The sepolia genesis state file from Github can not work

[alexshliu]

Sepolia genesis state from Github can not work.

I follow the guide to start geth and prysm, but the following error occurs:

could not load genesis from file: version=0x64653d22 not found in any known fork choice schedule: unable to find requested BeaconChainConfig

maybe the Sepolia genesis state from Github should be updated?

[parithosh]

Perhaps someone from the prysm team can look into this? @jmozah or @kasey perhaps?

[sirgarfieldc]

Same issue here

could not load genesis from file: version=0x22626570 not found in any known fork choice schedule: unable to find requested BeaconChainConfig

[parithosh]

pinging @terencechain or @kasey to look into it perhaps?

[ralexstokes]

did double-check and the state on GitHub matches the one from my local node

[kasey]

@alexshliu that fork version does not seem to match anything in in the chain config. Is it possible that you did not correctly download the genesis.ssz file? Here's the sha256 sum I see for reference:

$ sha256sum genesis.ssz
3965ad56e5d0e7c90179e1dc8583cc1d7c77cb096b68477cca4d4caa66cbc97a  genesis.ssz

[sirgarfieldc]

https://github.com/eth-clients/merge-testnets/blob/main/sepolia/genesis.ssz

I used wget to download the genesis.ssz several times. Unlikely that the problem is due to downloading

[parithosh]

Which one of the two are you running?

1. wget https://github.com/eth-clients/merge-testnets/raw/main/sepolia/genesis.ssz
2. wget https://github.com/eth-clients/merge-testnets/blob/main/sepolia/genesis.ssz

Because 1. will download the ssz file, 2. will download a webpage