Web3.js: insufficient funds for gas * price + value

[win2win]

I have lots of Ether in the account and have tried various accounts.
When I run this code below against testrpc, it completes successfully, but once I switch to my private geth or ropsten, this error shows consistently.

My version of geth is 1.6.7

I use Ubuntu 16.04.

This below is the code portion of the code which I'm running taken from the web3 examples

`var Web3 = require('web3');
var web3 = new Web3(
new Web3.providers.HttpProvider('http://localhost:8545/')
);

var key="xxx"
var Tx = require('ethereumjs-tx');
var privateKey = new Buffer(key, 'hex')

var bytecode ="6060604052341561000c57fe5b5b60a68061001b6000396000f30060606040526000357c0100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000900463ffffffff16806339ec021c14603a575bfe5b3415604157fe5b6058600480803560ff16906020019091905050605a565b005b6000600082600a0a60ff16629896800262ffffff1691508190505b5050505600a165627a7a723058201aa083f84301acc104a3de0151822aa682702844181a821c16490689e05d729e0029";

var rawTx = {
nonce: "0x2",
gasLimit: "0x2DC6C0",
gasPrice: "0x4A817C800",
value: '0x00',
data: '0x' + bytecode
};

var tx = new Tx(rawTx);
tx.sign(privateKey);

var serializedTx = tx.serialize();

web3.eth.sendSignedTransaction( "0x" + serializedTx.toString('hex'))
.on('receipt', console.log);
`

Error shows like this.

Unhandled rejection Error: Returned error: insufficient funds for gas * price + value
at Object.ErrorResponse (/home/bogdan/node_modules/web3/packages/web3-core-helpers/src/errors.js:29:16)
at /home/bogdan/node_modules/web3/packages/web3-core-requestmanager/src/index.js:137:36
at XMLHttpRequest.request.onreadystatechange (/home/bogdan/node_modules/web3/packages/web3-providers-http/src/index.js:64:13)
at XMLHttpRequestEventTarget.dispatchEvent (/home/bogdan/node_modules/web3/packages/web3-providers-http/node_modules/xhr2/lib/xhr2.js:64:18)
at XMLHttpRequest._setReadyState (/home/bogdan/node_modules/web3/packages/web3-providers-http/node_modules/xhr2/lib/xhr2.js:354:12)
at XMLHttpRequest._onHttpResponseEnd (/home/bogdan/node_modules/web3/packages/web3-providers-http/node_modules/xhr2/lib/xhr2.js:509:12)
at IncomingMessage. (/home/bogdan/node_modules/web3/packages/web3-providers-http/node_modules/xhr2/lib/xhr2.js:469:24)
at emitNone (events.js:91:20)
at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:188:7)
at endReadableNT (_stream_readable.js:975:12)
at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:80:11)
at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:104:9)

[sulliwane]

Try adding "from" field in your rawTx object :

rawTx = {
    from: yourPublicAddr
}

[win2win]

This doesn't seem to make a difference.

[sulliwane]

Right. I think that's because your forgot the "chainId" parameter :

rawTx = {
    chainId: 3
}

let me know...

[win2win]

This didn't make a difference. Btw. why do you need chainId?

[pannous]

Is there _any_ working example online?

[lionello]

@win2win You now need chainId because it has become part of the signature (since the fork earlier this year. So many, forgot which one.)

[RamParthiban]

I gave the chain id. It didn't made any difference. Same Error :-(

[Nishkj]

Even i am facing same issue. Code working fine with testrpc but getting gas related error when trying to deploy on Etherium blockchain

[JungWinter]

In my case, I changed config in genesis.json and solved insufficient funds for gas * price + value problem. It works fine when I set chainId to any other number except zero number.

before

"config": {
          "chainId": 0,
          "homesteadBlock": 0,
          "eip155Block": 0,
          "eip158Block": 0
      },
      ...

after

"config": {
          "chainId": 42, 
          "homesteadBlock": 0,
          "eip155Block": 0,
          "eip158Block": 0
      },
      ...

[hrachbkweb]

how I can specify the account which will pay for gas
let say x1 is sending tokens to x2 but I want x3 (I have private key) to pay for tx gas ?

[iurimatias]

@hrachbkweb the sender is always the one to pay for the tx gas. There are proposals (e.g https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/877) around this, but out of the box the sender is the payer.

[hrachbkweb]

@iurimatias thanks for response .Is there any way to overcome this ?
Obviously all users can't have ether but they want to buy/sell tokens

[hrachbkweb]

I found a way .
https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/46049/how-to-specify-gas-payer/46115#46115

[nivida]

@guifel Could you add the JSON-RPC payload object which got send? This will help me to see the actual issue.

[guifel]

@nivida The failed transaction with beta 48:

{
  jsonrpc: "2.0", 
  id: 6, 
  method: "eth_sendRawTransaction", 
  params: ["0xf86306843b9aca0082753094829bd824b016326a401d083b33d092293333a83064802ca08df5134f7c64b68bbca694e265a27533575344b9f5c2d3fc3afeb9960fa31681a01a45264f134534c2b7b6258d7a4d77a58c335fdcef85d3b0241949c67b9a7fde"]
}

Note that I am not seeing the issue with beta 37. This is the successful transaction I get with it:

{
jsonrpc: "2.0", 
id: 4, 
method: "eth_sendRawTransaction", 
params: ["0xf86309843b9aca0082753094829bd824b016326a401d083b33d092293333a83064802ca068a8301b65fb14004def54e97a8b91e7db22b5765dbde3c8a9434b5c686ff4d3a064c3a318097e0ecdb32a945569c844551cfab5ee538bd7a6e202616d0dabc970"]
}