etherbase missing: etherbase must be explicitly specified

Question

We are trying to run a validator node.

But we notice some issues on the logs.

We are constantly getting these messages on logs

etherbase missing: etherbase must be explicitly specified

We have followed all the steps according to the documentation.

Answer 1

To fix this issue, the signer address that is used to mine must be added inside miner.etherbase section in the config.toml file.

Alternatively, if you are not a part of the active validator set you wouldn't be mining blocks so you can disable the mine parameter that should fix the issue.