cannot create transaction block : cannot define a new channel in configtxgen

Question

this question has been already asked source as the question is 10 month old and as there are newer versions on fabric i'm reposting this question.

for the following YAML FILE

Organizations:
  - &Smartforce
    Name: SmartforceMSP
    ID: SmartforceMSP
    MSPDir: /home/falcon/dev-iq-smartforce/crypto-config/ordererOrganizations/smartforce.com/msp

  - &BusinessPartner1
    Name: FalconMSP
    ID: FalconMSP
    MSPDir: /home/falcon/dev-iq-smartforce/crypto-config/peerOrganizations/falcon.com/msp

    AnchorPeers:
      - Host: localhost
        Port: 7051

  - &BusinessPartner2
    Name: FrostMSP
    ID: FrostMSP
    MSPDir: /home/falcon/dev-iq-smartforce/crypto-config/peerOrganizations/frost.com/msp
    AnchorPeers:
      - Host: localhost
        Port: 8051


# Configuration for the Orderer
Orderer: &OrdererDefaults  #SampleInsecureSolo

  OrdererType: solo

  Addresses:
    - localhost:7050

  # Batch Timeout: The amount of time to wait before creating a batch
  BatchTimeout: 2s

  # Batch Size: Controls the number of messages batched into a block
  BatchSize:
    MaxMessageCount: 10
    AbsoluteMaxBytes: 98 MB
    PreferredMaxBytes: 512 KB

Application: &ApplicationDefaults
      Organizations:

Channel: &ChannelDefaults

Profiles:

  TwoPartnerGenesis:
      Orderer:
          <<: *OrdererDefaults
          Organizations:
              - *Smartforce

      Application:
            <<: *ApplicationDefaults
            Organizations:
                - <<: *BusinessPartner1
                - <<: *BusinessPartner2  

      Consortiums:
          TwoPartnerConsortium:
              Organizations:
                  - *BusinessPartner1
                  - *BusinessPartner2
  TwoOrgChannel:
    Consortium: TwoPartnerConsortium 
    Application:
        <<: *ApplicationDefaults
        Organizations:
           - <<: *BusinessPartner1
           - <<: *BusinessPartner2

the result for following file :

input :

configtxgen -outputCreateChannelTx ./TwoOrgChannel.tx -profile TwoPartnerGenesis -channelID channel01

output :

configtxgen -outputCreateChannelTx ./TwoOrgChannel.tx -profile TwoPartnerGenesis -channelID channel01
2018-12-20 12:30:29.818 IST [common/tools/configtxgen] main -> INFO 001 Loading configuration
2018-12-20 12:30:29.824 IST [common/tools/configtxgen] doOutputChannelCreateTx -> INFO 002 Generating new channel configtx
2018-12-20 12:30:29.824 IST [common/tools/configtxgen] main -> CRIT 003 Error on outputChannelCreateTx: config update generation failure: cannot define a new channel with no Consortium value

please anyone help me to identify the error. thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Try this:

configtxgen -outputCreateChannelTx ./TwoOrgChannel.tx -profile TwoOrgChannel -channelID channel01

I think you selected the wrong profile to create the channel transaction