dogecoind won't read conf

I'm having issues starting dogecoind after compiling in ubuntu 12.04 x64 running in VirtualBox on win 7 ultimate x64

here's what i've tried from inside dogecoin/src after make -f makefile.unix:

sudo su
./dogecoind -server -listen -daemon -rpcuser=dogerpc -rpcpassword=dogerpcpw -rpctimeout=30 -rpcport=8334 -rpcallowip=192.168.1.* -rpcallowip=127.0.0.1 -testnet

and i get:

Error: To use the "-server" option, you must set a secure rpcpassword in the configuration file:
/root/.dogecoin/dogecoin.conf

so i do:

cd ~/.dogecoin
emacs dogecoin.conf

i save the following parameters:

rpcuser=dogerpc
rpcpassword=dogerpcpw
rpcport=8334
rpcallowip=192.168.1.*
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
server=1
daemon=1
listen=1
testnet=1

i even chmod 777 dogecoin.conf to be sure everyone on God's green earth could access it so that wouldn't be a problem, but still the same error when trying to start up dogecoind

would much appreciate any help/tips!

Jon B

Posted 2014-02-19T22:04:56.197

Reputation: 197

This is not Bitcoin related, and you shouldn't be running random daemons as root. It's likely a capitalization error, with this sort of crap it usually is case related. – user13413 – 2014-02-19T22:08:40.927

1although SUPER helpful, i'm running a secure dev env so i can run as whatever user i seem fit. furthermore, the daemon is a derivative of the bitcoin daemon so the question is still relevant. not to mention that according to SO meta, bitcoin.se is for all cryptocurrency related qa. thanks for playing tho – Jon B – 2014-02-19T22:11:29.190

"Secure dev environment" and "running every process as root" are incompatible statements, you have have one or the other. My comment is actually quite relevant, a lot of scamcoins have has issues with some systems being case sensitive and others not being. – user13413 – 2014-02-19T22:14:06.613

@goatse: According to community discussion questions about altcoins are on topic.

– Murch – 2014-02-23T09:11:39.017

Answers

I think the problem is with version 1.5 of dogecoin.I used rpcpassword=DLKKWE93203909238dkkKKeowxmIOw0232lsakwL02k

to solve the problem. Change the password to whatever you want, just use lowercase, upper case and numbers, it should fix the problem

awaisharoon

Posted 2014-02-19T22:04:56.197

Reputation: 136

thanks for the suggestion! i won't be able to try this til i get home for the night, but do you think my issue is that the password i'm trying is too short (not 43 chars) or that what i was using for a password that included an underscore? – Jon B – 2014-02-25T18:56:23.553

@JonBest: Dogecoin checks for a weak password (here's the code: https://github.com/dogecoin/dogecoin/commit/af853674bb7b275355d4ae847d4869e3f73cd246). It estimates the number of bits of entropy by taking the log base 2 of the number of unique characters, and multiplying that by the length of the password. If the number of entropy bits is less than 64, then the password is considered "weak" and is rejected.

– Greg Hewgill – 2014-02-25T19:30:21.327

@JonBest yes, your issue is that rpcpassword. its supposed to be a long mix of upper case, lowercase and numbers. It was just added in a latter release of dogecoin 1.5 which included checkpoints and stronger rpcpassword for much security wow. lol, anyways, i was also confused by it when I compiled it, but I understood it after I tried long password. What greg said is exactly true. – awaisharoon – 2014-02-25T20:04:26.930

thanks for the specifics! makes sense now...can't wait to correct this this afternoon (; – Jon B – 2014-02-26T00:20:45.017

wow! much thanks! i do a 42 character long [a-zA-Z0-9] password and it worked. thanks so much @GregHewgill and @ user2185284 ! – Jon B – 2014-02-26T05:04:14.640

It's unclear which version of dogecoind you are using. However, in the current 1.5 code on Github, there is a similar message:

if (mapArgs["-rpcuser"] == "" && mapArgs["-rpcpassword"] == "")
    throw runtime_error(strprintf(
        _("You must set rpcpassword=<password> in the configuration file:\n%s\n"
          "If the file does not exist, create it with owner-readable-only file permissions."),
            GetConfigFile().string().c_str()));

https://github.com/dogecoin/dogecoin/blob/master-1.5/src/bitcoinrpc.cpp#L1080

This indicates that your attempt at working around the problem with chmod 777 would not have had the desired effect. Instead, try chmod 600 dogecoin.conf.

Greg Hewgill

Posted 2014-02-19T22:04:56.197

Reputation: 3 321

i tried chmod 600 and that didn't work either...even when i give the parameters in the CLI i get the same thing – Jon B – 2014-02-20T07:10:56.927

Dogecoin does not use port number 8334 the port for dogecoin is 22555 and if the above mentioned is really your password please change it to something more strong

Khan Shahrukh

Posted 2014-02-19T22:04:56.197

Reputation: 437

def not my real pw lol i'm gonna try what you and greg said shortly – Jon B – 2014-02-20T04:09:47.277

changing the port didn't work – Jon B – 2014-02-20T07:08:56.607

change your conf file with the follwoing server=1 daemon=1 rpcuser=yourusername rpcpassword=yourpassword after saving restart dogecoind – Khan Shahrukh – 2014-02-21T10:14:42.083

-2

Your password is too short, make it longer and it should work.

user13672

Posted 2014-02-19T22:04:56.197

Reputation: 1

that's not the real pw, but i did try a much longer password that didn't work either – Jon B – 2014-02-20T07:09:14.327