0 Total TX, Missed / Ghosted blocks on my Preview BP node

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I’m trying to learn the ropes on operating a stake pool so I setup my own Preview BP node on my Windows 10 PC using VirtualBox. I followed the guide at Guild Operators website and all is looking well synced and running smoothly except that when it’s my schedule to mint a block I always get “Missed” or “Ghosted”. I think it’s already my 3rd epoch with leader schedules but could not get the node to mint a block. I understand that height battles/block propagation issue happens and I’m trying understand where or why this is happening to my preview node. I also noticed that the “Total Tx” and “Pending Tx” are always at 0 even when the node is up for many hours. I though that might be related to why the node always missed but im not sure.

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I’m using these unchanged topology.json and config.json files found at:
https://book.world.dev.cardano.org/environments/preview/config.json
https://book.world.dev.cardano.org/environments/preview/topology.json

I did not setup any relay so I’m just using preview-node.world.dev.cardano.org as you can see from the topology file above.

Here’s the opcert file:

✓ Operational certificate's KES period is within the correct KES period interval
✗ No blocks minted so far with the operational certificate at: /opt/cardano/cnode/priv/pool/testpool/op.cert
  On disk operational certificate counter: 0
{
    "qKesCurrentKesPeriod": 47,
    "qKesEndKesInterval": 163,
    "qKesKesKeyExpiry": null,
    "qKesMaxKESEvolutions": 120,
    "qKesNodeStateOperationalCertificateNumber": null,
    "qKesOnDiskOperationalCertificateNumber": 0,
    "qKesRemainingSlotsInKesPeriod": 10021081,
    "qKesSlotsPerKesPeriod": 86400,
    "qKesStartKesInterval": 43
}

I’m running out of ideas so any help is very much appreciated.

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Peer analysis:
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You’re not getting incoming peers. Firewall? Have you got your p2p config right? i.e. it matches the port and IP you’re listening on?

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Hi @ jeremyisme,

ufw firewall is not active or configured yet. How do I configure my P2P port?

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Add your node IP and address into the local roots part of the topology.json

e.g.

"localRoots": {
 "accessPoints": [
{
 "address": "XX.XX.XX.XX",
            "port": 6000
}
],
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Thanks! I just updated the topology file and now I’m seeing 2 Incoming but Total Tx still at 0.

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Do you know what’s the "advertise": false under the topology file for?

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Good. It’ll take a while for your node to propogate through the network. Wait 12 hrs or so and hopefully you’ll have more incoming and then the txs should start increasing.

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check if u have TraceMempool set to false inside configuration file, if yes set it to true and restart the node; now u shoukd see tx processed

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It’s already set to True as the default setting when i downloaded the file.

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Still at 0 for Total Tx.
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Who is 1 incoming peer? Can u check with P inside glive?

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whats ur IP? Let me add to my topology file

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My node’s ip is …

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oops sorry should have pm’d you.

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Its ok… I added ur IP inside topology file, wait for my node to start…

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One block created but let’s hope it get’s confirmed. It usually just gets “Ghosted” or “Missed”.
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Check now tx processed
Do u see my node now? It has .250 at the end

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Total Tx 0 still. How to check your node is in mine?

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Press P on glive