Questions tagged [block-production]

The tag has no usage guidance.

16 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
Filter by
Sorted by
Tagged with
6 votes
0 answers
54 views

No block produced/validated on parachain for almost a day

We upgraded our testnet Shibuya yesterday, for which we have our own validator network, and block production stalled for almost a whole day. The block on which it was stuck was the one where the ...
Dinonard's user avatar
  • 562
4 votes
0 answers
68 views

How does primary slots and secondary vrf slots work?

I am struggling to understand some behaviour on a custom 7 validators solochain. Currently using babe with a 1/4 primary slots probability, the block time is 20 sec, and we have ...
Leouarz's user avatar
  • 189
3 votes
0 answers
36 views

How to add custom process without exceeding the block time?

The question can seem weird but here is the geist of it : In a custom chain with 20 sec block time, we have a different format of header that includes more information. At the end of the block, we ...
Leouarz's user avatar
  • 189
3 votes
0 answers
97 views

Proposals not getting processed, Consensus Issues on Rococo

Context: A parachain in Rococo is missing more block slots than I would expect it to at fairly random times. Version: Polkadot v0.9.42 Number of Collators: 3 Logging: (Perhaps I am missing the correct ...
Wil W's user avatar
  • 433
3 votes
0 answers
66 views

Validator node dropping peers after producing a block followed by a reorg

We are seeing some strange behaviour with some (not all) of our validator nodes. We are using the standard BABE / GRANDPA pallets. When it is their turn to produce a block, they produce the block, but ...
Adam Dossa's user avatar
2 votes
0 answers
44 views

How to solve Failed to get runtime version issue?

I recently upgraded the chain from version 0.9.36 to 1.0.0. Following this update, when attempting to perform a runtime upgrade on the blockchain, I encountered an error that resulted in the chain no ...
Ajit's user avatar
  • 775
2 votes
0 answers
29 views

No new blocks with dockerized local RPC node

I want to run the substrate node locally(with docker) to use it as an RPC provider(via ws). I want to use "author.pendingExtrinsics" method as well as "chain.subscribeNewHeads" and ...
Denys Storozhenko's user avatar
2 votes
0 answers
89 views

Collator not producing block

Changes made In previous version things were fine. In this change, I added pallet-staking in the collator. Here Staking is pallet_staking::{Pallet,...} Configured pallet_staking with reference ( but ...
Sudip Ghimire's user avatar
2 votes
0 answers
44 views

Rococo Status & Issues

lately Rococo has been producing blocks very slowly. Not sure if this is the best place to ask, but where can we find more information about this? Or where to ask about this if this isn't the correct ...
Dinonard's user avatar
  • 562
1 vote
0 answers
20 views

No Block production with multiple nodes / AURA

I have a solo-chain with PoA consensus, MILLISECS_PER_BLOCK of 1000, 5MB of MAX_BLOCK_SIZE, and 400ms of MAXIMUM_BLOCK_WEIGHT. The chain produces and finalizes blocks when there's a single authoring ...
Discardo's user avatar
  • 382
1 vote
0 answers
42 views

Recovering a Bricked (no block production) Parachain on Rococo, Kusama, & Polkadot

Introduction In the Substrate ecosystem, a bricked parachain – one that has halted block production – presents a unique set of challenges. This situation can occur in various environments, notably on ...
Cedric Decoster's user avatar
1 vote
0 answers
45 views

how to solve Networking or low-level protocol error?

I am running solochain so randomly my chain stop producing blocks and giving this error. Every time when chain giving this error i need to stop and re-run the node. substrate version using: v1.0.0 Can ...
Pankaj's user avatar
  • 1,896
0 votes
0 answers
71 views

Rococo testnet Parachain is not Producing Blocks?

I'm trying to connect to rococo testnet as a parachain using own customized parachain ! It works locally and produces blocks when connected to local Relay chain But when connected to Rococo it doesn't ...
Muhammad Tabish's user avatar
0 votes
0 answers
20 views

Collator starts after more than 10 hours on Azure cloud

I am migrating from AWS to Azure Cloud. I have two parachain collators running. One on AWS (yet to migrate) and another on Azure Cloud (migrated). Whenever I restart the service on AWS, it hardly ...
Nitesh B.'s user avatar
  • 101
0 votes
0 answers
28 views

Our on_initialize function takes approximately 5 seconds, this breaks the parachain eventually

We need to run an on-initialize function that runs for 5 to 6 seconds. The error we run into when we do this is "Block production took too long". We have tried to increase the ...
shibshib's user avatar
  • 127
0 votes
0 answers
125 views

Node Does not Produce Blocks

I've been trying to implement a PoW consensus for my node. It was based on node template, the recipe and Kulupu's implementation of PoW. So I did quite a lot of changes to the node template and thus I'...
CREESTL's user avatar
  • 474