No transactions logged on forked network

[Silur]

Running the following experiment on a truffle project:

etheno --ganache --ganache-args="ganache -f 'https://bsc-dataseed1.defibit.io/' -e 10000" -x init.json

Then running migrations and tests using truffle in another terminal:

truffle test test/test1.js #truffle is using the ganache network above

these successfully migrate and pass, generating quite some transactions and even awaiting the receipts.
However, no matter what transactions are made on ganache forked networks, init.json always only contains the initial account setups:

[
{"event": "AccountCreated", "address": "5409ed021d9299bf6814279a6a1411a7e866a631"},
{"event": "AccountCreated", "address": "6ecbe1db9ef729cbe972c83fb886247691fb6beb"},
{"event": "AccountCreated", "address": "e36ea790bc9d7ab70c55260c66d52b1eca985f84"},
{"event": "AccountCreated", "address": "e834ec434daba538cd1b9fe1582052b880bd7e63"},
{"event": "AccountCreated", "address": "78dc5d2d739606d31509c31d654056a45185ecb6"},
{"event": "AccountCreated", "address": "a8dda8d7f5310e4a9e24f8eba77e091ac264f872"},
{"event": "AccountCreated", "address": "06cef8e666768cc40cc78cf93d9611019ddcb628"},
{"event": "AccountCreated", "address": "4404ac8bd8f9618d27ad2f1485aa1b2cfd82482d"},
{"event": "AccountCreated", "address": "7457d5e02197480db681d3fdf256c7aca21bdc12"},
{"event": "AccountCreated", "address": "91c987bf62d25945db517bdaa840a6c661374402"}
]

[anishnaik]

Hey @Silur thank you for reporting this issue. Unfortunately, I am going off the grid for the next week or so but I can help triage after that. Appreciate your patience.

[Silur]

update, no transactions are logged at all, independent of whether using truffle, hardhat, or manual transaction sending to either a forked a normal etheno --ganache invocation. init.json always only contains the 10 addresses set by ganache, irrespective to what is happening on the local network

However, if used by connecting etheno into a separate ganache instance, everything works

#terminal 1 
ganache --gasLimit=0x1fffffffffffff --chain.allowUnlimitedContractSize -e 1000000000

#terminal 2
etheno http://127.0.0.1:8545 -p 8546 -x init.json

Pointing truffle/hardhat to port 8546 will generate the desired transactions into init.json

[anishnaik]

Hey @Silur, just coming back to this.

So with regards to your original comment on grabbing transactions from forked networks, does your truffle config point to port 8546 or 8545? Note that etheno runs on 8546 and sending messages to port 8545 will prevent etheno from logging them.

Etheno basically acts like a proxy between your RPC request and the ganache instance. Thus the flow of data is hardhat/truffle -> etheno -> ganache. It seems like you identified this based on your second comment but was wondering if that fixed all your issues.