hardhat node errors out

[wighawag]

Version of Hardhat

3.0.0-next.1

What happened?

I execute hardhat node

And it errors out

eth_sendRawTransaction                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
  Nonce too low. Expected nonce to be 1 but got 0. Note that transactions can't be queued when automining.                                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
/home/wighawag/dev/github.com/wighawag/template-ethereum-contracts/node_modules/.pnpm/hardhat@3.0.0-next.1/node_modules/hardhat/src/internal/builtin-plugins/node/json-rpc/handler.ts:243                                                   
    if (error.data.data !== undefined) {                                                                                                                                                                                                    
                   ^                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'data')                                                                                                                                                                                  
    at _handleError (/home/wighawag/dev/github.com/wighawag/template-ethereum-contracts/node_modules/.pnpm/hardhat@3.0.0-next.1/node_modules/hardhat/src/internal/builtin-plugins/node/json-rpc/handler.ts:243:20)                          
    at JsonRpcHandler.#handleRequest (/home/wighawag/dev/github.com/wighawag/template-ethereum-contracts/node_modules/.pnpm/hardhat@3.0.0-next.1/node_modules/hardhat/src/internal/builtin-plugins/node/json-rpc/handler.ts:165:17)         
    at async Server.handleHttp (/home/wighawag/dev/github.com/wighawag/template-ethereum-contracts/node_modules/.pnpm/hardhat@3.0.0-next.1/node_modules/hardhat/src/internal/builtin-plugins/node/json-rpc/handler.ts:58:21)                
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
Node.js v22.14.0                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
 ELIFECYCLE  Command failed with exit code 1.                

I do not expect hardhat node to crash

Minimal reproduction steps

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[kanej]

Hey @wighawag, can I confirm that when you run npx hardhat node the process just crashes?

Is this from a newly initialized sample projects or is there more going on in your project?

[wighawag]

yes it exits on its own with ELIFECYCLE  Command failed with exit code 1.

It is not the sample project but I don't see anything in particular that would cause this. If it happens again, I ll see if I can make a reproduction repo