[Ethereum] Ethminer Segmentation Fault

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I'm having problems with ethminer on my system. Software works completely fine except the situation when I'm trying to run ethminer over SSH and I'm not "physically" logged in on that particular machine. On the other hand, when I log in and eventually log out – everything works great. What's wrong? I'm I missing something, or is it simply a bug?

I'm using Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS together with AMD cards.

I would appreciate any form of help.

Thank you.

Best Answer

See if the following works:

Here a script to start ethminer in the background. You should be able to run this script from your physical terminal or remotely over SSH.

Save the following text into $HOME/bin/runEthminer. You may have to run the command mkdir $HOME/bin first and you will have to customise your ethminer command line or the FARMURL environment variable.

#!/bin/bash

LOGFILE="$HOME/ethminer.log"

# Kill existing instance of ethminer
if [ "$(pidof ethminer)" ]
then
  echo "Killing ethminer"
  killall -q ethminer 
fi

# Farming to a local geth instance
FARMURL="http://192.168.1.123:8545"

# Farming to pool - check your pool URL specifications
# FARMURL="http://{poolurl}?/miner={youraddress}@{megahashes}

ethminer -F $FARMURL -G 2>> $LOGFILE &

Set the executable bit of this file by running the command chmod 700 $HOME/bin/runEthminer.

You can now start ethminer by running the command runEthminer or $HOME/bin/runEthminer.

You can view your ethminer log file using 

tail -f $HOME/ethminer.log
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