From 13893feb5ca0ce64f5a84709afd06f2239f3e6b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guillaume Ballet <3272758+gballet@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 21 May 2026 15:38:45 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix tests

---
 cmd/geth/consolecmd_test.go | 5 ++---
 cmd/geth/run_test.go        | 7 +------
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/cmd/geth/consolecmd_test.go b/cmd/geth/consolecmd_test.go
index 12ee7e7dd1..2c8522d109 100644
--- a/cmd/geth/consolecmd_test.go
+++ b/cmd/geth/consolecmd_test.go
@@ -51,10 +51,9 @@ func runMinimalGeth(t *testing.T, args ...string) *testgeth {
 // then terminated by closing the input stream.
 func TestConsoleWelcome(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
-	coinbase := "0x8605cdbbdb6d264aa742e77020dcbc58fcdce182"
 
 	// Start a geth console, make sure it's cleaned up and terminate the console
-	geth := runMinimalGeth(t, "--miner.etherbase", coinbase, "console")
+	geth := runMinimalGeth(t, "console")
 
 	// Gather all the infos the welcome message needs to contain
 	geth.SetTemplateFunc("goos", func() string { return runtime.GOOS })
@@ -98,7 +97,7 @@ func TestAttachWelcome(t *testing.T) {
 	p := trulyRandInt(1024, 65533) // Yeah, sometimes this will fail, sorry :P
 	httpPort = strconv.Itoa(p)
 	wsPort = strconv.Itoa(p + 1)
-	geth := runMinimalGeth(t, "--miner.etherbase", "0x8605cdbbdb6d264aa742e77020dcbc58fcdce182",
+	geth := runMinimalGeth(t,
 		"--ipcpath", ipc,
 		"--http", "--http.port", httpPort,
 		"--ws", "--ws.port", wsPort)
diff --git a/cmd/geth/run_test.go b/cmd/geth/run_test.go
index 1d32880325..f75e32f570 100644
--- a/cmd/geth/run_test.go
+++ b/cmd/geth/run_test.go
@@ -32,8 +32,7 @@ type testgeth struct {
 	*cmdtest.TestCmd
 
 	// template variables for expect
-	Datadir   string
-	Etherbase string
+	Datadir string
 }
 
 func init() {
@@ -75,10 +74,6 @@ func runGeth(t *testing.T, args ...string) *testgeth {
 			if i < len(args)-1 {
 				tt.Datadir = args[i+1]
 			}
-		case "--miner.etherbase":
-			if i < len(args)-1 {
-				tt.Etherbase = args[i+1]
-			}
 		}
 	}
 	if tt.Datadir == "" {