The contract code couldn't be stored, please check your gas amount

Question

I know this issue was discussed before several times, but I cant get the solution to my problem from any of the answers,

My contract got deployed fine before adding the following function,

function setApproval(address addr, bool approved)payable returns(string, uint, uint) {

       //some logical operations and assignments

    }

as soon as I add the function and try to deploy the contract, I got this error

Error encountered, bailing. Network state unknown. Review successful transactions manually. Error: The contract code couldn't be stored, please check your gas amount.

test rpc server shows following logs

Transaction: 0xd5791ac0c6059cbd43e00a7fabe566ada3f0572966f12ff25da6e04215840f39 Contract created: 0x9062592c5dd06340401c1e750ddb025defabf5be Gas usage: 4712388 Block Number: 16 Block Time: Sat Jul 22 2017 03:30:30 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time) Runtime Error: out of gas

again after removing this function contract deployed without errors

what is wrong with this function?

My contract code is around 250 lines, is there any limit on contract code size??

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

In your 2_deploy_contracts.js file, change the gas price defaults to a higher number, i.e.:

// 2_deploy_contracts.js

const MyContract = artifacts.require('./MyContract.sol')

module.exports = function (deployer) {
  deployer.deploy(MyContract, { gas: 5000000 })
}

I had the same issue and this worked for me.

Answer 2

When a contract inherits from interface and doesn't implement a function this error will be issued.

Truffle 4.0.4 solc 0.4.18

interface IF { 
    function doSomething() external view returns(uint); 
}

contract Inherit is IF {
    Inherit() public; 
}

when deployed. will issue error:

The contract code couldn't be stored, please check your gas amount

solution is to implement the function.

contract Inherit is IF {
    doSomething() external view returns(uint) {
        return 5;
    }
}

Answer 3

The problem which happens rarely but causes exactly the same error message is the following:

Currently, contract code size is limited to 24KB, and sometimes, your bytecode can be greater than it, which will cause the exact same issue.

Go to your contract build json file, and check if the deployed bytecode size is greater than 24Kb.

Solution: This can be solved by various contract optimizations such as removing sufficient getters, public declarations, etc.

Answer 4

I have used @rhlsthrm solution with extra modification because his solution gave me

Error: exceeds block gas limit

My solution is for Geth.

First, get gas limit from latest block

using

eth.getBlock("latest").gasLimit

copy the gas limit and then paste it like this

var Identity = artifacts.require("./Identity.sol");

module.exports = function(deployer) {
  deployer.deploy(Identity, { gas: 794722 });
};

Answer 5

increase gas value in you deploy file.

if you log the deploy error, you can see gas detail, like this :

cumulativeGasUsed: 1217170,
effectiveGasPrice: 2500000011,
gasUsed: 1000000,

please check if the 'gasUsed' is smaller than 'cumulativeGasUsed' so you shall increase gas value in you deploy code setting, like this :

const result = await new web3.eth.Contract(abi)
    .deploy({
      data: evm.bytecode.object,
    })
    .send({ from: accounts[0], gas: 1000000 });

change gas value (1000000) to (2000000) like this :

const result = await new web3.eth.Contract(abi)
    .deploy({
      data: evm.bytecode.object,
    })
    .send({ from: accounts[0], gas: 2000000 });