ERROR startup failure error="error during handshake: error on replay: validator set is nil in genesis and still empty after InitChain"

[rgederin-dev]

Hi all

I am following this doc https://docs.berachain.com/nodes/quickstart in order to start Berachain node and facing with the issue mentioned in the title.

Steps to reproduce:

• Configure Consensus Client as described in docs with few adjustments (change timeouts and block size in configs and do not use --consensus-key-algo bls12_381 flag.
• Set env variable for working on a testnet (without it beakon-kit fallbacks to main net): export CHAIN_SPEC="testnet"
• Start beakon-kit with: ./build/bin/beacond start --home ./build/bin/config/beacond;
• Configure and start Reth execution client as described in docs.

After this step beakon-kit fails with:

2025-01-28T10:03:03Z INFO Validator does not exist so creating service=state-processor pubkey=0xa00d992e629f49456481e48bf01d0c43ecaf8a8181e9d7115cd0644adbda6b1ed91dd43688e73dcd8145affb3f88f783 index=0x0 deposit_amount=0x773594000
2025-01-28T10:03:03Z WARN failed deposit signature verification service=state-processor pubkey=0xa00d992e629f49456481e48bf01d0c43ecaf8a8181e9d7115cd0644adbda6b1ed91dd43688e73dcd8145affb3f88f783 deposit_index=0x0 amount_gwei=32000000000 error=signer returned an invalid signature
invalid deposit message
2025-01-28T10:03:03Z INFO Processed deposit to set Eth 1 deposit index service=state-processor previous=1 new=2
2025-01-28T10:03:03Z INFO Validator does not exist so creating service=state-processor pubkey=0x802073a6a4c461797eab0e1992b7bcd1034d752bdc1bde7a1fd89d0227a5b3ec6bcfa575f3a46fed943796e77573ba99 index=0x1 deposit_amount=0x773594000
2025-01-28T10:03:03Z WARN failed deposit signature verification service=state-processor pubkey=0x802073a6a4c461797eab0e1992b7bcd1034d752bdc1bde7a1fd89d0227a5b3ec6bcfa575f3a46fed943796e77573ba99 deposit_index=0x1 amount_gwei=32000000000 error=signer returned an invalid signature
invalid deposit message

......


2025-01-28T10:03:03Z WARN failed deposit signature verification service=state-processor pubkey=0xb6be1624593603d640144173489b305a52fb939cfa773284822c17a0e6b97e5435043f514d10add206d2b13677babee9 deposit_index=0x55 amount_gwei=32000000000 error=signer returned an invalid signature
invalid deposit message

Error: error during handshake: error on replay: validator set is nil in genesis and still empty after InitChain
2025/01/28 10:03:04 ERROR startup failure error="error during handshake: error on replay: validator set is nil in genesis and still empty after InitChain"

Could some one suggest what I am doing wrong?

[rgederin-dev]

Hi @abi87 , maybe you could suggest what I am doing wrong here?

[nidhi-singh02]

Hey, Thanks for reporting. This is a known issue.

For time being, can you run using export CHAIN_SPEC="devnet", I believe you should be good. I am able to run it locally on my machine.