Ethereum CLI starts on block 0 mining

[SilentCicero]

A fresh Ubuntu 14.04 VMware Player with all dependencies installed.

$ ethereum -rpc -ws -mine
Data directory '/home/nick/.ethereum' doesn't exist, creating it
config file '/home/nick/.ethereum/conf.ini' doesn't exist, creating it
2015/03/01 20:12:18 [KEY] Created keypair. Private key: f459a294ad03810afaa4d696b6679897e1c91082e3e87162840b114ae5faaf64
2015/03/01 20:12:18 [CHAIN] Last block (#0) 32d9162f861a01bc8274e70b3cdb9d688fd7d8566f2f8c25cf1a882f244081c4 TD=0
2015/03/01 20:12:18 [CLI] Main address 47c59ffa5120a4b1b056aa298f419cb2d03cdf70
2015/03/01 20:12:18 [CLI] Starting WebSockets
2015/03/01 20:12:18 [RPC-HTTP] Starting RPC-HTTP server on 127.0.0.1:8545
2015/03/01 20:12:18 [CLI] Starting Ethereum(G)/v0.8.6/linux/go1.2.1
2015/03/01 20:12:18 [RPC-WS] Starting RPC-WS server on port 40404
2015/03/01 20:12:18 [P2P Server] Starting Server
2015/03/01 20:12:20 [P2P Discovery] Listening, enode://626c796e30111067189de5a71f72e716585ca04725078c9e56cd8b68fd01459558b06d4de4c4ab73c023dc5cc6db2266b05a42640bbcc1d1acfa9f55acd54741@[::]:30303
2015/03/01 20:12:20 [Blockpool] Started
2015/03/01 20:12:20 [P2P NAT] mapping error: no devices discovered
2015/03/01 20:12:20 [P2P Server] Listening on [::]:30303
2015/03/01 20:12:20 [SHH] Whisper started
2015/03/01 20:12:20 [P2P NAT] mapping error: no devices discovered
2015/03/01 20:12:20 [SERV] Server started
Welcome to the FRONTIER
2015/03/01 20:12:20 [MINER] committing new work with 0 txs
2015/03/01 20:12:20 MINERstarted agent[0]. mining...
2015/03/01 20:12:25 [Peer cfbd72d5aba87286ad58d00f956a22d599c59ce06c74fdb71616356c0b077169ae4a9bbaf91fcbee92c4b4e419db99e42f6f69763e3a6fba60f243753f44cb17 52.10.235.113:30303] Peer is [eth] capable (54/0). TD=38699757605 H=f93738f7
2015/03/01 20:12:25 [Peer cfbd72d5aba87286ad58d00f956a22d599c59ce06c74fdb71616356c0b077169ae4a9bbaf91fcbee92c4b4e419db99e42f6f69763e3a6fba60f243753f44cb17 52.10.235.113:30303] whisper started
2015/03/01 20:12:32 [CHAIN] processed block #1 (88fb4ccb...)
2015/03/01 20:12:32 [MINER] committing new work with 0 txs
2015/03/01 20:12:32 MINERstarted agent[0]. mining...
2015/03/01 20:12:47 [CHAIN] processed block #2 (c964760b...)
2015/03/01 20:12:47 [MINER] committing new work with 0 txs
2015/03/01 20:12:47 MINERstarted agent[0]. mining...

I also tried with -nat upnp and other settings, no go.

[fjl]

From the log, it looks like one peer was connected.�

[SilentCicero]

Hmm, any idea why the starting block be 0? Shouldn't it be in the 5000s? It seems like the POC8 chain isn't being downloaded.

[SilentCicero]

Still having trouble syncing to the POC8 testnet bc, any recommendations?

[obscuren]

I've honestly no idea what the current state is of the PoC 8 net. Last time I checked there weren't any peers which results in the missing block chain.

recommendations

• sit tight and wait for PoC9/Frontier
• switch over to develop branch and try your luck there.
• setup a private network

[SilentCicero]

@obscuren thank you. I'll hold tight for 9 and stick to private nets for now. Cheers.

[obscuren]

I'd recommend develop :-) Closing issue.