[Improvement]: Mainnet Validator Node #219
Description
Type
Content improvement
Page URL
https://docs.0g.ai/run-a-node/validator-node
Description
Mainnet (Aristotle) Setup Guide shows the “Head block is not reachable” error at step 4, Initialize Geth (https://docs.0g.ai/run-a-node/validator-node#4-initialize-geth):
og@Ubuntu-2404-noble-amd64-base:~/aristotle-v1.0.2$ ./bin/geth init --datadir ~/0gdata/0g-home/geth-home ./geth-genesis.json
INFO [10-29|15:06:41.860] Maximum peer count ETH=50 total=50
INFO [10-29|15:06:41.861] Smartcard socket not found, disabling err="stat /run/pcscd/pcscd.comm: no such file or directory"
INFO [10-29|15:06:41.864] Set global gas cap cap=50,000,000
INFO [10-29|15:06:41.865] Initializing the KZG library backend=gokzg
INFO [10-29|15:06:41.866] Defaulting to pebble as the backing database
INFO [10-29|15:06:41.866] Allocated cache and file handles database=/home/og/0gdata/0g-home/geth-home/geth/chaindata cache=16.00MiB handles=16
INFO [10-29|15:06:42.049] Opened ancient database database=/home/og/0gdata/0g-home/geth-home/geth/chaindata/ancient/chain readonly=false
INFO [10-29|15:06:42.049] State schema set to default scheme=path
ERROR[10-29|15:06:42.049] Head block is not reachable
INFO [10-29|15:06:42.185] Opened ancient database database=/home/og/0gdata/0g-home/geth-home/geth/chaindata/ancient/state readonly=false
INFO [10-29|15:06:42.185] Initialized path database cache=16.00MiB buffer=64.00MiB history=90000
INFO [10-29|15:06:42.185] Writing custom genesis block
INFO [10-29|15:06:42.339] Successfully wrote genesis state database=chaindata hash=2a737b..681589
Suggested Solution
This message doesn’t appear to be critical, initialization completes successfully. I suggest changing its severity from error to warning, or adding a note in the guide clarifying that this message can be safely ignored.
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