Operational Troubleshooting

What this page explains#

Troubleshooting is symptom-led: the first job is to identify whether the failure lives in wallet, node, network, mempool, miner, indexer, or source freshness. This page sits in Wallets, Nodes, And Mining. It gives the topic a plain-language handle first, then shows the working idea, the mechanism, the source trail, and any limits that still matter. This category is operational, so every explanation is tied to an observable workflow. A wallet can build and sign intent, a node can sync and serve state, a miner can work on templates, and none of those observations by themselves replace accepted-network evidence.

The writing follows a simple Kaspa documentation pattern: answer the practical question first, then link outward for details. The closest public sources for this page are WIKI-CLI-WALLET, WIKI-CLI-NODE, WIKI-MINING, RK-WRPC, RK-P2P-FLOW. Local notes can help choose what to explain, but public-facing references resolve to upstream websites, repositories, papers, release pages, or docs.

How to think about it#

The practical model starts by naming the layer that owns the topic: wallet use, node operation, consensus, transaction validation, Toccata script behavior, tooling, or research. From there, the page shows which public source can support the explanation and where the explanation becomes incomplete.

For Operational Troubleshooting, the model is built around these anchors: wrong network creates believable but useless evidence; missing UTXO index affects wallet and developer queries; unsynced nodes can serve stale state; broadcast failure is not the same as invalid transaction; explorer/API disagreement needs timestamped observation and source cross-check. This model is useful, but it does not encode every constant, branch, error type, or edge case. Those details belong in the source path and the source notes.

How it works#

1. wrong network creates believable but useless evidence. Operational pages explain the workflow by separating local intent, local process state, network submission, and accepted evidence. The guide names the moving part first, then gives the verification surface that can prove or disprove the claim.

2. missing UTXO index affects wallet and developer queries. Index and query-surface claims are about what data a node, RPC service, or indexer can expose, not a shortcut around consensus. The guide should say which index must exist, which interface reads it, how restart or replay affects it, and which source path proves the field or evidence is preserved.

3. unsynced nodes can serve stale state. A node is useful only after its network, peer, sync, and index assumptions are understood. Process uptime is not the same as useful state. P2P handshake, IBD progress, logs, ports, and optional indexes each answer a different operator question, so troubleshooting starts by locating the failed layer rather than retrying commands blindly.

4. broadcast failure is not the same as invalid transaction. Operational pages explain the workflow by separating local intent, local process state, network submission, and accepted evidence. The guide names the moving part first, then gives the verification surface that can prove or disprove the claim.

5. explorer/API disagreement needs timestamped observation and source cross-check. Source-review pages are practical maps. They start from one claim, identify the owning subsystem, inspect data structures and serialization, follow validation or execution, check tests and release context, and then write down what remains unresolved. The page is useful only if it says both what a source proves and what it does not prove.

This mechanism section separates local action, node state, network submission, and accepted evidence. Commands and catalogs are useful only when current source or release evidence keeps them fresh.

How to check it#

When using this page operationally, record the network, software version, node sync state, wallet or miner state, and the observation being made. A local command result is useful evidence, but accepted network consequences require accepted transaction, UTXO, block, or node-source details.

Related Pages#

• mempool-and-block-templates
• wallets-nodes-mining
• source-path