Error in block freeze operation err="block receipts missing, can't freeze block 8942739"

[AnieMaria]

Error from after upgrading core-geth image from 1.12.3 to 1.12.4 / 1.12.6
Any idea what could be causing it?

System information

Geth version: 1.12.4 / 1.12.6
OS & Version: AKS Ubuntu 18.04

Expected behaviour

No freeze errors

Actual behaviour

Error in block freeze operation err="block receipts missing, can't freeze block 8942739"

[ziogaschr]

Thanks @AnieMaria for reporting. Can you share the command you use to start your node or at least the syncing method? I will try to reproduce it.

[AnieMaria]

Hi @ziogaschr
Please find the command below:
geth --mainnet --syncmode "archive" --rpc --rpcapi db,eth,net,web3,personal --cache=1024 --rpcport 8545 --rpcaddr 0.0.0.0 --rpccorsdomain "*

[meowsbits]

This is a known issue, and I have also seen it before myself.
It seems this happens when somehow the database gets mangled (potentially by SIGKILL or the like).
Unfortunately, I don't see any clear resolution except to resync (or potentially faster, by debug.setHead("0x8869e0 ").

• block receipts missing, can't freeze #99
• Freezer is failed to freeze data ethereum/go-ethereum#20239
• Ancient storage on archive nodes ethereum/go-ethereum#20647

[lodotek]

I am experiencing this issue as well `Error in block freeze operation err="block receipts missing, can't freeze block 12729545"

If I must in fact re-sync, how should I go about that? I have geth running in a docker container Thanks @meowsbits

[ziogaschr]

@lodotek can you share the command that you are using for docker? Probably in this command you mount a volume to you host machine and then you set the --datadir to it. You simply have to clean this folder or use a new one. Then let it start syncing from scratch.