# Alpha 0.3.0 solution subscription crashed - summary was corrupted

**URL:** <https://forum.autonomys.xyz/t/alpha-0-3-0-solution-subscription-crashed-summary-was-corrupted/1382>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** gemini-3d\
**Created:** [April 13, 2023, 10:42pm UTC](https://forum.autonomys.xyz/t/alpha-0-3-0-solution-subscription-crashed-summary-was-corrupted/1382 "2023-04-13T22:42:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![jrwashburn](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.autonomys.xyz/jrwashburn/32/358_2.png) [@jrwashburn](https://forum.autonomys.xyz/u/jrwashburn)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2023, 10:42pm UTC](https://forum.autonomys.xyz/t/alpha-0-3-0-solution-subscription-crashed-summary-was-corrupted/1382/1 "2023-04-13T22:42:14Z")

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## Issue Report

Alpha 0.3.0 crashed with error:  
You have earned: 0 SSC(s), farmed 17 block(s), and voted on 169 block(s)!Error:  
0: solution subscription crashed  
1: couldn’t read farmed block count value, summary was corrupted  
2: TOML parse error at line 1, column 1  
2: |  
2: 1 |  
2: | ^  
2: missing field `initial_plotting_finished`  
2:

Location:  
src/summary.rs:194

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SPANTRACE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

0: subspace\_cli::summary::parse\_summary with self=Summary { file: Mutex { data: “/home/minar/.local/share/subspace-cli/summary.toml” } }  
at src/summary.rs:191  
1: subspace\_cli::summary::get\_farmed\_block\_count with self=Summary { file: Mutex { data: “/home/minar/.local/share/subspace-cli/summary.toml” } }  
at src/summary.rs:163  
2: tokio::task::runtime.spawn with kind=task task.name= task.id=401 loc.file=“src/commands/farm.rs” loc.line=88 loc.col=35  
at /home/runner/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-6f17d22bba15001f/tokio-1.27.0/src/util/trace.rs:16

### Environment

- **Operating System:** Debian 11
- **CPU Architecture:** x86\_64
- **RAM:** 64MB
- **Storage:** 1TB
- **Plot Size:** 1GB
- **Subspace Deployment Method:** cli x86\_64-v3 0.3.0 alpha

cat .local/share/subspace-cli/summary.toml

initial\_plotting\_finished = true  
farmed\_block\_count = 17  
vote\_count = 169  
total\_rewards = “0”  
user\_space\_pledged = “1000.0 MB”

### Problem

crash

#### Steps to reproduce

Unsure …

1. subspace-cli-ubuntu-x86\_64-v3-v0.3.0-alpha farm
2. 
3. 

#### Expected result

- does not crash

#### What happens instead

## crash

```auto
[Paste error here]

```

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**Author:** ![ImmaZoni](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.autonomys.xyz/immazoni/32/7_2.png) [@ImmaZoni](https://forum.autonomys.xyz/u/ImmaZoni)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2023, 11:42pm UTC](https://forum.autonomys.xyz/t/alpha-0-3-0-solution-subscription-crashed-summary-was-corrupted/1382/2 "2023-04-16T23:42:17Z")

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Thank you for the great report!

Can you let me know if this issue is still present in 0.3.1 @jrwashburn

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**Author:** ![dariolina](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.autonomys.xyz/dariolina/32/743_2.png) [@dariolina](https://forum.autonomys.xyz/u/dariolina)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 9:06am UTC](https://forum.autonomys.xyz/t/alpha-0-3-0-solution-subscription-crashed-summary-was-corrupted/1382/3 "2023-04-17T09:06:04Z")

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I saw this on v0.3.0 CLI on MacOS arrch64 with the following error message:

```auto
   0: solution subscription crashed
   1: couldn't read farmed block count value, summary was corrupted
   2: TOML parse error at line 1, column 1
   2: |
   2: 1 | 
   2: | ^
   2: missing field `initial_plotting_finished`
   2: 

Location:
   src/summary.rs:194

  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SPANTRACE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

   0: subspace_cli::summary::parse_summary with self=Summary { file: Mutex { data: "/Users/dariiap/Library/Application Support/subspace-cli/summary.toml" } }
      at src/summary.rs:191
   1: subspace_cli::summary::get_farmed_block_count with self=Summary { file: Mutex { data: "/Users/dariiap/Library/Application Support/subspace-cli/summary.toml" } }
      at src/summary.rs:163
   2: tokio::task::runtime.spawn with kind=task task.name= task.id=1110435 loc.file="src/commands/farm.rs" loc.line=88 loc.col=35
      at /Users/runner/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-6f17d22bba15001f/tokio-1.27.0/src/util/trace.rs:16

```

Will check if it reappears on v0.3.1. I was able to start farming on v0.3.1 without wiping or anything after this error.

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**Author:** ![jrwashburn](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.autonomys.xyz/jrwashburn/32/358_2.png) [@jrwashburn](https://forum.autonomys.xyz/u/jrwashburn)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 4:50pm UTC](https://forum.autonomys.xyz/t/alpha-0-3-0-solution-subscription-crashed-summary-was-corrupted/1382/4 "2023-04-17T16:50:29Z")

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I have not had another occurrence; that obviously does not mean it is fixed, but I have not seen it again so far.

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**Author:** ![ImmaZoni](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.autonomys.xyz/immazoni/32/7_2.png) [@ImmaZoni](https://forum.autonomys.xyz/u/ImmaZoni)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 11:18pm UTC](https://forum.autonomys.xyz/t/alpha-0-3-0-solution-subscription-crashed-summary-was-corrupted/1382/5 "2023-04-17T23:18:37Z")

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Thank you so much for the update, please feel free to ping back if it comes up again beyond v0.3.0

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**Author:** ![BSV47](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.autonomys.xyz/bsv47/32/899_2.png) [@BSV47](https://forum.autonomys.xyz/u/BSV47)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2023, 12:45pm UTC](https://forum.autonomys.xyz/t/alpha-0-3-0-solution-subscription-crashed-summary-was-corrupted/1382/6 "2023-04-19T12:45:33Z")

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v0.3.2

:~# subspace-cli info  
A farmer instance is active!  
Error: couldn’t parse summary file

Caused by:  
TOML parse error at line 1, column 1  
|  
1 | initial\_plotting\_finished = false  
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  
missing field `vote_count`

Location:  
src/summary.rs:161:32

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**Author:** ![jrwashburn](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.autonomys.xyz/jrwashburn/32/358_2.png) [@jrwashburn](https://forum.autonomys.xyz/u/jrwashburn)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2023, 3:12pm UTC](https://forum.autonomys.xyz/t/alpha-0-3-0-solution-subscription-crashed-summary-was-corrupted/1382/7 "2023-04-19T15:12:47Z")

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Different line number / different error on 0.3.2 but still related to summary parsing. Looks like 0.3.3 fixes that, will keep an eye out on 0.3.3.

You have earned: 0 SSC(s), farmed 27 block(s), and voted on 257 block(s)!Error:  
0: solution subscription crashed  
1: couldn’t parse summary  
2: TOML parse error at line 1, column 1  
2: |  
2: 1 |  
2: | ^  
2: missing field `initial_plotting_finished`  
2:

Location:  
src/summary.rs:161

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SPANTRACE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

0: subspace\_cli::summary::parse\_summary with self=SummaryFilePointer { file: Mutex { data: “/home/minar/.local/share/subspace-cli/summary.toml” } }  
at src/summary.rs:158  
1: tokio::task::runtime.spawn with kind=task task.name=solution\_subscriber task.id=565060 loc.file=“src/utils.rs” loc.line=306 loc.col=10  
at /home/runner/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-6f17d22bba15001f/tokio-1.27.0/src/util/trace.rs:16

Suggestion: If you think this is a bug, please submit it to our forums: [https://forum.autonomys.xyz](https://forum.autonomys.xyz)

Backtrace omitted. Run with RUST\_BACKTRACE=1 environment variable to display it.  
Run with RUST\_BACKTRACE=full to include source snippets.

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**Author:** ![jrwashburn](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.autonomys.xyz/jrwashburn/32/358_2.png) [@jrwashburn](https://forum.autonomys.xyz/u/jrwashburn)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2023, 3:13pm UTC](https://forum.autonomys.xyz/t/alpha-0-3-0-solution-subscription-crashed-summary-was-corrupted/1382/8 "2023-04-19T15:13:53Z")

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Github issue for reference: [🐞 [Bug]: solution subscription crashes because it cannot parse the summary sometimes · Issue #172 · subspace/subspace-cli · GitHub](https://github.com/subspace/subspace-cli/issues/172)

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**Author:** ![ImmaZoni](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.autonomys.xyz/immazoni/32/7_2.png) [@ImmaZoni](https://forum.autonomys.xyz/u/ImmaZoni)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2023, 12:08am UTC](https://forum.autonomys.xyz/t/alpha-0-3-0-solution-subscription-crashed-summary-was-corrupted/1382/9 "2023-04-20T00:08:16Z")

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Thanks for reporting @jrwashburn

@ozgun this summary bug requires a full wipe if i’m not mistaken correct?

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**Author:** ![ozgun](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.autonomys.xyz/ozgun/32/761_2.png) [@ozgun](https://forum.autonomys.xyz/u/ozgun)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2023, 7:14am UTC](https://forum.autonomys.xyz/t/alpha-0-3-0-solution-subscription-crashed-summary-was-corrupted/1382/10 "2023-04-20T07:14:07Z")

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Hello! No, wipe is not needed and wont fix the problem. You need to upgrade to v0.3.3-alpha.

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**Author:** ![Karaman](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.autonomys.xyz/karaman/32/291_2.png) [@Karaman](https://forum.autonomys.xyz/u/Karaman)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2023, 5:09pm UTC](https://forum.autonomys.xyz/t/alpha-0-3-0-solution-subscription-crashed-summary-was-corrupted/1382/11 "2023-04-26T17:09:22Z")

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![Снимок экрана 2023-04-26 в 12.17.51](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/subspace/original/1X/2283b6f1d9b070b238b9aff02eb1123525ceffd6.jpeg)

Hello. I want to ask for help. Everything has been working since morning. version 0.3.3. Doesn’t show up in the dashboard. TSSC no longer farms. how to be in such a situation?

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**Author:** ![ImmaZoni](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.autonomys.xyz/immazoni/32/7_2.png) [@ImmaZoni](https://forum.autonomys.xyz/u/ImmaZoni)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2023, 10:07pm UTC](https://forum.autonomys.xyz/t/alpha-0-3-0-solution-subscription-crashed-summary-was-corrupted/1382/12 "2023-04-26T22:07:42Z")

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did you update from an old version? if so, did you wipe when you did so?

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**Author:** ![user38](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.autonomys.xyz/user38/32/938_2.png) [@user38](https://forum.autonomys.xyz/u/user38)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2023, 12:35pm UTC](https://forum.autonomys.xyz/t/alpha-0-3-0-solution-subscription-crashed-summary-was-corrupted/1382/13 "2023-04-28T12:35:48Z")

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![Снимок экрана 2023-04-26 в 12.17.51](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/subspace/original/1X/2283b6f1d9b070b238b9aff02eb1123525ceffd6.jpeg)Hello. I want to ask for help. Everything has been working since morning. version 0.3.3. Doesn’t show up in the dashboard. TSSC no longer farms. how to be in such a situation?

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**Author:** ![ImmaZoni](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.autonomys.xyz/immazoni/32/7_2.png) [@ImmaZoni](https://forum.autonomys.xyz/u/ImmaZoni)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2023, 7:56pm UTC](https://forum.autonomys.xyz/t/alpha-0-3-0-solution-subscription-crashed-summary-was-corrupted/1382/14 "2023-04-28T19:56:24Z")

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Looks like your config is off, try re-initializing your farmer, you shouldnt need to wipe luckily.

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**Author:** ![ImmaZoni](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.autonomys.xyz/immazoni/32/7_2.png) [@ImmaZoni](https://forum.autonomys.xyz/u/ImmaZoni)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2023, 8:20pm UTC](https://forum.autonomys.xyz/t/alpha-0-3-0-solution-subscription-crashed-summary-was-corrupted/1382/15 "2023-05-03T20:20:06Z")

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cc: @ozgun this issue looks to have come back in v0.3.3

Here is a link to a discord discussion [Discord](https://discord.com/channels/864285291518361610/1103388625351213076)

In one case it was @jim-counter who’s power went out and caused this issue again, not sure what exactly caused it in others on v0.3.3

While this is an edge-case i just wanted to mention it incase it was something you wanted to try and improve/handle the unexpected shutdown side of

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**Author:** ![ozgun](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.autonomys.xyz/ozgun/32/761_2.png) [@ozgun](https://forum.autonomys.xyz/u/ozgun)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2023, 11:22am UTC](https://forum.autonomys.xyz/t/alpha-0-3-0-solution-subscription-crashed-summary-was-corrupted/1382/16 "2023-05-04T11:22:37Z")

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Soon, the version 0.4.0 will be released. In that version, the summary logic is heavily revamped. I think this bug will no longer be the case in the next version 🙂

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**Author:** ![ydanila90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e99b99/32.png) [@ydanila90](https://forum.autonomys.xyz/u/ydanila90)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2023, 6:07am UTC](https://forum.autonomys.xyz/t/alpha-0-3-0-solution-subscription-crashed-summary-was-corrupted/1382/17 "2023-11-01T06:07:18Z")

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I have same problem now.

> [@summary.toml is empty (zero size) after server hard reboot](https://forum.autonomys.xyz/t/summary-toml-is-empty-zero-size-after-server-hard-reboot/2081):
>
> After unexpected server hard reboot node can not start because summary.toml is empty. Tried to init again but after plot sync finished it crashes with same error. upd: wrong picture fixed

Pulsar built from latest sources from Oct 9 27e88494225630df01a8db9cfc365833c49924ff

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**Author:** ![Jim-Autonomys](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.autonomys.xyz/jim-autonomys/32/2922_2.png) [@Jim-Autonomys](https://forum.autonomys.xyz/u/Jim-Autonomys)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2023, 11:51am UTC](https://forum.autonomys.xyz/t/alpha-0-3-0-solution-subscription-crashed-summary-was-corrupted/1382/18 "2023-11-01T11:51:27Z")

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Could you try running wipe and say no to everything except summary. Then try farm please? Something like this:

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/subspace/original/2X/f/f0999c9162ff8f032d8d53228c495e88680f9a0d.png)

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**Author:** ![ydanila90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e99b99/32.png) [@ydanila90](https://forum.autonomys.xyz/u/ydanila90)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2023, 12:29pm UTC](https://forum.autonomys.xyz/t/alpha-0-3-0-solution-subscription-crashed-summary-was-corrupted/1382/19 "2023-11-02T12:29:55Z")

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Yes it worked. Didn’t expected that it has separate command for this case.

Some offtop: My node earns much more tokens while plot syncing than while just farming.

Is this known behaviour?

Reported here [Discord](https://discord.com/channels/864285291518361610/1062498655787028500/threads/1156221558684131380)
