🚨Emergency🚨 Update for Steem-in-a-box (witnesses, seeds, and RPCs)

someguy123 (69)in #witness-category • 6 years ago (edited)

Attention all of you who operate a witness, seed, or RPC node

Earlier today, the network went offline due to a bug in 0.19.3. All witnesses are required to update to 0.19.5 immediately.

How to update my witness or seed?

As a lot of seeds may not be updated yet, it's highly recommended to add Steemit's own seeds to your config.ini

seed-node = seed-east.steemit.com:2001
seed-node = seed-central.steemit.com:2001
seed-node = seed-west.steemit.com:2001

Then, update using install

./run.sh install
./run.sh restart

Please be aware that there are mixed reports of replays being required. If you run into errors such as "Lock Timeout", which do not resolve themselves after running for 10-20 mins, please run the following to clear your shared memory and replay:

./run.sh stop
rm -rf /dev/shm/*
./run.sh replay

If you are running a full node (i.e. an RPC), use install_full instead of install.

If you continue to have issues, ask in #witness on https://steem.chat

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6 years ago in #witness-category by someguy123 (69)

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neoxian (70) 6 years ago

Thank you for this quick fix! Amazing as usual!

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therealwolf (75) 6 years ago

Thanks for the quick update @someguy123!

However, I was a bit startled of how to update steemd without docker, but @drakos shared these important lines:

cp -rpn ~/steem-docker/data/witness_node_data_dir/config.ini ~/steem-docker/data/witness_node_data_dir/config.ini.bak
sed -i ~/steem-docker/data/witness_node_data_dir/config.ini -r -e 's/required-participation = false/required-participation = 0/g'

echo -e "seed-node = 52.207.85.82:2001\nseed-node = seed-east.steemit.com:2001\nseed-node = seed-central.steemit.com:2001\nseed-node = seed-west.steemit.com:2001\n$(cat ~/steem-docker/data/witness_node_data_dir/config.ini)" > ~/steem-docker/data/witness_node_data_dir/config.ini

cd ~/steem-docker ; ./run.sh stop ; cd ~/steem-docker/dkr ; docker build --no-cache -t steem .

# steps for a witness node only
cd ~/steem-docker ; ./run.sh start  ; docker logs --tail=30 witness -f # start when ready, wait for at least 128 blocks, then:

sed -i ~/steem-docker/data/witness_node_data_dir/config.ini -r -e 's/required-participation = 0/required-participation = false/g'

cd ~/steem-docker ; ./run.sh restart # final restart

Which was a way to update steemd without relying on your update.

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someguy123 (69) 6 years ago (edited)

The simple way is:

./run.sh stop
docker rmi someguy123/steem
docker rmi steem
./run.sh build
docker tag steem someguy123/steem:latest

then restart/replay as needed :)

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therealwolf (75) 6 years ago

Ah ok I see. Thank you! Yes, some lines were only for adding seed nodes etc.

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teamsteem (74) 6 years ago

I also did it this way and it worked for me. I had to replay the blockchain though.

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yuriks2000 (66) 6 years ago

@someguy123 you are the best, thank you for keeping the Steemit blockchain stable and updating the Steem-in-a-box for everyone!

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justyy (82) 6 years ago

Thank you for this... I am in the middle of 'replay' but didn't remove '/dev/shm'.... I hope everything is fine.

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someguy123 (69) 6 years ago

It will most likely be fine. Replay normally re-builds the /dev/shm, but to be safe it's always good to delete it anyway.

If you run into problems with the replay, you can try deleting it then, if not you're fine :)

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helo (70) 6 years ago

Thank you for this, exactly what I'm looking for right now. Let's upgrade those servers now!

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roman3 (47) 6 years ago

Thank you so much @someguy123 for releasing such a vital informantion.
We indeed will work with what you have released.
Just what I have been waiting for!