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Fatal: Error starting protocol stack

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Successfully ran embark new TokenFactory but if I do embark blockchain, I get this:

Fatal: Error starting protocol stack: listen unix

Full log output here.

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  • State:closed
  • Created 5 years ago
  • Comments:6

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iurimatiascommented, May 23, 2018

@PaulRBerg @troydo42

Good news I found the problem. Go-Ethereum doesn’t like long paths… You’ll have to put the project in a shorter path if you intend to use go-ethereum (embark blokchain), at least until the issue is fixed.

e.g:

works:

  • /Users/iurimatias/Documents/TokenFactory
  • /Users/iurimatias/Projects/tmp/TokenFactory

doesn’t work:

  • /Users/iurimatias/Documents/projects/ef/dev/src/eth/embark/TokenFactory/
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iurimatiascommented, Jun 22, 2018

In embark 3.1 we detect this situation and show a warning to the user

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