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.
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.
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.