Truffle cannot migration with the latest Geth 1.8

• I’ve asked for help in the Truffle Gitter before filing this issue.

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Issue

When using the latest geth-unstable from the official debian ethereum repo (http://ppa.launchpad.net/ethereum/ethereum/ubuntu artful main), Truffle fails with even the most basic migrations.

It is worth noting that:

• everything works fine with the geth package 1.7.3-stable.
• you can observe the crash using the geth-unstable package 1.8.0-unstable.

Steps to Reproduce

Create the most simplistic project with only the Migration.sol contract and a migration to deploy it. Run truffle migrate --network geth, assuming that you configured a geth network somewhere in your truffle.js. Mine looks like so:

    geth: {
      host:       '127.0.0.1',
      port:       '7545',
      network_id: '1802',
      from:       '...'
    },

I’m using a set of scripts to get Geth to run correctly.

Expected Behavior

A successful migration with the last ID published.

Actual Results

Running migration: 20171201_010000_deploy_migrations.js
  Deploying Migrations...
  ... 0xc1dfca48204f704444a31539d83b53c1afc1baaf4e4f55352d31b8c406937178
  Migrations: 0x8cdaf0cd259887258bc13a92c0a6da92698644c0
Saving successful migration to network...
  ... 0x02b8ed4ab56dd0ae7656f99415f968fed333c20b22261193d18b5c07e2468b97
Error encountered, bailing. Network state unknown. Review successful transactions manually.
Error: unknown transaction
    at Object.InvalidResponse (/home/doodloo/.nvm/versions/node/v8.9.1/lib/node_modules/truffle/build/cli.bundled.js:41484:16)
    at /home/doodloo/.nvm/versions/node/v8.9.1/lib/node_modules/truffle/build/cli.bundled.js:328866:36
    at /home/doodloo/.nvm/versions/node/v8.9.1/lib/node_modules/truffle/build/cli.bundled.js:176178:11
    at /home/doodloo/.nvm/versions/node/v8.9.1/lib/node_modules/truffle/build/cli.bundled.js:324536:9
    at XMLHttpRequest.request.onreadystatechange (/home/doodloo/.nvm/versions/node/v8.9.1/lib/node_modules/truffle/build/cli.bundled.js:327565:7)
    at XMLHttpRequestEventTarget.dispatchEvent (/home/doodloo/.nvm/versions/node/v8.9.1/lib/node_modules/truffle/build/cli.bundled.js:176407:18)
    at XMLHttpRequest._setReadyState (/home/doodloo/.nvm/versions/node/v8.9.1/lib/node_modules/truffle/build/cli.bundled.js:176697:12)
    at XMLHttpRequest._onHttpResponseEnd (/home/doodloo/.nvm/versions/node/v8.9.1/lib/node_modules/truffle/build/cli.bundled.js:176852:12)
    at IncomingMessage.<anonymous> (/home/doodloo/.nvm/versions/node/v8.9.1/lib/node_modules/truffle/build/cli.bundled.js:176812:24)
    at emitNone (events.js:111:20)

Environment

• Operating System: Xubuntu 17.10.
• Truffle version: 4.0.3, same issue with 4.0.1.
• Ethereum client: See issue ticket.
• node version: 8.9.1
• npm version: 5.6.0

[jleeh]

Having the exact same issue also on geth 1.8.0-unstable. Was rectified by using geth 1.7.3.

[cgewecke]

@hickscorp Closing because we think this is fixed in 4.0.7. Thanks again, and please re-open if there’s a problem.