Jellyfin misleading credentials message

Posted by GamerX06

Hardware: Dell PowerEdge R730 OS: Linux ubuntu 6.17.9-1-pve 1 SMP PREEMPTDYNAMIC PMX 6.17.9-1 (2026-01-12T16:25Z) x8664 x8664 x8664 GNU/Linux SparkBox version: SparkBox v1.6.115 Module that's failing: dashboard itself VPN provider: Surfshark What you did: Clicked the Jellyfin launcher from the dashboard homepage What you expected: A credential I created or a message stating I made them manually What actually happened: (Credentials haven't been generated yet — the Media module is still finishing setup. We'll check again every few seconds and update this dialog automatically — no need to close and click again.) When it started: Since I completed the Jellyfin initial setup and made a password I can log in and access Jellyfin with the creds I had created, so this just seems to be a dashboard thing

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tomspark wrote:

Yeah, that's a dashboard bug, not a real problem with your setup — you proved it by logging into Jellyfin fine with the creds you made. The launcher's credentials-not-generated-yet check only knows about SparkBox-generated creds; when you set Jellyfin's admin up manually in its own wizard, the dashboard doesn't detect that and keeps showing the still-finishing-setup dialog. Nothing's broken and your media stack is fine — it's a cosmetic detection gap on our side. Logging it now so the launcher recognizes a manually-created Jellyfin account. Thanks for the clear writeup. (v1.6.115)