The program expected this account to be already initialized on InitializeCandidate

Question

#[derive(Accounts)] #[instruction(poll_id: u64)] pub struct InitializeCandidate<'info> { #[account(mut)] pub signer: Signer<'info>,

#[account(
    mut,
    seeds = [b"poll".as_ref(), poll_id.to_le_bytes().as_ref()],
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)]
pub poll_account: Account<'info, PollAccount>,

#[account(
    init,
    payer = signer,
    space = 8 + CandidateAccount::INIT_SPACE,
    seeds = [poll_id.to_le_bytes().as_ref(), poll_account.poll_option_index.to_le_bytes().as_ref()],
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)]
pub candidate_account: Account<'info, CandidateAccount>,

pub system_program: Program<'info, System>,

} Please help out with this

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Answer 1

Anchor expected all accounts to be initialized when executing an instruction.

I'm guessing that maybe poll_account isn't initialized and that's why you might be encountering an error with it's execution.

Perhaps initialize it with the init constraint or init_if_needed if you are unsure about its initialization