apparently there have been some widespread issues with transactions being stuck as pending

KnifeOfPi_: Do you say this because of the Reddit posts?

no, we’ve also had a massive influx of emails to cake support

Do they all use the same node?

and yet we did not release any update for iOS recently

no they don’t

there are a ton of different nodes people report using

Were you able to reproduce the issue?

KnifeOfPi_: do you know one of the remote nodes that caused the issue?

moneroworld, cakewallet node, and XMR.pt node

Do you have cakewallet node logs?

I agree that there have been a lot more reports than usual but I wasn’t able to reproduce yet.

I'm also seeing more people with unbroadcasted transactions than usual

^

which moneroworld nodes? the standard pool?

transaction volume is trending slightly up since last hard fork, so it's probably not affecting a large percentage of users

I don't know what people use, but there have been a spike of support requests on xmrto about transactions being "pending" forever

are pending transactions stuck in the tx pool?

If the wallet sees the tx is no longer in the pool, nor in the chain, it'll change state from pending to error.

If it's in the chain, it changes state from pending to out.

how long can a tx stay in the pool before getting discarded?

I guess quite a lot of newbs use phone app and do not know they can change the remote node. So if they have a failing node that does not broadcast for some reasons, they just wait and wait and wait.

would it be feasible/reasonable to maintain a list of remote nodes?

Your node does now.

i don't think monerujo has integrated that. the current setup they use scans the network itself, and then the use picks a node

im pretty sure the node the user picks is then used as default, without checking the status of the node

so im not surprised that during a price movement, we have a lot of people using a wallet they haven't touched in months

that is trying to connect to a remote node that probably doesn't exist anymore

a bunch of decentralized bollucks!

im pretty sure the node the user picks is then used as default -> IIRC the user has to bookmark the node if they want to use it as default, otherwise they will have to scan again.

ph4r05: I've just pulled latest master and some core tests are failing with: "gen_block_big_major_version generation failed: what=events not set, cannot compute valid RandomX PoW". Rings a bell ?

Ooooh, I have an idea what might cause those pendings txes :D

Some wallet apparently started spending coins before 10 blocks, so we added a rule to slap it back down. It might well be that, since those txes are now invalid.

If it doesn't properly handle the "daemon rejected tx".

was it a wallet doing that? because some of those txes were from monero.win i think

If you define a wallet to include it, then yes. If not, then no.

whoops i meant wallet software released to the world for people to use, like exodus. not a couple of morons just changing constants in the 'normal' monero wallet

koe: "how long can a tx stay in the pool before getting discarded?" <- 3 days if not kept by an alt block, otherwise 1 week.

of course, a client could relay it agian