Client: Chain link prev hash mismatch error when following user

[nscaife]

When I attempt to follow user ewust I receive the following error:

▶ ERROR Chain link prev hash mismatch error: Chain mismatch at seqno=12

Is there a way to resolve this on my end?

my log id: 6d01c84ffee18f3a16cc6c1c

[maxtaco]

We'll take a look, thanks for the feedback. It's likely a bug on our side.

[maxtaco]

Hah, I think the issue is this:

{"body":{"key":{"fingerprint":"keybase might not want to allow this here","host":"keybase.io","key_id":"whatever","uid":"okokokokokokok","username":"root"}},"body":{"key":{"fingerprint":"09c91d5a25079ede05d92585e1f406759dbf4c43","host":"keybase.io","key_id":"e1f406759dbf4c43","uid":"60446d1f121a4d388238a8bff5363500","username":"ewust"},"service":{"name":"twitter","username":"ewust"},"type":"web_service_binding","version":1},"ctime":1396555334,"expire_in":157680000,"prev":"4ca549cc6e0410cc3c802b43ee8db487e4fbd41262557919135bea7e88d4b262","seqno":11,"tag":"signature"}

Which we probably failed to reject sometime in .... 2014? .. I'm guessing?

[maxtaco]

We should probably just deactivate the account since stricter clients are rightly puking on this user's account.

[nscaife]

@ewust ☝️

[ewust]

Hmm. Is there something I can do from my end to fix things? Happy to delete a tweet or something as needed. I don't recall exactly what I did, but knowing me was probably trying to just poke at things. I meant no harm, honest!

[maxtaco]

No worries, we'd likely have to update the client software to make exceptions for these broken links.

[ewust]

Aww. I can't delete/update the links myself? And if not, is there anyway I can recover / get back ewust as a username on keybase? Or is that my punishment for tinkering? :p

[maxtaco]

No, links are immutable once posted. We'll figure something out, bear with us.

[nscaife]

Hey @maxtaco, I get a new error message with 5.4.0:

▶ ERROR Bad key family: InsertServerEldestKey found a non-matching eldest key.