A bug in Reth’s handling of trie updates caused trie tables in Reth nodes to contain incorrect information, resulting in nodes computing an incorrect state root at later blocks.
On September 1st, 10:34 PM EDT we were alerted by users in the Reth telegram channel, and on Github, that some Reth nodes had stalled with the log “mismatched block state root”.
First reports of the bug:
https://github.com/paradigmxyz/reth/issues/18205
User nodes were stalling on the following block:
232724270xcab98ac6afa8461e2e9f29bd155e1e22d989cdf91f49ab67293af331767dcdaaOn September 2nd, 7:47 AM EDT we identified steps for mitigating the issue, which were communicated over Twitter and Telegram, the standard communication methods for Reth support: