Issues starting a teku / reth node on sepolia

[rolfyone]

difficult to start teku / reth pair on sepolia due to the following error:

Unsure if it happens on other EL / CL, but does consistently apparently occur with teku / reth.

2024-12-09 05:21:13.723 INFO  - Quartz scheduler 'QuartzScheduler' initialized from an externally provided properties instance.
2024-12-09 05:21:13.723 INFO  - Quartz scheduler version: 2.3.2
2024-12-09 05:21:13.758 INFO  - Initializing storage
2024-12-09 05:21:14.118 INFO  - Storage initialization complete
2024-12-09 05:21:14.119 WARN  - Ignoring weak subjectivity period check (--ignore-weak-subjectivity-period-enabled). Syncing from outside of the weak subjectivity period is considered UNSAFE.
2024-12-09 05:21:14.134 INFO  - Loaded C-KZG-4844 library
2024-12-09 05:21:16.408 INFO  - BLS: loaded BLST library
2024-12-09 05:21:16.660 INFO  - Completed regeneration of state for block 0x42a176d41c1f497dcfe9a47d58ec5a78f1c787ba87dc1428afc7dcf46b6f82ed at slot 6496512 by replaying 30 blocks. Took 418ms
2024-12-09 05:21:16.858 INFO  - Execution Client is online
2024-12-09 05:21:16.892 INFO  - Loading generated p2p private key from: generated-node-key
2024-12-09 05:21:16.897 FATAL - Exiting due to fatal error in fork choice
java.util.concurrent.CompletionException: tech.pegasys.teku.infrastructure.exceptions.FatalServiceFailureException: Optimistic sync finalized an invalid transition block. Unable to recover.
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.encodeRelay(CompletableFuture.java:368) ~[?:?]
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.completeRelay(CompletableFuture.java:377) ~[?:?]
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture$UniCompose.tryFire(CompletableFuture.java:1152) ~[?:?]
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.postComplete(CompletableFuture.java:510) ~[?:?]
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.complete(CompletableFuture.java:2179) ~[?:?]
at tech.pegasys.teku.infrastructure.async.SafeFuture.lambda$propagateResult$3(SafeFuture.java:147) ~[teku-infrastructure-async-24.10.3.jar:24.10.3]
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.uniWhenComplete(CompletableFuture.java:863) ~[?:?]
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture$UniWhenComplete.tryFire(CompletableFuture.java:841) ~[?:?]
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.postComplete(CompletableFuture.java:510) ~[?:?]
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.complete(CompletableFuture.java:2179) ~[?:?]
Caused by: tech.pegasys.teku.infrastructure.exceptions.FatalServiceFailureException: Optimistic sync finalized an invalid transition block. Unable to recover.
at tech.pegasys.teku.statetransition.forkchoice.MergeTransitionBlockValidator.lambda$verifyFinalizedTransitionBlock$2(MergeTransitionBlockValidator.java:100) ~[teku-ethereum-statetransition-24.10.3.jar:24.10.3]
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture$UniCompose.tryFire(CompletableFuture.java:1150) ~[?:?]
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.postComplete(CompletableFuture.java:510) ~[?:?]
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.complete(CompletableFuture.java:2179) ~[?:?]
at tech.pegasys.teku.infrastructure.async.SafeFuture.lambda$propagateResult$3(SafeFuture.java:147) ~[teku-infrastructure-async-24.10.3.jar:24.10.3]
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.uniWhenComplete(CompletableFuture.java:863) ~[?:?]
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture$UniWhenComplete.tryFire(CompletableFuture.java:841) ~[?:?]
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.postComplete(CompletableFuture.java:510) ~[?:?]
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.complete(CompletableFuture.java:2179) ~[?:?]

Causing a customer significant issues, will put to top of current for investigation.