plotman does not run

[toboladao]

I needed to format the server and now I'm not able to get plotman to run.
already tried as user and as root.
This message appears when I run the archive.

> chia-blockchain$ plotman archive
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/home/ubuntu/chia-blockchain/venv/bin/plotman", line 8, in <module>
>     sys.exit(main())
>   File "/home/ubuntu/chia-blockchain/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/plotman/plotman.py", line 154, in main
>     cfg = configuration.get_validated_configs(config_text, config_path, preset_target_definitions_text)
>   File "/home/ubuntu/chia-blockchain/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/plotman/configuration.py", line 56, in get_validated_configs
>     raise Exception(message)
> Exception: Expected major version 1, found version (0,)
>     See https://github.com/ericaltendorf/plotman/wiki/Configuration#versions>

my plotman.yaml is this:

`# Default/example plotman.yaml configuration file
# Options for display and rendering
user_interface:
        # Call out to the `stty` program to determine terminal size, instead of
        # relying on what is reported by the curses library.   In some cases,
        # the curses library fails to update on SIGWINCH signals.  If the
        # `plotman interactive` curses interface does not properly adjust when
        # you resize the terminal window, you can try setting this to True.
        use_stty_size: True
# Where to plot and log.
directories:
        # One directory in which to store all plot job logs (the STDOUT/
        # STDERR of all plot jobs).  In order to monitor progress, plotman
        # reads these logs on a regular basis, so using a fast drive is
        # recommended.
        log: /var/opt/chia/logs
        # One or more directories to use as tmp dirs for plotting.  The
        # scheduler will use all of them and distribute jobs among them.
        # It assumes that IO is independent for each one (i.e., that each
        # one is on a different physical device).
        #
        # If multiple directories share a common prefix, reports will
        # abbreviate and show just the uniquely identifying suffix.
        tmp:
                - /mnt/ssd/tmp
                - /home/ubuntu/tmp
        # Optional: Allows overriding some characteristics of certain tmp
        # directories. This contains a map of tmp directory names to
        # attributes. If a tmp directory and attribute is not listed here,
        # it uses the default attribute setting from the main configuration.
        #
        # Currently support override parameters:
        #     - tmpdir_max_jobs
        tmp_overrides:
                # In this example, /mnt/tmp/00 is larger than the other tmp
                # dirs and it can hold more plots than the default.
                "/mnt/ssd/tmp":
                        tmpdir_max_jobs: 3
                "/home/ubuntu/tmp":
                        tmpdir_max_jobs: 3
        # Optional: tmp2 directory.  If specified, will be passed to
        # chia plots create as -2.  Only one tmp2 directory is supported.
        # tmp2: /mnt/tmp/a
        # One or more directories; the scheduler will use all of them.
        # These again are presumed to be on independent physical devices,
        # so writes (plot jobs) and reads (archivals) can be scheduled
        # to minimize IO contention.
        dst:
                 - /home/ubuntu/final
                 - /mnt/ssd/final
        # Archival configuration.  Optional; if you do not wish to run the
        # archiving operation, comment this section out.
        #
        # Currently archival depends on an rsync daemon running on the remote
        # host.
        # The archival also uses ssh to connect to the remote host and check
        # for available directories. Set up ssh keys on the remote host to
        # allow public key login from rsyncd_user.
        # Complete example: https://github.com/ericaltendorf/plotman/wiki/Archiving
        archive:
                 rsyncd_module: chia # Define this in remote rsyncd.conf.
                 rsyncd_path: /mnt  # This is used via ssh. Should match path
        #                             # defined in the module referenced above.
                 rsyncd_bwlimit: 102400000  # Bandwidth limit in KB/s
                 rsyncd_host: xxx.xxx.xx.xx
                 rsyncd_user: ubuntu
                # Optional index.  If omitted or set to 0, plotman will archive
                # to the first archive dir with free space.  If specified,
                # plotman will skip forward up to 'index' drives (if they exist).
                # This can be useful to reduce io contention on a drive on the
                # archive host if you have multiple plotters (simultaneous io
                # can still happen at the time a drive fills up.)  E.g., if you
                # have four plotters, you could set this to 0, 1, 2, and 3, on
                # the 4 machines, or 0, 1, 0, 1.
                #   index: 0
# Plotting scheduling parameters
scheduling:
        # Run a job on a particular temp dir only if the number of existing jobs
        # before [tmpdir_stagger_phase_major : tmpdir_stagger_phase_minor]
        # is less than tmpdir_stagger_phase_limit.
        # Phase major corresponds to the plot phase, phase minor corresponds to
        # the table or table pair in sequence, phase limit corresponds to
        # the number of plots allowed before [phase major : phase minor].
        # e.g, with default settings, a new plot will start only when your plot
        # reaches phase [2 : 1] on your temp drive. This setting takes precidence
        # over global_stagger_m
        tmpdir_stagger_phase_major: 2
        tmpdir_stagger_phase_minor: 1
        # Optional: default is 1
        tmpdir_stagger_phase_limit: 1
        # Don't run more than this many jobs at a time on a single temp dir.
        tmpdir_max_jobs: 4
        # Don't run more than this many jobs at a time in total.
        global_max_jobs: 8
        # Don't run any jobs (across all temp dirs) more often than this, in minutes.
        global_stagger_m: 1
        # How often the daemon wakes to consider starting a new plot job, in seconds.
        polling_time_s: 20
# Plotting parameters.  These are pass-through parameters to chia plots create.
# See documentation at
# https://github.com/Chia-Network/chia-blockchain/wiki/CLI-Commands-Reference#create
plotting:
        k: 32
        e: False             # Use -e plotting option
        n_threads: 3         # Threads per job
        n_buckets: 128       # Number of buckets to split data into
        #job_buffer: 6000     # Per job memory
        job_buffer: 6500     # Per job memory
        # If specified, pass through to the -f and -p options.  See CLI reference.
        farmer_pk: verylong
        pool_pk:  verylongtoo

Does anyone have any idea how to solve it?

[pspardon]

Plotman just updated to use a new standard for the configuration file so I'm assuming since you had to reinstall, you got the latest version but your config file is still for the old version. You will need to grab the new config file and move over your settings for it to work again. The new config file default can be found here.

https://github.com/ericaltendorf/plotman/blob/main/src/plotman/resources/plotman.yaml

[toboladao]

Thanks, you'll check it out.

[toboladao]

I still have problems starting plotman. The following message appears:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/ubuntu/chia-blockchain/venv/bin/plotman", line 8, in <module> sys.exit(main()) File "/home/ubuntu/chia-blockchain/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/plotman/plotman.py", line 154, in main cfg = configuration.get_validated_configs(config_text, config_path, preset_target_definitions_text) File "/home/ubuntu/chia-blockchain/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/plotman/configuration.py", line 44, in get_validated_configs config_objects = yaml.load(config_text, Loader=yaml.SafeLoader) File "/home/ubuntu/chia-blockchain/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/yaml/__init__.py", line 114, in load return loader.get_single_data() File "/home/ubuntu/chia-blockchain/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/yaml/constructor.py", line 49, in get_single_data node = self.get_single_node() File "/home/ubuntu/chia-blockchain/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/yaml/composer.py", line 36, in get_single_node document = self.compose_document() File "/home/ubuntu/chia-blockchain/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/yaml/composer.py", line 55, in compose_document node = self.compose_node(None, None) File "/home/ubuntu/chia-blockchain/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/yaml/composer.py", line 84, in compose_node node = self.compose_mapping_node(anchor) File "/home/ubuntu/chia-blockchain/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/yaml/composer.py", line 133, in compose_mapping_node item_value = self.compose_node(node, item_key) File "/home/ubuntu/chia-blockchain/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/yaml/composer.py", line 84, in compose_node node = self.compose_mapping_node(anchor) File "/home/ubuntu/chia-blockchain/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/yaml/composer.py", line 133, in compose_mapping_node item_value = self.compose_node(node, item_key) File "/home/ubuntu/chia-blockchain/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/yaml/composer.py", line 84, in compose_node node = self.compose_mapping_node(anchor) File "/home/ubuntu/chia-blockchain/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/yaml/composer.py", line 127, in compose_mapping_node while not self.check_event(MappingEndEvent): File "/home/ubuntu/chia-blockchain/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/yaml/parser.py", line 98, in check_event self.current_event = self.state() File "/home/ubuntu/chia-blockchain/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/yaml/parser.py", line 428, in parse_block_mapping_key if self.check_token(KeyToken): File "/home/ubuntu/chia-blockchain/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/yaml/scanner.py", line 116, in check_token self.fetch_more_tokens() File "/home/ubuntu/chia-blockchain/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/yaml/scanner.py", line 162, in fetch_more_tokens self.stale_possible_simple_keys() File "/home/ubuntu/chia-blockchain/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/yaml/scanner.py", line 291, in stale_possible_simple_keys raise ScannerError("while scanning a simple key", key.mark, yaml.scanner.ScannerError: while scanning a simple key in "<unicode string>", line 56, column 17: "/home/ubuntu/tmp" ^ could not find expected ':' in "<unicode string>", line 57, column 25: tmpdir_max_jobs: 3

My current plotman.yaml looks like this:
`# Default/example plotman.yaml configuration file

https://github.com/ericaltendorf/plotman/wiki/Configuration#versions

version: [1]

logging:
# One directory in which to store all plot job logs (the STDOUT/
# STDERR of all plot jobs). In order to monitor progress, plotman
# reads these logs on a regular basis, so using a fast drive is
# recommended.
plots: /home/ubuntu/logs
# transfers:
# application:

Options for display and rendering

user_interface:
# Call out to the stty program to determine terminal size, instead of
# relying on what is reported by the curses library. In some cases,
# the curses library fails to update on SIGWINCH signals. If the
# plotman interactive curses interface does not properly adjust when
# you resize the terminal window, you can try setting this to True.
use_stty_size: True

Optional custom settings for the subcommands (status, interactive etc)

commands:
interactive:
# Set it to False if you don't want to auto start plotting when 'interactive' is ran.
# You can override this value from the command line, type "plotman interactive -h" for details
autostart_plotting: True
autostart_archiving: True

Where to plot and log.

directories:
# One or more directories to use as tmp dirs for plotting. The
# scheduler will use all of them and distribute jobs among them.
# It assumes that IO is independent for each one (i.e., that each
# one is on a different physical device).
#
# If multiple directories share a common prefix, reports will
# abbreviate and show just the uniquely identifying suffix.
tmp:
- /mnt/ssd/tmp

    # Optional: Allows overriding some characteristics of certain tmp
    # directories. This contains a map of tmp directory names to
    # attributes. If a tmp directory and attribute is not listed here,
    # it uses the default attribute setting from the main configuration.
    #
    # Currently support override parameters:
    #     - tmpdir_max_jobs
    tmp_overrides:
            # In this example, /mnt/tmp/00 is larger than the other tmp
            # dirs and it can hold more plots than the default.
            "/mnt/ssd/tmp":
                    tmpdir_max_jobs: 3
            "/home/ubuntu/tmp"
                    tmpdir_max_jobs: 3

    # Optional: tmp2 directory.  If specified, will be passed to
    # chia plots create as -2.  Only one tmp2 directory is supported.
    tmp2: /home/ubuntu/tmp

    # Optional: A list of one or more directories; the scheduler will
    # use all of them.  These again are presumed to be on independent
    # physical devices so writes (plot jobs) and reads (archivals) can
    # be scheduled to minimize IO contention.
    # 
    # If dst is commented out, the tmp directories will be used as the
    # buffer.
    dst:
            - /mnt/ssd/final
            - /home/ubuntu/final

Archival configuration. Optional; if you do not wish to run the

archiving operation, comment this section out. Almost everyone

should be using the archival feature. It is meant to distribute

plots among multiple disks filling them all. This can be done both

to local and to remote disks.

As of v0.4, archiving commands are highly configurable. The basic

configuration consists of a script for checking available disk space

and another for actually transferring plots. Each can be specified

as either a path to an existing script or inline script contents.

It is expected that most people will use existing recipes and will

adjust them by specifying environment variables that will set their

system specific values. These can be provided to the scripts via

the env key. plotman will additionally provide source and

destination environment variables to the transfer script so it

knows the specifically selected items to process. plotman also needs

to be able to generally detect if a transfer process is already

running. To be able to identify externally launched transfers, the

process name and an argument prefix to match must be provided. Note

that variable substitution of environment variables including those

specified in the env key can be used in both process name and process

argument prefix elements but that they use the python substitution

format.

Complete example: https://github.com/ericaltendorf/plotman/wiki/Archiving

archiving:
target: [email protected]
env:
site_root: /mnt
target_definitions:
my_target:
env:
command: rsync
options: --preallocate --remove-source-files --skip-compress plot --whole-file
site_root: null
disk_space_script: |
#!/bin/bash
df -BK | grep " ${site_root}/" | awk '{ gsub(/K$/,"",$4); print $6 ":" $4*1024 }'
transfer_script: |
#!/bin/bash
"${command}" ${options} "${source}" "${destination}"
transfer_process_name: "{command}"
transfer_process_argument_prefix: "{site_root}"

Plotting scheduling parameters

scheduling:
# Run a job on a particular temp dir only if the number of existing jobs
# before [tmpdir_stagger_phase_major : tmpdir_stagger_phase_minor]
# is less than tmpdir_stagger_phase_limit.
# Phase major corresponds to the plot phase, phase minor corresponds to
# the table or table pair in sequence, phase limit corresponds to
# the number of plots allowed before [phase major : phase minor].
# e.g, with default settings, a new plot will start only when your plot
# reaches phase [2 : 1] on your temp drive. This setting takes precidence
# over global_stagger_m
tmpdir_stagger_phase_major: 2
tmpdir_stagger_phase_minor: 1
# Optional: default is 1
tmpdir_stagger_phase_limit: 1

    # Don't run more than this many jobs at a time on a single temp dir.
    tmpdir_max_jobs: 4

    # Don't run more than this many jobs at a time in total.
    global_max_jobs: 8

    # Don't run any jobs (across all temp dirs) more often than this, in minutes.
    global_stagger_m: 1

    # How often the daemon wakes to consider starting a new plot job, in seconds.
    polling_time_s: 20

Plotting parameters. These are pass-through parameters to chia plots create.

See documentation at

https://github.com/Chia-Network/chia-blockchain/wiki/CLI-Commands-Reference#create

plotting:
k: 32
e: False # Use -e plotting option
n_threads: 3 # Threads per job
n_buckets: 128 # Number of buckets to split data into
job_buffer: 3389 # Per job memory
# If specified, pass through to the -f and -p options. See CLI reference.
farmer_pk: xxxxxxxx
pool_pk: xxxxxxxxx
# If true, Skips adding [final dir] / dst to harvester for farming.
# Especially useful if you have harvesters that are running somewhere else
# and you are just plotting on the machine where plotman is running.
# x: True`

can anybody help me?

[racergoodwin]

The last line of the error message tells you the problem: -
could not find expected ':' in "", line 57, column 25: tmpdir_max_jobs: 3
The config.yaml you posted is missing the : after "/home/ubuntu/tmp" under tmp_overrides: