apache/answer · error

update password failed: %w

Error message

update password failed: %w

What it means

Fires in ResetPassword when userRepo.UpdatePass fails to persist the bcrypt hash for the user, i.e. the UPDATE against the user table errored (connection dropped, transaction failed, constraint/SQL error). The password was already validated and hashed; the failure is purely at the database write step.

Source

Thrown at internal/cli/reset_password.go:148

	} else {
		password, err = promptForPassword()
		if err != nil {
			return fmt.Errorf("password input failed: %w", err)
		}
	}

	if !confirmAction(fmt.Sprintf("This will reset password for user '[%s]%s'. Continue?", userInfo.DisplayName, email)) {
		fmt.Println("Operation cancelled")
		return nil
	}

	hashPwd, err := bcrypt.GenerateFromPassword([]byte(password), bcrypt.DefaultCost)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("encrypt password failed: %w", err)
	}

	if err = userRepo.UpdatePass(ctx, userInfo.ID, string(hashPwd)); err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("update password failed: %w", err)
	}

	authSvc.RemoveUserAllTokens(ctx, userInfo.ID)

	fmt.Printf("Password has been successfully updated for user: %s\n", email)
	fmt.Println("All login sessions have been cleared")

	return nil
}

// promptForPassword prompts for a password
func promptForPassword() (string, error) {
	for {
		input, err := getPasswordInput("Please input new password (empty to generate random password): ")
		if err != nil {
			return "", err
		}

View on GitHub (pinned to 3b9f137061)

Solutions

1. Inspect the wrapped error from userRepo.UpdatePass for the underlying cause (connection lost, constraint violation, user deleted concurrently)
2. Verify database connectivity and that the DB is writable (not read-only, no active lock/maintenance)
3. Confirm the user still exists (it may have been deleted between lookup and update) and retry the command
4. Check application logs and the database error around the same timestamp for more detail

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at internal/cli/reset_password.go:148 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of apache/answer@3b9f137061 (2026-09-05). Data as JSON: /api/errors/5b3703c360386b15. Report an issue: GitHub.