Cannot start Cosmovisor

[jprupp]

Followed instructions in manual on a fresh Debian installation. Cosmovisor fails to start at the last step:

sifnode@hera:~$ cosmovisor start --pruning nothing
4:08PM INF Configuration is valid:
Configurable Values:
  DAEMON_HOME: /srv/sifnode/.sifnoded
  DAEMON_NAME: sifnoded
  DAEMON_ALLOW_DOWNLOAD_BINARIES: true
  DAEMON_RESTART_AFTER_UPGRADE: true
  DAEMON_POLL_INTERVAL: 300ms
  UNSAFE_SKIP_BACKUP: true
  DAEMON_PREUPGRADE_MAX_RETRIES: 0
Derived Values:
        Root Dir: /srv/sifnode/.sifnoded/cosmovisor
     Upgrade Dir: /srv/sifnode/.sifnoded/cosmovisor/upgrades
     Genesis Bin: /srv/sifnode/.sifnoded/cosmovisor/genesis/bin/sifnoded
  Monitored File: /srv/sifnode/.sifnoded/data/upgrade-info.json
 module=cosmovisor
4:08PM INF running app args=["start","--pruning","nothing"] module=cosmovisor path=/srv/sifnode/.sifnoded/cosmovisor/genesis/bin/sifnoded
4:08PM ERR failed to read error="lstat /srv/sifnode/.sifnoded/cosmovisor/current/upgrade-info.json: no such file or directory" filename=/srv/sifnode/.sifnoded/cosmovisor/current/upgrade-info.json module=cosmovisor
4:08PM INF starting ABCI with Tendermint
4:08PM INF Daemon shutting down in an attempt to restart module=cosmovisor
4:08PM INF pre-upgrade command does not exist. continuing the upgrade. module=cosmovisor
4:08PM INF No upgrade binary found, beginning to download it module=cosmovisor
4:08PM ERR  error="cannot download binary. downloading reference link : invalid source string: " module=cosmovisor

[jprupp]

If I disable binary downloads:

sifnode@hera:~$ cosmovisor start --pruning nothing
4:11PM INF Configuration is valid:
Configurable Values:
  DAEMON_HOME: /srv/sifnode/.sifnoded
  DAEMON_NAME: sifnoded
  DAEMON_ALLOW_DOWNLOAD_BINARIES: false
  DAEMON_RESTART_AFTER_UPGRADE: true
  DAEMON_POLL_INTERVAL: 300ms
  UNSAFE_SKIP_BACKUP: true
  DAEMON_PREUPGRADE_MAX_RETRIES: 0
Derived Values:
        Root Dir: /srv/sifnode/.sifnoded/cosmovisor
     Upgrade Dir: /srv/sifnode/.sifnoded/cosmovisor/upgrades
     Genesis Bin: /srv/sifnode/.sifnoded/cosmovisor/genesis/bin/sifnoded
  Monitored File: /srv/sifnode/.sifnoded/data/upgrade-info.json
 module=cosmovisor
4:11PM INF running app args=["start","--pruning","nothing"] module=cosmovisor path=/srv/sifnode/.sifnoded/cosmovisor/genesis/bin/sifnoded
4:11PM ERR failed to read error="lstat /srv/sifnode/.sifnoded/cosmovisor/current/upgrade-info.json: no such file or directory" filename=/srv/sifnode/.sifnoded/cosmovisor/current/upgrade-info.json module=cosmovisor
4:11PM INF starting ABCI with Tendermint
4:11PM INF Daemon shutting down in an attempt to restart module=cosmovisor
4:11PM INF pre-upgrade command does not exist. continuing the upgrade. module=cosmovisor
4:11PM ERR  error="binary not present, downloading disabled: cannot stat dir /srv/sifnode/.sifnoded/cosmovisor/upgrades/0.13.2/bin/sifnoded: stat /srv/sifnode/.sifnoded/cosmovisor/upgrades/0.13.2/bin/sifnoded: no such file or directory" module=cosmovisor

[intl-man]

@jprupp - Cosmovisor is telling you what the issue there is: it can't find 0.13.2. The snapshot you downloaded would have contained upgrade information and because DAEMON_ALLOW_DOWNLOAD_BINARIES is set to false, it won't download the latest version (so you will need to build and place into the cosmovisor/upgrades folder).

I've updated the documentation with the latest release. If you give that another try, you'll find it'll run correctly.

I think some more detailed operational docs concerning cosmovisor might be necessary here.

[jprupp]

Thank you @intl-man,

I'll deploy and read on cosmovisor. Also I'll create a new document meant to run sifnode without cosmovisor, and test the Docker and Kubernetes documents as well to see if they have any issues.

Cheers

[jprupp]

Your solution didn't work in my case, but it might be because I didn't start the whole process from scratch this time around.

But you gave me an idea: compiling the sifnoded version 0.13.2 manually and putting it in the folder where it was expected, which ended up working successfully:

cp ~/go/bin/sifnoded ~/.sifnoded/cosmovisor/upgrades/0.13.2/bin/sifnoded

It is interesting that even with binary upgrades enabled, cosmovisor didn't manage to find it. I presume that cosmovisor looks for these binaries in a server somewhere. Perhaps we are not uploading new versions of our binaries to that server.