I keep getting errors when trying to deploy smart contracts to my blockchain using truffle

Question

I have a set of smart contracts that I have compiled and deployed to rinkeby test network. I now need to deploy the to a private goquorum blockchain that runs on the IBFT consensus. The blockchain was built with quorum-wizard. It starts when I run ./start.sh

when I'm in the root of my truffle project I run sudo truffle deploy --reset --network quorum I get the following error.

> Everything is up to date, there is nothing to compile.


/root/dapp1/Dapp/node_modules/web3-core-helpers/src/errors.js:42
        return new Error(message);
               ^
Error: PollingBlockTracker - encountered an error while attempting to update latest block:
Error: Invalid JSON RPC response: ""
    at Object.InvalidResponse (/root/dapp1/Dapp/node_modules/web3-core-helpers/src/errors.js:42:16)
    at XMLHttpRequest.request.onreadystatechange (/root/dapp1/Dapp/node_modules/web3-providers-http/src/index.js:92:32)
    at XMLHttpRequestEventTarget.dispatchEvent (/root/dapp1/Dapp/node_modules/xhr2-cookies/xml-http-request-event-target.ts:44:13)
    at XMLHttpRequest._setReadyState (/root/dapp1/Dapp/node_modules/xhr2-cookies/xml-http-request.ts:219:8)
    at XMLHttpRequest._onHttpRequestError (/root/dapp1/Dapp/node_modules/xhr2-cookies/xml-http-request.ts:379:8)
    at ClientRequest.<anonymous> (/root/dapp1/Dapp/node_modules/xhr2-cookies/xml-http-request.ts:266:37)
    at ClientRequest.emit (events.js:315:20)
    at Socket.socketOnEnd (_http_client.js:493:9)
    at Socket.emit (events.js:327:22)
    at endReadableNT (internal/streams/readable.js:1327:12)
    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:80:21)
    at PollingBlockTracker._performSync (/root/dapp1/Dapp/node_modules/eth-block-tracker/src/polling.js:51:24)
    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:93:5)

This is my truffle-config.js

const HDWalletProvider = require("@truffle/hdwallet-provider");
const mnemonic = "not my real mn emon ic words this is pl cfff was";

module.exports = {
  networks: {
  rinkeby: {
    provider: function() {
      return new HDWalletProvider(mnemonic, "https://rinkeby.infura.io/v3/2342342342344345344343434");
    },
    network_id: '*',
    timeoutBlocks: 100000,
    networkCheckTimeout:2000000
  },
// https://www.trufflesuite.com/docs/truffle/distributed-ledger-support/working-with-quorum
   quorum: {
    provider: function() {
      return new HDWalletProvider(mnemonic, "http://127.0.0.1:21000/");
    },
    network_id: '*',
    type: "quorum",
    timeoutBlocks: 1000000,
    networkCheckTimeout:20000000
  }
  },
  compilers: {
    solc: {
      version: "0.5.0",
      settings: {
        optimizer: {
          enabled: true, // Default: false
          runs: 1000     // Default: 200
        },
        evmVersion: "homestead"  // Default: "byzantium"
      }
    }
  }
};

I am using

Node v14.16.1

Ubuntu 18.04 (64 Bit)

Quorum 21.1.0

Web3.js v1.3.5

Truffle v5.3.4 (core: 5.3.4)

solidity v0.5.0