Hey all, just an FYI:
The Alfajores test network is currently experiencing an issue with block its times. Occasionally, some blocks can take a few minutes to be validated. This is due to a small set of validators being down/unavailable. Please be warned this may affect the wallet app’s ability to sync and perform transactions. We have identified a fix and we’re hoping to ship it soon!
Note, a service that powers the activity feed in the wallet app is also down. We’re investigating this as well.
@pkrasam – thanks for asking! Just cross-posting from Discord:
For anyone running a validator right now – We figured out that our CLI unlock command was only unlocking keys for a week, and after that your validator would be unable to participate in consensus. This (compounded with a couple of other issues we’ve since fixed) meant we have been seeing periodic very slow block times.
We’ve pushed a new version of our CLI (0.0.21) and would love it if you all could update to it, and unlock again. This version now unlocks indefinitely. If you do
In the mean time, so you as you don’t need to look at this urgently, we are going to do an on-chain governance proposal to reduce the number of validators to 70 and as soon as we’ve seen a bunch of folks unlock we’ll raise it to 100 again.
Thanks for your help, and apologies for the downtime. We’ve learnt a few things, which is the purpose of the testnet Let me know if you’ve got any questions.
Let me know if you’ve got any questions.