Occasionally "Could not find block"

I got this error since early today. It’s a simple background script for sending transactions. It has been running for 3 days smoothly. However since early today (2020-08-26 UTC 01:23), the script started to get the following error when it’s idle.

./node_modules/@trufflesuite/web3-provider-engine/index.js:62
        this.emit('error', new Error("Could not find block"))
                           ^
Error: Could not find block
    at self._getBlockByNumberWithRetry (./node_modules/@trufflesuite/web3-provider-engine/index.js:62:28)
    at afterRequest (./node_modules/@trufflesuite/web3-provider-engine/index.js:163:9)
    at _handleAsync (./node_modules/@trufflesuite/web3-provider-engine/index.js:177:12)
    at ./node_modules/@trufflesuite/web3-provider-engine/index.js:240:9
    at ./node_modules/async/internal/once.js:12:16
    at replenish (./node_modules/async/internal/eachOfLimit.js:61:25)
    at ./node_modules/async/internal/eachOfLimit.js:71:9
    at eachLimit (./node_modules/async/eachLimit.js:43:36)
    at ./node_modules/async/internal/doLimit.js:9:16
    at end (./node_modules/@trufflesuite/web3-provider-engine/index.js:217:5)
    at Request._callback (./node_modules/@trufflesuite/web3-provider-engine/subproviders/rpc.js:72:5)
    at Request.self.callback (./node_modules/request/request.js:185:22)
    at Request.emit (events.js:198:13)
    at Request.<anonymous> (./node_modules/request/request.js:1154:10)
    at Request.emit (events.js:198:13)
    at IncomingMessage.<anonymous> (./node_modules/request/request.js:1076:12)

I restarted the script a few times. Every time it can run for between a few minutes to a few hours, but eventually it crashes.

A similar problem was mentioned here. Probably it’s caused by the block number returned from eth_blockNumber is higher than what we can get from eth_getBlockByNumber .

Any idea?

Hi @h4x - welcome to the Infura community! Can you please provide us with the code snippet so we can try to reproduce the error on our end to better assist you?