truffle migrate gives cryptic error message when node has no accounts

[maraoz]

• [x] I've asked for help in the Truffle Gitter before filing this issue.

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Issue

What the issue is, in broad strokes.

Steps to Reproduce

• Run new geth instance with no accounts on it
• Run truffle migrate on some truffle project
  You get:

Expected Behavior

An error message saying "your node has no accounts", or something better

Actual Results

Error: Expected parameter 'from' not passed to function.

Environment

• Operating System: Ubuntu
• Truffle version: 3.2.5
• Ethereum client: geth
• node version: 8.0.0
• npm version: 5.0.2

[kevin-smets]

Hmmm, mine has accounts on it (testrpc) and I also get this issue. Very cryptic indeed. Did adding accounts actually solve it for you?

[kevin-smets]

Seems to be some weird issue in node or something... https://gitter.im/ConsenSys/truffle?at=58d3fbe3caf143ab665362ee

A system restart fixed it for me.

[alexpee]

I hit the similar error and fixed it after reinstalling the testRPC.

[sachabest]

Having the same problem with active accounts on top of a geth node with rpc turned on. Any idea how else to fix? I read the gitter conversation but restarting has not helped. Tried both node 6 and 7 (via docker image), same result.

[dellintosh]

I ran into this same issue when running the testrpc. It turned out that I had geth running in another tab (connected to the testnet)... as soon as I stopped geth it was able to migrate without any issue! Hope this saves others - turns out you can't have geth _and_ testrpc running at once (makes sense, really, since both bind to port 8545 and truffle probably doesn't know where you want to migrate to).

[infwonder]

Hi all,

I also encountered the issue when running truffle migrate. The error message I have is:

Error: Expected parameter 'solc' not passed to function.

I solved it my introducing a 'solc' entry in truffle.js:

'solc': '/usr/local/bin/solc',

It seems that truffle-expect is checking truffle-config opject and throw error when certain expected key is not found.

HTH

[MacroChip]

I had the original issue that @maraoz had. It is fixed by opening a geth console and calling personal.newAccount()

[tombenj]

This error is due to testrpc being used by a third party instance such as geth or parity and when no accounts are present. To resolve, simply exit/stop these services.

[eriklacson]

I'm getting this error on Ubuntu 16 running geth with an account created in Ethereum Wallet. Account has been unlocked on geth attach and I can even check the balance. Putting 'from: ' yields a 'Error: unknown account'

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