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CLI error logs are lost

Open xSAVIKx opened this issue 2 years ago • 2 comments

The problem

So I'm using the API to perform some automation with 10-20 different numbers and have started seeing 400 responses from the API recently.

I went into the container and enabled debug mode as noted here. With the debug mode I started seeing the following logs on top of the standard ones:

DEBU[689216] If you want to run this command manually, run the following steps on your host system:
DEBU[689216] *) docker exec -it / /bin/bash
DEBU[689216] *) su signal-api
DEBU[689216] *) signal-cli-native --config /home/.local/share/signal-cli --output json -a <PHONE_NUMBER> listGroups -d

And that's great help already, but if I go and execute the abovementioned command I actually receive the following error message from the CLI:

signal-api@signal-rest-api-1:/$ signal-cli-native --config /home/.local/share/signal-cli --output json -a <PHONE_NUMBER> listGroups -d
INFO  AccountHelper - The Signal protocol expects that incoming messages are regularly received.
Error while checking account <PHONE_NUMBER>: [401] Authorization failed!

So the problem here is that the API essentially swallows somehow the actual error response from the CLI and that actual response is very very helpful for multiple reasons.

Is there any configuration or a technique that will allow to get the actual error text from the CLI response and at least print it to the logs. But ideally also get that response text and send it back as the HTTP response body/header.

Are you using the latest released version?

  • [ ] Yes

Have you read the troubleshooting page?

  • [X] Yes

What type of installation are you running?

signal-cli-rest-api Docker Container

In which mode are you using the docker container?

Native Mode

What's the architecture of your host system?

x86-64

Additional information

No response

xSAVIKx avatar May 11 '23 18:05 xSAVIKx

If I understood you correctly, then the cli returned Error while checking account <PHONE_NUMBER>: [401] Authorization failed!, which isn't shown in the API response, right? Do you maybe can post the response from the API here too.

bbernhard avatar May 11 '23 18:05 bbernhard

If I understood you correctly, then the cli returned Error while checking account <PHONE_NUMBER>: [401] Authorization failed!, which isn't shown in the API response, right? Do you maybe can post the response from the API here too.

I have no access to that log file anymore, but API response was just 400 with no particular details.

xSAVIKx avatar May 11 '23 20:05 xSAVIKx