Grin - Connected Peers < 5

[alienninja]

Describe the bug
Was having issues with my Chain Height not increasing to the Header Chain Height.
I would have peers, but eventually they would go to 0.
I tried removing the chain_data/peer directory, but that did not change the behavior.
I then removed the entire chain_data directory, and it started to work, however after about
2 hours, I'm still at 4 peers and Status "Preparing chain state for validation, step 3/4" This was after restarting Grin because it hung on downloading the chain.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Clean reboot of system
2. Run 'grin server start'
3. Run 'grin'

Relevant Information
grin_server.log attached.

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: [e.g. iOS]
• Version [e.g. 1.0.1]
  Linux 4.15.0-45-generic WIP: Tracking Transaction Pool Implementation #48-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jan 29 16:28:13 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
  Additional context
  Note I am also mining on this server with bminer

Also, should I be running both "grin" and "grin server start" ? On reboot, I send "grin" to screen, and just run grin server start, then start my mining as well as start the wallet listener.

Thanks
grin-server.log

[antiochp]

I believe grin by default runs grin server run.

So you should definitely not be running grin server start alongside this as this will cause multiple grin processes to be potentially writing to the same backend db and files.

[hashmap]

Agree, it has nothing to with number of peers (4 is low but enough to get a node synced), you corrupt your chain data by running 2 instances of grin. It will be fixed soon (by not allowing the second process to start)
Closing for now.