Manual deployment of performUpkeep not working (debuging staging test)

[Roee-87]

I have deployed and verified the Raffle contract to Rinkeby: https://rinkeby.etherscan.io/address/0x89E4Ccd624184abdDd702272EBa262DB2C4b5260#contracts
My debugging:

1. Upkeep needed returns false when no players have entered.
2. connect Metamask using connect to Web3, add 0.01 ETH using enterRaffle.
3. 0.01 ETH shows up in contract account.
4. Upkeep needed returns true (byte code: 0x307830)
5. I enter the bytecode value into performUpkeep and get prompted to access the transaction. I receive a warning in MetaMask: "We were not able to estimate gas. There might be an error in the contract and this transaction may fail."
6. I click on "I want to proceed anyway"
7. After 10 minutes, the transaction fails with this error message:

Transaction has been reverted by the EVM: { "blockHash": "0x0ffab3ce5cff15d836f24262f281e6df2007bf3f25ae055849a6153b0eabdc0a", "blockNumber": 11323946, "contractAddress": null, "cumulativeGasUsed": 909941, "effectiveGasPrice": "0x3b9aca0a", "from": "0x2fa9b4f9a126b8e7b76666a24370d6087cbdeddd", "gasUsed": 57625, "logsBloom": "0x00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000", "status": false, "to": "0x89e4ccd624184abddd702272eba262db2c4b5260", "transactionHash": "0xa117fb8951259127999b880973b8e6828286a67c9b469eb024bbe9f954dc9c0c", "transactionIndex": 9, "type": "0x2", "events": {} }

9. I am confused because the other day it worked when I executed the stage test in hardhat.

10. Deployed the contract to Goerli at (https://goerli.etherscan.io/address/0xdf6df37a31104ccccb827081f934b9d32f9aee33#contracts), same issue but the error warning is almost instantaneous.
    Transaction has been reverted by the EVM: { "blockHash": "0xd70602070181341f5624fd155dcfd9567ee9c8b4a59f724fb551ce4c70dcbce9", "blockNumber": 7531097, "contractAddress": null, "cumulativeGasUsed": 465027, "effectiveGasPrice": "0x3b9aca08", "from": "0x2fa9b4f9a126b8e7b76666a24370d6087cbdeddd", "gasUsed": 59956, "logsBloom": "0x00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000", "status": false, "to": "0xdf6df37a31104ccccb827081f934b9d32f9aee33", "transactionHash": "0x50ed6d0f9d6f33eb6200e0397c84ad865f65188043b484354c1a620dde8bb868", "transactionIndex": 7, "type": "0x2", "events": {} }

Not sure how to proceed from here. Doubly confused because the Rinkeby contract passed the stage test in hardhat yesterday...

[alymurtazamemon]

@Robbe98 If your contract code is correct then verify the steps I have mentioned in this discussion #1435. Sometimes testnets do too many delays and sometimes Chainlink does not proceed with the requests, mine 2 transactions that I ran 2 months ago a still in the pending stage.

When you run the staging tests, you should verify on platforms that either it executed there or not. First check on etherscan whether enterRaffle is called or not, then go to the keepers' website, and then on VRF website and check whether the executed requests or not.