coinbase & accounts 0 are diiferent when trying to setup istanbul network

[abhayar]

System information

Geth version: geth version

OS & Version: Windows/Linux/OSX

Branch, Commit Hash or Release: git status

Expected behaviour

Actual behaviour

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[abhayar]

I'm using istanbul tools only for extradata creation, but problem i'm facing problem with accounts..coinbase & account0 both are different.This is my genesis file:

{
"config": {
"chainId": 1234,
"homesteadBlock": 1,
"eip150Block": 2,
"eip150Hash": "0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
"eip155Block": 3,
"eip158Block": 3,
"istanbul": {
"epoch": 30000,
"policy": 0
},
"isQuorum": true
},
"alloc": {},
"nonce": "0x0",
"timestamp": "0x5982d805",
"extraData": "0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000f86fea941cd6d479eda90f876366c32a7932eaf7116aa39394294fc7e8f22b3bcdcf955dd7ff3ba2ed833f8212b8410000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000c0",
"gasLimit": "0x47b760",
"difficulty": "0x1",
"mixHash": "0x63746963616c2062797a616e74696e65206661756c7420746f6c6572616e6365",
"number": "0x0",
"gasUsed": "0x0",
"parentHash": "0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000"
}

when i remove "istanbul": {"epoch": 30000,"policy": 0 } from genesis file , coinbase & accounts0 both are same, but it is no more istanbul protocol

[patrickmn]

@yutelin @markya0616 thoughts?

[yutelin]

@abhayar coinbase address has been repurposed for validator voting. Please refer to EIP 650 Block header section.

• beneficiary: Address to propose modifying the list of validator with.
  • Should be filled with zeroes normally, modified only while voting.
  • Arbitrary values are permitted nonetheless (even meaningless ones such as voting out non validators) to avoid extra complexity in voting mechanics implementation.

[abhayar]

ERROR[02-11|06:28:21] Failed to decode message from payload address=0x2D7fa275D93006d80B07f03Cd678E84eA2CB57A5 err="unauthorized address"...getting this error, this is coinbase address

[ijazm]

@abhayar Have you solved the issue
ERROR[02-11|06:28:21] Failed to decode message from payload address=0x2D7fa275D93006d80B07f03Cd678E84eA2CB57A5 err="unauthorized address"...getting this error, this is coinbase address

[abhayar]

No, not yet..any solution on this...?
So to create extradata, we are using istanbul-tools, so because of this, tools itself create coinbase account & I'm also creating new account..Is this so..?

[ijazm]

@abhayar yes, exactly that is the problem. What I did to overcome this problem is I created the nodekey and genesis file using the istanbul tool. I used that nodekey on all the nodes i have and finally my manual setup was successful and I am able to deploy contracts

[Krish1979]

➤ Patrick Mylund Nielsen commented:

yutelin markya0616 thoughts?