{"record":{"id":"e766725499b5587f","repo":"tailscale/tailscale","slug":"error-clearing-previous-state-from-secret-w","errorCode":null,"errorMessage":"error clearing previous state from Secret: %w","messagePattern":"error clearing previous state from Secret: %w","errorType":"exception","errorClass":null,"httpStatus":null,"severity":"error","filePath":"cmd/containerboot/main.go","lineNumber":382,"sourceCode":"\tif isOneStepConfig(cfg) {\n\t\ttailscaledConfigAuthkey = authkey.AuthKeyFromConfig(cfg.TailscaledConfigFilePath)\n\t}\n\n\tvar kc *kubeClient\n\tif cfg.KubeSecret != \"\" {\n\t\tkc, err = newKubeClient(cfg.Root, cfg.KubeSecret)\n\t\tif err != nil {\n\t\t\treturn fmt.Errorf(\"error initializing kube client: %w\", err)\n\t\t}\n\t\tif err := cfg.setupKube(bootCtx, kc); err != nil {\n\t\t\treturn fmt.Errorf(\"error setting up for running on Kubernetes: %w\", err)\n\t\t}\n\t\t// Clear out any state from previous runs of containerboot. Check\n\t\t// hasKubeStateStore because although we know we're in kube, that\n\t\t// doesn't guarantee the state store is properly configured.\n\t\tif hasKubeStateStore(cfg) {\n\t\t\tif err := kc.resetContainerbootState(bootCtx, cfg.PodUID, tailscaledConfigAuthkey); err != nil {\n\t\t\t\treturn fmt.Errorf(\"error clearing previous state from Secret: %w\", err)\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t}\n\t}\n\n\tclient, daemonProcess, err := startTailscaled(bootCtx, cfg)\n\tif err != nil {\n\t\treturn fmt.Errorf(\"failed to bring up tailscale: %w\", err)\n\t}\n\tkillTailscaled := func() {\n\t\t// The default termination grace period for a Pod is 30s. We wait 25s at\n\t\t// most so that we still reserve some of that budget for tailscaled\n\t\t// to receive and react to a SIGTERM before the SIGKILL that k8s\n\t\t// will send at the end of the grace period.\n\t\tctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 25*time.Second)\n\t\tdefer cancel()\n\n\t\t// we are shutting down, we always want to unadvertise here\n\t\tif err := services.EnsureServicesNotAdvertised(ctx, client, log.Printf); err != nil {","sourceCodeStart":364,"sourceCodeEnd":400,"githubUrl":"https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/blob/cfe32b8be6a33f8e24fbc369cbfbf7c729d9e042/cmd/containerboot/main.go#L364-L400","documentation":"Error \"error clearing previous state from Secret: %w\" thrown in tailscale/tailscale.","triggerScenarios":"Thrown at cmd/containerboot/main.go:382 when the library encounters an invalid state.","commonSituations":"See trigger scenarios.","solutions":[],"exampleFix":null,"handlingStrategy":null,"validationCode":null,"typeGuard":null,"tryCatchPattern":null,"preventionTips":[],"tags":[],"backgroundTag":null,"analyzedSha":"cfe32b8be6a33f8e24fbc369cbfbf7c729d9e042","analyzedAt":"2026-08-15T19:58:31.583Z","schemaVersion":2},"datasetVersion":"2026-08-15T22:17:37.221Z"}