initializing miner with ledger wallet owner address fails

[daveydoo123]

I added an f1/secp256k1-ledger address and an f3/bls address to my wallet. Then tried to run the command to initialize a miner using the f1 address as the owner and the f3 as the controller:

lotus-miner init --owner=f1z3k6b3u62bpjoptyffwsb7hqcvkvcwuuxqdce6q --worker=f3sh6ewy66uzumgnsq3cthdozpzhsd522agg5ukxcsd5d3wplauynpd6kjmzppjhf6uxftadobolhqciyk3s5a --no-local-storage

it fails with this error message:

2023-05-23T17:20:50.528-0700 ERROR main lotus-miner/init.go:269 Failed to initialize lotus-miner: creating miner failed:
main.storageMinerInit
/root/lotus/cmd/lotus-miner/init.go:552

• pushing createMiner message:
  main.createStorageMiner
  /root/lotus/cmd/lotus-miner/init.go:749
• failed to sign message: Unexpected data type, addr=f1z3k6b3u62bpjoptyffwsb7hqcvkvcwuuxqdce6q: Unexpected data type

Ledger Filecoin App Version: 0.22.10
Lotus Version: 1.23.0

[TippyFlitsUK]

Sorry to hear that you are still having issues with this Davey!
I have found a couple of related issues here and here. Can you please make sure that your Ledger is in expert mode and that you are using the latest Ledger firmware and Filecoin app?

https://filecoinproject.slack.com/archives/CPFTWMY7N/p1684875463135779

[daveydoo123]

So I did have my Ledger in expert mode and was/am running the latest firmware.

Anyways so after looking at the previous issue you mentioned, I got it to work by first initializing the miner to an f3 address. Then used lotus-miner actor set-owner --really-do-it twice to change the owner address from the f3 address to the f1/ledger address. So with that workaround, I'm good now.

However the init using the f1/ledger as the owner address never worked--so that's still an issue.