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Moazzem Hossen
Moazzem Hossen

Reputation: 2516

geth account import or new command doesn't create an account; instead returns Killed

I'm trying to create/import a new ethereum account using geth, but instead of returning public address, geth returns Killed. I'm using quorumengineering/quorum Docker image on a Kubernetes cluster.

Here's account creation script:

echo -n passwordstring > passwordfile
echo -n 82f74b773d7f948153d7eb8c192bd9819e3e94073d8bdc0e03d659aa42cd34ba > privateKey
geth --datadir . account import --password passwordfile privateKey

Instead of returning created new account's public address, the script returns:

INFO [07-09|16:43:48.932] Maximum peer count                       ETH=25 LES=0 total=25
Killed

Similar error is returned when I try importing or creating account interactively with geth account new followed by kubectl exec -it <pod-name> sh.

Things work fine when I use Quorum docker container (docker run -it --entrypoint="sh" quorumengineering/quorum) in my machine.

EDIT: ethereum/client-go image gives a more descriptive error message

INFO [07-09|19:03:09.094] Bumping default cache on mainnet         provided=1024 updated=4096
WARN [07-09|19:03:09.095] Sanitizing cache to Go's GC limits       provided=4096 updated=1316
INFO [07-09|19:03:09.097] Maximum peer count                       ETH=50 LES=0 total=50
INFO [07-09|19:03:09.098] Smartcard socket not found, disabling    err="stat /run/pcscd/pcscd.comm: no such file or directory"
ERROR[07-09|19:03:09.098] Failed to enumerate USB devices          hub=ledger vendor=11415 failcount=1 err="failed to initialize libusb: libusb: unknown error [code -99]"
ERROR[07-09|19:03:09.099] Failed to enumerate USB devices          hub=trezor vendor=21324 failcount=1 err="failed to initialize libusb: libusb: unknown error [code -99]"
ERROR[07-09|19:03:09.099] Failed to enumerate USB devices          hub=trezor vendor=4617  failcount=1 err="failed to initialize libusb: libusb: unknown error [code -99]"
ERROR[07-09|19:03:09.099] Failed to enumerate USB devices          hub=ledger vendor=11415 failcount=2 err="failed to initialize libusb: libusb: unknown error [code -99]"
ERROR[07-09|19:03:09.099] Failed to enumerate USB devices          hub=trezor vendor=21324 failcount=2 err="failed to initialize libusb: libusb: unknown error [code -99]"
ERROR[07-09|19:03:09.099] Failed to enumerate USB devices          hub=trezor vendor=4617  failcount=2 err="failed to initialize libusb: libusb: unknown error [code -99]"
ERROR[07-09|19:03:10.100] Failed to enumerate USB devices          hub=trezor vendor=4617  failcount=3 err="failed to initialize libusb: libusb: unknown error [code -99]"
ERROR[07-09|19:03:10.100] Failed to enumerate USB devices          hub=ledger vendor=11415 failcount=3 err="failed to initialize libusb: libusb: unknown error [code -99]"
ERROR[07-09|19:03:10.101] Failed to enumerate USB devices          hub=trezor vendor=21324 failcount=3 err="failed to initialize libusb: libusb: unknown error [code -99]"
Killed

I tried with --nousb flag but no help. I'm trying to enable pcscd.socket following instructions from https://superuser.com/questions/773257/scardestablishcontext-service-not-available

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1775

Answers (1)

karimkorun
karimkorun

Reputation: 170

Unfortunately, the output isn't telling us much, although if it the app is always getting killed after sending in your command, then the kernel likely killed it for some reason. Perhaps memory.. scrypt, AFAICT, is one of those memory heavy key derivation functions, it might have been that.

To resolve the issue you would need to find why the kernel killed the app and address the resource issue What killed my process and why?

Upvotes: 0

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