Clueless User's Guide to Upgrading to Version 0.5.0

How I'm learning to Love Ubuntu

Let me start off by saying that I am a long time Windows user and only started using Ubuntu two weeks ago when I learned about Steem. So I dug up an old laptop and converted it to Ubuntu 16. So far pretty painless. Then I followed @joseph's Mining Steem for Dummies Guide. A few hours later I found my first block and had earned some Steem Power. A couple old hard drives and a few days later and I had my two desktops mining using Ubuntu also.

Then, this morning I noticed that two of my mining computers had not produced any Steem for the last 24 hours. I went to the computers and checked the mining screen to check their hash rate, but all I saw was a list of messages saying something like

   Read_Loop ntp_delta_time updated.....

Didn't mean anything to me so I tried restarting steemd. I got a few messages showing 1hps hash rate but nothing else. So I opened the cli_wallet and ran the about command on all three computers and low the two non mining computers were version 0.4.3 and the one still mining was 0.5.0.

Well at least I had an idea of where the problem was. After stumbling around trying to the 0.4.3 computers I figured out an easy and fairly fast solution. Here it is:

Close any Terminal windows in Steem.
Using file manager rename the steem folder to old_steem.
Open a Terminal window and enter the following commands:

1. git clone https://github.com/steemit/steem
2. cd steem
3. git submodule update --init --recursive
4. cmake -DENABLE_CONTENT_PATCHING=OFF -DLOW_MEMORY_NODE=ON CMakeLists.txt
5. make
6. cd programs/steemd
7. ./steemd --rpc-endpoint --seed-node="seed.steemed.net:2001" --seed-node="52.74.152.79:2001"

Open a second Terminal window and enter the following commands:

1. cd steem/programs/cli_wallet

2. ./cli_wallet

3. set_password "PASSWORD"

   You can use the same PASSWORD as the original wallet.

4. unlock "PASSWORD"

5. import_key 5_Your_Original_WIF_Private_Key

6. ctrl+c

In the steemd terminal window:

1. ctrl+c

Using file manager copy the old config.ini file from old_steem/programs/steemd/witness_node_date_dir and paste it into steem/programs/steemd/witness_node_date_dir, replacing the existing config.ini file.

Next copy the blockchain folder from old_steem/programs/steemd/witness_node_date_dir and paste it into steem/programs/steemd/witness_node_date_dir, replacing and merging with the existing blockchain folder and subfiles.

Finally in the steemd Terminal window enter the command:

1. ./steemd --rpc-endpoint

At this point you should see that the miner starts Replaying Blocks and shortly afterwards you will see the messages with a Hash Rate of 1hps. When the miner finishes syncing you will see a higher hash rate. Congratulations, you back up and running.

Once again I would like to thank @joseph whose original guide I relied heavily on for this guide.