Can't start solana-test-validator on MacOS 13.0.1

[bezrazli4n0]

Problem

Trying to start solana-test-validator, but it closes unexpectedly without meaningful errors.

• Logs:

[2022-11-20T20:56:59.883887000Z INFO  solana_test_validator] solana-validator 1.15.0 (src:devbuild; feat:3018528013)
[2022-11-20T20:56:59.884074000Z INFO  solana_test_validator] Starting validator with: ArgsOs {
        inner: [
            "/Users/cat/Desktop/solana/target/debug/solana-test-validator",
        ],
    }
[2022-11-20T20:56:59.884274000Z WARN  solana_perf] CUDA is disabled
[2022-11-20T20:56:59.892855000Z INFO  solana_faucet::faucet] Faucet started. Listening on: 0.0.0.0:9900
[2022-11-20T20:56:59.892912000Z INFO  solana_faucet::faucet] Faucet account address: J5JBJhxPtam1DMFutGZiRAaBU2ovBPe2gvo7GbqgXtyr
[2022-11-20T20:56:59.903481000Z INFO  solana_ledger::blockstore] Maximum open file descriptors: 1000000
[2022-11-20T20:56:59.903523000Z INFO  solana_ledger::blockstore] Opening database at "test-ledger/rocksdb"
[2022-11-20T20:57:00.131711000Z INFO  solana_ledger::blockstore] "test-ledger/rocksdb" open took 228ms
[2022-11-20T20:57:00.176898000Z INFO  solana_metrics::metrics] metrics disabled: SOLANA_METRICS_CONFIG: environment variable not found
[2022-11-20T20:57:00.177048000Z INFO  solana_metrics::metrics] datapoint: shred_insert_is_full total_time_ms=0i slot=0i last_index=3i num_repaired=0i num_recovered=0i
[2022-11-20T20:57:00.223536000Z INFO  solana_runtime::hardened_unpack] Extracting "test-ledger/genesis.tar.bz2"...

• Error:

Error: failed to start validator: Failed to create ledger at test-ledger: blockstore error

• OS: macOS 13.0.1
• CPU: Apple M1 Pro
• bzip2: 1.0.8
• solana-test-validator: 1.13.6(also tried from latest master-commit)
• tried to delete test-ledger folder and reboot system
• tried to run test-validator from different directories(root, home, etc)
• tried to compile from source

[steviez]

This is a duplicate of:
https://solana.stackexchange.com/questions/4258/getting-error-when-running-solana-test-validator

The latest comment there is from someone who was hitting same issue but got things to work for them. If that doesn't work for you, please continue discussion there

[KirillLykov]

@bezrazli4n0 could you post your question to stackexchange (with all the versions etc) because original post is missing this information. On mac 12.2 I could not reproduce (./validator/solana-test-validator)

[bezrazli4n0]

Moved to solana stackexchange.
System reboot with test_ledger deletion doesn't work in my case :(

@KirillLykov @steviez

[bezrazli4n0]

The problem was that macOS 13 had the wrong version of tar installed. You need to replace it with the homebrew version of gnu. Detailed instructions provided on stackexchange answer.

[fitzlf]

1. brew install gnu-tar
   the install path is: /usr/local/Cellar/gnu-tar/1.35/bin/gtar

2. put this path in ~/.zshrc
   export PATH="/usr/local/Cellar/gnu-tar/1.35/bin/:$PATH"

3. do replace system tar, run which tar to check.
   cd /usr/local/Cellar/gnu-tar/1.35/bin/
   cp gtar tar

[RdeWilde]

Might also related with the tar copyfiles issue as fixed here: #34176