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bug: Etherbase missing at startup on windows

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
docker, go
Domain
cli, devops

Research direction

Reproduce the startup sequence on Windows with Docker Desktop and inspect the logs for the connection-refused and missing-etherbase errors. Read the related namespace discussions in #1615 and #1650, then determine whether removing reset resolves the startup failure; done means the FireFly stack starts without either reported error.

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Description

bug
What happened?

When attempting to start and test firefly on windows a few errors appear. The first error was "Error: dial tcp 127.0.0.1:5100: connectex: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it." After doing a bit of digging the error seems to come about when attempting to start the Firefly stack. After the stack is started a new error is present. This error is "Fatal: Failed to start mining: etherbase missing: etherbase must be explicitly specified".

Image
What did you expect to happen?

The expected result is to determine if the removal of reset corrects the namespace issue as mentioned in #1615 and #1650

How can we reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible)?

Open a terminal and docker desktop. Start the application and view logs as shown in docker desktop.

Anything else we need to know?

No response

OS version
# On Linux:
$ cat /etc/os-release
# paste output here
$ uname -a
# paste output here

# On Windows:
C:\> wmic os get Caption, Version, BuildNumber, OSArchitecture
# paste output here
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Go
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Forks
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