HIAB (HIVE In a Box) : 11 June update

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I have kind of slacked off - and yes, I had an excuse, I had other projects to work on - but now I am back to my attempts to build a HIVE witness note. By the way, in general I believe this set up is more complex than it needs to and I would like to do something to improve it. But that, I guess is best done after figuring out how it works at present - which, admittedly I currently don't.

So let's get into the details. I have decided to try something different for a change. Instead of using Hive account@someguy123's routine I decided to just use HIVE's default image and build whatever one needs to run a witness node on top of it. So I launched the relevant Docker container by running the following:

docker run \
   -d -p 2001:2001 -p 8090:8090 --name hived \
   hiveio/hive

The partition in which the container ran had about 450 GB to it and eventually filled up. As it turned out, thanks to Hive account@mahdiyari's very helpful advice - in fact, he has been very helpful throughout the process, for which I am eternally grateful - I now know that that was not enough space, and not enough by far as you are now expected to have at least 1 TB available.

So I reconfigured my VM, added a 1 TB storage partition to it and decided to start from scratch, following Hive account@rishi556's guidance. Which I did. And the database/log copying phase went fine but when I tried to initialize my remote wallet I hit this:

ubuntu@hive-node-0:/mnt/hivedb/hive/hive-docker$ ./run.sh remote_wallet
Logging RPC to file: logs/rpc/rpc.log
Starting a new wallet
2265767ms main.cpp:170                  main                 ] wdata.ws_server: wss://hived.privex.io
0 exception: unspecified
The opening handshake timed out
    {"message":"The opening handshake timed out"}
    websocket.cpp:513 operator()

    {"uri":"wss://hived.privex.io"}
    websocket.cpp:699 secure_connect

    {"uri":"wss://hived.privex.io"}
    websocket.cpp:673 connect

[2022-06-11 11:37:58 UTC] A fatal error has occurred and SIAB run.sh must exit.
[2022-06-11 11:37:58 UTC] Line number which triggered this: 2827
[2022-06-11 11:37:58 UTC] Bash command / function which triggered this: env "${_CMD[@]}"


[2022-06-11 11:37:58 UTC] [ERROR] SIAB not exiting cleanly. Detected non-zero error code while exiting: 255
ubuntu@hive-node-0:/mnt/hivedb/hive/hive-docker$

The error message indicates that Web Sockets (WSS) fails to connect. Typically, as far as I know, WSS would run on regular HTTP ports and at least the port level connectivity seems to be OK:

ubuntu@hive-node-0:/mnt/hivedb/hive/hive-docker$ telnet hived.privex.io 80
Trying 2a01:4f8:221:e93::2...
Connected to steemd.privex.io.
Escape character is '^]'.
^]
telnet> q
Connection closed.
ubuntu@hive-node-0:/mnt/hivedb/hive/hive-docker$ telnet hived.privex.io 443
Trying 2a01:4f8:221:e93::2...
Connected to steemd.privex.io.
Escape character is '^]'.
^]
telnet> q
Connection closed.
ubuntu@hive-node-0:/mnt/hivedb/hive/hive-docker$