If node 0 is sufficiently fast to announce its block to node 1,
node 1 might already have the block by the time the
node_sync_via_rpc loop gets around to node 1, resulting in the
submitblock result "duplicate-inconclusive" as node 1 has the block,
but prefers an alternate chain.
Change check_announcement_of_new_block() to wait specifically for the
announcement of the newly created block, instead of waiting for any
announcement at all. A difficult to reproduce failure in
check_announcement_of_new_block() that happened in a travis build
(https://travis-ci.org/bitcoin/bitcoin/jobs/175198367) might have happened
because an older announcement was mistaken for the expected one. The error
looked like:
Assertion failed: Failed
File ".../bitcoin/qa/rpc-tests/test_framework/test_framework.py", line 145, in main
self.run_test()
File ".../bitcoin/build/../qa/rpc-tests/p2p-compactblocks.py", line 787, in run_test
self.test_sendcmpct(self.nodes[1], self.segwit_node, 2, old_node=self.old_node)
File ".../bitcoin/build/../qa/rpc-tests/p2p-compactblocks.py", line 201, in test_sendcmpct
check_announcement_of_new_block(node, test_node, lambda p: p.last_cmpctblock is None and p.last_inv is not None)
File ".../bitcoin/build/../qa/rpc-tests/p2p-compactblocks.py", line 194, in check_announcement_of_new_block
assert(predicate(peer))
This commit also changes the assertion failed message above to include more
detailed information for debug.
Motivation for this change is mainly to make sync_blocks behavior easier to
understand. Behavior is unchanged in the normal case when there are only 2
nodes in the rpc_connections set. When there are more than 2 nodes, the
previous "timeout -= wait" statement wouldn't take into account time spent
waiting for all nodes and as a result could lead to blocking for longer than
the requested timeout.
Instead of syncing to max height returned by the waitforblockheight RPC, sync
to the max height returned by the getblockcount RPC.
This change was suggested by Suhas Daftuar <sdaftuar@chaincode.com>.
The current getblocktxn implementation drops and ignores requests for old
blocks, which causes occasional sync_block timeouts during the
p2p-compactblocks.py test as reported in
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/8842.
The p2p-compactblocks.py test setup creates many new blocks in a short
period of time, which can lead to getblocktxn requests for blocks below the
hardcoded depth limit of 10 blocks. This commit changes the getblocktxn
handler not to ignore these requests, so the peer nodes in the test setup
will reliably be able to sync.
The protocol change is documented in BIP-152 update "Allow block responses
to getblocktxn requests" at https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/469.
The protocol change is not expected to affect nodes running outside the test
environment, because there shouldn't normally be lots of new blocks being
rapidly added that need to be synced.
Increase wallet-dump RPC timeout from 30 seconds to 1 minute. This avoids a
timeout error that seemed to happen regularly (around 50% of builds) on a
particular jenkins server during the first getnewaddress RPC call made by the
test.
The failing stack trace looked like:
Unexpected exception caught during testing: timeout('timed out',)
File ".../bitcoin/qa/rpc-tests/test_framework/test_framework.py", line 146, in main
self.run_test()
File ".../bitcoin/qa/rpc-tests/wallet-dump.py", line 73, in run_test
addr = self.nodes[0].getnewaddress()
File ".../bitcoin/qa/rpc-tests/test_framework/coverage.py", line 49, in __call__
return_val = self.auth_service_proxy_instance.__call__(*args, **kwargs)
File ".../bitcoin/qa/rpc-tests/test_framework/authproxy.py", line 145, in __call__
response = self._request('POST', self.__url.path, postdata.encode('utf-8'))
File ".../bitcoin/qa/rpc-tests/test_framework/authproxy.py", line 121, in _request
return self._get_response()
File ".../bitcoin/qa/rpc-tests/test_framework/authproxy.py", line 160, in _get_response
http_response = self.__conn.getresponse()
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/http/client.py", line 1171, in getresponse
response.begin()
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/http/client.py", line 351, in begin
version, status, reason = self._read_status()
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/http/client.py", line 313, in _read_status
line = str(self.fp.readline(_MAXLINE + 1), "iso-8859-1")
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/socket.py", line 374, in readinto
return self._sock.recv_into(b)
Three categories of modifications:
1)
1 instance of 'The Bitcoin Core developers \n',
1 instance of 'the Bitcoin Core developers\n',
3 instances of 'Bitcoin Core Developers\n', and
12 instances of 'The Bitcoin developers\n'
are made uniform with the 443 instances of 'The Bitcoin Core developers\n'
2)
3 instances of 'BitPay, Inc\.\n' are made uniform with the other 6
instances of 'BitPay Inc\.\n'
3)
4 instances where there was no '(c)' between the 'Copyright' and the year
where it deviates from the style of the local directory.
Clear test_node.last_block before requesting blocks in the
compactblocks_not_at_tip test so comparisons won't fail if a blocks were received
before the test started.
The bug doesn't currently cause any problems due to the order tests run, but
this will change in the next commit.
Russell Yanofsky