Problem running Hyperledger fabric basic-network: error validating ReadSet - hyperledger-fabric

Question

I'm trying to run the tutorial on hyperledger fabric documents but when I run the ./start.sh command I get this error:
docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml down
Removing network net_basic
WARNING: Network net_basic not found.
docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml up -d ca.example.com orderer.example.com peer0.org1.example.com couchdb
Creating network "net_basic" with the default driver
Creating ca.example.com ... done
Creating couchdb ... done
Creating orderer.example.com ... done
Creating peer0.org1.example.com ... done
docker ps -a
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
f799f0b5a94b hyperledger/fabric-peer "peer node start" 3 seconds ago Up Less than a second 0.0.0.0:7051->7051/tcp, 0.0.0.0:7053->7053/tcp peer0.org1.example.com
036e92d414df hyperledger/fabric-orderer "orderer" 9 seconds ago Up 5 seconds 0.0.0.0:7050->7050/tcp orderer.example.com
78255d10ae02 couchdb:2.3 "tini -- /docker-ent…" 9 seconds ago Up 3 seconds 4369/tcp, 9100/tcp, 0.0.0.0:5984->5984/tcp couchdb
55f3ade84d52 hyperledger/fabric-ca "sh -c 'fabric-ca-se…" 9 seconds ago Up 4 seconds 0.0.0.0:7054->7054/tcp ca.example.com
# wait for Hyperledger Fabric to start
# incase of errors when running later commands, issue export FABRIC_START_TIMEOUT=<larger number>
export FABRIC_START_TIMEOUT=60
#echo ${FABRIC_START_TIMEOUT}
sleep ${FABRIC_START_TIMEOUT}
# Create the channel
docker exec -e "CORE_PEER_LOCALMSPID=Org1MSP" -e "CORE_PEER_MSPCONFIGPATH=/etc/hyperledger/msp/users/Admin#org1.example.com/msp" peer0.org1.example.com peer channel create -o orderer.example.com:7050 -c mychannel -f /etc/hyperledger/configtx/channel.tx
2019-12-21 09:24:37.078 UTC [channelCmd] InitCmdFactory -> INFO 001 Endorser and orderer connections initialized
Error: got unexpected status: BAD_REQUEST -- error validating channel creation transaction for new channel 'mychannel', could not succesfully apply update to template configuration: error authorizing update: error validating ReadSet: existing config does not contain element for [Group] /Channel/Application/Org1MSP but was in the read set
First I tryed to change FABRIC_START_TIMEOUT to 60 seconds (it was 10) but the problem still persists. I tryed to see logs for peer0.org1.example.com and get this warning:
2019-12-21 09:36:05.735 UTC [couchdb] handleRequest -> WARN 00e Retrying couchdb request in 1m4s. Attempt:10 Error:Get http://couchdb:5984/: dial tcp 172.30.0.4:5984: connect: connection refused
so I increased FABRIC_START_TIMEOUT to 300 seconds to fix the connection refused problem but I still get the error validating ReadSet error.
How can I fix this problem?

Answer 1

I ran into this issue and solved it by checking out the latest stable tag (v1.4.4) and running the script again.
$ git checkout v1.4.4
$ ./start.sh