No unspent output with activate or admin permission

+1 vote
I cannot grant permissions to another node.
I cannot send zero in a transaction.
I can not create

error: No unspent output with activate or admin permission
error: No unspent output with create permission.
error: No unspent outputs are available. Please send a transaction to this node or address first and wait for its confirmation.

I created a new chain with the following :

# Basic chain parameters

 

anyone-can-connect = false              # Anyone can connect, i.e. a publicly readable blockchain.
anyone-can-send = false                 # Anyone can send, i.e. transaction signing not restricted by address.
anyone-can-receive = false              # Anyone can receive, i.e. transaction outputs not restricted by address.
anyone-can-receive-empty = true         # Anyone can receive empty output, i.e. without permission grants, asset transfers and zero native currency.
anyone-can-create = false               # Anyone can create new streams.
anyone-can-issue = false                # Anyone can issue new native assets.
anyone-can-mine = false                 # Anyone can mine blocks (confirm transactions).
anyone-can-activate = false             # Anyone can grant or revoke connect, send and receive permissions.
anyone-can-admin = false                # Anyone can grant or revoke all permissions.
support-miner-precheck = true           # Require special metadata output with cached scriptPubKey for input, to support advanced miner checks.
allow-arbitrary-outputs = false         # Allow arbitrary (without clear destination) scripts.
allow-p2sh-outputs = true               # Allow pay-to-scripthash (P2SH) scripts, often used for multisig. Ignored if allow-arbitrary-outputs=true.
allow-multisig-outputs = true           # Allow bare multisignature scripts, rarely used but still supported. Ignored if allow-arbitrary-outputs=true.

# Consensus requirements

setup-first-blocks = 60                 # Length of initial setup phase in blocks, in which mining-diversity,
                                        # admin-consensus-* and mining-requires-peers are not applied. (1 - 31536000)
mining-diversity = 0.3                  # Miners must wait <mining-diversity>*<active miners> between blocks. (0 - 1)
admin-consensus-upgrade = 0.5           # <admin-consensus-upgrade>*<active admins> needed to upgrade the chain. (0 - 1)
admin-consensus-admin = 0.5             # <admin-consensus-admin>*<active admins> needed to change admin perms. (0 - 1)
admin-consensus-activate = 0.5          # <admin-consensus-activate>*<active admins> to change activate perms. (0 - 1)
admin-consensus-mine = 0.5              # <admin-consensus-mine>*<active admins> to change mining permissions. (0 - 1)
admin-consensus-create = 0.0            # <admin-consensus-create>*<active admins> to change create permissions. (0 - 1)
admin-consensus-issue = 0.0             # <admin-consensus-issue>*<active admins> to change issue permissions. (0 - 1)

# Defaults for node runtime parameters

lock-admin-mine-rounds = 10             # Ignore forks that reverse changes in admin or mine permissions after this many mining rounds have passed. Integer only. (0 - 10000)
mining-requires-peers = false           # Nodes only mine blocks if connected to other nodes (ignored if only one permitted miner).
mine-empty-rounds = 10                  # Mine this many rounds of empty blocks before pausing to wait for new transactions. If negative, continue indefinitely (ignored if target-adjust-freq>0). Non-integer allowed. (-1 - 1000)
mining-turnover = 0.5                   # Prefer pure round robin between a subset of active miners to minimize forks (0.0) or random equal participation for all permitted miners (1.0). (0 - 1)

# Native blockchain currency (likely not required)

initial-block-reward = 25               # Initial block mining reward in raw native currency units. (0 - -1486618624)
first-block-reward = 100000             # Different mining reward for first block only, ignored if negative. (-1 - -1486618624)
reward-halving-interval = 52560000      # Interval for halving of mining rewards, in blocks. (60 - 1000000000)
reward-spendable-delay = 100            # Delay before mining reward can be spent, in blocks. (1 - 100000)
minimum-per-output = 0                  # Minimum native currency per output (anti-dust), in raw units.
                                        # If set to -1, this is calculated from minimum-relay-fee. (-1 - 1000000000)
maximum-per-output = 100000000000000    # Maximum native currency per output, in raw units. (0 - -1486618624)
minimum-relay-fee = 5                   # Minimum transaction fee, per 1000 bytes, in raw units of native currency. (0 - 1000000000)
native-currency-multiple = 100000000    # Number of raw units of native currency per display unit. (0 - 1000000000)

# Advanced mining parameters

skip-pow-check = false                  # Skip checking whether block hashes demonstrate proof of work.
pow-minimum-bits = 8                    # Initial and minimum proof of work difficulty, in leading zero bits. (1 - 32)
target-adjust-freq = -1                 # Interval between proof of work difficulty adjustments, in seconds, if negative - never adjusted. (-1 - -1)
allow-min-difficulty-blocks = false     # Allow lower difficulty blocks if none after 2*<target-block-time>.

# Standard transaction definitions

only-accept-std-txs = true              # Only accept and relay transactions which qualify as 'standard'.
max-std-tx-size = 4194304               # Maximum size of standard transactions, in bytes. (1024 - 100000000)
max-std-op-returns-count = 32           # Maximum number of OP_RETURN metadata outputs in standard transactions. (0 - 1024)
max-std-op-return-size = 2097152        # Maximum size of OP_RETURN metadata in standard transactions, in bytes. (0 - 67108864)
max-std-op-drops-count = 5              # Maximum number of OP_DROPs per output in standard transactions. (0 - 100)
max-std-element-size = 8192             # Maximum size of data elements in standard transactions, in bytes. (128 - 80000)
asked Nov 11, 2021 by MaSsv
Are you seeing this on the node which started the chain? And if so what have you done on that node since starting it?
When I started it, it went to 60 blocks and then I tried to connect another node. I got first error ehen trying to grant permissions.
Something looks very weird with your params.dat file, with these negative numbers shown in the ranges (-1486618624). Are you using Linux or Windows? And did you compile MultiChain yourself?
Running on windows.
I did not compile multichain, using provided binaries.
OK, please confirm the version you are using.
Version 2.1.2 with  -v1apicompatible
Thanks, we are taking a look.

1 Answer

+1 vote

We believe the issue here is due to a combination of your blockchain parameters.

You have reward-spendable-delay=100 which means that no mining rewards (the initial source of UTXOs) can be spent until they are 100 blocks old. But the mining is stopped at block 60 (due to setup-first-blocks and mine-empty-rounds) because there are no new transactions. And you cannot create a new transaction because there are not yet any UTXOs to spend.

If you want to keep this chain going, you can use this command to continue mining empty blocks until you get past number 100:

setruntimeparam mineemptyrounds -1

Or alternatively start a new chain without this problematic combination of parameters.

(The weird maximum value shown for first-block-reward looks like a red herring, it's a minor bug in how multichain-util on Windows writes params.dat but shouldn't affect the chain itself.)

answered Dec 21, 2021 by MultiChain
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