medusajs/medusa · error · MedusaError

User with id: ${id} was not found

Error message

User with id: ${id} was not found

What it means

Thrown by GET /admin/users/me when a user id exists in the auth context but no matching user row is found via remote query.

Source

Thrown at packages/medusa/src/api/admin/users/me/route.ts:32

  res: MedusaResponse<HttpTypes.AdminUserResponse>
) => {
  const id = req.auth_context.actor_id
  const remoteQuery = req.scope.resolve(ContainerRegistrationKeys.REMOTE_QUERY)

  if (!id) {
    throw new MedusaError(MedusaError.Types.NOT_FOUND, `User ID not found`)
  }

  const query = remoteQueryObjectFromString({
    entryPoint: "user",
    variables: { id },
    fields: req.queryConfig.fields,
  })

  const [user] = await remoteQuery(query)

  if (!user) {
    throw new MedusaError(
      MedusaError.Types.NOT_FOUND,
      `User with id: ${id} was not found`
    )
  }

  res.status(200).json({ user })
}

View on GitHub (pinned to 5e06e544a2)

Solutions

1. Verify the user exists in the user module and recreate if needed
2. Invalidate outstanding JWTs after deleting users
3. Re-authenticate to obtain a token tied to an existing user

catch (e) { if (e.type === 'not_found') logoutAndReauth() }

When it happens

Trigger: Valid JWT with an actor_id pointing to a deleted or nonexistent user; data drift between auth identities and the user module.

Common situations: User deleted directly in the database while tokens remain valid; user module data out of sync with auth module after imports or migrations.

Understand the failure class

Background: 'Could not be found', 'does not exist', 'not found in database': the resource-not-found family when an ID, slug, key, or URI lookup comes back empty — this error's family across 20 libraries.

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AI-assisted analysis of medusajs/medusa@5e06e544a2 (2026-08-27). Data as JSON: /api/errors/89f23d4abba6a4ab. Report an issue: GitHub.