Try Erigon (TurboGeth) as a Tracing Node

[Uxio0]

Problem Statement:

• OpenEthereum nodes are being deprecated safe-pm#87

Details:
I don't think we can trust TurboGeth (turbo-geth/v2021.04.3/linux-amd64/go1.16.3 ) for tracing...

In [12]: ethereum_client.parity.trace_transaction('0xa9dc6069cdd0acd1033ad02257c380074fa6dd7d3a4e2c17dd676c5ffc40eb63')
Out[12]: []

Block of that transaction is 7941777

In [13]: [internal_tx for internal_tx in ethereum_client.parity.trace_block(7941777) if internal_tx['transactionHash'] == '0xa9dc6069cdd0acd1033ad02257c380074fa6dd7d3a4e2c17dd676c5ffc40eb63']
Out[13]: 
[{'action': {'from': '0xed2Fb810E69bf37802eC356e4D30f1C4A1A8d216',
   'gas': 380626,
   'value': 0,
   'callType': 'call',
   'input': HexBytes('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'),
   'to': '0x76E2cFc1F5Fa8F6a5b3fC4c8F4788F0116861F9B'},
  'blockHash': '0x9f4f103d4d9214edbabddd3b44d94df6852f78f2b222b17370427ccd7efb6c11',
  'blockNumber': 7941777,
  'error': 'Reverted',
  'subtraces': 0,
  'traceAddress': [],
  'transactionHash': '0xa9dc6069cdd0acd1033ad02257c380074fa6dd7d3a4e2c17dd676c5ffc40eb63',
  'transactionPosition': 3,
  'type': 'call'}]

Transaction was not reverted at all: https://rinkeby.etherscan.io/tx/0xa9dc6069cdd0acd1033ad02257c380074fa6dd7d3a4e2c17dd676c5ffc40eb63

With regular not tracing rpc calls it returns the expected results:

In [4]: ethereum_client.get_transaction_receipt('0xa9dc6069cdd0acd1033ad02257c380074fa6dd7d3a4e2c17dd676c5ffc40eb63')
Out[4]:
AttributeDict({'blockHash': HexBytes('0x9f4f103d4d9214edbabddd3b44d94df6852f78f2b222b17370427ccd7efb6c11'),
 'blockNumber': 7941777,
 'contractAddress': None,
 'cumulativeGasUsed': 837377,
 'from': '0xed2Fb810E69bf37802eC356e4D30f1C4A1A8d216',
 'gasUsed': 266231,
 'logs': [AttributeDict({'address': '0x76E2cFc1F5Fa8F6a5b3fC4c8F4788F0116861F9B',
   'topics': [HexBytes('0xa38789425dbeee0239e16ff2d2567e31720127fbc6430758c1a4efc6aef29f80')],
   'data': '0x000000000000000000000000333367d9a5b1782270193ed1d0c7669d90aa560a',
   'blockNumber': 7941777,
   'transactionHash': HexBytes('0xa9dc6069cdd0acd1033ad02257c380074fa6dd7d3a4e2c17dd676c5ffc40eb63'),
   'transactionIndex': 3,
   'blockHash': HexBytes('0x9f4f103d4d9214edbabddd3b44d94df6852f78f2b222b17370427ccd7efb6c11'),
   'logIndex': 3,
   'removed': False})],
 'logsBloom': HexBytes('0x00010000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000080000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000002000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000002000000000000000000000000000004000000000000000000000000000000000'),
 'status': 1,
 'to': '0x76E2cFc1F5Fa8F6a5b3fC4c8F4788F0116861F9B',
 'transactionHash': HexBytes('0xa9dc6069cdd0acd1033ad02257c380074fa6dd7d3a4e2c17dd676c5ffc40eb63'),
 'transactionIndex': 3})

Using OpenEthereum:

In [2]: ethereum_client.parity.trace_transaction('0xa9dc6069cdd0acd1033ad02257c380074fa6dd7d3a4e2c17dd676c5ffc40eb63')                                                                
Out[2]:                              
[{'action': {'from': '0xed2Fb810E69bf37802eC356e4D30f1C4A1A8d216',
   'gas': 380626,                               
   'value': 0,                                                                             
   'callType': 'call',                       
   'input': HexBytes('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'),                                 
   'to': '0x76E2cFc1F5Fa8F6a5b3fC4c8F4788F0116861F9B'},
  'blockHash': '0x9f4f103d4d9214edbabddd3b44d94df6852f78f2b222b17370427ccd7efb6c11',
  'blockNumber': 7941777,     
  'result': {'gasUsed': 242183,      
   'output': HexBytes('0x000000000000000000000000333367d9a5b1782270193ed1d0c7669d90aa560a')},                                                                                         
  'subtraces': 2,                       
  'traceAddress': [],                                      
  'transactionHash': '0xa9dc6069cdd0acd1033ad02257c380074fa6dd7d3a4e2c17dd676c5ffc40eb63',
  'transactionPosition': 3,                                             
  'type': 'call'},                               
 {'action': {'from': '0x76E2cFc1F5Fa8F6a5b3fC4c8F4788F0116861F9B',
   'gas': 340263,                                                                          
   'value': 0,                               
   'init': HexBytes('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')},                           
  'blockHash': '0x9f4f103d4d9214edbabddd3b44d94df6852f78f2b222b17370427ccd7efb6c11',
  'blockNumber': 7941777,                                             
  'result': {'gasUsed': 55109,                                
   'code': HexBytes('0x608060405273ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff600054167fa619486e0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000060003514156050578060005260206000f35b3660008037600080366000845af43d6000803e60008114156070573d6000fd5b3d6000f3fea265627a7a72315820d8a00dc4fe6bf675a9d7416fc2d00bb3433362aa8186b750f76c4027269667ff64736f6c634300050e0032'),                                                                                    
   'address': '0x333367d9A5b1782270193Ed1D0C7669d90aA560A'},
  'subtraces': 0,                                      
  'traceAddress': [0],                     
  'transactionHash': '0xa9dc6069cdd0acd1033ad02257c380074fa6dd7d3a4e2c17dd676c5ffc40eb63',
  'transactionPosition': 3,
  'type': 'create'},                                                   
 {'action': {'from': '0x76E2cFc1F5Fa8F6a5b3fC4c8F4788F0116861F9B',
   'gas': 285195,
   'value': 0,
   'callType': 'call',                                                    
   'input': HexBytes('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'),                                                       
   'to': '0x333367d9A5b1782270193Ed1D0C7669d90aA560A'},
  'blockHash': '0x9f4f103d4d9214edbabddd3b44d94df6852f78f2b222b17370427ccd7efb6c11',
  'blockNumber': 7941777,                                            
  'result': {'gasUsed': 150098, 'output': HexBytes('0x')},
  'subtraces': 1,                                          
  'traceAddress': [1],                                       
  'transactionHash': '0xa9dc6069cdd0acd1033ad02257c380074fa6dd7d3a4e2c17dd676c5ffc40eb63',
  'transactionPosition': 3,                    
  'type': 'call'},                                                                         
 {'action': {'from': '0x333367d9A5b1782270193Ed1D0C7669d90aA560A',
   'gas': 279119,      
   'value': 0, 
   'callType': 'delegatecall',                                                             
   'input': HexBytes('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'),                                               
   'to': '0x34CfAC646f301356fAa8B21e94227e3583Fe3F5F'},
  'blockHash': '0x9f4f103d4d9214edbabddd3b44d94df6852f78f2b222b17370427ccd7efb6c11',       
  'blockNumber': 7941777,                         
  'result': {'gasUsed': 148410, 'output': HexBytes('0x')},
  'subtraces': 0,             
  'traceAddress': [1, 0],            
  'transactionHash': '0xa9dc6069cdd0acd1033ad02257c380074fa6dd7d3a4e2c17dd676c5ffc40eb63',
  'transactionPosition': 3,           
  'type': 'call'}]                                          

[rmeissner]

Did you report this to the TurboGeth team?

[Uxio0]

Did you report this to the TurboGeth team?

Yes, I was talking to them on TurboGeth discord 😉

[ziogaschr]

At core-geth we've also been working on Trace features with regard to achieving parity with the OpenEthereum API (no pun intended), and have learned a lot from talking with and referencing turbo-geth too.
We think we're getting close to a nearly complete congruence, and have added a few performance optimizations along the way.

Here, you can find a list of stuff that we decided to handle differently.

Turbo-geth will probably shine at the trace-filter performance.

[Uxio0]

@ziogaschr Nice pun! 😉 That are really good news, we will be paying attention

Here, you can find a list of stuff that we decided to handle differently.

Thanks, that's very useful for that, but I think that we will not be affected for any of these changes for our use cases

[Uxio0]

Looks like with the last commit everything is working as expected: erigontech/erigon@711f157

In [2]: ethereum_client.parity.trace_transaction('0xa9dc6069cdd0acd1033ad02257c380074fa6dd7d3a4e2c17dd676c5ffc40eb63')
Out[2]:
[{'action': {'from': '0xed2Fb810E69bf37802eC356e4D30f1C4A1A8d216',
   'gas': 380626,
   'value': 0,
   'callType': 'call',
   'input': HexBytes('0x1688f0b900000000000000000000000034cfac646f301356faa8b21e94227e3583fe3f5f0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000060000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001772c39fa1b0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000164b63e800d0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000140000000000000000000000000d5d82b6addc9027b22dca772aa68d5d74cdbdf440000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001000000000000000000000000ed2fb810e69bf37802ec356e4d30f1c4a1a8d216000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000'),
   'to': '0x76E2cFc1F5Fa8F6a5b3fC4c8F4788F0116861F9B'},
  'blockHash': '0x9f4f103d4d9214edbabddd3b44d94df6852f78f2b222b17370427ccd7efb6c11',
  'blockNumber': 7941777,
  'result': {'gasUsed': 242183,
   'output': HexBytes('0x000000000000000000000000333367d9a5b1782270193ed1d0c7669d90aa560a')},
  'subtraces': 2,
  'traceAddress': [],
  'transactionHash': '0xa9dc6069cdd0acd1033ad02257c380074fa6dd7d3a4e2c17dd676c5ffc40eb63',
  'transactionPosition': 3,
  'type': 'call'},
 {'action': {'from': '0x76E2cFc1F5Fa8F6a5b3fC4c8F4788F0116861F9B',
   'gas': 340263,
   'value': 0,
   'init': HexBytes('0x608060405234801561001057600080fd5b506040516101e73803806101e78339818101604052602081101561003357600080fd5b8101908080519060200190929190505050600073ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff168173ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff1614156100ca576040517f08c379a00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000081526004018080602001828103825260248152602001806101c36024913960400191505060405180910390fd5b806000806101000a81548173ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff021916908373ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff1602179055505060aa806101196000396000f3fe608060405273ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff600054167fa619486e0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000060003514156050578060005260206000f35b3660008037600080366000845af43d6000803e60008114156070573d6000fd5b3d6000f3fea265627a7a72315820d8a00dc4fe6bf675a9d7416fc2d00bb3433362aa8186b750f76c4027269667ff64736f6c634300050e0032496e76616c6964206d617374657220636f707920616464726573732070726f766964656400000000000000000000000034cfac646f301356faa8b21e94227e3583fe3f5f')},
  'blockHash': '0x9f4f103d4d9214edbabddd3b44d94df6852f78f2b222b17370427ccd7efb6c11',
  'blockNumber': 7941777,
  'result': {'gasUsed': 55109,
   'code': HexBytes('0x608060405273ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff600054167fa619486e0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000060003514156050578060005260206000f35b3660008037600080366000845af43d6000803e60008114156070573d6000fd5b3d6000f3fea265627a7a72315820d8a00dc4fe6bf675a9d7416fc2d00bb3433362aa8186b750f76c4027269667ff64736f6c634300050e0032'),
   'address': '0x333367d9A5b1782270193Ed1D0C7669d90aA560A'},
  'subtraces': 0,
  'traceAddress': [0],
  'transactionHash': '0xa9dc6069cdd0acd1033ad02257c380074fa6dd7d3a4e2c17dd676c5ffc40eb63',
  'transactionPosition': 3,
  'type': 'create'},
 {'action': {'from': '0x76E2cFc1F5Fa8F6a5b3fC4c8F4788F0116861F9B',
   'gas': 285195,
   'value': 0,
   'callType': 'call',
   'input': HexBytes('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'),
   'to': '0x333367d9A5b1782270193Ed1D0C7669d90aA560A'},
  'blockHash': '0x9f4f103d4d9214edbabddd3b44d94df6852f78f2b222b17370427ccd7efb6c11',
  'blockNumber': 7941777,
  'result': {'gasUsed': 150098, 'output': HexBytes('0x')},
  'subtraces': 1,
  'traceAddress': [1],
  'transactionHash': '0xa9dc6069cdd0acd1033ad02257c380074fa6dd7d3a4e2c17dd676c5ffc40eb63',
  'transactionPosition': 3,
  'type': 'call'},
 {'action': {'from': '0x333367d9A5b1782270193Ed1D0C7669d90aA560A',
   'gas': 279119,
   'value': 0,
   'callType': 'delegatecall',
   'input': HexBytes('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'),
   'to': '0x34CfAC646f301356fAa8B21e94227e3583Fe3F5F'},
  'blockHash': '0x9f4f103d4d9214edbabddd3b44d94df6852f78f2b222b17370427ccd7efb6c11',
  'blockNumber': 7941777,
  'result': {'gasUsed': 148410, 'output': HexBytes('0x')},
  'subtraces': 0,
  'traceAddress': [1, 0],
  'transactionHash': '0xa9dc6069cdd0acd1033ad02257c380074fa6dd7d3a4e2c17dd676c5ffc40eb63',
  'transactionPosition': 3,
  'type': 'call'}]

[Uxio0]

Issues with trace_filter: erigontech/erigon#1851

[Uxio0]

As of https://github.com/ledgerwatch/erigon/releases/tag/v2021.06.03 Erigon seems to be working pretty well. It looks like erigontech/erigon#2085 is not happening anymore

[tolbrino]

Just FYI, I've run the transaction service against the currently recent Erigon release and it works nicely.

[Uxio0]

Thanks for your feedback @tolbrino! We are experiencing the same, last version of Erigon is working well for us too

[Uxio0]

Thanks for your feedback @tolbrino! We are experiencing the same, last version of Erigon is working well for us too

Previous versions of Erigon were stuck at some point when indexing: erigontech/erigon#2682 (comment)

Everything looks good now with the last version https://github.com/ledgerwatch/erigon/releases/tag/v2021.10.03

[Uxio0]

Erigon is currently working well on mainnet and goerli (currently using https://github.com/ledgerwatch/erigon/releases/tag/v2022.04.05 )