Aftter truffle init, tests don't work

We created a brand new project via truffle init. Then, after starting a private testnet, unlocking the primary address, starting the miner and running the tests, I get the following error.

Contract: MetaCoin
    ✓ should put 10000 MetaCoin in the first account
    1) should call a function that depends on a linked library  
    > No events were emitted
    2) should send coin correctly
    > No events were emitted

1) Contract: MetaCoin should call a function that depends on a linked library  :
     AssertionError: Library function returned unexpeced function, linkage may be broken: expected 0 to equal 20000

2) Contract: MetaCoin should send coin correctly:
     BigNumber Error: new BigNumber() not a number: [object Object]

We didn’t get to looking at the second error, but for the first one, we got the following info:

outCoinBalance: { [String: '10000'] s: 1, e: 4, c: [ 10000 ] }
outCoinBalance.toNumber(): 10000
outCoinBalanceEth: { [String: '0'] s: 1, e: 0, c: [ 0 ] }
metaCoinEthBalance: 0
2 * metaCoinBalance: 20000

It looks like meta.getBalanceInEth.call(accounts[0]), which is setting outCoinBalanceEth is not returning the correct value.

[sarbogast]

Same thing still with Truffle 2.1.1. This issue should really be reopened.

[zihehuang]

For those of you that uses a private net geth for development, configure your genesis block as follows:

{
    "config": {
            "homesteadBlock": 10
    },
    "nonce": "0",
    "difficulty": "0x20000",
    "mixhash": "0x00000000000000000000000000000000000000647572616c65787365646c6578",
    "coinbase": "0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
    "timestamp": "0x00",
    "parentHash": "0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
    "extraData": "0x",
    "gasLimit": "0x2FEFD8",
    "alloc": {}
}

The key point here is the homesteadBlock, which enables certain features including DELEGATECALL, which is what libraries are dependent on.

Homestead block is by default set to 1.150.000. This would explain why truffle works with testrpc but not with a private chain.

Source: https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/02/29/homestead-release/