Parity-ethereum: Thread 'jsonrpc-eventloop-2' panicked at 'byte index 2 is not a char boundary

[vkachan]

• Parity Ethereum version: 2.3.1-beta
• Operating system: CentOS 7
• Installation: built from source
• Fully synchronized: no
• Network: ethereum
• Restarted: yes

Parity crushed several times with the message:

46: 0x7f15cf4dddd4 - start_thread
47: 0x7f15ceff0eac - __clone
48: 0x0 -

Thread 'jsonrpc-eventloop-2' panicked at 'byte index 2 is not a char boundary; it is inside '∀' (bytes 0..3) of ∀∂∈∀∀∀∀∀∀∀∀∀∀∀∀∀∀∀∀∀∀∀∀∀∀∀∀∀∀∀∀∀∀∀∀∀∀∀∀∀∂∈ℝ∧∪≡∞ ↑↗↨↻⇣ ┐┼╔╘░►☺♀ fi�⑀₂ἠḂӥẄɐː⍎אԱა \n && ';1'23,12;'312:L:!\" && ∂[...]', libcore/str/mod.rs:2111

Firstly it crushed on the version 2.2.7 then I did upgrade to 2.2.8 and finally to 2.3.1. On all those versions similar behaviour. Before it has been working without any issues for a month.

[joshua-mir]

Hey, we are aware of this and a release addressing this is coming out asap.

[vkachan]

@joshua-mir thank you for an update! appreciated

[roderik]

I'm hit with the same issue in a PoA network.

[5chdn]

Thanks for the report - please upgrade to latest nightly, 2.3.2 beta, or 2.2.9 stable.