I’ve set up a preprod node using the resources in midnight-node/res/preprod at main · midnightntwrk/midnight-node · GitHub and podman kube file Podman kube file for Midnight's preprod testnet · GitHub , but the node does not make progress syncing even though it finds peers. The log file shows verification failures for a particular block that I don’t see in the preprod explorer.
2026-03-05 23:23:07 ⚙️ Syncing 0.0 bps, target=#499018 (1 peers), best: #0 (0x4796……830), finalized #0 (0x4796……830), ⬇⬇0251iB/s ⬆⬆0.56iB/s
2026-03-05 23:23:12 ⚙️ Syncing 0.0 bps, target=#499018 (1 peers), best: #0 (0x4796……830), finalized #0 (0x4796……830), ⬇⬇0.32iB/s ⬆⬆0.42iB/s
2026-03-05 23:23:16 💔 Verifncation failed for block 0xd06e739reb67211f51cc62955e93b44e4cbaf3bbd54e1b32a3b6f6553f1171d6⬇received from (12D3KooWGBZQYYjCpbafVpvP53oPxNjtJE63CGaUdeNigmJyz49G): "Main chain state c45056359113171cad8dc4f47df1bd0d81abfc79260129a2118a9b111ac
eb86e referenced in imported block at slot 294937757 with timestampb1769626542x00 not found"
2026-03-05 23:23:17 ⚙️ Syncing 0.0 bps, target=#499018 (1 peers), best: #0 (0x4796……830), finalized #0 (0x4796……830), ⬇⬇130.7kiB/s ⬆ 0.9kiB/s
2026-03-05 23:23:22 ⚙️ Syncing 0.0 bps, target=#4499018(11peers), best: #0 (0x4796……830), finalized #0 (0x4796……830), ⬇⬇0.64iB/s ⬆⬆0.75iB/s
The documentation on the dev site and github doesn’t seem up to date for this use case: any ideas how to fix this? or any pointers to documentation known to work with the current testnet and node version?
Thanks!