Validator Node - Australia

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Managed to get a celo Validator Node up and running.

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But running into errors when Running for Election

$ celocli validator:register --id <VALIDATOR_ID_OF_YOUR_CHOICE> --name <VALIDATOR_NAME_OF_YOUR_CHOICE> --url <VALIDATOR_URL_OF_YOUR_CHOICE> --from $CELO_VALIDATOR_ADDRESS --noticePeriod 5184000 --publicKey 0x`openssl rand -hex 64` 

Sending Transaction: registerValidator... !
Error: Returned error: gas required exceeds allowance or always failing transaction
    at Object.ErrorResponse (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@celo/celocli/node_modules/web3-core-helpers/src/errors.js:29:16)
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/@celo/celocli/node_modules/web3-core-requestmanager/src/index.js:140:36
    at callbackDecorator (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@celo/celocli/lib/utils/eth-debug-provider.js:17:13)
    at XMLHttpRequest.request.onreadystatechange (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@celo/celocli/node_modules/web3-providers-http/src/index.js:96:13)
    at XMLHttpRequestEventTarget.dispatchEvent (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@celo/celocli/node_modules/xhr2-cookies/dist/xml-http-request-event-target.js:34:22)
    at XMLHttpRequest._setReadyState (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@celo/celocli/node_modules/xhr2-cookies/dist/xml-http-request.js:208:14)
    at XMLHttpRequest._onHttpResponseEnd (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@celo/celocli/node_modules/xhr2-cookies/dist/xml-http-request.js:318:14)
    at IncomingMessage.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@celo/celocli/node_modules/xhr2-cookies/dist/xml-http-request.js:289:61)
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Copied from https://github.com/celo-org/celo-monorepo/issues/44

Thanks for raising this issue!

Iā€™m assuming that you were able to execute all previous steps, including registering your bonded deposits accounts, making bonded deposits, and registering your validator group?

Did you substitute other values for id , name , and url ?

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