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The problem

Sommelier v10 retires the validator-delegate cork path. x/cork's msg server
now requires signer == params.cork_authority, with no fallback:

if params.CorkAuthority == "" || signer.String() != params.CorkAuthority {
    return nil, ErrUnauthorized "signer %s is not the cork authority"
}

Steward sends signer: get_delegate_address() (somm_send.rs), so every cork
it submits is rejected
once the chain upgrades.

Steward also cannot simply be pointed at the authority. It loads its signing key
from an on-disk FsKeyStore, so it cannot act for an authority held on a
hardware wallet — which is the deployed configuration.

What this changes

The rejection surfaced as:

cork submission failed. this may be a steward configuration problem.

That sends operators to inspect local config when the cause is a chain-side
authorization change. The message now names the real reason and gives the
invocation that does work:

sommelier tx cork schedule-cork <cellar> <height> <hex-call> --from <authority>

That CLI command is new — it did not exist before PeggyJV/sommelier#341, which
is why this could not simply say "use the CLI" previously.

The generic message is kept for rejections that are not authorization failures.
Also documents the constraint on schedule_cork itself, so the next reader
doesn't have to rediscover it from a failing transaction.

Verification — please read

This is not compiled. cargo check cannot build this crate on any toolchain
available to me:

  • modern rustc (1.96) fails on the abandoned traitobject crate with E0119 —
    the same failure as gravity-bridge CI's rust-test job
  • 1.60.0 cannot parse the manifest

Both changed files were verified to parse with rustfmt, so this is
syntax-checked but not type-checked. The change is a doc comment plus an
if/else yielding &str, so the type surface is minimal — but I can't claim
more than that.

That traitobject rot is pre-existing and unrelated to this change. It needs
fixing before the crate builds at all, and is worth a separate issue.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Authorization-related submission failures now provide specific guidance for resolving Sommelier v10 cork_authority issues.
    • Other submission failures continue to display the general configuration error.
  • Documentation

    • Added guidance on delegate-key authorization limitations, hardware-wallet constraints, and the available CLI alternative.

v10 retires the validator-delegate cork path. x/cork's msg server now requires
signer == params.cork_authority with no fallback, so every cork steward submits
is rejected with ErrUnauthorized -- steward sends
signer: get_delegate_address() (somm_send.rs).

Steward cannot simply be pointed at the authority: it loads its signing key from
an on-disk FsKeyStore, so it cannot act for an authority held on a hardware
wallet, which is the deployed configuration.

The rejection surfaced as "cork submission failed. this may be a steward
configuration problem." That sends operators to inspect local config when the
cause is a chain-side authorization change, so the message now names the actual
reason and gives the CLI invocation that does work:

    sommelier tx cork schedule-cork <cellar> <height> <hex-call> --from <authority>

The generic message is kept for rejections that are not authorization failures.

NOT COMPILED. `cargo check` cannot build this crate on any toolchain available
here: modern rustc fails on the abandoned `traitobject` crate (E0119, same
failure as gravity-bridge CI's rust-test job) and 1.60.0 cannot parse the
manifest. Both files were verified to parse with rustfmt, so this is
syntax-checked but not type-checked. The change is a doc comment plus an
if/else yielding &str. The traitobject rot is pre-existing and unrelated;
it needs fixing separately before this crate can build at all.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The change adds specific guidance for cork submissions that fail due to authorization errors. It also documents the authority-key limitation of schedule_cork and provides a CLI alternative for hardware-wallet setups.

Changes

Cork authorization guidance

Layer / File(s) Summary
Authorization failure handling and scheduling documentation
src/cork.rs, src/somm_send.rs
handle_cork detects cork-authority and authorization errors and returns Sommelier v10 guidance. schedule_cork documents delegate-key limitations, hardware-wallet constraints, and the CLI scheduling command.

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The change improves direct cork error messaging, but scheduled cork proposals can still treat a rejected transaction as successful and omit the new guidance. This bounded correctness issue should be fixed before merge.

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In `@src/cork.rs`:
- Around line 161-177: Update handle_scheduled_cork_proposal to inspect the
TxResponse returned by schedule_cork, treating the proposal as successful only
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Comment thread src/cork.rs
Comment on lines +161 to +177
// Sommelier v10 retired the validator-delegate cork path: the
// chain requires signer == params.cork_authority. A rejection
// here is far more likely to be that than a local misconfig,
// and the generic message sent operators looking in the wrong
// place, so name the likely cause explicitly.
let hint = if res.raw_log.contains("not the cork authority")
|| res.raw_log.contains("unauthorized")
{
"this steward's delegate key is not the chain's cork_authority. \
Since Sommelier v10 only that address may schedule corks; steward \
cannot sign for an authority held on a hardware wallet. Schedule it \
with: sommelier tx cork schedule-cork <cellar> <height> <hex-call> \
--from <authority>"
} else {
"cork submission failed. this may be a steward configuration problem."
.to_string(),
));
};
return Err(Status::new(Code::Internal, hint.to_string()));

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Apply the authority diagnostic to scheduled proposals.

src/cork/proposals.rs::handle_scheduled_cork_proposal calls schedule_cork directly, so it bypasses this res.code and res.raw_log handling. That path treats any Ok(TxResponse) as success without checking TxResponse.code, even though this code handles failed transactions returned inside Ok. An authority rejection can therefore be logged as scheduled and never show the CLI guidance. Share the status handling with the proposal path, and report success only when TxResponse.code == 0.

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In `@src/cork.rs` around lines 161 - 177, Update handle_scheduled_cork_proposal to
inspect the TxResponse returned by schedule_cork, treating the proposal as
successful only when TxResponse.code equals zero. Reuse the existing
res.code/raw_log authority-diagnostic handling so rejected authority
transactions receive the CLI guidance instead of being logged as scheduled.

CI caught what I could not: the doc comment's indented CLI invocation was
treated by rustdoc as a Rust doctest, and rust-test failed with

    src/somm_send.rs - somm_send::schedule_cork (line 95) ... FAILED
    error: expected one of `!` or `::`, found `tx`

Fenced as ```text so it is rendered, not compiled.

This is exactly the failure mode the "NOT COMPILED" caveat on the previous
commit was flagging -- cargo cannot build this crate on any locally available
toolchain, so CI was the first thing able to type-check it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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