Better User facing message when credentials not found
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Current evaluation
Closed by facundobatista as out of scope for charmcraft: the "Prompt dismissed" InitError comes from a keyring crash in Craft Store, not missing credentials. Tracked upstream in canonical/craft-store#58.
Resolution: closed superseded
Reason: Maintainer closed the issue pointing to the upstream tracker, stating the failure is a keyring crash handled in Craft Store and cannot be improved in charmcraft. The equivalent work landed later in craft-store PR #390 (commit d87f1bd), which wraps keyring failures as KeyringUnlockError.
Evaluated by: mr-cal-bot
No scores available.
Issue body
Example:
`charmcraft upload-resource my-charm resource --filepath=/blah`
outputs
`charmcraft internal error: InitError('Failed to create the collection: Prompt dismissed..')
Full execution log: /home/<username>/snap/charmcraft/common/cache/charmcraft/log/charmcraft-<datetime>.log`
We need to use --verbose to see the login problem. It would be nice to have the output surface the core issue to the front.
Example of verbose output:
`charmcraft upload-resource my-charm resource --filepath=/blah --verbose
Starting charmcraft version 2.0.0
Logging execution to '/home/<username>/snap/charmcraft/common/cache/charmcraft/log/charmcraft-<datetime>.log
Uploading resource directly from file '/blah'.
Starting to push '/blah'
Uploading... (--->)
Uploading... (<---)
Credentials not found. Trying to log in...
charmcraft internal error: InitError('Failed to create the collection: Prompt dismissed..')
Full execution log: '/home/<username>/snap/charmcraft/common/cache/charmcraft/log/charmcraft-<datetime>.log'`
Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed superseded | Closed by facundobatista as out of scope for charmcraft: the "Prompt dismissed" InitError comes from a keyring crash in Craft Store, not missing credentials. Tracked upstream in canonical/craft-store#58. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed superseded | Reassigned to canonical/craft-store#58: maintainers traced the misleading error to a keyring crash, not failed credential lookup, and said the fix belonged in Craft Store. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed superseded | Closed as an upstream Craft Store keyring failure: tracking moved to canonical/craft-store#58 because Charmcraft was masking the underlying crash with a credentials error. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed superseded | Closed as a Craft Store keyring problem and superseded by canonical/craft-store#58, which was later handled through CRAFT-5223 and CRAFT-5224. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | Closed as superseded. The credential error originates from the Craft Store library's keyring handling, not charmcraft. Tracking moved to canonical/craft-store#58 for upstream resolution. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Closed as superseded. The error originates from a crash in the Craft Store library's keyring system rather than a missing message. Tracking redirected to canonical/craft-store#58 for resolution. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | Closed as superseded. The error originates from a crash in the underlying Craft Store keyring library, not charmcraft. Tracking moved to canonical/craft-store#58 for proper handling. |
Update history
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Related work
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Superseded By:
canonical/craft-store#58
(confidence 98%)
Explicitly cited in the closing comment as the place to track the keyring error-message problem
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Likely Fixed By:
canonical/craft-store#390
(confidence 70%)
Commit d87f1bd 'fix(auth): error more nicely on keyring errors' later addressed craft-store#58 upstream
Related issues
| Issue | Project | State | Summary | Similarity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #725 craft-store error when using `charmcraft login` command | charmcraft | closed | Confusing craft-store "Credentials found" error on `charmcraft login` (double login). Closed by facundobatista as tracked in the more specific #833, whose improved error landed via PR #916. | |
| #901 Charmcraft login on remote device has unhelpful error message | charmcraft | closed | Superseded by canonical/craft-store#58 and fixed there through PR #390 (d87f1bd), which converts keyring initialization failures into KeyringUnlockError. |