I used to run a node on my Mac by simply typing geth console on the cli. However, I had to stop running geth about a month ago when the DOS attacks started. Last week though, I downloaded and installed Parity and I run it by typing parity --geth on the cli. But now, when I try to run geth using the old way (i.e. by typing geth console), I get an error message. When I go into my Mist folder, I don't see geth in there anymore. There is a geth in the Parity folder though. So I downloaded the latest version of geth and it's sitting in my Application folder, and I can't seem to run it from the cli like before. Could you please let me know what I need to do so that I can run geth exactly as I had before and where I should move the geth executable file to as it is sitting in my Applications folder?
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what is the message error do you get? – Badr Bellaj♦ Oct 11 '16 at 19:44
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I'm not getting an error now for some reason. Now it just says "Welcome to the Geth JavaScript console!" and below the prompt ">" shows up but just hangs there. Nothing happens. What to do? – JDawg Oct 11 '16 at 20:09
don't worry just re-download geth without Mist. add the folder where you put it into the Path.
don't run geth alongside parity. run parity --geth (Geth-IPC-compatibility mode) first and use **geth attach** to get a console to execute your scripts and commands.
answered Oct 11 '16 at 20:08
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I did what you suggested and maybe I did something wrong because after I add the folder to the Path and typed "geth console" in the cli, I got: – JDawg Oct 11 '16 at 22:07
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fatal error: unexpected signal during runtime execution fatal error: unexpected signal during runtime execution [signal 0xb code=0x1 addr=0xb01dfacedebac1e pc=0x4027bab] runtime stack: runtime.throw(0x4d93f00, 0x2a) /usr/local/opt/go/libexec/src/runtime/panic.go:547 +0x90 runtime.sigpanic() /usr/local/opt/go/libexec/src/runtime/sigpanic_unix.go:12 +0x5a runtime.unlock(0x540d220) /usr/local/opt/go/libexec/src/runtime/lock_sema.go:107 +0x14b runtime.(*mheap).freeSpan.func1() /usr/local/opt/go/libexec/src/runtime/mheap.go:726 +0x186 runtime.systemstack(0x7000028f0b30) – JDawg Oct 11 '16 at 22:10
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The output was a lot longer but it went over my allotted character limit... – JDawg Oct 11 '16 at 22:10
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tried it again and block synchronization started. bizarre... now it hangs again so back to square one. – JDawg Oct 11 '16 at 22:20
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