lotus/documentation/testing-with-gui.md

Pond UI

Pond is a graphical testbed for Lotus. Using it will setup a seperate local network which is helpful for debugging. Pond will spin up nodes, connect them in a given topology, start them mining, and observe how they function over time.

Build

$ make pond

Run

$ ./pond run

Now go to http://127.0.0.1:2222.

What can I test?

• The Spawn Node button starts a new lotus Node in a new draggable window.
• Click [Spawn Storage Miner] to start mining. This require's the node's wallet to have funds.
• Click on [Client] to open the Node's client interface and propose a deal with an existing Miner. If successful you'll see a payment channel open up with that Miner.

Don't leave Pond unattended for long periods of time (10h+), the web-ui tends to eventually consume all the available RAM.

Troubleshooting

• Turn it off and on - Start at the top
• rm -rf ~/.lotus ~/.lotusstorage/
• Verify you have the correct versions of dependencies
• If stuck on a bad fork, try lotus chain sethead --genesis
• If that didn't help, open a new issue, ask in the Community forum or reach out via Community chat.