Gridcoin-research: Sometimes getting newbile block when not newbie.

[tomasbrod]

On testnet sometimes I get newbie DPoR block. This block is known by research reward of exactly 1 GRC. I traced with debugger and found that GetHistoricalMagnitude returns pointer to genesis block when the newbie is created. Its should return pointer to previous block staked by cpid.
This does not happen always.
Why important: non-deterministic behavior, potential loss of research rewards.

[iFoggz]

It happens on prod sometimes daily or multi-daily I've seen. I see them in my debug logs on nodes as well as local.

[tomasbrod]

Happening now on production network for me. And since the total mint with 1grc newbie boost is not enough to pass mint limiter, the block gets rejected.

CreateCoinStake: Found Kernel;
CreateCoinStake: added kernel type=1 credit=0,010000
created coin stake
created rest of the block

 Newbie Special First Stake for CPID 46f64d69eb8c5ee9cd24178b589af83f, Age 19,147662, Accrual 100000000,000000
CreateCoinStakeHashboinc: 46f64d69eb8c5ee9cd24178b589af83f<|><|><|>0<|>0.00000<|>0<|><|><|>0<|>0<|>v3.5.8.8-g-research<|>1.00<|>1495641440<|>24998<|>46f64d69eb8c5ee9cd24178b589af83fc23b65cc423b6d6a99393f38693e3e6d9b3e67c9399e3f353d3c6666ca37969a75706e62746373706541627b66752f746c<|>25<|>S6WtsHxuDUmSFYgb56Vjw7nvYsGJvKrWHb<|>775c9d2faca92ca43b94b16c54587a688938ee6705a4afec15cf90301570f481<|>0.00<|><|><|><|><|>1.00<|>0.000000<|>0.000000<|>0.00<|>0<|><|>04b65db25b5c2af68ff5a60ffec6e01275af9a3327331c53877d3ac037a471dba2f6855cb10247dee5e695b7def96ddc8165e7008f935bff77d0b298ea70b3fefe<|>
Creating POS Reward for 46f64d69eb8c5ee9cd24178b589af83f  mint  1,000001  {RSAWeight 25023,000000}  Research 1,000000, Interest 0,000000
added gridcoin reward to coinstake
Signing BoincBlock for cpid 46f64d69eb8c5ee9cd24178b589af83f and blockhash 775c9d2faca92ca43b94b16c54587a688938ee6705a4afec15cf90301570f481 with sig MEUCIQDLXhvEsLYvg6cDfJwDQNXuvz6T9kfFB8+W6EATJecOmgIgL6g8eOOwQR4AS8gXqOytq24Pmm7uFUqMJXWU6wj+kRY=
signed boinchash, coinstake, wholeblock

 Newbie Special First Stake for CPID 46f64d69eb8c5ee9cd24178b589af83f, Age 19,149144, Accrual 100000000,000000
****CheckBlock[]: Total Mint too Small 46f64d69eb8c5ee9cd24178b589af83f, mint 100,000000, Res 1,000000, Interest 0,000000, hash 46f64d69eb8c5ee9cd24178b589af83f<|><|><|>0<|>0.00000<|>0<|><|><|>0<|>0<|>v3.5.8.8-g-research<|>1.00<|>1495641440<|>24998<|>46f64d69eb8c5ee9cd24178b589af83fc23b65cc423b6d6a99393f38693e3e6d9b3e67c9399e3f353d3c6666ca37969a75706e62746373706541627b66752f746c<|>25<|>S6WtsHxuDUmSFYgb56Vjw7nvYsGJvKrWHb<|>775c9d2faca92ca43b94b16c54587a688938ee6705a4afec15cf90301570f481<|>0.00<|><|><|><|><|>1.00<|>0.000000<|>0.000000<|>0.00<|>0<|><|>04b65db25b5c2af68ff5a60ffec6e01275af9a3327331c53877d3ac037a471dba2f6855cb10247dee5e695b7def96ddc8165e7008f935bff77d0b298ea70b3fefe<|>MEUCIQCgwqeaZ/2dIIzJ+OIuutIWdFMT/kORoXVPQyfxwv91FwIgHsjWgBRy/OaGBC4AokHcncVg6YQD0JGid1qhq1Ycc8E=
ERROR: ****CheckBlock[]: Total Mint too Small 46f64d69eb8c5ee9cd24178b589af83f, mint 100,000000, Res 1,000000, Interest 0,000000, hash 46f64d69eb8c5ee9cd24178b589af83f<|><|><|>0<|>0.00000<|>0<|><|><|>0<|>0<|>v3.5.8.8-g-research<|>1.00<|>1495641440<|>24998<|>46f64d69eb8c5ee9cd24178b589af83fc23b65cc423b6d6a99393f38693e3e6d9b3e67c9399e3f353d3c6666ca37969a75706e62746373706541627b66752f746c<|>25<|>S6WtsHxuDUmSFYgb56Vjw7nvYsGJvKrWHb<|>775c9d2faca92ca43b94b16c54587a688938ee6705a4afec15cf90301570f481<|>0.00<|><|><|><|><|>1.00<|>0.000000<|>0.000000<|>0.00<|>0<|><|>04b65db25b5c2af68ff5a60ffec6e01275af9a3327331c53877d3ac037a471dba2f6855cb10247dee5e695b7def96ddc8165e7008f935bff77d0b298ea70b3fefe<|>MEUCIQCgwqeaZ/2dIIzJ+OIuutIWdFMT/kORoXVPQyfxwv91FwIgHsjWgBRy/OaGBC4AokHcncVg6YQD0JGid1qhq1Ycc8E=

ERROR: ProcessBlock() : CheckBlock FAILED

[tomasbrod]

Happened 2 more times on my testnet node. The newbie block was staked just after restart of the wallet.
And I just want to make clear that this behavior destroys the owed research reward.

[denravonska]

What about #332? It would "solve" this :)

[tomasbrod]

I am afraid it wont. You would still get 1 GRC newbie reward, but without the newbie weight boost.

[tomasbrod]

This issue is related to #225.

[tomasbrod]

225 Does NOT fix this issue.

Edit: Sorry, I had the wrong exe loaded in my debugger.
I added debug print to my PR to show rsaweight. It should match your magnitude.
Your commit @denravonska does fix this. Closing as SOLVED.