Returned error: invalid address: 0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000

[gupadhyaya]

Running harmony localnet or node using ganache-cli is broken. Could be due to this change.

This error is similar to truffle deploy error as reported in this post. For the truffle error, temporary work around was passing -- skip-dry-run option or specifying skipDryRun: true in the truffle network config.

Steps to reproduce:

• run harmony node (localnet or actual node)
• spin up ganache-cli for that node
  ganache-cli -f http://localhost:9500 --networkId 1666700000
• try to deploy a contract by wrapping ganache url into web3: let web3 = new Web3(<ganache url>), you will get the error as follows:

Error: Returned error: Returned error: invalid address: 0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
    at Object.ErrorResponse (/Users/gupadhyaya/demo/node_modules/web3-core-helpers/lib/errors.js:28:19)
    at /Users/gupadhyaya/demo/node_modules/web3-core-requestmanager/lib/index.js:303:36
    at XMLHttpRequest.request.onreadystatechange (/Users/gupadhyaya/demo/node_modules/web3-providers-http/lib/index.js:98:13)
    at XMLHttpRequestEventTarget.dispatchEvent (/Users/gupadhyaya/demo/node_modules/xhr2-cookies/dist/xml-http-request-event-target.js:34:22)
    at XMLHttpRequest._setReadyState (/Users/gupadhyaya/demo/node_modules/xhr2-cookies/dist/xml-http-request.js:208:14)
    at XMLHttpRequest._onHttpResponseEnd (/Users/gupadhyaya/demo/node_modules/xhr2-cookies/dist/xml-http-request.js:318:14)
    at IncomingMessage.<anonymous> (/Users/gupadhyaya/demo/node_modules/xhr2-cookies/dist/xml-http-request.js:289:61)
    at IncomingMessage.emit (node:events:381:22)
    at endReadableNT (node:internal/streams/readable:1307:12)
    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:81:21) {
  data: {
    stack: 'Error: Returned error: invalid address: 0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000\n' +
      '    at Object.ErrorResponse (/Users/gupadhyaya/.nvm/versions/node/v10.17.0/lib/node_modules/ganache-cli/build/ganache-core.node.cli.js:53:1421880)\n' +
      '    at /Users/gupadhyaya/.nvm/versions/node/v10.17.0/lib/node_modules/ganache-cli/build/ganache-core.node.cli.js:53:1420752\n' +
      '    at t.n.onreadystatechange (/Users/gupadhyaya/.nvm/versions/node/v10.17.0/lib/node_modules/ganache-cli/build/ganache-core.node.cli.js:89:10247)\n' +
      '    at t.e.dispatchEvent (/Users/gupadhyaya/.nvm/versions/node/v10.17.0/lib/node_modules/ganache-cli/build/ganache-core.node.cli.js:17:47987)\n' +
      '    at t._setReadyState (/Users/gupadhyaya/.nvm/versions/node/v10.17.0/lib/node_modules/ganache-cli/build/ganache-core.node.cli.js:89:15283)\n' +
      '    at t._onHttpResponseEnd (/Users/gupadhyaya/.nvm/versions/node/v10.17.0/lib/node_modules/ganache-cli/build/ganache-core.node.cli.js:89:18380)\n' +
      '    at IncomingMessage.<anonymous> (/Users/gupadhyaya/.nvm/versions/node/v10.17.0/lib/node_modules/ganache-cli/build/ganache-core.node.cli.js:89:17635)\n' +
      '    at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:203:15)\n' +
      '    at endReadableNT (_stream_readable.js:1145:12)\n' +
      '    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:63:19)',
    name: 'Error'
  }
}

[peekpi]

It look like that Ganache is unable to sync blocks from Harmony node. Query the latest block number from Ganache does not change. If Ganache connects to Geth, it will always return the latest block number. I’ll debug it with ganache src code.

[hypnagonia]

currently known
eth_estimateGas is the method that fails
ganache calculates gas using ethereum js vm implementation instead of quering RPC directly
https://github.com/trufflesuite/ganache-core/blob/develop/src/chains/ethereum/ethereum/src/helpers/gas-estimator.ts#L255

[gupadhyaya]

fixed in this PR: harmony-one/harmony#3837

[DSBUGAY2]

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[toniton]

Hi @gupadhyaya!

Since this issue has been resolved, is it okay to remove the info from the documentation here: https://docs.harmony.one/home/developers/tools/using-ganache?

I have created a PR here: harmony-one/docs-home#42