When creating a contract getting the error “Error: The contract code couldn't be stored, please check your gas amount”

Question

I wrote the following contract :

contract EndowmentRetriever {

    address creator;
    uint contract_creation_value;

    function EndowmentRetriever() public payable {
        creator = msg.sender;
        contract_creation_value = msg.value;
    }

    function getContractCreationValue() constant returns (uint) {                               
        return contract_creation_value;                         
    }

    function sendOneEtherHome() public {                        
        creator.send(1000000000000000000);
    }

    function kill() { 
        if (msg.sender == creator) {
            suicide(creator); 
        }
    }   
}

When I am creating a new contract using the following transaction

var EdRet = edRetContract.new({from:web3.eth.accounts[0], data: edRetCompiled.EdRetriever.code, gas: 1000000, value: 3000000000000000000}, function(e, contract){ 
    if(!e) { 
        if(!contract.address) { 
            console.log("Contract transaction send: TransactionHash: " + contract.transactionHash + " waiting to be mined..."); } 
        else { 
            console.log("Contract mined! Address: " + contract.address); 
            console.log(contract); } 
        } 
    else { 
        console.log(e); } 
    })

I am getting the following error message :

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

If I remove the value parameter in the transaction(i.e. the initial endowment to the contract), then the contract got mined. What could be the possible reason.

Answer 1

try to send more gas, i propose you to use gas:gasEstimate+30000

 var EdRet = edRetContract.new({from:web3.eth.accounts[0], data: edRetCompiled.EdRetriever.code,
      gas:gasEstimate+30000, value: 3000000000000000000}, function(e, contract){ 
        ...