Install Celo, close and delete allocations in the MIPs program

Olga L
2 min readApr 26, 2023

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Close and delete allocations

Since I myself have encountered this problem during the execution of many tasks in the MIPs program, I want to share how to delete allocations.

An important preliminary part of deleting allocations is to delete allocation rules from the table, because if you don’t do this, they can be reallocated according to the rules.

Enter the indexer shell:

./shell cli

graph indexer rules delete [deployment ID, subgraph ID]

Next close or make sure that the allocation is closed

graph indexer allocations close [options] <id> <poi> close the allocation, usually this is done by entering the command, if the allocation is not closed try to find the reason and fix it, otherwise you can close the allocation with option --force without poi, but then you will not get any rewards for indexing. For example, a common bug was Failed to resolve CAIP2 ID from the provided network alias which was resolved by updating the Indexer-agent.

Removing allocations from the base, at first it had to be done in a more complicated way than now, but it still works: Stop the indexer-agent to do this

docker stop indexer-agent

Start the graphman shell

./shell index-node-0

find the name of the subgraph

graphman info Qme... - get subgraphName

then use the given name to remove the subgraph with three commands: graphman remove subgraphName

graphman unused record

graphman unused remove

Exit the graphman shell exit restart the container bash start-essential

The second way, was added to the indexer-stack later, became more convenient:

docker stop indexer-agent

./shell index-node-0

graphman drop Qme..

exit

bash start-essential

Install Celo Baremetal Archive Node

sudo apt install -y git make wget gcc pkg-config libusb-1.0-0-dev \
libudev-dev jq gcc g++ curl libssl-dev apache2-utils build-essential pkg-config
# Add to PATH
echo "export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin:/root/.local/bin" >> /root/.bashrc

Install go You can see the current version here https://go.dev/doc/install

rm -rf /usr/local/go && tar -C /usr/local -xzf go1.20.3.linux-amd64.tar.gz
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin
go version

Building the binary

git clone <https://github.com/celo-org/celo-blockchain>
cd celo-blockchain
git checkout v1.7.2

make

Setup the systemd file

nano /etc/systemd/system/celo.service
[Unit]
Description=Celo Archive Node
After=network.target
StartLimitIntervalSec=60
StartLimitBurst=3

[Service]
Type=simple
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5
TimeoutSec=900
User=root
Nice=0
LimitNOFILE=200000
WorkingDirectory=/root/celo-blockchain
ExecStart=/root/celo-blockchain/build/bin/geth \
--datadir=/root/.local/share/celo/datadir \
--syncmode=full \
--gcmode=archive \
--txlookuplimit=0 \
--cache.preimages \
--http \
--http.addr=0.0.0.0 \
--http.port=9656 \
--http.api=eth,net,web3,debug,admin,personal

KillSignal=SIGHUP

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl restart celo

# Viewing Logs
journalctl -fu celo

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