And old persisting bug got the best of me again today. cold/remote setup
- Set up local and remote configs
- On remote, masternode=0 so I can issue "genkey", which I copy to an excel for safe keep, and proceed with local config etc
- Configured local with masternodeprivkey and flag masternode=1. Configure remote with masternodeprivkey but forgot tochange masternode=0 to 1
- tried to start node from QT, gave me error saying something like "can't find the coins" ... its a new message I haven't seen before
- Check configs and notice my lapse, edit, save remote config all fine.
- On the QT I try to start, gives the same mistake. Check configs, all fine, thinking very very low end server with connection problems, but no.
- "masternode debug" give back same error about unallocated coins
- Restart the QT and do "masternode debug" and "successfully started masternode" pops up
- Check remote, yup, I had previously successfully started it.
It seems on Masternode Start, if it errors out, you need to restart the client to clear the memory of that state. This is a long standing behaviour since my ultra-noob days. I've done this config mistake often, getting error messages and ignoring them as checking server side returns node did successfully start.
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