Troubleshooting

Inspect

The new inspect page in the Boost UI helps with debugging retrieval problems. It allows the user to check the following using a payload CID or piece CID:

• Verify if the piece has been correctly added to the Piece Store

• Validate if the piece is indexed in the DAG store

• Check for an unsealed copy of the piece

• Verify that the payload CID -> piece CID index has been created correctly

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>

Fix retrievals with error "failed to lookup index for mh"

The following error shows up when trying to retrieve the data from a storage provider.

ERROR: offer error: retrieval query offer errored: failed to fetch piece to retrieve from: getting pieces for cid Qmf1ykhUo63qB5dJ8KRyeths9MZfyxpVdT5xwnmoLKefz7: getting pieces containing block Qmf1ykhUo63qB5dJ8KRyeths92mfyxpVdT5xi1moLKefz7: failed to lookup index for mh 1220f7ce2d20772b959c1071868e9495712f12785b1710ee88752af120dd49338190, err: datastore: key not found

The error indicates that dagstore does not have a corresponding index shard for the piece containing the requested data. When a retrieval is requested, the dagstore on storage provider side is queried and a reverse look up is used to determine the key(piece CID). This key is then used to query the piece store to find the sector containing the data and byte offset.

If for any reason the shard is not registered with the dagstore then reverse look up to find the piece CID fails and the above error is seen. The most widely know reason for not having the shard registered with dagstore is the below error.

2022-02-21T20:06:03.950+1100 INFO markets loggers/loggers.go:20 storage provider event {"name": "ProviderEventFailed", "proposal CID": "bafyreihr743zllr2eckgfiweouiap7pgcjqa3mg3t75jjt7sfcpu", "state": "StorageDealError", "message": "error awaiting deal pre-commit: failed to set up called handler: called check error (h: 1570875): failed to look up deal on chain: deal 3964985 not found - deal may not have completed sealing before deal proposal start epoch, or deal may have been slashed"}

To fix the deals where retrievals are impacted by above error, user will need to register the shards manually with dagstore:

boostd dagstore register-shard <piece CID>

If you have multiple deals in such state then you will need to generate a list of registered pieces with piece store and then compare with the shards available in the dagstore to create a list of missing shards.

Please stop accepting any deals and ensure all current deals are handed off to the lotus-miner (sealer) subsystem before proceeding from here.

1. Create a list of all sectors on lotus-miner and redirect the output to a file. Copy the output file to boost node to be used by the below command.

lotus-miner sectors list | awk '{print $1 " " $2}' | grep -v ID > aclist.txt

2. Generate a list of shards to be registered

comm -13 <(for i in $(boostd pieces list-pieces); do sector_list=`boostd pieces piece-info $i | awk '{print $2}'| sed -ne '/SectorID/,$p' | grep -v SectorID`; for j in $sector_list; do grep -w $j aclist.txt > /dev/null; if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then break; else echo "$i"; fi; done; done) <(comm -13 <(boostd dagstore list-shards | awk '{print $1}' | sed 1d | sort) <(boostd pieces list-pieces | sort))

3. Register the shards with dagstore in an automated fashion.

for i in `cat <OUTPUT OF STEP 2 IN A FILE>` ; do boostd dagstore register-shard $i; done

Please note that each shard may take upto 3-5 minutes to get registered. So, the above command might take hours or days to complete depending upon the number of missing shards.