Service Fabric Actors: Problems when actors are deployed with newest versions of Service Fabric nuget packages

Question

Yesterday I created a new service fabric application, including a new Actor. When I deploy it on my local service fabric cluster, the publish has a “succeeded” status. But the problem is when I go on the Service fabric cluster, I can see that the actor is on “Error” health state. I can show you the error messages on the diagnostic events and the Server Fabric Explorer:

Service Fabric Cluster Explorer [IMAGE]

Diagnostic Events errors [IMAGE]

To show you my problem I created a simple solution with the usual actor example created by Visual Studio that should work properly. I created a .Net Core 2.0 Actor Service. Actor Service

The nuget packages used by the actor are:

• Microsoft.ServiceFabric (6.2.274)

• Microsoft.ServiceFabric.Actors (3.1.274)

• Microsoft.ServiceFabric.Data (3.1.274)

• Microsoft.ServiceFabric.Services (3.1.274)

My Visual Studio is on Version 15.7.2 and the Service Fabric runtime is on the latest version 6.2.274.9494 .

I also have another solution with actors that works with nuget packages with previous versions that can be deployed and working on service fabric correctly.

When I updated the service fabric package to the newest version, there were errors with the actors on the service fabric explorer. So I can deduce that these errors can be produced by the newest version of the service fabric nuget packages.

Best Regards,

Alexandre

Answer 1

This seems to be an issue with pre 2.0.5 version of .NET Core. Installing latest runtime (2.1.1 currently) and changing service fabric actor projects to use it fixed the issue.