sendRawTransaction returns "Invalid JSON RPC Response"

[Slals]

Hi,

I want to sign a raw transaction using an account which is not an account registered by the provider (I use Ganache), but when I send it using web3.eth.sendRawTransaction I get the following error message :

Error: Invalid JSON RPC response: {"id":15,"jsonrpc":"2.0"}

However, when I send a raw transaction signed with an address which is an account listed in Ganache it works. Is it mandatory that the account used to sign the transaction is known to the provider?

account.signTransaction({ to: ENV.contract_address, data: data, gas: '80000', chainId: 1 }, function(err, res) {
        web3.eth.sendSignedTransaction(res.rawTransaction, function(sendErr, sendRes) {
          // When the account used to sign is known to the provider it works
          // When the account used to sign is not known it raises the error
        });
      });

Using Truffle Console (raw transaction signed by an account not listed in the provider)

web3.eth.sendRawTransaction("0xf889808504a817c8008301388094345ca3e014aaf5dca488057592ee47305d9b3e1080a4d5d44d80000000000000000000000000dbe1c28e41dcc894a3af2262181d57afac9d45e425a0c1e5800040e508fcdcf3230936c868002983c4d1e339125b831c8829ea2206e8a04c334096606e091bcf3de7a8bebabf0fc98a11db3eba94a0f054f10c935ab9ac", function(err, res) { console.log(err); });
undefined
truffle(testrpc)> Error: Invalid JSON RPC response: {"id":15,"jsonrpc":"2.0"}
    at Object.InvalidResponse (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/truffle/build/webpack:/~/web3/lib/web3/errors.js:38:1)
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/truffle/build/webpack:/~/web3/lib/web3/requestmanager.js:86:1
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/truffle/build/webpack:/~/truffle-provider/wrapper.js:134:1
    at XMLHttpRequest.request.onreadystatechange (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/truffle/build/webpack:/~/web3/lib/web3/httpprovider.js:128:1)
    at XMLHttpRequestEventTarget.dispatchEvent (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/truffle/build/webpack:/~/xhr2/lib/xhr2.js:64:1)
    at XMLHttpRequest._setReadyState (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/truffle/build/webpack:/~/xhr2/lib/xhr2.js:354:1)
    at XMLHttpRequest._onHttpResponseEnd (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/truffle/build/webpack:/~/xhr2/lib/xhr2.js:509:1)
    at IncomingMessage.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/truffle/build/webpack:/~/xhr2/lib/xhr2.js:469:1)

Thanks for the help, I might have missed a point about providers and accounts.

Note that the error could be raised by the smart contract which uses a require, the point is that I have no issue when the account is one that the provider know.

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Web3 version : 0.20.4

[thinhlvv]

Got the same problem. Tried to upgrade web3 version to 1.0.0-beta.34 but it's still there.

[26000]

Same. It's probably related to #1793 — signTransaction works incorrectly.