Step 3. fails

[daxdax89]

I am trying to do it with Herc and for me it fails at the step 3.

Download the genesis file and use it to initialize geth:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ewasm/testnet/ewasm-testnet-milestone1/ewasm-testnet-geth-config.json
./build/bin/geth --datadir /tmp/ewasm-node/4201/ init ewasm-testnet-geth-config.json
Note that the /tmp/ewasm-node/4201 directory name above is arbitrary. It just needs to be unique.

I've tried to make a directory manually as well but it still kept telling me there is no directory. I am using Ubuntu 18 from AWS EC2 instance. Is there anything that i am missing? Anyone got this figured out?

[jwasinger]

Note that the /tmp/ewasm-node/4201 directory name above is arbitrary. It just needs to be unique.

you can use whichever directory you would like for the data directory. you don't even have to specify--datadir and geth will choose ~/.ethereum as the default.

[daxdax89]

@jwasinger if i go without directory that way the custom genesis wouldn't be initialized i guess?
BCS otherwise i get this:

Fatal: Failed to write genesis block: database already contains an incompatible genesis block (have d4e56740f876aef8, new 1a48e34978274c3c)

[lrgeoemtry]

That fatal.
U must already have geth on the instance
Remove the chain data and ls and remove the mainnet genesis file

[jwasinger]

you need to delete your existing db (geth removedb) before using geth init to create a new one.

[daxdax89]

Thanks mate you are helping a lot really. So i managed to run it, now i get this when i try to link up netstats

ubuntu@ip-172-31-26-5:~/eth-net-intelligence-api$ NODE_ENV=production INSTANCE_NAME="ewasmTestnet" CONTACT_DETAILS="dax@herc.one" WS_SERVER=wss://ewasm.ethereum.org WS_SECRET=97255273942224 VERBOSITY=2 node www/app.js
module.js:549
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module '/home/ubuntu/eth-net-intelligence-api/www/app.js'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:547:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:474:25)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:693:10)
    at startup (bootstrap_node.js:188:16)
    at bootstrap_node.js:609:3

Any idea why? @jwasinger

[hugo-dc]

@daxdax89 Try with this command:

NODE_ENV=production INSTANCE_NAME="ewasmTestnet" CONTACT_DETAILS="dax@herc.one" WS_SERVER=wss://ewasm.ethereum.org WS_SECRET=97255273942224 VERBOSITY=2 node app.js

[jwasinger]

I think WS_SECRET needs to be swedish_fish ?

[daxdax89]

Ok seems to be running now? How does one see the whole explorer now? @jwasinger @hugo-dc Thanks a lot guys! <3

[lrettig]

I think WS_SECRET needs to be swedish_fish ?

Are we sure? If so I'll update the public doc.

[lrettig]

How does one see the whole explorer now?

Not sure what you mean by explorer here. See the links at http://ewasm.ethereum.org/.

[daxdax89]

How does one see the whole explorer now?

Not sure what you mean by explorer here. See the links at http://ewasm.ethereum.org/.

I've meant the ethstats yeah, sorry about that :)

[jwasinger]

http://ewasm.ethereum.org:3003

looks like you aren't connected, if you are running a node. and both nodes show 1 peer connected (they are connected to each other) . So your geth node isn't running or didn't successfully connect to the network.

[daxdax89]

@jwasinger You are right, ok i've tried again with swedish_fish, looks like peers connected still showing 0

[eth]
[eth]     NET STATS CLIENT
[eth]     v0.1.1
[eth]
[eth]
[eth] =i= Starting web3 connection
[eth] =✓= Web3 connection established
[eth] ==> Getting info
[eth] =i= { name: 'ewasmTestnet',
  contact: 'dax@herc.one',
  coinbase: '0x031159df845ade415202e6da299223cb640b9db0',
  node: 'Geth/v1.8.17-evmc.6.0.0-1-stable/linux-amd64/go1.10.4',
  net: '66',
  protocol: 63,
  api: '0.15.3',
  port: 30303,
  os: 'linux',
  os_v: '4.15.0-1021-aws',
  client: '0.1.1',
  canUpdateHistory: true }

It's timing out

[eth] =✓= Installed chain filter
[eth] =✓= Installed pending filter
[eth] =i= { id: 'ewasmTestnet',
  stats:
   { active: true,
     syncing: false,
     mining: true,
     hashrate: 51602,
     peers: 0,
     gasPrice: '1000000000',
     uptime: 100 } }
[eth] =i= { id: 'ewasmTestnet',
  stats:
   { active: true,
     syncing: false,
     mining: true,
     hashrate: 51668,
     peers: 0,
     gasPrice: '1000000000',
     uptime: 100 } }
[wsc] =✘= Socket connection timeout
[wsc] =!= Reconnecting in 500 ms
[wsc] =!= This is attempt 1 out of 10
[wsc] =i= Socket reconnect attempt started
[eth] =i= { id: 'ewasmTestnet',

[jwasinger]

For some reason your geth node isn't connecting to the testnet.