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A \u201crace condition\u201d after the system was reset prevented the sequencers from catching up, causing the second outage. <\/p>\n
A sequencer bug was responsible for two outages of the Coinbase layer-2 network Base last week, according to a post-mortem. <\/p>\n
The Base engineering team said<\/span><\/a> in a Saturday post-mortem that they identified a bug in sequencer block-building logic that allowed \u201cstale journal state\u201d to persist after a transaction validation failure. <\/p>\n \u201cAn invalid transaction was received by the block builder and failed during execution, as expected, but erroneously did not clear the journal state that contained the accounts and storage slots that had been accessed,\u201d said the team.<\/p>\n Read more<\/p>\n<\/p>\n If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. Follow us on\u00a0Google News<\/a><\/span>\u00a0too, click on the star and choose us from your favorites.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n If you want to read more News<\/a> articles, you can visit our General category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n