Patch shipped: v1.6.721 — Logging in after an update, and the Portainer password file
Posted by Chris
These SparkBox updates are now available: v1.6.721 — Logging in after an update, and the Portainer password file - You can sign in again right after a dashboard-only update. That quicker update ran as the system user and left the folder holding your sign-in sessions owned by it, so the dashboard could no longer write there and login failed with a permissions error on a box that had been working a minute earlier. The update now hands that folder back before it finishes. - The media pipeline widget stops reporting a missing Portainer secret. If the saved admin password file was left empty — an update or a restore interrupted part way — SparkBox treated it as fine and started Portainer with a blank password, which Portainer refuses, so the error came back every time. An empty file is now filled in from the password SparkBox already recorded for you, before Portainer starts. - The rule that keeps the dashboard's own pages from being compressed — the cause of the blank white dashboard fixed in v1.6.71 — is now covered by a test, so it cannot quietly come back. Update from the SparkBox dashboard, or run sudo sparkbox upgrade on your SparkBox host. If a problem remains after updating, submit a private support ticket or reply here. Include your SparkBox version and what you see; leave passwords and licence keys out.