Sudden Importer Error {"message":"Unauthenticated","exception":"AuthenticationException"}

[electricmessiah]

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Description

This just started happening. Nothing changed on my end. Firefly sits idle until I use it every biweekly. Never had a problem with the importer before. I restarted the stack of all containers, regenerated the Personal Access Token, but the importer never sees the new token and just fails with this error.

Debug information

{"message":"Unauthenticated","exception":"AuthenticationException"}
Error accessing "http://192.168.1.33:81/api/v1/about?". Status code is 401. Body is: {"message":"Unauthenticated","exception":"AuthenticationException"}

Expected behaviour

Function as it did before this sudden issue.

Steps to reproduce

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Additional info

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System information
Item	Value
Firefly III	6.1.9 / v2.0.12 / 22 (exp. 22)
PHP version	8.3.2 / apache2handler / Linux
BCscale	12
Error reporting	Display: Off, reporting: ALL errors
Max upload	67108864 (64 MB)
Database drivers	*mysql*, pgsql, sqlite,
Docker build	#957, base #79

Firefly III information
Item	Value
Timezone	America/New_York + America/New_York
App environment	local, debug: false
Layout	v1
Logging	notice, stack / (empty)
Cache driver	file
Default language and locale	en_US + equal
Trusted proxies
Login provider & user guard	eloquent / web
Login headers	N/A + N/A
Stateful domains
Last cron job	2024-06-14 00:00:00 (1 day ago)
Mailer	log

User-specific information
Item	Value
User	#3 of 2
User flags	📧
Session start	2024-03-17 00:00:00
Session end	2024-06-15 23:59:59
View range	last90
User language	en_US
User locale	en_US
Locale(s) supported	en_US.utf8: ✅ en_US.UTF-8: ✅
User agent	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:126.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/126.0

[electricmessiah]

Any ideas on how I can further debug this problem?

[BoGnY]

Same problem, I have resolved regenerating token and updating .env file of importer with the new token 👍🏻

[electricmessiah]

FIREFLY_III_ACCESS_TOKEN

Ok, I got it now. It's been a while. Thanks!

I've restarted containers plenty of times before and never run into this issue. This is the first time I've seen it. Is there a known cause for the FIREFLY_III_ACCESS_TOKEN getting corrupted, reset, or whatever the issue is?

[BreizhHardware]

Hello, I come after the battle, I have the same issue but in my .env of my forefmy i don't find any FIREFLY_III_ACCESS_TOKEN ? I'm a wrong and it's the same as the APP_KEY ?

[BreizhHardware]

Nevermind I'm just stupid

[JC5]

idk about that but I'm glad you found it 😊

[BreizhHardware]

I was thinking that in the importer the FIREFLY_III_ACCESS_TOKEN was the APP_KEY from firefly instead of a token that you create in your profile

[goebeler]

I am running into the exact same message when I try to import via POST. Using the Importer's UI works just fine. I am running everything in docker containers.

Here's some log messages:
curl output when trying to submit a csv and a json file to import:

2024-10-17 22:28:56: Overrule token with token from Authorization header.
2024-10-17 22:28:56: Trying to connect to http://app:8080...
2024-10-17 22:28:56: The last 25 chars of the access token are: 0Odqnc9ia0ZWiwO7Pqe_RJbrs
2024-10-17 22:28:56: Going to convert from file "/tmp/phphACafN" using configuration "/tmp/php9GtUNM" and flow "file".
2024-10-17 22:28:56: Import exception (see the logs): The default account in your configuration file (1) does not exist.

at the same time my docker containers produce the following messages:

firefly_iii_core      | 172.20.0.5 - - [17/Oct/2024:22:28:56 +0200] "GET /api/v1/about HTTP/1.1" 200 995 "-" "GuzzleHttp/7"
firefly_iii_core      | 172.20.0.5 - - [17/Oct/2024:22:28:56 +0200] "GET /api/v1/accounts/1 HTTP/1.1" 401 961 "-" "GuzzleHttp/7"
firefly_iii_importer  | [2024-10-17 22:28:56] local.ERROR: Error accessing "http://app:8080/api/v1/accounts/1?". Status code is 401. Body is: {"message":"Unauthenticated","exception":"AuthenticationException"}
firefly_iii_importer  | [2024-10-17 22:28:56] local.ERROR: The default account in your configuration file (1) does not exist.
firefly_iii_importer  | 172.20.0.6 - - [17/Oct/2024:22:28:56 +0200] "POST /autoupload?secret=VERYSECRET HTTP/1.1" 200 1585 "-" "curl/7.88.1"

[goebeler]

Just a hint: the access token is right. If I replace it with something obviously wrong or leave it out, the import already fails when trying to access /api/v1/about. Using the correct token I get past this point and it fails when trying to access the account information.

Could the reason be that I use a client Id for the front end but a personal access token for the POST request? Is there a way to use a clientId with a POST request?

[Chaos99]

Having the same issue. Generated new token and updated in the .env file, then re-started the containers. Error persists.
Issue turned up after not using Firefly for >half a year. Quite some OS updates in between, but shouldn't affect the container, right?
Did also update containers with a pull, but same error.
Firefly itself is working all right.