Issue: Check for openssl during install

[mtbitcoin]

Please see https://forums.counterparty.io/discussion/748/counterpartyd-v9-45-0-released-how-to-update#latest

Unable to run counterpartyd if the openssl dlls are not already available under the windows folders.

[robby-d]

So to fix, will a download and install from http://slproweb.com/download/Win32OpenSSL_Light-1_0_1j.exe work ??? If so, I can enhance the installation docs to add that as a prerequisite

alternatively, there may be another package or additional packages we need to install from http://slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html ...just let me know and i'll enhance the docs

[ivanaszuber]

I'll try it now

[mtbitcoin]

The installation of http://slproweb.com/download/Win32OpenSSL_Light-1_0_1j.exe appears to have taken me pass where I was stuck. However, there is also prompt stating that the c++ 2008 distributables are required for this to work correctly when installing the Win32OpenSSL_Light-1_0_1j.exe . I am not sure if it will work without it.

[robby-d]

Ok, then you'll need http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9B2DA534-3E03-4391-8A4D-074B9F2BC1BF as well (linked to from that page)

[ivanaszuber]

yeah, the install helped with the error above, but when I try to do a market --give-asset=BTC I get the following error:

Status: Connecting to database.
Status: Running v9.45.0 of counterpartyd.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\counterpartyd_build\env\lib\site-packages\requests\packages\urllib3\c
onnectionpool.py", line 493, in urlopen
body=body, headers=headers)
File "C:\counterpartyd_build\env\lib\site-packages\requests\packages\urllib3\c
onnectionpool.py", line 291, in _make_request
conn.request(method, url, **httplib_request_kw)
File "C:\Python34\Lib\http\client.py", line 1090, in request
self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)
File "C:\Python34\Lib\http\client.py", line 1128, in _send_request
self.endheaders(body)
File "C:\Python34\Lib\http\client.py", line 1086, in endheaders
self._send_output(message_body)
File "C:\Python34\Lib\http\client.py", line 924, in _send_output
self.send(msg)
File "C:\Python34\Lib\http\client.py", line 859, in send
self.connect()
File "C:\counterpartyd_build\env\lib\site-packages\requests\packages\urllib3\c
onnection.py", line 106, in connect
conn = self._new_conn()
File "C:\counterpartyd_build\env\lib\site-packages\requests\packages\urllib3\c
onnection.py", line 90, in _new_conn
(self.host, self.port), self.timeout, *extra_args)
File "C:\Python34\Lib\socket.py", line 509, in create_connection
raise err
File "C:\Python34\Lib\socket.py", line 500, in create_connection
sock.connect(sa)
ConnectionRefusedError: [WinError 10061] No connection could be made because the
target machine actively refused it

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\counterpartyd_build\env\lib\site-packages\requests\adapters.py", line
327, in send
timeout=timeout
File "C:\counterpartyd_build\env\lib\site-packages\requests\packages\urllib3\c
onnectionpool.py", line 543, in urlopen
raise MaxRetryError(self, url, e)
requests.packages.urllib3.exceptions.MaxRetryError: HTTPConnectionPool(host='loc
alhost', port=4000): Max retries exceeded with url: / (Caused by <class 'Connect
ionRefusedError'>: [WinError 10061] No connection could be made because the targ
et machine actively refused it)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\counterpartyd_build\dist\counterpartyd\counterpartyd.py", line 1091,
in
market(args.give_asset, args.get_asset)
File "C:\counterpartyd_build\dist\counterpartyd\counterpartyd.py", line 108, i
n market
awaiting_btcs = util.api('get_order_matches', {'filters': filters, 'filterop
': 'OR', 'status': 'pending'})
File "C:\counterpartyd_build\dist\counterpartyd\lib\util.py", line 38, in api
response = requests.post(config.RPC, data=json.dumps(payload), headers=heade
rs)
File "C:\counterpartyd_build\env\lib\site-packages\requests\api.py", line 88,
in post
return request('post', url, data=data, *_kwargs)
File "C:\counterpartyd_build\env\lib\site-packages\requests\api.py", line 44,
in request
return session.request(method=method, url=url, *_kwargs)
File "C:\counterpartyd_build\env\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line
456, in request
resp = self.send(prep, *_send_kwargs)
File "C:\counterpartyd_build\env\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line
559, in send
r = adapter.send(request, *_kwargs)
File "C:\counterpartyd_build\env\lib\site-packages\requests\adapters.py", line
375, in send
raise ConnectionError(e, request=request)
requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: HTTPConnectionPool(host='localhost', port=4
000): Max retries exceeded with url: / (Caused by <class 'ConnectionRefusedError
'>: [WinError 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine acti
vely refused it)

[robby-d]

@ivanaszuber is your bitcoind running? was this all working for you before the upgrade of counterpartyd?

[ivanaszuber]

bitcoind is running, yes, and I was able execute the same request 2 days ago... I'll try again, it could be I'm doing something wrong...

[ivanaszuber]

sorry, my bad, it's working... I restarted counterpartyd, synced everything up and got the market result now

[mtbitcoin]

@ivanaszuber is your counterpartyd synced up to the latest blocks? After the database reparse has completed have you tried restarting counterpartyd ?? I am running into issues after restarting and am not sure if this is something on my end or more

[ivanaszuber]

@mtbitcoin my counterpartyd server wasn't synced up with the latest block (which is probably why I got the error), so I restarted the server, synced up with the latest block and tried to execute the --get-asset command. It was working. But then I restarted the server again (due to issues I'm having when trying to run counterpartyd on testnet) and now I get stuck on "Status: Checking version." It's hanging like that for the last 5-10 min

[mtbitcoin]

ahh.. ok so I am not alone then :-) I am going to open an issue

running counterpartyd on windows can be lonely at times

[ghost]

I don't have any 3rd party SSL packages and I've never had this problem (and I use the Windows version all the time). Maybe I have OpenSSL installed by some other developer packages on my OS (e.g. Apache) and they're in my PATH variable. Still, I find this weird.
Why is SSL used in the first place?

[mtbitcoin]

@Rippler Most likely you already have the openssl installed. It is used in many other open/closed source applications and could have been installed in the past.

[ghost]

@mtbitcoin, I think something else was the problem.

1. A while ago I installed CP on a clean VM and didn't have to install this or similar package
   https://wiki.counterparty.io/w/Counterparty_with_64-bit_Python_3.4
2. How come everyone's counterpartyd worked fine before, but couldn't work after this upgrade?
   (3. And I still wonder why is SSL necessary for counterpartyd?)

[ghost]

To answer my question number 3: it seems this is where the need for SSL was introduced.
CounterpartyXCP/counterparty-core@ffde476
I updated the Wiki article.