Whenever I attempt to run geth on the command line, it seems to have trouble syncing with the blockchain. I am absolutely a novice so I could be completely overlooking. I am getting these warnings continuously(This is run on testnet):
WARN [04-21|17:40:40] Ancestor below allowance peer=20c9ad97c081d633 number=647267 hash=000000…000000 allowance=647267
WARN [04-21|17:40:40] Synchronisation failed, dropping peer peer=20c9ad97c081d633 err="retrieved ancestor is invalid"
Please let me know if there is a solution for this. Thank you!
Best Answer
I received this error as well.
I deleted everything in the folder
/Users/name/Library/Ethereum/testnet/geth/chaindata
and then restarted with the commandgeth --testnet --fast
and it started working