bug: Failing to find pending transactions

[banky]

Is there an existing issue for this?

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Package Version

1.19.9

Current Behavior

When looking at pending transactions in the mempool, a Transaction with hash <hash> could not be found. error gets thrown often. I am currently polling using an http transport and I am using a local Erigon archive node. This is a similar issue to #161, but in my case, the transactions that can't be found are recent

I also verify that the transactions are new by checking etherscan

Expected Behavior

I expect that every transaction hash that comes in should be ready to be queried on the node

Steps To Reproduce

publicClient.watchPendingTransactions({
  pollingInterval: 100,
  onTransactions: async (hashes) => {
    await Promise.all(
      hashes.map(async (hash) => {
        try {
          const tx = await publicClient.getTransaction({ hash });
          console.log(tx.hash);
        } catch (e) {
          if (
            e instanceof Error &&
            /Transaction with hash "0x[0-9a-fA-F]{64}" could not be found./.test(
              e.message
            )
          ) {
            console.log("Transaction not found:", hash);
            return;
          }
            console.log(e);
        }
      })
    );
  },
});

This outputs the following

[2023-11-27T23:49:36.898Z] 0x86959218f61a1d79e699d2c1fdf2cc83e0c6bedde34acbed6148d5be6aab6148
[2023-11-27T23:49:36.898Z] Transaction not found: 0x29ff06972fb4fb696227cc2a61b3a00c6ab79a85444e8a91aa49adcf2b461381
[2023-11-27T23:49:37.405Z] Transaction not found: 0x9bd77973507e737050343c72060b428daff1ae7c10d524b78c40aef8fefc1399
[2023-11-27T23:49:37.506Z] 0xa44124744d4a9a673e18f415a9ffd6c6f5161b25e4221551611f1b731fef5dec
[2023-11-27T23:49:37.507Z] 0x43a060c0260718bc94dd2db65801c9463ff8b0d4fa50ac42d7ab59cca581d3df
[2023-11-27T23:49:37.913Z] Transaction not found: 0x2e3b682c4e1220ee41666f5be38bd22d488098df17ae146227c751c1d4f84e8c
[2023-11-27T23:49:38.219Z] 0x8841822f1c0c21c1678deeb5cb96e8de09ce2e88a3f30852848b145c5f28f393
[2023-11-27T23:49:38.320Z] 0x7469db4d17dee4e9fd25f236362acf4da58860c2710e9bbf708cbd701f8b57d7
[2023-11-27T23:49:38.320Z] 0xf34d475857f63d6b425d8dbba62d99c7a511443f29e67eaf66c01ed61533ea75
[2023-11-27T23:49:38.524Z] 0x417aab4d6b61535b7c96f81d4c011948237afa43c4bec4d6dd5a341f864c4d52
[2023-11-27T23:49:38.626Z] 0x50ed8d4e9f19d97c03b5f74b47637f565e17c57684660893bf10ab927dba9728
[2023-11-27T23:49:38.727Z] Transaction not found: 0x1f0c69df8565daf405d5ff79766e556082d6bde4193695591b9874bb6870d294
[2023-11-27T23:49:38.727Z] 0x9216c72c3ada4a447b60390fbc41d0c1d0257f5f0b19206bb757a0c23df6e650
[2023-11-27T23:49:38.829Z] 0x00966e5e845a65de18559ea28ead8d0f7801a5372cc06a75478b5378c94ca67b
[2023-11-27T23:49:38.829Z] 0x6ebc7c919bc6ca7ead535f221dbcefa9ae226b9518240a1d2a77f96dfc7d0967
[2023-11-27T23:49:38.829Z] 0xd15f3cd435ebde08175878cae1d7652ef0232ec17cd1ec18ae57afd65dbd1eb8
[2023-11-27T23:49:38.829Z] 0x43acdc970ba080430e18bc52931ee3308585b6c5722412c4027d5f328ea4e24b
[2023-11-27T23:49:38.931Z] 0x4207fd0b58e4ac66696cb18b635675cf6013b4308c3b2b690bedfd1e30938050
[2023-11-27T23:49:39.136Z] 0x57616b47a4c77b4e7c258c050a0cf624cdad2aea6b1a479aaf9de1167526ff52
[2023-11-27T23:49:39.238Z] 0x72b6d14181d9d6e3129d703a5f6a0b4b7031c0bf65ed4d1a215171f70432965b
[2023-11-27T23:49:40.051Z] 0x64e4e93e8726c2f47b77aa04db71796ce2d5c6c1efc62ccfa47c075bf2dde062
[2023-11-27T23:49:40.357Z] 0xb96bf8ea9f07da8eaed8f51b6361eb42b1fb064efd94dc6029600a3f3d520dc8
[2023-11-27T23:49:40.461Z] Transaction not found: 0xbcd3e0b0c0dd389c7dfa3dad3f3d17dd8cdf16dc4d5367ea30646327b9fe142d
[2023-11-27T23:49:40.661Z] 0xc5b396bf2f56fb19a214503b90e8a0cfc3c0d084edddd115bf5bb7aaecb3e7d9
[2023-11-27T23:49:40.662Z] 0xbfb16b1ecefd94c1162706e7bfced291b798190f3f8515d5d7dd18bdc9b08722
[2023-11-27T23:49:40.865Z] 0x32f23234367d10d28d4ec967b10662e8279d897196146cabd515d06f399b1fad
[2023-11-27T23:49:41.068Z] 0x1a983a2377040c9b2688e52258f824634740d3c00ad836b8dcbf44edd8faabf1
[2023-11-27T23:49:41.272Z] 0xbaf029a543804287544fc4d8c89f011a2d8f91159cbd77c043acbbf6bbefec74
[2023-11-27T23:49:41.272Z] 0x22c86c609461c82679450298ebb7d102913389f227459bc483290ef4375e7a6f
[2023-11-27T23:49:41.578Z] Transaction not found: 0xcc6daa55876acc54c832208ae054eacc601892fa7e2eef384a57a864d3809065
[2023-11-27T23:49:41.679Z] 0xcfc379220db0580b2981fe2bbdf69b9987f3e1a8d5e205ffeaa447a39f82bd00
[2023-11-27T23:49:41.781Z] 0x77239648cab5c98d6f5ed26bfb7d6e480d580645b3b7a9d8e915640932187e75
[2023-11-27T23:49:41.781Z] 0xd3274648f4de9186d9988f2dd1735d14d672133c5380dcdaac575dd3907f0b93
[2023-11-27T23:49:42.597Z] Transaction not found: 0x312396b9eaa3ef0911f42b885a3b61f8773af4fa22797b9e7ed6667fcfa60051
[2023-11-27T23:49:42.798Z] 0x1395ca297b624bebd1b565589472941a06fb785d9849c4778cbab201538fdb8e
[2023-11-27T23:49:42.899Z] 0xea4a721bc088c8fb040430296d5c534935c1f11293a2661f7dfcd69d1fbfeed8
[2023-11-27T23:49:43.000Z] 0x48544d4b682bf75b68915eafc546f981dfbdb175190c3c0a1cf40aca79f2a1d9
[2023-11-27T23:49:43.001Z] 0x7ea721c244fc07336b4670028946a4411725e3d32c1f8ce7ac92d8d3c645a9d7
[2023-11-27T23:49:43.103Z] 0x4a3550d133ed6535483e68457d4b0729f83177aea0cf2a5c9d95363733049dc7
[2023-11-27T23:49:43.106Z] Transaction not found: 0x4b79283f9fc5c876185f600d51113cb6c8c0442dbcae2d6ef97125212d484b9a

Checking against my node, transactions which are reported to not be found can in fact be found

cast receipt 0x29ff06972fb4fb696227cc2a61b3a00c6ab79a85444e8a91aa49adcf2b461381

blockHash               0x7d85773948df1e5470f1d2fee88be13e10c809ad1fbbe0bf72eb8a1c3193ffbf
blockNumber             18666359
contractAddress
cumulativeGasUsed       9905815
effectiveGasPrice       30395534762
gasUsed                 21000
logs                    []
logsBloom               0x00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
root
status                  1
transactionHash         0x29ff06972fb4fb696227cc2a61b3a00c6ab79a85444e8a91aa49adcf2b461381
transactionIndex        70
type                    1

Link to Minimal Reproducible Example (StackBlitz, CodeSandbox, GitHub repo etc.)

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Anything else?

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[Yuripetusko]

Just had a forge-anvil test failing on this too. Was using alchemy rpc url btw. And I've seen it on wagmi react hook few times also. But it's inconsistent and a bit hard to reproduce. Perhaps issue is somewhere around that exponential backoff in waitForTransactionReceipt.ts? Will try to debug a bit tonight

[hstarorg]

Maybe we can increase the waiting time

[roninjin10]

Interesting I wonder if this issue is from the RPC instead of viem?

[banky]

I was initially working with erigon, I've also tried nethermind but I do still see the same issue. It does seem to be an issue with timing though, ie. for those transactions that are not found if I immediately try to get the transaction with an rpc call via curl (curl -H 'Content-Type: application/json' --data '{ "id": 1, "method": "eth_getTransactionByHash", "params": [<tx_hash>] }' <node_url>), it's also not found for a while

[jxom]

So it's an RPC issue then. Might be worth performing some polling to get the example in OP to work.

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