Failed to get wallet canister caller for identity 'default' on network 'local'

Developers
1

When deploying a project on dfx 0.13.1 I get this error everytime I start the replica without the
–clean argument.

Failed to get wallet canister caller for identity ‘default’ on network ‘local’

When the replica starts I also get this warning, not sure if it could be related:

Using the default definition for the ‘local’ shared network because /home/user/.config/dfx/networks.json does not exist.

2

Hmm, this sounds weird. Maybe the wallets don’t get updated properly? Can you inspect this file a bit closer at different stages in the process? And say what kind of system you’re on (Linux, Macos)?

$HOME/.local/share/dfx/network/local/wallets.json (Linux)
$HOME/Library/Application Support/org.dfinity.dfx/network/local.json (Macos)

Also, can you please confirm the minimal steps required to reproduce the problem are as follows:

  1. dfx start --clean
  2. dfx deploy
  3. dfx stop
  4. dfx start
  5. dfx deploy ← fails with the above error
3

I’m on Linux, this is what’s inside wallet.json:

“identities”: {
“default”: {
“local”: “rwlgt-iiaaa-aaaaa-aaaaa-cai”
}

When I start with --clean it gets deleted and when doing dfx start it gets recreated with the same value.

Yes that is correct

4

Perfect, thanks. I’ll note it in our bug reports (note to self: ticket), but I can’t make any promises - this looks like a bug that is very hard to reproduce.