SEVERE bug in Dashy - looping reinstall after adding basic auth to conf.yml

[don-ferris]

Environment

Self-Hosted (Docker)

System

Mint 21.3

Version

3.1.1

Describe the problem

I put the finishing touches on Dashy while I was at work today. Had everything right where I wanted it including customizing the colors on Material Dark theme. A couple hours and I went back to it, expecting to be logged out. At that point, I realized there was no login. So I went to the docs and realized this is not a default feature in Dashy. So I added basic auth as per the instructions in the docs. Logged in and logged out a couple times - great!

I came back to it an hour or so later and I couldn’t get to it. I mean it was just down. So I came home and accessed it locally. I got a screen saying Dashy was ”Initializing”… And when it finished, I got all my groups - but they were empty; no items. When I logged in, one of my groups (the one I setup a couple days ago) had items in it but none of the groups I’ve created/populated since then.

So I restarted the container, hoping for the best. When it came up, I got the “ Initializing”. When it finished and I logged in, same result - all my groups empty except for the one I setup a couple days ago. Now I was curious, so I restarted the container again. “ Initializing” screen AGAIN.

Everything worked great ‘til I added the basic auth.

Additional info

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[CrazyWolf13]

Hmm that kinda sounds like a caching issue, could you try clearing cache and cookies?

[don-ferris]

Done. Same result.

[CrazyWolf13]

Could you post your conf.yml, and your log?

[don-ferris]

I'm unclear on "log". Is that the name of the file? Can you tell me where exactly to find it? conf.yml: pageInfo: title: Mission Control description: Donnie Ferris's Homelab navLinks:

• title: Bookmarks path: https://bookmarks.donferris.me target: newtab
• title: Documentation path: https://dashy.to/docs target: newtab appConfig: theme: material-dark layout: horizontal iconSize: small startingView: default defaultOpeningMethod: newtab statusCheck: true statusCheckInterval: 60 faviconApi: allesedv routingMode: history enableMultiTasking: false widgetsAlwaysUseProxy: false webSearch: disableWebSearch: false searchEngine: duckduckgo openingMethod: newtab searchBangs: {} enableFontAwesome: true enableMaterialDesignIcons: false hideComponents: hideHeading: false hideNav: false hideSearch: false hideSettings: false hideFooter: false auth: users:
  • user: admin hash: 14656ad68233df29c17dd8e462f063c22fb1318 type: admin
  • user: guest hash: 8be0b5445fca6eb16d14c6f4eaff1cf1d1a3362 enableGuestAccess: true enableOidc: false oidc: {} enableHeaderAuth: false headerAuth: userHeader: REMOTE_USER proxyWhitelist: [] enableKeycloak: false showSplashScreen: false preventWriteToDisk: false preventLocalSave: false disableConfiguration: false disableConfigurationForNonAdmin: false allowConfigEdit: true enableServiceWorker: false disableContextMenu: false disableUpdateChecks: false disableSmartSort: false enableErrorReporting: false sections:
    • name: Management displayData: sortBy: default rows: 1 cols: 1 collapsed: false hideForGuests: true items:
  • title: Lab Docs icon: fas fa-file url: https://labdocs.donferris.me id: 0_1021_labdocs icon: fas fa-wrench
    • name: Services icon: fas fa-bolt displayData: sortBy: default rows: 1 cols: 1 collapsed: false hideForGuests: false items: []
    • name: Websites icon: fas fa-atom displayData: sortBy: default rows: 1 cols: 1 collapsed: false hideForGuests: false items: []
    • name: Media icon: fas fa-film fas fa-music displayData: sortBy: default rows: 1 cols: 1 collapsed: false hideForGuests: false items: []
    • name: Dashy icon: fas fa-rocket items:
  • title: Dashy Live description: Development a project management links for Dashy icon: https://i.ibb.co/qWWpD0v/astro-dab-128.png url: https://live.dashy.to/ target: newtab id: 0_505_dashylive
  • title: GitHub description: Source Code, Issues and Pull Requests url: https://github.com/lissy93/dashy icon: favicon id: 1_505_github
  • title: Docs description: Configuring & Usage Documentation provider: Dashy.to icon: far fa-book url: https://dashy.to/docs id: 2_505_docs
  • title: Showcase description: See how others are using Dashy url: https://github.com/Lissy93/dashy/blob/master/docs/showcase.md icon: far fa-grin-hearts id: 3_505_showcase
  • title: Config Guide description: See full list of configuration options url: https://github.com/Lissy93/dashy/blob/master/docs/configuring.md icon: fas fa-wrench id: 4_505_configguide
  • title: Support description: Get help with Dashy, raise a bug, or get in contact url: https://github.com/Lissy93/dashy/blob/master/.github/SUPPORT.md icon: far fa-hands-helping id: 5_505_support displayData: sortBy: default rows: 1 cols: 1 collapsed: true hideForGuests: false ` That was a little difficult. I got it through a shell executed from Portainer and I had to copy and paste it 25 lines at a time. So I left out the custom colors section which I assume you don't really need.

[Lissy93]

If you role back your most recent change, does everything work again? If clearing browser data didn't help, killing and restarting the container should fix it.

Rest assured, your config data should be fine, and unaffected. Dashy won't write anything to that file without you saving changes, and backups are always made in the user-data dir.

[liss-bot]

Issue closed due to no response from user.