Hmbown/CodeWhale · error

failed to delete stored credentials for: {}

Error message

failed to delete stored credentials for: {}

What it means

Error "failed to delete stored credentials for: {}" thrown in Hmbown/CodeWhale.

Source

Thrown at crates/tui/src/config.rs:11710

            "credential.clear",
            json!({
                "backend": "config_file",
                "config_path": config_path.display().to_string(),
                "scope": "root_and_provider_keys",
            }),
        );
    }

    // The config scrub alone leaves the durable secret-store credential
    // alive, and the read chain prefers the secret store over the file, so a
    // "cleared" key silently came back on the next launch (#5196). Delete
    // every provider slot too, symmetric with CLI logout (#5159). This runs
    // even when the config file is absent: the slot survives independently
    // of the file.
    if let Some(secrets) = credential_secret_store() {
        let failures = clear_all_provider_api_keys_from_secret_store(&secrets);
        if !failures.is_empty() {
            anyhow::bail!(
                "failed to delete stored credentials for: {}",
                failures.join(", ")
            );
        }
    }

    Ok(())
}

/// Delete the credential slot of every provider that has one stored.
///
/// Mirrors the CLI logout helper (#5159): each slot is probed first so
/// backends that error on deleting a missing item stay quiet, slots shared
/// by several providers (e.g. the historical `siliconflow` slot) are deleted
/// once, and every deletion failure is returned as a human-readable entry so
/// the caller can fail loudly instead of claiming a clean logout while
/// credentials linger in the store (#5196).
fn clear_all_provider_api_keys_from_secret_store(

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When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at crates/tui/src/config.rs:11710 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

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