# Debugging Validator Unrevoke - No Clear Reason Why **URL:** \ **Category:** Validation\ **Created:** [July 29, 2018, 12:22am UTC](https://forum.cosmos.network/t/debugging-validator-unrevoke-no-clear-reason-why/629 "2018-07-29T00:22:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![chris-chainflow](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.cosmos.network/chris-chainflow/32/1530_2.png) [@chris-chainflow](https://forum.cosmos.network/u/chris-chainflow)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2018, 12:22am UTC](https://forum.cosmos.network/t/debugging-validator-unrevoke-no-clear-reason-why/629/1 "2018-07-29T00:22:56Z")
Reposting from Riot, to not lose it - original question - what’s the best way to figure out why a validator gets revoked? one of my two did, i was able to unrevoke it now, however nothing on the server or in the logs was an obvious indicator as to why it was revoked also odd is that gaiacli status shows voting power = 0 yet the unrevoke command went through and i’m showing as active again in the explorer Zaki interesting Chris Remus / [Chainflow.io](http://Chainflow.io) validator i’m talking about is chainflow09 i got slashed too 1 steak Zaki it seems like you aren’t signing Did priv\_validator.json change? which is why you got revoke/slashed Chris Remus / [Chainflow.io](http://Chainflow.io) not that i’m aware of… although I did try and recover a key on this validator the recovery process seemed to work ok Zaki does gaiad tendermint show\_validator match the key you see in gaiacli stake validator Chris Remus / [Chainflow.io](http://Chainflow.io) yes /opt/gaiad/config$ /opt/go/bin/gaiad tendermint show\_vaidator cosmosvalpub1zcjduepq8lqcam7ynehq0f83np7ku70vjav4tjwfw364acxurw0mzu7y322qvzggzm Zaki hmm Chris Remus / [Chainflow.io](http://Chainflow.io) /opt/gaiad/config$ /opt/go/bin/gaiad tendermint show\_vaidator cosmosvalpub1zcjduepq8lqcam7ynehq0f83np7ku70vjav4tjwfw364acxurw0mzu7y322qvzggzm chainuser09@chainflow09:/opt/gaiad/config$ /opt/go/bin/gaiad tendermint show\_validator^C chainuser09@chainflow09:/opt/gaiad/config$ /opt/go/bin/gaiacli stake validator cosmosaccaddr1w2j930e3ueg8f365ff2t92m5lnp856fe47f3hy Validator Owner: cosmosaccaddr1w2j930e3ueg8f365ff2t92m5lnp856fe47f3hy Validator: cosmosvalpub1zcjduepq8lqcam7ynehq0f83np7ku70vjav4tjwfw364acxurw0mzu7y322qvzggzm Revoked: false Status: Bonded Tokens: 9.0000000000 Delegator Shares: 10.0000000000 Description: {chainflow09 [do-not-modify] [do-not-modify] [do-not-modify]} Bond Height: 18962 Proposer Reward Pool: Commission: 0/1 Max Commission Rate: 0/1 Commission Change Rate: 0/1 Commission Change Today: 0/1 Previous Bonded Tokens: 0/1 Zaki can you post gaiacli status Chris Remus / [Chainflow.io](http://Chainflow.io) /opt/go/bin/gaiacli status {“node\_info”:{“id”:“dd38edc158a217d9324177a3cd5a6402d63a33ff”,“listen\_addr”:“95.179.164.203:26656”,“network”:“gaia-7003”,“version”:“0.22.8”,“channels”:“40202122233038”,“moniker”:“chainflow09”,“other”:[“amino\_version=0.10.1”,“p2p\_version=0.5.0”,“consensus\_version=v1/0.2.2”,“rpc\_version=0.7.0/3”,“tx\_index=on”,“rpc\_addr=tcp://0.0.0.0:26657”]},“sync\_info”:{“latest\_block\_hash”:“AD54017A92EA6B240743F8E9AEEC64A4A3D862A2”,“latest\_app\_hash”:“5D94979D5B6EA1BDB0570B3119EE860341A04B06”,“latest\_block\_height”:“19102”,“latest\_block\_time”:“2018-07-29T00:14:30.510257493Z”,“catching\_up”:false},“validator\_info”:{“address”:“6BB26FC0FE12D1C142DA480AD3B26AED802294E3”,“pub\_key”:{“type”:“tendermint/PubKeyEd25519”,“value”:“MiNfDVY1oppo2mFG0HQs0h4qEg6XwnsZDcP1eaD7hi4=”},“voting\_power”:“0”}} i need to leave this until monday, should i post it somewhere other than this chat for further investigation? Zaki you could post to the forum that pubkey is not in the Tendermint validator set 1+TG 20:17 which is why it isn’t signing Zaki 20:16 you could post to the forum that pubkey is not in the Tendermint validator set which is why it isn’t signing Please make a forum post or github issue I can’t explain it ---
**Author:** ![zaki](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.cosmos.network/zaki/32/13_2.png) [@zaki](https://forum.cosmos.network/u/zaki)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2018, 12:24am UTC](https://forum.cosmos.network/t/debugging-validator-unrevoke-no-clear-reason-why/629/2 "2018-07-29T00:24:31Z")
As I mentioned, the validator is unrevoked in app state but doesn’t appear in Tendermint validators. Unclear why.