several attempts but without success. AMDGPU-PRO 17.40, 17.50, Oibaf PPA and something more, but nothing makes clinfo gives right results and xmr-stak working. Any ideas?
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Can you mine on an Ubuntu USB drive using xmr-stak-cpu with no swapfile or swap partition?

I have about 90 systems CPU mining on Ubuntu with xmr-stak-cpu compiled. Basically I made a master copy of a flash drive that I compiled xmr-stak-cpu on, configured it, and then cloned it to the other 89 drives using Clonezilla. I've constantly run…
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Monero blockchain explorer compilation not working ubuntu 16.04

Hi I am working on monero blockchain explorer, Trying to work with this git repo. I have tried too many times but unfortunately couldn't get success yet. Right now I am facing this error. CMake Error: The source directory…
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How to run monero-wallet-rpc in background without revealing my password to the server?

I know that I can run the Monero RPC wallet in the background on Ubuntu by adding a & to the command or by using setsid. But that would result in me having to use the following code on the command line: ./monero-wallet-rpc --daemon-address…
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Is it possible to use samba share as blockchain data location?

I want to run a full node on my old laptop but the HDD is too small. I mounted a samba folder from my NAS but monerod is not synchronizing. I see a lot of errors. You can see them on here. It works when I start monerod in my home dir, here the logs…
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Xmr-Stak miner constantly crashes

I am trying to use XMR-Stak to mine a crypto-currency called electroneum(crypto-night) but it keeps crashing with the log: GLib: g_variant_new_string: assertion 'string != NULL' failed Unrecoverable failure in required component…
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How did it happen that there is a monerod process started by root on my laptop?

Is it possible without installing any Monero related packages on my Ubuntu 16.04 laptop with a gforce gtx 960m, that I have a monerod process running, started by root? Any virus? Thanks.
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Low XMR-STAK hash rate on two cards in a 8 card Linux NVIDIA rig

Recently I switched from windows to ubuntu server 16 in order to support more than 8 nvidia cards. However before even getting to install more than 8 cards, I see some issues with the hash rate. (running XMR-STAK, latest. CUDA 9.0, latest. Latest…
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xmr-stak-cpu as a service on ubuntu

I'm running Ubuntu 14.04. And I need to run xmr-stak-cpu as a service. I tried to search for a possible solution, but found only for systemctl, which is on Ubuntu 16. Is there a way/script to configure and run xmr-stak-cpu on Ubuntu 14.04 as a…
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How to run xmr-stak-nvidia on Ubuntu 17.10

I have compiled xmr-stak-nvidia on Ubuntu 17.10 with latest Nvidia driver and Cuda 9.0. If I try to run it, I get some issues: [2017-10-21 11:18:36] : Connecting to pool xxxxxxxxxx:3333 ... Driver does not support CUDA 8.0 API! Update your nVidia…
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