Parity-ethereum: parity often stops syncing and needs to be restarted

[TomWang10]

OpenEthereum version: OpenEthereum/v3.0.1-stable-8ca8089-20200601/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/rustc1.43.1
Operating system: Linux
Installation: Binary executable
Fully synchronized: yes
Network: ethereum
Restarted: yes

parity often stops syncing and needs to be restarted

[rakita]

Hm, not enough information to deduce anything about problem.

[gsalzer]

Same here, over and over again. Every other day.

[gsalzer]

And when sending openethereum the signal to stop, it acknowledges it in the log file ("Finishing work, please wait..."), but it won't stop. After killing the process it restarts without problem.

[gsalzer]

Hm, not enough information to deduce anything about problem.

How can we provide enough information? Any particular debug flags to activate?

[rakita]

Hello @gsalzer, you can start by including logs and giving us more information on your setup. And saying that the app just stops syncing is very broad sentence.

@TomWang10 When you say "often stops" it does not help, because often is very relative word, does it means once per hour, day or week.

[gsalzer]

@rakita My setup is identical to TomWang10's in the original posting. See the toml below.

_"And saying that the app just stops syncing is very broad sentence."_

There is not much more to say than i already said above: openethereum just hangs without consuming much resources except the memory it sits on, doesn't write any log messages, and doesn't react properly to TERM signals. In the log below you see two such incidents:

• Openethereum stops importing at block 1063068 on 2020-08-10 08:55:42 and hans until I discover it a few days later. I send a TERM signal on 2020-08-13 12:16:37, which is acknowledged by the line "Finishing work", but openethereum does not stop. 15 minutes later I kill and restart, after which openethereum starts syncing.
• Same on 2020-08-17 02:43:42 at block 10674419. I send a TERM signal 8 hours later, kill openethereum after waiting 9 minutes, and ethereum starts synching again.

openethereum.log

config.txt

[rakita]

@gsalzer yep this seems like #11758 issue. Information that there is no logs (even periodic one) for hours fits with issue at hand.

You can read more on topic there

[liamaharon]

Same here. OpenEthereum is ~useless~ not viable for certain production use cases until this is fixed.

[cogmon]

Same here. OpenEthereum is useless until this is fixed.

Totally, same here. OpenEthereum is broken for node operators.

[adria0]

@TomWang10 @gsalzer @liamaharon @cogmon

The current OE team released the 3.0 from the 2.7 branch without being aware that 2.7 was not production-ready. We have been working on them for months without success, and the Berlin Hard fork is every day closer.

After seeing that there a lot of problems with the DB version upgrade and super-hard-to-catch async errors we finally decided to backport starting from the 2.5.13 branch that is the more stable version known at the moment. We expect to release the 3.1, based on 2.5.13 by mid September.

[cogmon]

@adria0

In the release notes of v2.7.2, it doesn't say "not production-ready". The "stable" in the release name suggests differently.

Do I understand correctly that anyone who updated to 2.7.2 is now screwed and has to resync - which for certain node configurations is a matter of several months?

The problem seems to be the production release of 2.7 in the first place, not that OE builds on top of 3.0.

[roninkaizen]

due to my absolutely personal experiences,
the limitation with cache-size 4096 changed the behaviour of
my nodes back to stability, next would have been the reducing peer-amount down to 15,
to declare: i do not run them "archive-mode" nor persistant tx-que but json-rpc activated- main-net

and yes, those above mentioned versions were all compiled&tested :) to give an idea of persistance in watching

[mmwanga]

This is happening to me too on version 3.0.1. The absence of logs for a period of time is sufficient evidence of this issue.

./openEthereum/openethereum -d /data/parity/ --jsonrpc-interface all --jsonrpc-apis all --jsonrpc-cors "*" --geth --tx-queue-mem-limit=256 --tx-queue-size=8192 --cache-size=4096

[mmwanga]

@TomWang10 @gsalzer @liamaharon @cogmon

The current OE team released the 3.0 from the 2.7 branch without being aware that 2.7 was not production-ready. We have been working on them for months without success, and the Berlin Hard fork is every day closer.

After seeing that there a lot of problems with the DB version upgrade and super-hard-to-catch async errors we finally decided to backport starting from the 2.5.13 branch that is the more stable version known at the moment. We expect to release the 3.1, based on 2.5.13 by mid September.

Any updates on this? Eagerly waiting

[adria0]

@TomWang10 @gsalzer @liamaharon @cogmon
The current OE team released the 3.0 from the 2.7 branch without being aware that 2.7 was not production-ready. We have been working on them for months without success, and the Berlin Hard fork is every day closer.
After seeing that there a lot of problems with the DB version upgrade and super-hard-to-catch async errors we finally decided to backport starting from the 2.5.13 branch that is the more stable version known at the moment. We expect to release the 3.1, based on 2.5.13 by mid September.

Any updates on this? Eagerly waiting

Please, read https://github.com/openethereum/openethereum/issues/11858