I greet you from Kiel, Europe. Thanks for your time to read my issue!
My YunoHost server
Hardware: Old computer (Zotac Mini PC, amd64) YunoHost version: 4.3.2.2 I have access to my server : direct access via keyboard / screen Are you in a special context or did you perform some particular tweaking on your YunoHost instance ? : no
Description of my issue
Logging in yunohost-api does not work through the API anymore.
When I try to login, I get “Missing credentials parameter”.
What still works:
I do have direct access to my server. Logging in there and using the command line tools still works. Also, all my services still work. (matrix and xmpp messenger, nextcloud - matrix-coturn server does not work but it also did not work before, I did not get it running yet, even though port 5349 is forwarded for UDP and TCP)
Some background and diagnosis for my server:
I am using the server for more than one year now without major problems. The problems occurred right after trying to update and upgrade the last time. I did finish the updates and upgrades through the command line in the mean time though - latest update from just today, November 14th.
a) I restarted my yunohost server.
b) I restarted the services yunohost-api, yunohost-firewall, synapse-coturn. This works with a “Success! Service ‘xyz’ restarted” feedback. Still, the diagnosis afterwards would not change.
I am not sure whether I provided all necessary information. If anything is missing, please let me know - I will provide it. Thanks for any advice in advance!
Meh I don’t understand why so many people experience this issue … The usual answer is to try to force refresh the browser cache (Ctrl+F5, or Ctrl+Shift+R) but many people reported that this did not fix the issue … Alternatively trying with a different browser, or in private browsing, but here again, people reporting that this did not fix the issue …
i don’t know how comfortable you are with tinkering, but if you want to investigate, open Firefox debugger with F12, go to network tab, then try to log in … you should see something like a POST /login request, and in the payload/request you should see that it contains credentials: your password
(and the bug supposedly is that it doesnt contains that credentials … which could happen if you were to be still using the code from yunohost-admin <= 4.2, but considering that you refreshed the cache and tried with other browsers, should not happen …)
That’s still pretty mysterious unfortunately … But in relation to another bug : could it be that your password contains some accented chars maybe, or “non-regular special characters” … like, any special character that’s no in the ASCII range … for example # = { } - & " _ | ! ? are usual special characters, but stuff like  Ŀ ← Œ ¢ “ ⋅ arent ?
Hi Aleks,
that actually seems to have been the issue. It did contain special characters and after changing it I can access my api again. Thank you so much and sorry for that, I could have thought of this myself!!
Very happy greetings from Kiel,
Adrian
