Ethers are withdrawn using send from source contract but not received in account

Question

I am trying to send ethers using the following code:

//check if confirmed by both the owners
if(tr.confirmedByUbuntu && tr.confirmedByWindows) {
    bool withdrawal = tr.to.send(tr.value); //Send the ethers
    if(withdrawal) {
        ConfirmedTransaction(_confirmationHash, tr.to, tr.value, tr.data);
        delete pendingTransactions[_confirmationHash];  //Free up the storage on EVM
    } else {
        TransactionConfirmationFailed(_confirmationHash, tr.to, tr.value, tr.data);
    }
}

The line where I am sending ethers, does withdraw ethers from the source contract but does not deposit in target account. I am doing it on a private network. In what scenarios can this happen? In case of send failure we should we would get the withdrawal result as false but I get that as true.

Full source code is at: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/e4fdac24643c7146a04bd9b3d96fbb4c

Answer 1

There is a known issue when you have a private network with only one miner. Even if your network is 'properly' configured your transaction will not propagate from the non-mining node to the mining node and therefore will never be included in a block.

You need to mine with both nodes so that your transaction can be included in a block.