# Parsing Error, What to do?

**URL:** <https://forum.cardano.org/t/parsing-error-what-to-do/40481>\
**Category:** Operate a Stake Pool\
**Created:** [19 September 2020 05:36 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/parsing-error-what-to-do/40481 "2020-09-19T05:36:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![FINDING\_MIAM](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.cardano.org/finding_miam/32/21393_2.png) [@FINDING\_MIAM](https://forum.cardano.org/u/FINDING_MIAM)\
**Post date:** [19 September 2020 05:36 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/parsing-error-what-to-do/40481/1 "2020-09-19T05:36:21Z")

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I have ran into an error when attempting to start my node. As I try to configure the testnet-config.json file I run into this error:

michael@michael-NUC8i3BEK:~/StakePool/relay$ cardano-node run --topology testnet-topology.json --database-path db --socket-path db/node.socket --host-addr 24.15.62.190 --port 3001 --config testnet-config.json

cardano-node: FatalError {fatalErrorMessage = “Parsing of Protocol: Cardano failed. Cardano is not a valid protocol”}michael@michael-NUC8i3BEK:~/StakePool/relay$

Any help would be greatly appreciated,  
Thank you  
MI

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**Author:** ![fenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@fenix](https://forum.cardano.org/u/fenix)\
**Post date:** [22 September 2020 08:43 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/parsing-error-what-to-do/40481/2 "2020-09-22T08:43:46Z")

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me too, how did you resolve it?

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**Author:** ![FINDING\_MIAM](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.cardano.org/finding_miam/32/21393_2.png) [@FINDING\_MIAM](https://forum.cardano.org/u/FINDING_MIAM)\
**Post date:** [4 October 2020 20:15 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/parsing-error-what-to-do/40481/3 "2020-10-04T20:15:00Z")

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Hey! So I checked and the CLI that I was running was way out of date. I got the 1.20.0 version and that was able to make it work