better error messages

mining-visualizer · Jun 11, 2018 · 683cddf · 683cddf
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diff --git a/ethminer/FarmClient.h b/ethminer/FarmClient.h
@@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ class FarmClient : public jsonrpc::Client
 		}
 		catch (std::exception& e)
 		{
-			LogB << "Error in routine tokenBalance: " << e.what();
+			LogD << "Error in routine tokenBalance: " << e.what();
 			return 0;
 		}
 	}

diff --git a/ethminer/MinerAux.h b/ethminer/MinerAux.h
@@ -1006,7 +1006,9 @@ class MinerCLI
 			catch (jsonrpc::JsonRpcException& e)
 			{
 				connectedToNode = false;
-				LogB << "An error occurred communicating with the node : " << e.what();
+				string msg = (m_opMode == OperationMode::Pool) ? "mining pool" : "node";
+				LogB << "An error occurred communicating with your " << msg << ". Please check your host/port settings.";
+				LogB << "Error text: " << e.what();
 				LogS << "Trying again in 5 seconds ...";
 				farmRetries++;
 				if (farmRetries == maxRetries)

diff --git a/release/build.bat b/release/build.bat
@@ -16,11 +16,17 @@ cd %~dp0
 IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO ERROR
 
 
-REM Copy tokenminer.ini and Readme file 
+REM Copy tokenminer.ini
+
 copy "..\tokenminer.ini" stage\tokenminer
-copy "..\Readme.md" stage
+
+REM convert readme to html and copy to staging.  see https://github.com/joeyespo/grip
+
+grip ../readme.md --export ./stage/readme.html
+
 
 REM Copy binaries
+
 copy "..\build\ethminer\release\tokenminer.exe" stage\tokenminer
 copy "..\build\ethminer\release\libcurl.dll" stage\tokenminer
 copy "..\build\ethminer\release\libmicrohttpd-dll.dll" stage\tokenminer