stride (ics) relayer fails to start

[0xpatrickdev]

With yarn starship start --config config.yaml ("@starship-ci/cli": "^3.3.0") and the following config.yaml:

name: starship-localnet
version: 1.3.0

chains:
  - id: cosmoshublocal
    name: cosmoshub
    numValidators: 1
    faucet:
      enabled: true
      type: starship
    ports:
      rest: 1314
      rpc: 26654
      grpc: 9092
      faucet: 8083
  - id: stridelocal
    name: stride
    numValidators: 1
    ics:
      enabled: true
      provider: cosmoshublocal 
    faucet:
      enabled: true
      type: starship
    ports:
      rest: 1313
      rpc: 26653
      grpc: 9099
      faucet: 8089

relayers:
  - name: stride-cosmoshub
    type: hermes
    replicas: 1
    chains:
      - cosmoshublocal
      - stridelocal
    ics:
      enabled: true
      consumer: stridelocal
      provider: cosmoshublocal

explorer:
  enabled: false

registry:
  enabled: true
  ports:
    rest: 8081

hermes-stride-cosmoshub-0's status results in a continued Init:Error:

NAME                        READY   STATUS       RESTARTS        AGE
cosmoshublocal-genesis-0    3/3     Running      2 (3m22s ago)   3m36s
stridelocal-genesis-0       3/3     Running      2 (2m25s ago)   3m36s
registry-578d664dc5-5dxw4   1/1     Running      0               3m36s
hermes-stride-cosmoshub-0   0/2     Init:Error   4 (55s ago)     3m36s

Looking at the init-relayer logs:

Creating IBC connection for stridelocal...
2025-02-25T00:44:12.591601Z  INFO ThreadId(01) using default configuration from '/root/.hermes/config.toml'
2025-02-25T00:44:12.591873Z  INFO ThreadId(01) running Hermes v1.10.0
ERROR failed while querying client '07-tendermint-0' on chain 'stridelocal' with error: error decoding protobuf: error converting message type into domain type: the client state was not found
+ hermes create channel --a-connection connection-0 --channel-version 1 --order ordered --a-chain stridelocal --a-port consumer --b-port provider
2025-02-25T00:44:12.598473Z  INFO ThreadId(01) using default configuration from '/root/.hermes/config.toml'
2025-02-25T00:44:12.598733Z  INFO ThreadId(01) running Hermes v1.10.0
ERROR connection not found: connection-0
+ hermes create channel --a-connection connection-0 --a-chain stridelocal --a-port transfer --b-port transfer
2025-02-25T00:44:12.605422Z  INFO ThreadId(01) using default configuration from '/root/.hermes/config.toml'
2025-02-25T00:44:12.605685Z  INFO ThreadId(01) running Hermes v1.10.0
ERROR connection not found: connection-0

it seems we don't have a client and are unable to create a connection and channel.

[Anmol1696]

Let me have a look. we tested with neutron.
Can we make sure the stride image is up to date atleast?

[0xpatrickdev]

Can we make sure the stride image is up to date atleast?

It seems starship is few major versions behind. Here's a PR to create an image from their latest release: #630

[amessbee]

@0xpatrickdev @Anmol1696 I learnt today that at this point this most likely a hermes relayer issue, because changing type to type: go-relayer makes things work fine.

Ref: #631

[Anmol1696]

Well yes the issue has been during the handshake for the inital ics creation.
Is the setup correct with go-relayer?

[Anmol1696]

I am also not finding docs around how to setup stride as a consumer chain. If you have anything on this please share it here.

[amessbee]

Well yes the issue has been during the handshake for the inital ics creation. Is the setup correct with go-relayer?

We wanted to test with four chains: gaia, stride, agoric, and elys. We could not get faucet for Elys working in starship and we never tested it with just gaia and stride.

[amessbee]

I am also not finding docs around how to setup stride as a consumer chain. If you have anything on this, please share it here.

Is there something special we need to do for ICS chains? I just followed the instructions for normal starship setup instructions.

[Anmol1696]

Well we need to debug the code that we are using to setup the ICS chains. Stride errors out on the hermes relayer.
Let me share the logs in this issue here.

[Anmol1696]

We could not get faucet for Elys working in starship.

Which faucet are you using the it? can you try with starship faucet instead. And also can you please check the logs and report back?