backerei hangs forever

[chiptus]

After fixing the yaml and revealing our public key, now the client hangs forever without sending any rewards.

[cwgoes]

Which command did you run - have you checked that tezos-client can sign & send transactions?

[chiptus]

yes, just did a tezos-client transfer and it worked. backerei shows Running "tezos-client ... sign bytes ... for bakepay" in a pty, but stays there forever

[cwgoes]

Try running the command manually and see if tezos-client signs the transaction successfully.

[chiptus]

i tried and it did sign it successfully, no errors from tezos-client

[chiptus]

it signs successfully, but when I try to decode it on https://kukai.app/offline-signing it didn't work. I guess there's something wrong with the bytes it tries to sign. where can we chat so I can send you the exact output without exposing it to public? are you on obisidian's bakers slack?

[issie81]

i think i have the same running no-dry run gives me

xx@payment:~/tezos$ backerei payout --no-dry-run Enter source account password: Total payouts: 0.191056, payout account balance: xx For cycle 64 delegator xx should be paid 0.191056 XTZ Running '/home/xx/tezos/tezos-client -c /home/xx/.tezos-client/config sign bytes 0x031e3cf235638312719aff8222a1835e3629656642896b3f213a4ac0f168c2247e080000571bd249326124a9b101eb101b39515e8b356fdb009f8f35f85500d0d40b01fe0be860211931133e81111a25ed21a82a9d09c90000 for xx' in a pty

here it stays forever what to do?

UPDATE: running it manual signs the transaction Also fee in yaml file is set like fee:

do i need to place like a 0?

[cwgoes]

@chiptus Did you test running the sign command manually? backerei just produces whatever signature output tezos-client would produce. You shouldn't need to show me the exact output.

@issie81 I answered here - https://github.com/cryptiumlabs/backerei/issues/27#issuecomment-457960275.

[issie81]

chiptus are you running vanity address? is there a pass set.. i did have same did (had account without pass, vanity) made a new address (normal) and with pass after that all went good

[chiptus]

running the sign command manually produces a string successfully. But trying to decode it using something like https://kukai.app/offline-signing failed.

[cwgoes]

Hmm, the Tezos client & that webapp might pad the signed string differently.

I'm pretty sure the signature produced by backerei is correct for the purpose of signing transactions. Signature format is probably not related to backerei hanging - is that still happening? The terminal code used to call tezos-client might be a bit finicky - are you running on Linux in a standard terminal?

[chiptus]

osx, terminal

[cwgoes]

Possibly the code which backerei uses to interact with tezos-client through a virtual pty isn't OSX compatible.

Can you possibly try on Linux?

Otherwise you could play around with the sign function at the bottom of app/Payout.hs.

[chiptus]

Thanks for the answer, I will have a look at both.

[cwgoes]

Any luck?

[cwgoes]

Closing, but reopen if you still need help debugging.

[emilnygaard]

I'm seeing the same thing. Sometime last week, backerei just stopped doing the automatic transactions, and when trying to restart it, I see that it's stuck on Running '/home/tezos/tezos/tezos-client -c /home/tezos/.tezos-client/config sign bytes ** for **' in a pty

When running the command manually it runs, and says "Signature: ***" but the transactions are never completed.

Any ideas? :)

Update: Running on Linux

[cwgoes]

Are you using a remote signer, or did you change your configuration at all prior to the issue?

[emilnygaard]

Nothing changed before this stopped, and I don't think I'm using a remote signer. Everything is running on the node :)

[emilnygaard]

I've tried updating the entire node now, inlcuding backerei, and it still get's stuck on running xxx sign bytes..

[cwgoes]

Hmm, strange, unfortunately I don't really know where to start to help you.

Are you familiar with Haskell? Try modifying the code at the bottom of app/Payout.hs which handles signing (the sign function).