Legacy credentials in Snapcraft 7 give a confusing error message

Metadata

Project: snapcraft (launchpad)
Number: #1980534
Type: issue
State: closed
Author: ~seb128
Labels: craft-1297
Created: 2022-07-01 03:06 PM UTC
Updated: 2024-07-23 06:08 PM UTC
Closed: 2024-07-23 06:08 PM UTC

Current evaluation

Closed without comments or explicit resolution. The confusing error message regarding the empty SNAPCRAFT_STORE_CREDENTIALS variable was not addressed.

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Issue body

snapcraft installed: 7.0.8 (7779) Trying to resolve 'login' not working and figure out how to refresh the credential (as reported on bug #1980533) $ snapcraft login Cannot login with 'SNAPCRAFT_STORE_CREDENTIALS' set. Recommended resolution: Unset 'SNAPCRAFT_STORE_CREDENTIALS' and try again. but $ echo $SNAPCRAFT_STORE_CREDENTIALS $

Evaluation history

Date	Model	Scores	Action	Summary
2026-09-11 09:48 PM UTC	qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b	—	—	Closed without comments or explicit resolution. The confusing error message regarding the empty SNAPCRAFT_STORE_CREDENTIALS variable was not addressed.
2026-07-23 01:49 PM UTC	qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b	—	—	Closed without resolution or comments, the report was likely abandoned or superseded by newer Snapcraft versions. No fix was implemented.

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#1995488 Cannot generate new credentials (snapcraft 7.2.2->4)	snapcraft (launchpad)	open	Bug: snapcraft login fails when SNAPCRAFT_STORE_CREDENTIALS is set; never triaged, 1401 days old	73%