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I tried geth in a private network, and when I tried sendTransaction, it was failed saying "Error: insufficient funds for gas * price + value".

But the balance of accounts[0] is 4785 ether and it seems sufficient.

web3.fromWei(eth.getBalance(eth.accounts[0]), "ether")
4785

The command I tried is

eth.sendTransaction({from: eth.accounts[0], to: eth.accounts[1], value: web3.toWei(1, "ether"), gas: 1})

The genesis json file is

{
  "config": {
        "chainId": 0,
        "homesteadBlock": 0,
        "eip155Block": 0,
        "eip158Block": 0
    },
  "alloc"      : {},
  "coinbase"   : "0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
  "difficulty" : "0x20000",
  "extraData"  : "",
  "gasLimit"   : "0x2fefd8",
  "nonce"      : "0x0000000000000042",
  "mixhash"    : "0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
  "parentHash" : "0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
  "timestamp"  : "0x00"
}

geth version: 1.7.1

Does anyone know what is wrong?

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  • check this ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/9043/…
    – Badr Bellaj ♦
    Oct 9, 2017 at 8:34
  • Hi Badr, thank you for your comment. I clicked the link and read the comments, do you mean this is the bug of geth?
    – moriteru
    Oct 9, 2017 at 9:11
  • Did you try with geth 1.6?
    – Prashant Prabhakar Singh
    Oct 9, 2017 at 10:42
  • first change gas value to a higher value instead 1 otherwise downgrade your version
    – Badr Bellaj ♦
    Oct 9, 2017 at 12:08
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    The reason is that the chainId is 0. When I set chainId 8888, it worked fine.
    – moriteru
    Oct 9, 2017 at 13:41

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The reason is that the chainId is 0. When I set chainId 8888, it worked fine.

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