Geth private net not mining

Question

My geth private net is not mining. I've tried setting the etherbase and when I call on it right after and it says true, it shows as undefined. On the left is the geth console on the right is the geth JS console. The geth console just is stuck on "commit new mining work" and I get the feeling that is because of the etherbase issue.

Answer 1

1.).setEtherbase() is not an method of the personal object. It's a method of the miner object. That way miner.setEtherbase('0x4...') will work.

2.) miner.start() has normally no output. You console interpreted this as null

3.) to verify your account, you should use eth.coinbase instead of miner.etherbase