Troubleshooting

Failed to connect to peer
If the client cannot connect to Boost running on a Storage provider, with an error similar to the following:
failed to connect to peer <peer id>: failed to dial <peer id>:
  * <multi-address> failed to negotiate security protocol:
    peer id mismatch: expected <peer id>,
    but remote key matches <different peer id>
The problem is that:
The SP registered their peer id and address on chain.
       eg "Register the peer id 123abcd at address ip4/123.456.12.345/tcp/1234"
lotus-miner actor set-peer-id 123abcd
lotus-miner actor set-addrs ip4/123.456.12.345/tcp/1234
The SP changed their peer id locally but didn't update the peer id on chain.
The client wants to make a storage deal with peer 123abcd. The client looks on chain for the address of peer 123abcd and sees peer 123abcd has registered an address ip4/123.456.12.345/tcp/1234.
The client sends a deal proposal for peer 123abcd to the SP at address ip4/123.456.12.345/tcp/1234.
The SP has changed their peer ID, so the SP responds to the deal proposal request with an error: peer id mismatch
To fix the problem, the SP should register the new peer id on chain:
lotus-miner actor set-peer-id <new peer id>
Update storage provider's on chain address
Clients would not be able to connect to Boost running on a Storage provider after an IP change. This happens as clients lookup the registered peer id and address on chain for a SP. When a SP changes their IP or address locally, they must update the same on chain.
The SP should register the new peer id on chain using the following lotus-miner command
lotus-miner actor set-addrs /ip4/<YOUR_PUBLIC_IP_ADDRESS_OF_BOOST_NODE>/tcp/<Boostd Port>
Please make sure to use the public IP and port of the Boost node and not lotus-miner node if your miner and boostd runs on a separate machine.
The on chain address change requires access to the worker key and thus the command lives in lotus-miner instead of Boost. 
Error in lotus-miner info output
After migrating to Boost, following error is seen when running lotus-miner info :
ERROR: fatal error calling 'Filecoin.MarketListIncompleteDeals': panic in rpc method 'Filecoin.MarketListIncompleteDeals': runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
Problem:
lotus-miner is making a call on lotus-market process which has been replaced by Boost, but lotus-miner is not aware of the new market process.
Solution:
Export the MARKETS_API_INFO variable on your lotus-miner node.
export MARKETS_API_INFO=<Boost token:api>

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