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Can't send any amount of eth, "gas required exceeds allowance or always failing transaction" #21007

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@l4zygreed

After updating geth to latest version, can't send any amount of eth

System information

Geth version: 1.9.13-stable
OS & Version: CentOS 7

Expected behaviour

Could send 0.001-0.0046 eth to another address from account with 0.005 eth

Actual behaviour

Always getting error like
gas required exceeds allowance (%amount%) or always failing transaction

> web3.fromWei(eth.getBalance('0xae6c49f8e7dcd277067fa79422a3b7e7ddb8e368'), 'ether')
0.00505881

> eth.sendTransaction({from: '0xae6c49f8e7dcd277067fa79422a3b7e7ddb8e368', to: '0xe205B0ea9A15538Eb4DDCd40267bf19189B6D23a', value: web3.toWei(0.0015,'ether')})
Error: gas required exceeds allowance (9975503) or always failing transaction
	at web3.js:6347:37(47)
	at web3.js:5081:62(37)
	at <eval>:1:20(15)

eth.estimateGas({from: '0xae6c49f8e7dcd277067fa79422a3b7e7ddb8e368', to: '0xe205B0ea9A15538Eb4DDCd40267bf19189B6D23a', value: web3.toWei(0.0015,'ether')})
21000

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