Help on retiring my stake pool

English Community Technical Support
1

Hey guys,

I’ve decided to retire my small stake pool since its not getting anything after 42 epochs.

I have followed this guide successfully:

But I get an error after I submit it on the mainnet:

Command failed: transaction submit Error: Error while submitting tx: ShelleyTxValidationError ShelleyBasedEraAlonzo (ApplyTxError [UtxowFailure (WrappedShelleyEraFailure (UtxoFailure (OutsideValidityIntervalUTxO (ValidityInterval {invalidBefore = SNothing, invalidHereafter = SJust (SlotNo 44621850)}) (SlotNo 45943096))))])

I have tried updating to cardano-node 1.31.0 but still get the same error.

I have 100219875 lovelace on my pool. My guess is that it is not enough to proceed with the transaction?

I’ve also sent 5 ADA to my payment.addr (if that is correct?) since yesterday, but its not yet showing. Not sure what to do next.

Please help me! Thank you…

2

The node is running? Can u share the glive output?

3

Sure, here it is:

    > Cardano Node - (Core - Mainnet) : 1.31.0 [2cbe3638] <

┌────────────────────────────────┬────────────┬────────────────────────┐
│ Uptime: 17:25:32 │ Port: 6000 │ Guild LiveView v1.24.0 │
│--------------------------------└────────────┴────────────────────────┤
│ Epoch 304 [49.4%], 2d 01:54:38 remaining │
│ ▌▌▌▌▌▌▌▌▌▌▌▌▌▌▌▌▌▌▌▌▌▌▌▌▌▌▌▌▌▌▌▌▌▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖ │
│ │
│ Block : 6541785 Tip (ref) : 47513122 Mem (RSS) : 8.2G │
│ Slot : 213351 Status : sync 97.2%Mem (Live) : 3.7G │
│ Density : 4.685 Forks : 0 Mem (Heap) : 8.2G │
│ Total Tx : 0 Peers In : 1 GC Minor : 195165 │
│ Pending Tx : 0/0K Peers Out : 1 GC Major : 870 │
│- BLOCK PROPAGATION --------------------------------------------------│
│ Last Delay : 1334966.73Served : 0 Late (>5s) : 136580 │
│ Within 1s : 0.00% Within 3s : 0.00% Within 5s : 0.00% │
├─ CORE ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ KES current/remaining : 0 / 0 │
│ KES expiration date : 2021-12-08 21:44:51 UTC │
│ Missed slot leader checks : 0 (0.0000 %) │
│- BLOCK PRODUCTION ---------------------------------------------------│
│ Leader : 0 Adopted : 0 Invalid : 0 │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
TG Announcement/Support channel: Telegram: Contact @guild_operators_official

[esc/q] Quit | [i] Info | [p] Peer Analysis

4

Status : sync 97.2%

Epoch 304… not synced, can’t be retired

5

Thanks Alex, what do you mean by this?

6

We are on epoch 307, your node on 304… it’s behind with 3 epochs

7

I wonder if it does catchup? Time is running on my end for decommissioning this server from a rack :frowning:

8

should be sync in the next hours (I think it will take 1-2 hours/epoch)

1 Like
9

Make sure you back up all the keys. You can always install the node locally or in the container and retire the pool.

1 Like
10

Hi Alex, thanks for your help on this. I’ve managed to retire my pool after epoch 313.

I am trying to transfer the funds from my stake address to my Daedalus wallet. I have followed the guide below:

However, I get nothing when I issue the first command:

a@vm01:~/cardano-my-node$ currentSlot=$(cardano-cli query tip --mainnet | jq -r ‘.slot’)
cardano-cli: Network.Socket.connect: <socket: 11>: does not exist (No such file or directory)

a@vm01:~/cardano-my-node$ echo Current Slot: $currentSlot
Current Slot:

Can you please help?

11

you must export the socket first

echo export CARDANO_NODE_SOCKET_PATH="$NODE_HOME/db/socket" >> $HOME/.bashrc
source $HOME/.bashrc

but first type cd $NODE_HOME/db and check if the socket is there

1 Like
12

Thank you so much Alex! You have been a great help on my stake pool operator journey from start to finish.

I’ve managed to transfer the funds back to my wallet. However I cant zero it out, I left about 1682232 lovelace. I want to take it all back, how to do? I get the error below:

Command failed: transaction submit Error: Error while submitting tx: ShelleyTxValidationError ShelleyBasedEraAlonzo (ApplyTxError [UtxowFailure (WrappedShelleyEraFailure (UtxoFailure (OutputTooSmallUTxO [(Addr Mainnet (KeyHashObj

13

hmm, I don’t know how, someone earlier had this issue also but after few attempts he succeeded to withdraw… so try few more time

14

As I understand you are transferring the tokens to another wallet and getting the error. Most probably the total amount does not cover the 1ADA transaction minimum + Fee. Maybe you can transfer 1 ADA to that wallet and then try to transfer all funds… sure you’ll have an additional transaction cost for that undertaking.

15

Thanks, so what i currently have left in summary:

Total ADA balance: 1682232
fee: 176589
amountToSend=1505643
Change Output: 0

After submitting, I get the same “Command failed: transaction submit Error: Error while submitting tx: ShelleyTxValidationError…”

I tried transferring 1.6 ada, 1.5 ada, and 1 ada - just got the same error.

I suspect its going to be left out on my ex block producer node, and thats gonna suck.

I’ll try to do it again in a few hours time.

16

Its been more than 8 hours, restarted block producer node, still got the same error.

I really suspect that it cant be zeroed out?

17

Ok i see now. Do you have other native tokens in tx-in or just ADA? Maybe paste all the commands you are executing. Also let us know what is in --txt-in.