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  Unsolved Error with consensus: unexpected fault address
  

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  Thanks a bunch. We'll be looking into it soon, try to have a fix ready so it stops crashing people's computers.

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  Why Sia UI did not display the file name I uploaded?
  

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  How to backup and restore wallets?
  

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  I have wrote down the passphase of my first wallet on my office computer. Then I install Sia on my notebook, and create a new wallet, and paste seed, I input the passphase, click load seed, and input the passphase too in wallet password, the system display"error to calling/wallet/seed: the encryption key provided is incorrect!" Why?

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  What does this error mean?
  

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  The wallet occasionally gets confused and tries to spend an output that it has already spent. I'm not sure where the bug is. It will clear/resolve itself after a day.

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  Error on Siad
  

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  Thanks for the crashlog.

  Veber is right, this is caused by the gateway saving the node list to disk in the RelayNode RPC. This error was more likely to occur during high i/o ativity. The RelayNode RPC has been removed for other reasons, so this particular error cannot occur in newer versions. I'll look into reducing the gateway's i/o as a similar error could occur if you try to connect to many peers at once.

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  error opening consensus database: MapViewOfFile: The parameter is incorrect.
  

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  Hmm, maybe consensus file is corrupted? There has been reports that PCs recovering from hibernation/standby have had their consensus DB corrupted. Could be your issue too. It is simple enough to remove the consensus file (from /consensus/ folder). The Sia daemon will then resync next time you start it (might take up to a day, probably more like 4-5 hours on a good connection).

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  How to cancel or transfer a contract?
  

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  oh, there is no way to pay another host. Sia is designed to have hosts go offline, you will not get inbetween people and their files by leaving, as long as at least half of the network sticks around for longer. There is high redundancy.

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  Any people can tell me how to use it?
  

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  @longshao

  Do you use wechat? We have a wechat group. You may get some help from the group. Let me know your wechat ID and I will invite you.

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  DDOS, A bug og just a coincidence?
  

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  One idea might be to set the logging level as a parameter, so it is a host setting.

  But I have done some more testing, and it seems it is the requests from the renters, that are DDOS'ing my router. Are there anything special about the requests made from the renters ? or is it just normal RPC-calls?

  I have had other P2P running, so I am suspecting either that the request are creating some shortage in the router making it boot after a while.

  What I have seen is the following

  no siad running - my router is happy

  siad running but not as a host - all is still fine

  siad running as a host - 18 minutes approx. router boot

  siad as been running for a while, but I terminates it but still letting it be registered as a host - router might work for 1-2 hours, probably because there are still some tries of connecting

  siad has ben running but is deregistered as a host for contracts, router seems to be working fne

  As I understand it there are different type of calls made, but I suspect the scanning of hosts might be the problem.

  I can see that in Sia / modules / renter / hostdb / scan.go the host is added to the pool, but as GO is a new language for me, I still havent figured out where the actual call to the host is made (And thus not found where I need to log the request on the host side).

  I think it might be a request that is not passed thru the router, so even logging on the host might not help me.

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  Moving to a new server
  

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  Correct, once you've got the host recognizing the old folders, you can create new folders and remove the old ones, the host will do the copying automatically, meaning you get to keep all the data.

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  Allowance
  

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  The hosts have a collateral budget, but this is different from a renter allowance.

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  Dynamic ip address support
  

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  It means that you announced twice. Ideally it would not do that, but until we start filtering by public key instead of IP address we'll continue to have that problem.

  The 'sort host by public key' issue is high priority, as it's related to security.

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  What is the 'dust' transaction?
  

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  OK. Cheers guys!

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  Hosting pricing
  

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  The guide will cover some of this. There's a pretty simple algorithm you can follow right now. If you aren't getting enough contracts, lower the price. If you are getting too many contracts, raise the price.

  The methods for picking the best hosting constants are going to evolve as the renter gets smarter at picking hosts. Today it is almost exclusively looking at price, but in the future there will be a huge reliability component, as well as a proof-of-burn component.

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  First time user - So many questions
  

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  We're hoping to get auto-renew done by v0.6.1, which is aimed at this Tuesday.

  I don't think we can make June 7th for 1.0. But June 14th seems achievable. We will see. Everyone is definitely working hard to make this happen quickly, without sacrificing quality.

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  Hosting configuration
  

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  The wallet API didn't change (much), so that should still work with the UI indeed. But the host and renter API changed so much that the UI can't do anything with it anymore.

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  Upload failed: not enough contracts to upload file
  

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  @Taek Thank you for the answer. As suggested, I raised the allowance to 15KS which added 6KS to my contracts, and more hosts accepted the offer - to the point that I have now 13 hosts. I didn't have to delete the hostdb file.

  Tried to send a file and it worked this time.

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  Multi GPU mining Windows
  

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  @beyinsi said in Multi GPU mining Windows:

  @in-cred-u-lous Thanks for fast answer :)

  How can i compile this gominer files for windows? Is there any tutorial for newbies ? Thanks

  As you would compile any other applications written in Go. There are generic tutorials that probably will help. Other than that, only advice I can give is to ask in the #miner channel on Slack.

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  Transfer data to different host
  

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  Right now it's not possible to transfer data to a different host, but the v0.6.0 that's currently under development uses public keys to recognize hosts instead of IP addresses, which means that it will be possible to move the data and file contracts around, and to change ip addresses if necessary.

  v0.6.0-rc1 is just a few days away, and the full v0.6.0 is probably about 2 weeks out.