multichaind node crashes after liststreams command

Question

After starting up a node, I issue a liststreams command from the cli and I get the following error:

From node:

"MultiChain Core Daemon build 1.0 beta 2 protocol 10008

 

Chain testchain already exists, adding 192.168.43.146:2919 to list of peers

 

Other nodes can connect to this node using:

multichaind testchain@192.168.43.222:2919

 

Node started

Assertion failed: (false), function forced_return, file /usr/local/include/boost/variant/detail/forced_return.hpp, line 47.

Abort trap: 6"

 

And here's the debug log:

"

2017-07-10 15:10:45 mcapi: API request from 127.0.0.1

2017-07-10 15:10:45 ThreadRPCServer method=liststreams

2017-07-10 15:10:45 mcapi: API request: {"method":"liststreams","params":[]}

"

I've followed the github page to compile multichain from source for Mac.

Any ideas on what this might be?

Thank you

Answer 1

Thanks for reporting this – looks like a bug that we need to identify and resolve. If you're willing, it would be helpful to stop your node (if you started it again), zip up the blockchain directory (probably ~/.multichain/testchain) and email it to us at multichain dot debug at gmail dot com.

In the meantime you could also try using Linux (perhaps under a virtual machine) because this seems quite likely to be a Mac-specific bug. The Mac version is relatively new and has received a lot less testing and usage in the wild.