So I just [FEB 12, 2018] spun up an Ubuntu 16.04 VM and installed geth using the ppa.
geth version
Geth
Version: 1.7.3-stable
Git Commit: 4bb3c89d44e372e6a9ab85a8be0c9345265c763a
Architecture: amd64
Protocol Versions: [63 62]
Network Id: 1
Go Version: go1.9
Operating System: linux
GOPATH=
GOROOT=/usr/lib/go-1.9
Now I would like to connect to testnet. My internet research claims I should be able to do
geth --testnet --syncmode "fast"
or
geth --testnet --rpc --rpcapi "admin,db,eth,debug,miner,net,shh,txpool,personal,web3" --syncmode "fast" --rpccorsdomain '*' --rpcaddr 0.0.0.0 --rpcport 8545
Both commands result in the same...
WARN [02-12|12:13:49] No etherbase set and no accounts found as default
INFO [02-12|12:13:49] Starting peer-to-peer node instance=Geth/v1.7.3-stable-4bb3c89d/linux-amd64/go1.9
INFO [02-12|12:13:49] Allocated cache and file handles database=/home/parallels/.ethereum/testnet/geth/chaindata cache=128 handles=1024
INFO [02-12|12:13:49] Initialised chain configuration config="{ChainID: 3 Homestead: 0 DAO: DAOSupport: true EIP150: 0 EIP155: 10 EIP158: 10 Byzantium: 1700000 Engine: ethash}" INFO [02-12|12:13:49] Disk storage enabled for ethash caches dir=/home/parallels/.ethereum/testnet/geth/ethash count=3
INFO [02-12|12:13:49] Disk storage enabled for ethash DAGs dir=/home/parallels/.ethash count=2
INFO [02-12|12:13:49] Initialising Ethereum protocol versions="[63 62]" network=3
INFO [02-12|12:13:49] Loaded most recent local header number=0 hash=419410…ca4a2d td=1048576
INFO [02-12|12:13:49] Loaded most recent local full block number=0 hash=419410…ca4a2d td=1048576
INFO [02-12|12:13:49] Loaded most recent local fast block number=0 hash=419410…ca4a2d td=1048576
INFO [02-12|12:13:49] Loaded local transaction journal transactions=0 dropped=0
INFO [02-12|12:13:49] Regenerated local transaction journal transactions=0 accounts=0
INFO [02-12|12:13:49] Starting P2P networking
INFO [02-12|12:13:51] UDP listener up self=enode://399e42ef589c6202d31e64509432030b11ed642d261fa337811cb3f7838f606db47ffb91ef91dc464923450f55773f5ace698be2035a95dcaaf77f9843cf4b9b@[::]:30303
INFO [02-12|12:13:51] HTTP endpoint opened: http://0.0.0.0:8545 INFO [02-12|12:13:51] RLPx listener up self=enode://399e42ef589c6202d31e64509432030b11ed642d261fa337811cb3f7838f606db47ffb91ef91dc464923450f55773f5ace698be2035a95dcaaf77f9843cf4b9b@[::]:30303
INFO [02-12|12:13:51] IPC endpoint opened: /home/parallels/.ethereum/testnet/geth.ipc
It appears to be stuck on IPC endpoint opened
. I am both a linux newbie and an ethereum newbie. Just trying to learn. I don't know where to start looking for what is wrong. Can you help me get this going?
Update: After an hour and a half there's a new message
INFO [02-12|13:44:02] Regenerated local transaction journal transactions=0 accounts=0