The State Of Steemd
Earlier today I noticed that my witness node had crashed.
I have not seen the issue that caused the crash before, but I will report on it on github soon.
When I noticed the problem, my witness node had already missed 2 blocks.
To disable a witness and get it off the witness schedule the operator needs to make a witness update with a new Signing Key: STM1111111111111111111111111111111114T1Anm
.
Since I had no backup server, this is what I had to do.
The cli_wallet that comes with steem (https://github.com/steemit/steem/tree/master/programs/cli_wallet) has been broken ever since I have tried it 2 years ago. It times out within seconds and unless you have all the commands ready for copy + paste, you will not be able to finalize a single transaction with it.
Apparently, the issue still exists: https://github.com/steemit/steem/issues/2474
Usually, I do not bother trying, but the machine that I use for conductor
was broken, too. (this and my node fail are not steem's fault)
So I tried a dockerized cli wallet from steemit/steem.
It failed.
So I tried installing Steempy
and Conductor
on a new machine, since the fast version did not work out. I need the comfort version anyways in the long run, right ?
After following all instructions to install steem-python
on a new Ubuntu 17.10, I try steempy
and get a command not found
as a return.
After fiddling for another 30 minutes and cloning into the repos manually, I can finally get it to work.
Only to encounter this issue:
https://github.com/Netherdrake/conductor/issues/17
However, steempy works and I can finally shut down my witness.
This took me way too long.
I know, I was ill prepared. I know, I could have done this much faster.
The fact, that not a single steem software works fresh out of the box is ridiculous, though.
Some of these issues are just sitting there since forever.
After I have now successfully shut down my witness, I run into the next issue:
https://github.com/steemit/steem/issues/1101
This happened for the last year. Or pretty much ever since I run for witness.
To make it short:
When I turn the witness off, and try to turn it back on, it's broken
Most of the times, I have to fully resync and can not just start from where I stopped.
Even after a clean exit.
So ... The witness is resyncing now.
When I import a block_log from somewhere I have a 30% chance of it working and not failing to reindex. Resync takes even longer than 3 days, but I can not be bothered to put any more effort into this shit right now.
My witness will be up again in a few days.
Thanks ned.
The question to your answer is:
I have work to do and don't have the time for studying steemd currently. Even the 'one-click' solutions don't work out of the box. Sad but true...
Hey steemchiller, have you seen my first JS project :) ?
https://github.com/fxnormaluser/steessenger
Looks interesting. I don't want to dive into the code in detail, but I already have a few tips to begin with:
instead of
function a() {}
you may create something like
MyApp.a = function() {};
or even cleaner/more grouped like
and then just call
MyApp.layout.makeBlue();
If you should have any questions in future, you can always contact me in steem.chat or directly here via comment ;)
I am working on most of these things.
I just wanted to have some working code quickly to show off and to keep myself motivated.
I have now decided to make the messenger only a plugin module for a bigger project;
A steem gaming wallet, where users can challenge each other to battleships, chess, or dice (turn-based games).
What does it take for you to join Discord ?
We all abandoned steemit.chat.
The community misses you in DACH :)
Ouch this is bad. I'm happy that I'm no witness if I hear such stories xD
Maybe you should've used beempy instead of steempy though :P
sounds like fun
Looks like I won't be setting up a steem witness node 😀
I will go with ARK or Scorum or even both...
ARK especially has excellent documentation and a full setup and configuration package for its delegate node.
Asi que tardaste mucho en resolver ese problema @felixxx. Y no te preocupes que llegaras a lograr el objetivo de ser testigo en Steemit