Cannot contact Algorand node: HTTP 400 Bad Request: unable to start catchpoint catchup

post by ramdio123 on Apr 23, 2023

Good day everyone ,

I am trying to setup testnet and this happened (please see outputs below and see the result below in the last part with bold letters)

luibd@DESKTOP-39PM1R6 MINGW64 ~/OneDrive/Desktop/activity/sandbox (master) $ ./sandbox up testnet -v Starting sandbox for: testnet - running: docker compose up [–verbose] -d [+] Running 3/3 - Container algorand-sandbox-algod Started 53.0s - Container algorand-sandbox-postgres Started 53.0s - Container algorand-sandbox-indexer Started 232.4s - waiting for services to initialize. - services ready!

algod version 12885884929 3.15.1.stable [rel/stable] (commit #5f2d5ede) go-algorand is licensed with AGPLv3.0 source code available at GitHub - algorand/go-algorand: Algorand's official implementation in Go.

time=“2023-04-24T07:59:32+08:00” level=debug msg=“[hijack] End of stdout”

Indexer version time=“2023-04-24T08:00:32+08:00” level=debug msg=“[hijack] End of stdout” Indexer disabled for this configuration.

Postgres version postgres (PostgreSQL) 13.10 time=“2023-04-24T08:00:55+08:00” level=debug msg=“[hijack] End of stdout” algod - goal node status Last committed block: 12519 Sync Time: 504.8s Catchpoint: 29320000#ASND3EJGU2VGKTXLTHPAY3VXWSURAKZF37Z5EGLOYWNUMYQNOTCQ Genesis ID: testnet-v1.0 Genesis hash: SGO1GKSzyE7IEPItTxCByw9x8FmnrCDexi9/cOUJOiI=

time=“2023-04-24T08:01:22+08:00” level=debug msg=“[hijack] End of stdout” indexer - health Indexer disabled for this configuration.

Starting fast-catchup with catchpoint: 29360000#RDSUWNO2S3JUYIMEJITEPQ2WRAI2LTULHCMSAQQZJHOE6I2M3IFQ
**Cannot contact Algorand node: HTTP 400 Bad Request: unable to start catchpoint catchup for ‘29360000#RDSUWNO2S3JUYIMEJITEPQ2WRAI2LTULHCMSAQQZJHOE6I2M3IFQ’ - **
already catching up ‘29320000#ASND3EJGU2VGKTXLTHPAY3VXWSURAKZF37Z5EGLOYWNUMYQNOTCQ’
time=“2023-04-24T08:01:37+08:00” level=debug msg=“[hijack] End of stdout”

what does this error mean?

post by fabrice on Apr 24, 2023

EDIT: I read too fast the error. Please see @pavel’s answer below.

It looks the node may have crashed.

Can you follow steps in Node Troubleshooting - Algorand Developer Portal to troubleshoot and post back the issue you found (or if you don’t find the issue, post back here with all the details Node Troubleshooting - Algorand Developer Portal

post by pavel on May 2, 2023

The error indicates an attempt to start a fast catchup while another fast catchup was in progress.