When someone is trying to generate a new key, they receive an erroneous error. This confuses new validators

[OgreAbroad]

When the following command is issued: (In accordance with docs.harmony.one)

./hmy keys generate-bls-keys --count 1 --shard 1 --passphrase

It returns an erroneous error:

Cannot connect to node http://localhost:9500, using Harmony mainnet endpoint https://api.s0.t.hmny.io/

If paying attention, it still allows you to create a passphrase, repeat to verify, and generate the key. In the past week, 2 out of 4 new validators got tripped up by this step.

[sophoah]

@sebastianj @rlan35 do you know what is the purpose of that error message ? I feel like it doesn't need to be specified ? also i never understood why there is need to link a BLS key to a network ? Creating the BLS key should be able to done offline.

[n0vaxNFT]

Yeah, this stumbled me for sure. I destroyed my VPS and started over. But it's pretty much par the course when setting up a new node to destroy things and start over several times. It's always easier than trying to identify and fix some little thing you may have broken.

[LeoHChen]

The network node has to be specified as each network may have a different number of shards. For example, a testent may have only 2 shards, mainnet has 4 shards, so you can't generate a testnet blskey specifying shard 3.

[LeoHChen]

Maybe we just need to improve the help message a bit more.