Core seems to be set as Relay

Staking & Delegation Setup a Stake Pool
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Hi, I followed the description set through Guide: How to build a Cardano Stake Pool - CoinCashew
But for some reason both of my servers are listed as Relay, I would expect the left one to be set to Core.
How to correct this?

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Hello,

Check my post

But you are on epoch 4 let the nodes to be 100% synced first

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We have the same problem. Now that both are synced, the producer still appears as relay and not core-mainnet. We also followed the Coincashew tutorial. What could be wrong?

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Kes, certificate, etc

Check the script for starting the Producer

Should be like this

Update vrf key permissions to read-only.

chmod 400 vrf.skey

Update your startup script with the new KES, VRF and Operation Certificate.

cat > $NODE_HOME/startBlockProducingNode.sh << EOF
DIRECTORY=$NODE_HOME

PORT=XXXX
HOSTADDR=0.0.0.0
TOPOLOGY=${DIRECTORY}/{NODE_CONFIG}-topology.json DB_PATH=\${DIRECTORY}/db SOCKET_PATH=\${DIRECTORY}/db/socket CONFIG=\${DIRECTORY}/{NODE_CONFIG}-config.json
KES=${DIRECTORY}/kes.skey
VRF=${DIRECTORY}/vrf.skey
CERT=${DIRECTORY}/node.cert
cardano-node run --topology ${TOPOLOGY} --database-path ${DB_PATH} --socket-path ${SOCKET_PATH} --host-addr ${HOSTADDR} --port ${PORT} --config ${CONFIG} --shelley-kes-key ${KES} --shelley-vrf-key ${VRF} --shelley-operational-certificate ${CERT}
EOF

Thx

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Hey,

i have also the same problem. KES files seems ok. startup script also ok.

@Alexd1985: Are your hints also for nodes build without cntools? is there another way to check, if block producer node is running properly?

Thx

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Yes, this is an alternative to glive for cntools

Run it and check the outputs

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" NOT A BLOCK PRODUCER! RELAY ONLY!"

Unfortunately not what i wanted to read but there is also another problem because the block producer is not sync. maybe thats the reason.
i will check it tomorrow…

thx for now.

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Yes, should be sync

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ok I got it.

Main problem was a line break in startBlockProducingNode.sh in the last command … stupid.

thx for help
MA

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@Alexd1985 - You’ve saved me many times in my pool-building research and I thought it was about time to voice my gratitude. Thank you very much for all you do to lift up the community. :partying_face:

Pointing the block producing node startup script to the kes, vrf, and node certificate was today’s head scratcher, and you made the answer very clear.

I want to also point out that this forum allows markdown, so code blocks can be marked up using three backticks (optional: plus the language involved) above the block and three backticks below to close the code block. This makes shared code much easier to read.

example:

```bash
CODE_BLOCK=XXXX
# more code goes here
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becomes:

CODE_BLOCK=XXXX
# more code goes here

The code that helped me – modified for number of columns (to avoid horizontal scrolling) and placed between triple-backticks:

DIRECTORY=$NODE_HOME
PORT=XXXX
HOSTADDR=0.0.0.0
TOPOLOGY=${DIRECTORY}/{NODE_CONFIG}-topology.json
DB_PATH=\${DIRECTORY}/db
SOCKET_PATH=\${DIRECTORY}/db/socket
CONFIG=\${DIRECTORY}/{NODE_CONFIG}-config.json
KES=${DIRECTORY}/kes.skey
VRF=${DIRECTORY}/vrf.skey
CERT=${DIRECTORY}/node.cert
cardano-node run \
--topology ${TOPOLOGY} \
--database-path ${DB_PATH} \
--socket-path ${SOCKET_PATH} \
--host-addr ${HOSTADDR} \
--port ${PORT} \
--config ${CONFIG} \
--shelley-kes-key ${KES} \
--shelley-vrf-key ${VRF} \
--shelley-operational-certificate ${CERT}

To demarcate inline code from the surrounding prose, single backticks placed before and after the code with no carriage returns works.

Here’s an example of inline code formatted with markdown: #!/bin/bash

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