plotman does not work

[lpham368]

I am a newbie to linux and plotman and chia. I did everything follow a youtuber but mine came out as this error. Can anyone help me please? please excuse my english.

$ plotman plot
...starting plot loop
...sleeping 20 s: (True, 'Starting plot job: chia plots create -k 32 -r 2 -u 128 -b 3389 -t /mnt/sieunhanh1 -d /mnt/sieunhanh2 ; logging to /home/lp1/chialogs/2021-05-14T20_46_04.267106+00_00.log')
...sleeping 20 s: (True, 'Starting plot job: chia plots create -k 32 -r 2 -u 128 -b 3389 -t /mnt/sieunhanh1 -d /mnt/sieunhanh2 ; logging to /home/lp1/chialogs/2021-05-14T20_46_24.291317+00_00.log')
^CTraceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/lp1/chia-blockchain/venv/bin/plotman", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/home/lp1/chia-blockchain/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/plotman/plotman.py", line 151, in main
    time.sleep(cfg.scheduling.polling_time_s)
KeyboardInterrupt

[altendky]

The KeyboardInterrupt error is because you pressed ctrl+c. The ^C indicates that as well. The two plots started right after each other usually indicates that either the processes are failing immediately or plotman is failing to see the ongoing processes.

In your configuration file you should have configured a log directory among other things. Check those logs for errors. Also check ps aux | grep 'plots create' to see if there are running plotting processes. If you can't figure that out, share all of these things, plus your full configuration, here and we'll see what we can do. You are also welcome to ask for help in the #plotman channel on the Chia keybase if you prefer.

[lpham368]

~/chia-blockchain$ plotman plot
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/lp1/chia-blockchain/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/plotman/configuration.py", line 40, in get_validated_configs
    loaded = schema.load(config_objects)
  File "/home/lp1/chia-blockchain/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/marshmallow/schema.py", line 714, in load
    return self._do_load(
  File "/home/lp1/chia-blockchain/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/marshmallow/schema.py", line 896, in _do_load
    raise exc
marshmallow.exceptions.ValidationError: {'plotting': {'pool_pk': ['Not a valid string.']}}

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/lp1/chia-blockchain/venv/bin/plotman", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/home/lp1/chia-blockchain/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/plotman/plotman.py", line 137, in main
    cfg = configuration.get_validated_configs(config_text, config_path)
  File "/home/lp1/chia-blockchain/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/plotman/configuration.py", line 42, in get_validated_configs
    raise ConfigurationException(
plotman.configuration.ConfigurationException: Config file at: '/home/lp1/.config/plotman/plotman.yaml' is malformed

[lpham368]

after awhile try kicking around i got a diffrent issue, would this be easier to fix, sir?

[altendky]

Note the error refers to the plotting pool_pk value being invalid in your configuration. Did you mean to set a pool public key? Could you share your configuration file? Make sure you haven't accidentally put any private keys in there.