Freezer is failed to freeze data

[rjl493456442]

Sometimes we can have such error log shown Block receipts missing, can't freeze.

[holiman]

 ERROR[11-04|12:35:13.845] Block receipts missing, can't freeze     number=1202001 hash=c4d847…799422 

Relevant block: https://goerli.etherscan.io/block/1202001

No transactions, no uncles, so the receipts should be empty. Still, the freezer should return something, but the fact that the receitps are empty might be important when solving this.

[rjl493456442]

@holiman but even the receipt is nil, the RLP encoded value is [192] which represents an empty list.

So freeze shouldn't fail on empty receipt case.

[veox]

FTR, I'm only seeing this on Goerli.

[rjl493456442]

@veox Are you using the Geth after #20287?

[veox]

I'm using v1.9.11, but the message has been appearing long before PR #20287 was merged.

In other words, the DB was already in a "weird" state long before the fix was in-code.

I've cleared the DB now (except ancient), will get back here if it re-surfaces.

[rjl493456442]

@veox appreciate it!

[rjl493456442]

Seems the issue still exists in my recent running(Goerli testnet, not sure it's PoA relevant)

ERROR[03-24|09:54:10.028] Block receipts missing, can't freeze     number=2298468 hash=2d2501…de9728

[crsmith75]

@rjl493456442 Was having the same error, wiped the database except for ancient, updated geth on my machine, then resynced and appears to be working now

[veox]

Can confirm @rjl493456442's findings, issue re-surfaced with v1.9.12.

[amplicity]

I'm having the same issue:

Error in block freeze operation err="block receipts missing, can't freeze block 17373890"

I'm running a mainnet validator, so I'm a little wary of trying the debug.setHead command / enabling debug on my node. I tried using geth removedb and removed both ancient and regular db, however, it didn't seem to actually remove the db. I assume this is because my ethereum chaindata may be in a custom directory (linux, ethereum/execution/data/geth/chaindata).

Am I safe to delete my chaindata directory, and restart geth to resolve this issue?

Also, from what I can gather, this issue is not detrimental to consensus/validator?