Go-ethereum: light syncmode not working 1.7.3

[difficultashish]

System information

Geth version: 1.7.3
OS & Version: OSX High Sierra

Expected behaviour

Should sync

Actual behaviour

INFO [12-23|06:53:02] Starting peer-to-peer node instance=Geth/v1.7.3-stable/darwin-amd64/go1.9.2
INFO [12-23|06:53:02] Allocated cache and file handles database=/Users/ashish/Library/Ethereum/geth/lightchaindata cache=128 handles=1024
INFO [12-23|06:53:02] Initialised chain configuration config="{ChainID: 1 Homestead: 1150000 DAO: 1920000 DAOSupport: true EIP150: 2463000 EIP155: 2675000 EIP158: 2675000 Byzantium: 4370000 Engine: ethash}"
INFO [12-23|06:53:02] Disk storage enabled for ethash caches dir=/Users/ashish/Library/Ethereum/geth/ethash count=3
INFO [12-23|06:53:02] Disk storage enabled for ethash DAGs dir=/Users/ashish/.ethash count=2
INFO [12-23|06:53:02] Added trusted checkpoint chain name="ETH mainnet"
INFO [12-23|06:53:02] Loaded most recent local header number=4638583 hash=f1ce03…65d223 td=1589550103538129550308
INFO [12-23|06:53:02] Starting P2P networking
INFO [12-23|06:53:04] UDP listener up self=enode://7ca5c939089012d0539d3feecda40e8f68f6e77a5f0180bf2ba0819b98f8c3df017c796bdc3b140a6ba4c8b2617501f3b888fabebfbb63347380bc6e023688ed@[::]:30303
INFO [12-23|06:53:04] RLPx listener up self=enode://7ca5c939089012d0539d3feecda40e8f68f6e77a5f0180bf2ba0819b98f8c3df017c796bdc3b140a6ba4c8b2617501f3b888fabebfbb63347380bc6e023688ed@[::]:30303
WARN [12-23|06:53:04] Light client mode is an experimental feature
INFO [12-23|06:53:04] IPC endpoint opened: /Users/ashish/Library/Ethereum/geth.ipc
ERROR[12-23|06:53:04] Failed to retrieve current release err="can't fetch trie key 723a3c595b62ffb2fe3ff14e833b86abaa20d02074642ec7f34593550fdaa0cd: no suitable peers available"
INFO [12-23|06:56:26] Block synchronisation started
INFO [12-23|06:56:28] Imported new block headers count=0 elapsed=3.898ms number=4638775 hash=9cd11b…274c39 ignored=192
INFO [12-23|06:56:28] Imported new block headers count=0 elapsed=3.754ms number=4638967 hash=7e2cfe…6c69b7 ignored=192
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INFO [12-23|06:58:34] Imported new block headers count=192 elapsed=36.173ms number=4650295 hash=ef31da…737c3f ignored=0
INFO [12-23|06:58:38] Imported new block headers count=192 elapsed=36.264ms number=4650487 hash=5bc009…258b73 ignored=0
INFO [12-23|06:58:41] Imported new block headers count=192 elapsed=33.787ms number=4650679 hash=18c9e4…0ac820 ignored=0
WARN [12-23|06:58:47] Rolled back headers count=2048 header=4650679->4648631 fast=0->0 block=0->0
WARN [12-23|06:58:47] Synchronisation failed, retrying err="receipt download canceled (requested)"

Steps to reproduce the behaviour

geth --syncmode light

[lnaie]

same here. in the last 4 days not much success syncing lightly.

[lnaie]

A more detailed screenshot:

[lmars]

This looks like a duplicate of https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/issues/15454 (there just aren't that many light peers in the network, please consider running a full node with --lightserv set, see my comment here).

[lnaie]

ok, that seems to do traffic. thanks!
which params should i use to start the classic wallet, in this case?

for the other mode, i use: "C:\Program Files\Ethereum-Wallet\Ethereum Wallet.exe" --node-datadir="...\Repository\Ethereum" --node-light

[petejkim]

:+1: --lightserv should become the default. I'd like to include a light client option in Cipher, but it's completely unusable at the moment.

[veox]

OT: @petejkim See PR #15691 for why that's not yet the case.

[veox]

IMO OK to close since v1.8.0 has been released.

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