Solana’s smart contract token network experienced a technical failure on Saturday, February 25, 2023, known as a “big fork event”, which caused transactions to fail for some users. The Solana incident report referred to it as “cluster instability” and indicated that a coordinated restart was launched to speed up block completion.
Solana Blockchain deals with a ‘big fork event’
On Saturday around 6:37 UTC, the Solana blockchain experienced reduced functionality and users reported a significant slowdown in block completion, along with some transaction failures. Solblaze, the liquid stake group, reported that while Solana did not completely halt block production, it did experience a slowdown due to a fork event.
sun glare fixed that “Solana is currently operational” despite a large fork event in mainnet-beta that has caused validators to slow down while trying to resolve forks. The account said that the network was confirming blocks at a rate of about 16 transactions per second. Validator operators and Solana engineers are collaborating to identify the underlying cause. Also, Solblaze mentioned that “validators are starting to roll back from v1.14 to v1.13.”
A coordinated restart is in progress to address an issue during the 1.13 to 1.14 upgrade that caused block completion to slow down significantly.
Validators: Follow the instructions below https://t.co/L7b3kAFOJS
— Solana Status (@SolanaStatus) February 25, 2023
The Solana Status Update website contains similar information, referring to the issue as “cluster instability.” He stated that Solana engineers are investigating slow root production in the mainnet beta and that a coordinated reboot was released “to resolve an issue during the upgrade from 1.13 to 1.14 that caused a significant slowdown in block completion.”
The Solana status page includes a document link that provides validators with instructions on how to proceed with the reset. Essentially, the validators needed to take a snapshot in slot 179526408, modify the validator command lines, install the previous version 1.13.6, and then restart the validator. Solana’s recent problems are reminiscent of problems the blockchain encountered last year, including multiple outages in block production.
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