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I have a geth POA private blockchain setup and running with 2 sealer nodes. Now I have setup a 3rd node as a sealer, and ran the following command on the both existing sealer nodes

clique.propose("0x555c9e3d738837d14ebda7cad9359f840f3c650c", true)
> null

and we confirm that the 3rd node has been voted because we see the address of the 3rd node when we run clique.getSigners() along with the other two sealer nodes' address.

Problem: However after we start and restart the 3rd geth node that we are trying to add as a sealer node, we get the error

INFO [08-24|21:25:55.169] Commit new mining work number=1 sealhash=e935f6…e90182 uncles=0 txs=0 gas=0 fees=0 elapsed=256.472µs

WARN [08-24|21:25:55.170] Block sealing failed err=unauthorized

This error persists even when running clique.propose(...,true) on the 3rd node to for itself.

On Ethstats, we see that this 3rd node is stuck at block #0 and never tries to sync the blockchaibn.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

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  • did you run genesis init for the 3rd node?
    – Ha ĐANG
    Aug 25 '18 at 2:00
  • Did you solve the issue?
    – saman.shahmohamadi
    Jan 29 '19 at 13:03
  • the problem is that you are trying to MINE the network before it actually synced up to become a validator node, so I'd sync it up first til that block when it becomes a validator and re-run the node with miner on settings to seal blocks. At block 1, it cannot be a validator based on genesis file. Also make sure you specify bootnodes correctly to your node
    – rstormsf
    Jan 30 '19 at 21:33

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