Error: "Transfer: `from` must not carry data"

Question

I’m trying to perform a token swap on Solana using the Jupiter swap API, but I keep getting the following error:

Error while performing the swap: Transaction initiation failed: Simulation failed.
Message: Transaction simulation failed: Error processing Instruction 2: invalid program argument.
Logs:
[
  "Program TokenkegQfeZyiNwAJbNbGKPFXCWuBvf9Ss623VQ5DA invoke [2]",
  "Program log: Instruction: GetAccountDataSize",
  "Program TokenkegQfeZyiNwAJbNbGKPFXCWuBvf9Ss623VQ5DA consumed 1569 of 1394295 compute units",
  "Program return: TokenkegQfeZyiNwAJbNbGKPFXCWuBvf9Ss623VQ5DA pQAAAAAAAAA=",
  "Program 11111111111111111111111111111111 invoke [2]",
  "Transfer: `from` must not carry data", // <<<<<<<<----------------------
  "Program 11111111111111111111111111111111 failed: invalid program argument",
  "Program ATokenGPvbdGVxr1b2hvZbsiqW5xWH25efTNsLJA8knL consumed 9973 of 1399700 compute units",
  "Program ATokenGPvbdGVxr1b2hvZbsiqW5xWH25efTNsLJA8knL failed: invalid program argument"
]

I've been using this wallet for the past few days and everything was okay! I think I started getting this error when I ran a script to close my token accounts... I cant send, swap or anything else with the wallet now, I get the same error!

Here’s what I’ve done so far:

• Closed all token accounts and ensured they have zero balance.
• Verified that my wallet has enough SOL for transaction fees.
• Tried using different swaps and AMMs but got the same error.

Could someone help me figure out what might be going wrong or suggest any troubleshooting steps?

Example failed tx: https://solscan.io/tx/5jor7KgmqTtJBSL6gqGauPaeMbSqKVTTMPpDvzpSrXsxdLSYBh1b7sRXPrPgnhrHGGNXaYSUK1Hg9BsubWeMQKhs

Answer 1

can we have a signature ? I think you are trying to transfer SOL from a token account ?

EDIT: you are not transferring SOL from a token account. However, there is a transaction here that seems to be one of the last that worked where your account seems to be used as a nonce account. I don't know much about nonce, but they are used to sign transaction that will be sent later. Does that help you understand what you did / signed ?

Answer 2

The error says: "from must not carry data"

This means that during a transfer with the system program, the source account (the one sending the funds) cannot have any data on it. In this case, the source account, https://explorer.solana.com/address/pzZHCJ5fXTnfDqucYZV3fhssveVq6Pv4zrgF7MQkd92, is a nonce account, and thus it has data.

If you want to withdraw SOL from a nonce account, you'll need to use the withdraw_nonce_account instruction: https://github.com/anza-xyz/agave/blob/4c2e79fe159d0d27b732468da3d88225ebe62e32/sdk/program/src/system_instruction.rs#L1663