What does mean "Failed to retrieve current release"?

Question

When I start with geth with light syncmode, I get the following error message:

ERROR[date] Failed to retrieve current release err="can't fetch trie key d0bbe1e9b7e1764fd5f966bd89e4382bb0ece1b2ca83504fb50a3806116edeae: no suitable peers available"

What does it mean? What should I do?

Note that after that I find peers but admin.peers says they are all in the handshake phase of the protocol. I am not the only one who has encountered this problem, as shown on reddit.

Answer 1

I have had this problem before and the only way I found to get around it was to use:

geth --syncmode "light"

With "light" being inside quotations.

For me, it immediately started synchronizing again and could get the proper release.

Answer 2

All of this is assuming you have geth in place etc and usually -v 1.7.2 or above.

ok it is final guys! This is the solution:

1. $ cd ~/Libary/Ethereum/geth/
2. $ mv chaindata chaindata_backup
3. $ mkdir chaindata
4. $ geth --fast --cache=1024
5. open ethereum wallet but DO NOT click on Launch Application.
6. Wait and if it all works fine (after 100% sync) then, remove the chaindata_backup file by doing $ ~/Libary/Ethereum/geth/chaindata_backup