Exec Layer node getLogs requests stop after EL restart

[jakubgs]

Describe the bug While working on Geth upgrade for a production Beacon Node running v24.2.0-742f15 a weird behavior was discovered when the Geth node was restarted.

The getLogs requests stopped from the beacon node:

And the eth1_chain_len metric stopped raising.

When the BN was restarted the getLogs requests resumed. This behavior was reproduced when Geth was restarted again:

Additional context Logs can be provided upon request from the fleet.

[etan-status]

This node is outdated and must be updated for Nimbus >= v24.2.1 before Deneb (5 days deadline).

[jakubgs]

Good point. We just finished upgrading EL nodes, will do BN next.

[etan-status]

Searching the logs for Failed to obtain the latest block from the EL is only logged one time. After that, there are still periodic syncEth1Chain tick that start new eth_getBlockByNumber('latest', false) requests, but these subsequent ones never seem to finish / time out / fail.

    debug "syncEth1Chain tick"

    if bnStatus == BeaconNodeStatus.Stopping:
      await m.stop()
      return

    if m.eth1Chain.hasConsensusViolation:
      raise newException(CorruptDataProvider, "Eth1 chain contradicts Eth2 consensus")

    let latestBlock = try:
      raiseIfNil connection.trackedRequestWithTimeout(
        "getBlockByNumber",
        rpcClient.eth_getBlockByNumber(blockId("latest"), false),
        web3RequestsTimeout)
    except CatchableError as err:
      warn "Failed to obtain the latest block from the EL", err = err.msg
      raise err

• bnStatus == BeaconNodeStatus.Stopping cannot be because that is only set on exit
• m.eth1Chain.hasConsensusViolation cannot be because the locations that set it to true produce a unique log line
• connection.trackedRequestWithTimeout is still repeatedly hit, as seen by Sending message to RPC server log line immediately after each syncEth1Chain tick log

Maybe something weird in trackedRequestWithTimeout related to or that makes it get stuck:

• https://github.com/status-im/nim-chronos/issues/516

[etan-status]

Do you have eth1_latest_head metric from that time as well? And also eth1_synced_head

[etan-status]

Extended the logs here as well to have a better understanding what's going on:

• https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth2/pull/6049

[jakubgs]

Do you have eth1_latest_head metric from that time as well?

Not on the dashboard but it can be generated:

And also eth1_synced_head

[yakimant]

Multi-EL is documented officially without syaing it's unstable/beta: https://nimbus.guide/eth1.html#running-multiple-execution-clients

@etan-status, @tersec, @jakubgs, maybe we can try running multi-EL again?

BTW, we are running multi-EL on nimbus.mainnet: https://github.com/status-im/infra-nimbus/blob/42cfc2958a39cc6ec316f1f46d45189cf9ff995f/ansible/group_vars/nimbus.mainnet.yml#L81

[jakubgs]

As far as I know multi-EL setups work fine on Holesky, but I didn't research it that closely. The question is more for Nimbus devs.