This alert is related to a consensus issue that occurred on the Frontier network at block 116,522, mined on 2015-08-20 at 14:59:16+02:00 – Issue has been fixed, see “Fix” below.

Impact: High

Issue description: State database consensus issue in geth with deletion of account data, which could happen during SUICIDE instructions.

Affected implementations: All geth implementations up to and including versions 1.0.1, 1.1.0 and develop (“unstable 1.1.0”) were affected. Eth (C++) and pyethereum (Python) are unaffected.

Effects on expected chain reorganisation depth: Increase waiting time for eventual block confirmation to 12 hours

Proposed temporary workaround: Miners switch to eth or pyethereum asap

Remedial action taken by Ethereum: Provision of fixes as below.

Fix: Note that the consensus issue occured just before the announcement of the new release 1.1.0. When upgrading, please make sure you upgrade to the version you intended as you might not want to fix and upgrade from 1.0.1 to 1.1.0 (which has not yet been officially released) at the same time. Fixes below are for version 1.0.2 – builds are generated for v 1.0.2.

Release 1.0.2 including source and binaries can be found here

If you are building from source: git pull followed by make geth – please use the master branch commit a0303ff4bdc17fba10baea4ce9ff250e5923efa2

If using the PPA: sudo apt-get update then sudo apt-get upgrade

We are still working on the brew fix

The correct version for this update on Ubuntu AND OSX is Geth/v1.0.2-a0303f

Note that it is likely that you receive the following message alert which will resolve itself after a while once your peers have updated their clients:

I0820 19:00:53.368852 4539 chain_manager.go:776] Bad block #116522 (05bef30ef572270f654746da22639a7a0c97dd97a7050b9e252391996aaeb689)

I0820 19:00:53.368891 4539 chain_manager.go:777] Found known bad hash in chain 05bef30ef572270f654746da22639a7a0c97dd97a7050b9e

Updates: