TestRPC/Ganache: the tx doesn't have the correct nonce

Question

I have been experimenting with truffle recently and followed the following tutorial: http://truffleframework.com/tutorials/pet-shop

Whenever I try to setup a transaction I keep getting the same error below

Error: Error: the tx doesn't have the correct nonce. account has nonce of: 14 tx has nonce of: 0

Checked online and read up on a lot of articles related to this but so far haven't found what might be causing this issue.

Truffle v3.4.7
Solidity v0.4.13
Npm v5.3.0
TestRPC v4.0.1 (also happen with Ganache)
Metamask v3.9.5

From what I understand it seems it is unable to find the previous transactions to hash the new transaction?

score 43 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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Using MetaMask v3.14.1 you can reset your account as follow:

Resetting an Account In the Settings menu, MetaMask has a "Reset Account" button. This button wipes the current account's transaction history, which is used to calculate the current account nonce.

Normal users should never have a reason to use this feature.

This is useful for developers who reset a test network but want to continue using the same account, forcing MetaMask to believe this network ID is a clean network in a fresh state.

Ref: http://metamask.helpscoutdocs.com/article/36-resetting-an-account

(Thanks to Tim Wu)

Old response: Answer of yatskevich is correct.

However, for people how are using Truffle 4+ with "truffle develop", you need to remove and reinstall MetaMask to get it work again, every time you run Truffle Develop!

This issue is addressed here: https://github.com/trufflesuite/truffle/issues/681, here: https://github.com/trufflesuite/ganache/issues/112, and also here: https://github.com/MetaMask/metamask-extension/issues/1999

In short they are working on it and in the mean time you need to reinstall MetaMask every time!

edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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answered Nov 22 '17 at 07:59

Muhammad Altabba

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the metamask issue will soon be solved https://github.com/MetaMask/metamask-extension/issues/1999#issuecomment-347615959 and truffle is now waiting for their fix https://github.com/trufflesuite/trufflesuite.com/issues/30#issuecomment-348573629 – jopasserat Dec 09 '17 at 12:40
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Note that you can also simple disable and then re-enable metamask. Still a pain, but not quite as bad as re-installing. I also made a patch for truffle develop that can be a short term fix: https://github.com/MetaMask/metamask-extension/issues/1999#issuecomment-354141687 – Stan James Jan 06 '18 at 19:06
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@StanJames Note, using this fix messes up Event firing, for some reason events did not fire after changing the network_id. – Random Jan 13 '18 at 12:56
I am using Ganache and MetaMask. Removing then reinstalling MetaMask works :) What a pain... – Russo Jan 16 '18 at 10:17
Metamask's author released a workaround this issue in v3.14.1. I tried it. It works. https://github.com/MetaMask/metamask-extension/issues/1999#issuecomment-362445864 – Tim Wu Feb 12 '18 at 02:16
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thanks. this worked. maybe it got reintroduced? I'm running MM v4.6.1 with truffle v4.1.6 and I just got it(after days of the same app/transactions working fine) – Ioana Grozav May 16 '18 at 07:46

score 30 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 14 '17 at 14:20

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Try to reconnect to your TestRPC network in MetaMask:

Select Main Ethereum Network (or any other than Localhost 8545)
Select Localhost 8545 again

I've stumbled upon this issue after stopping and starting a new TestRPC node.

answered Aug 14 '17 at 14:20

yatskevich

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That doesn't always work for me, but when I do that + reset the account it always works. – Teleporting Goat Mar 07 '18 at 09:58

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered May 16 '19 at 08:14

Check your truffle.js or truffle-config.js

if you are using the HDWalletProvider like below, it seems that this is what causing the error

var HDWalletProvider = require("truffle-hdwallet-provider");
var mnemonic = "your mnemonic";

module.exports = {
  networks: {
    development: {
      provider: function() {
        return new HDWalletProvider(mnemonic, "http://127.0.0.1:8545/", 0, 50);
      },
      network_id: '*',
      gas: 9999999
    }
  },
  compilers: {
    solc: {
      version: "^0.4.25"
    }
  }
};

remove the HDWalletProvider like below, it solves mine

module.exports = {
  networks: {
    development: {
      host: "127.0.0.1",     // Localhost
      port: 8545,            // Standard Ganache UI port
      network_id: "*", 
      gas: 4600000
    }
  },
  compilers: {
    solc: {
      version: "0.5.2"
    }
  }
};

TestRPC/Ganache: the tx doesn't have the correct nonce

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