There was a problem using init data: credentials could not be decrypted

[sabal-sinha]

Describe the problem/error/question

Can not view or use credential

What is the error message (if any)?

There was a problem using init data: credentials could not be decrypted

Please share your workflow/screenshots/recording

(Select the nodes on your canvas and use the keyboard shortcuts CMD+C/CTRL+C and CMD+V/CTRL+V to copy and paste the workflow.)

Share the output returned by the last node

Debug info

core

• n8nVersion: 1.75.2
• platform: npm
• nodeJsVersion: 20.18.1
• database: postgres
• executionMode: regular
• concurrency: -1
• license: community

storage

• success: all
• error: all
• progress: false
• manual: true
• binaryMode: memory

pruning

• enabled: true
• maxAge: 336 hours
• maxCount: 10000 executions

client

• userAgent: mozilla/5.0 (windows nt 10.0; win64; x64) applewebkit/537.36 (khtml, like gecko) chrome/132.0.0.0 safari/537.36
• isTouchDevice: false

Generated at: 2025-01-30T07:43:42.429Z}

[Joffcom]

Hey @sabal-sinha,

We have created an internal ticket to look into this which we will be tracking as "GHC-668"

[Joffcom]

Hey @sabal-sinha

Have you recently redeployed n8n or tried changing the encryption key?

Is this also impacting all credentials or just new / old ones?

[nirkons]

im on 1.74.3 and updating to a later version also exhibits this behaviour, rolling back restores functionaity.
I did not change the encryption key.

it aplies to all credentials, i didnt try adding a new credentials i had to roll back to restore my flows

[Joffcom]

Hey @nirkons,

Do you have the same issue on 1.77? It might be worth making a copy of the /home/node/.n8n/config file so you can at least manually set the config key to get it working if needed.

Out of interest @sabal-sinha and @nirkons are you both using npm and Windows?

[nirkons]

Hey @nirkons,

Do you have the same issue on 1.77? It might be worth making a copy of the /home/node/.n8n/config file so you can at least manually set the config key to get it working if needed.

Out of interest @sabal-sinha and @nirkons are you both using npm and Windows?

no, this ubuntu 22.04 running on docker