# Problem insalling Internet Identity in Local Setup **URL:** \ **Category:** Motoko\ **Created:** [June 2, 2023, 5:21pm UTC](https://forum.dfinity.org/t/problem-insalling-internet-identity-in-local-setup/20417 "2023-06-02T17:21:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![iBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7ea924/32.png) [@iBat](https://forum.dfinity.org/u/iBat)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2023, 5:21pm UTC](https://forum.dfinity.org/t/problem-insalling-internet-identity-in-local-setup/20417/1 "2023-06-02T17:21:46Z")
Hi everyone! I will describe this error, received following this guide: I have downloaded locally the did and wasm files of identity and this is my dfx json: “internet\_identity”: { “type”: “custom”, “candid”: “src/internet\_identity/internet\_identity.did”, “wasm”: “src/internet\_identity/internet\_identity\_dev.wasm.gz”, “remote”: { “id”: { “ic”: “rdmx6-jaaaa-aaaaa-aaadq-cai” } }, “frontend”: {} }, I have put the files in those paths but running dfx deploy there is a problem with tha wasm file I’m getting this error: Error: The Replica returned an error: code 5, message: “Wasm module of canister rrkah-fqaaa-aaaaa-aaaaq-cai is not valid: Wasmtime failed to validate wasm module wasmtime::Module::validate() failed with Bad magic number (at offset 0)” kcbat@kcbat-HP-Pavili ---
**Author:** ![diegop](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.dfinity.org/diegop/32/569_2.png) [@diegop](https://forum.dfinity.org/u/diegop)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2023, 5:56pm UTC](https://forum.dfinity.org/t/problem-insalling-internet-identity-in-local-setup/20417/2 "2023-06-02T17:56:25Z")
thanks for taking the time to write this. Let me ping the II team folks to see who can help. ---
**Author:** ![peterparker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@peterparker](https://forum.dfinity.org/u/peterparker)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2023, 6:31pm UTC](https://forum.dfinity.org/t/problem-insalling-internet-identity-in-local-setup/20417/3 "2023-06-02T18:31:39Z")
Try this instead of your dfx config: ```auto "internet_identity": { "type": "custom", "candid": "https://github.com/dfinity/internet-identity/releases/latest/download/internet_identity.did", "wasm": "https://github.com/dfinity/internet-identity/releases/latest/download/internet_identity_dev.wasm.gz", "shrink": false, "remote": { "candid": "internet_identity.did", "id": { "ic": "rdmx6-jaaaa-aaaaa-aaadq-cai" } } }, ``` It will automatically pull the last dev version of II. Note: there is a tutorial / sample in II repo but I had above piece of code literally open, so was faster to just copy paste that particular part ---
**Author:** ![infu](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.dfinity.org/infu/32/11321_2.png) [@infu](https://forum.dfinity.org/u/infu)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2023, 7:49pm UTC](https://forum.dfinity.org/t/problem-insalling-internet-identity-in-local-setup/20417/4 "2023-06-02T19:49:03Z")
I think that’s the old approach. Simply get the last dfx and run `dfx start --clean` `dfx nns install` you will have Internet Identity and everything else ---
**Author:** ![peterparker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@peterparker](https://forum.dfinity.org/u/peterparker)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2023, 8:51pm UTC](https://forum.dfinity.org/t/problem-insalling-internet-identity-in-local-setup/20417/5 "2023-06-02T20:51:33Z")
Depends what you try to achieve and what version of the canister you are looking for. ---
**Author:** ![iBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7ea924/32.png) [@iBat](https://forum.dfinity.org/u/iBat)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2023, 2:11pm UTC](https://forum.dfinity.org/t/problem-insalling-internet-identity-in-local-setup/20417/6 "2023-06-07T14:11:02Z")
Thanks a lot, it worked! ---
**Author:** ![cyberowl](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.dfinity.org/cyberowl/32/3635_2.png) [@cyberowl](https://forum.dfinity.org/u/cyberowl)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 8:50am UTC](https://forum.dfinity.org/t/problem-insalling-internet-identity-in-local-setup/20417/7 "2023-07-07T08:50:55Z")
Has anyone experienced this error. ![Screenshot 2023-07-07 at 1.10.52 AM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/uploads/dfn/original/2X/6/60c743b3b62ffc04107477b408e05d4ad5eb010a.jpeg) It happens when I try to create an II locally. dfx 0.14.2 latest internet identity repo I tried diff approaches including above: ![Screenshot 2023-07-07 at 1.53.46 AM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/uploads/dfn/original/2X/4/4941bcdeebfd333a9f4bfc71d94c3eec070a70ee.png) ---
**Author:** ![peterparker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@peterparker](https://forum.dfinity.org/u/peterparker)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 9:09am UTC](https://forum.dfinity.org/t/problem-insalling-internet-identity-in-local-setup/20417/8 "2023-07-07T09:09:08Z")
I’ve seen stuffs but, I’ve never seen that particular error 😜. Have you try to clean up your local dfx state (`dfx start --clean`) and redeploy? Same issue? ---
**Author:** ![cyberowl](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.dfinity.org/cyberowl/32/3635_2.png) [@cyberowl](https://forum.dfinity.org/u/cyberowl)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 9:11am UTC](https://forum.dfinity.org/t/problem-insalling-internet-identity-in-local-setup/20417/9 "2023-07-07T09:11:52Z")
Yeah did everything. Did clean install ☹ did clean. Restarted machine. I guess I will keep digging. ---
**Author:** ![peterparker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@peterparker](https://forum.dfinity.org/u/peterparker)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 9:14am UTC](https://forum.dfinity.org/t/problem-insalling-internet-identity-in-local-setup/20417/10 "2023-07-07T09:14:51Z")
As you mention v0.14.2, if you downgrade dfx, same issue? ---
**Author:** ![cyberowl](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.dfinity.org/cyberowl/32/3635_2.png) [@cyberowl](https://forum.dfinity.org/u/cyberowl)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 9:21am UTC](https://forum.dfinity.org/t/problem-insalling-internet-identity-in-local-setup/20417/11 "2023-07-07T09:21:33Z")
Hmm haven’t tried that but will soon. I did upgrade everything. ---
**Author:** ![cyberowl](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.dfinity.org/cyberowl/32/3635_2.png) [@cyberowl](https://forum.dfinity.org/u/cyberowl)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 9:50am UTC](https://forum.dfinity.org/t/problem-insalling-internet-identity-in-local-setup/20417/12 "2023-07-07T09:50:09Z")
ok that works. downgraded to 14.1 ---
**Author:** ![peterparker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@peterparker](https://forum.dfinity.org/u/peterparker)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 10:01am UTC](https://forum.dfinity.org/t/problem-insalling-internet-identity-in-local-setup/20417/13 "2023-07-07T10:01:23Z")
Thanks for the feedback, I forward the information! ---
**Author:** ![Gabriel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.dfinity.org/gabriel/32/546_2.png) [@Gabriel](https://forum.dfinity.org/u/Gabriel)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 10:30am UTC](https://forum.dfinity.org/t/problem-insalling-internet-identity-in-local-setup/20417/14 "2023-07-07T10:30:17Z")
yeah I get that on 14.2 and on 0.14.2-beta.2 as well. ![Screenshot 2023-07-07 at 13.29.37](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/uploads/dfn/original/2X/3/38c47c44f3487c7a2a3efa9750e4ab8acb01247d.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Vivienne](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.dfinity.org/vivienne/32/29170_2.png) [@Vivienne](https://forum.dfinity.org/u/Vivienne)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 8:33am UTC](https://forum.dfinity.org/t/problem-insalling-internet-identity-in-local-setup/20417/15 "2023-07-10T08:33:48Z")
I tried to reproduce myself, and I found that the important factor is `dfx start` with 0.14.2. If that is run with 0.14.1 or lower it doesn’t fail, no matter which version of dfx deploys it. Continuing to investigate… ---
**Author:** ![berestovskyy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.dfinity.org/berestovskyy/32/3989_2.png) [@berestovskyy](https://forum.dfinity.org/u/berestovskyy)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 3:57pm UTC](https://forum.dfinity.org/t/problem-insalling-internet-identity-in-local-setup/20417/16 "2023-07-10T15:57:04Z")
hey folks, I was able to reproduce the issue using the `dfx 0.14.2` using the snippet in this thread. At the same time both the `dfx nns install` and the II canister included into the `0.14.2` release work just fine for me. For the latter I used the following `dfx.json` snippet: ```auto "internet_identity": { "type": "custom", "candid": "https://github.com/dfinity/internet-identity/releases/latest/download/internet_identity.did", "wasm": "/Users/a/.cache/dfinity/versions/0.14.2/wasms/internet_identity_dev.wasm", "shrink": false, "remote": { "candid": "internet_identity.did", "id": { "ic": "rdmx6-jaaaa-aaaaa-aaadq-cai" } } }, ``` It’s a copy-paste of the snippet from this thread, just the WASM binary is from the `dfx 0.14.2` cache… ---
**Author:** ![peterparker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@peterparker](https://forum.dfinity.org/u/peterparker)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 4:25pm UTC](https://forum.dfinity.org/t/problem-insalling-internet-identity-in-local-setup/20417/17 "2023-07-10T16:25:46Z")
Have you try with a snippet that fetches the `.wasm.gz` from GitHub? When `dfx nns install` is not used, that’s the most common way to embed II in project I think. ```auto "internet_identity": { "type": "custom", "candid": "https://github.com/dfinity/internet-identity/releases/latest/download/internet_identity.did", "wasm": "https://github.com/dfinity/internet-identity/releases/latest/download/internet_identity_dev.wasm.gz", "shrink": false, "remote": { "id": { "ic": "rdmx6-jaaaa-aaaaa-aaadq-cai" } }, }, ``` ---
**Author:** ![berestovskyy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.dfinity.org/berestovskyy/32/3989_2.png) [@berestovskyy](https://forum.dfinity.org/u/berestovskyy)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 4:39pm UTC](https://forum.dfinity.org/t/problem-insalling-internet-identity-in-local-setup/20417/18 "2023-07-10T16:39:29Z")
That’s exactly what I used and it didn’t work for me, while the `dfx 0.14.2` WASM binary (i.e. `"wasm": "/Users/a/.cache/dfinity/versions/0.14.2/wasms/internet_identity_dev.wasm",`) seems to work just fine. ---
**Author:** ![peterparker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@peterparker](https://forum.dfinity.org/u/peterparker)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 5:05pm UTC](https://forum.dfinity.org/t/problem-insalling-internet-identity-in-local-setup/20417/19 "2023-07-10T17:05:02Z")
Ah interesting, so `dfx start` with a `.wasm.gz` does not work but, works with `.wasm`. Wasn’t the support for gzipped wasm recently added to dfx? Can there be a conflict there? ---
**Author:** ![berestovskyy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.dfinity.org/berestovskyy/32/3989_2.png) [@berestovskyy](https://forum.dfinity.org/u/berestovskyy)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 5:54pm UTC](https://forum.dfinity.org/t/problem-insalling-internet-identity-in-local-setup/20417/20 "2023-07-10T17:54:02Z")
Sorry for the confusion. I never stated that the gzipped WASM is the issue. And in fact I just verified, it does not. The `dfx` release `0.14.2` ships with an older II WASM binary (version `2022-07-11`) and it works just fine. The first failing II version is `2023-04-28`, i.e. `2023-04-12` still works fine: ```auto "internet_identity": { "type": "custom", "candid": "https://github.com/dfinity/internet-identity/releases/latest/download/internet_identity.did", "wasm": "https://github.com/dfinity/internet-identity/releases/download/release-2023-04-12/internet_identity_dev.wasm.gz", "shrink": false, "remote": { "candid": "internet_identity.did", "id": { "ic": "rdmx6-jaaaa-aaaaa-aaadq-cai" } } }, ``` This is the last working II for me on the `dfx 0.14.2`… [Next page](https://forum.dfinity.org/t/problem-insalling-internet-identity-in-local-setup/20417.md?page=2)