Error starting a private network

[jyang]

Version information: 0.4.13

Type: Bug

Severity: Medium

Description:

https://discuss.ipfs.io/t/error-when-set-ipfs-private-network/1393

[leerspace]

@jyang If you can provide specific steps to reproduce I'd be happy to see if I also get the issue. Given that the instructions have worked for others, it would be helpful to know what exact steps were taken to get this error.

[Kubuxu]

I think it might be an issue with line ends. I think multicodec parser only accepts /nand not\r\n. It can be fixed either in go-multicodec` or by changing go-libp2p-pnet not to use it.

[RegEM]

I briefly had the same problem. On my windows machine, I changed file saving line type to unix. Using Textpad as editor.

On to the next issue: 'Republisher failed to republish: failed to find any peer in table core'

[vikpj]

I'm having this issue as well. Changing the line endings did not help. I am also using a windows machine.

[vikpj]

I fixed this by installing the linux subsystem and running ipfs-swarm-key-gen through that.

[ssdubey]

I had the similar issue in Ubuntu machine. I reinforced \n between the three lines of the swarm.key file by bringing them in same line and pressing enter. I look the same as the original key but worked fine after that.

[Kubuxu]

As a stopgap measure, consider using dos2unix utility to make sure that swarm.key is in Unix format:

dos2unix swarm.key

[Stebalien]

This is fixed in the latest go-ipfs master.