No application encryption key has been specified

[skubi23t]

Describe the bug
My app stopped working after some update and in logs there is an error:

"No application encryption key has been specified"

Logs
[2023-09-25 19:49:44] production.ERROR: No application encryption key has been specified. {"exception":"[object] (Illuminate\Encryption\MissingAppKeyException(code: 0): No application encryption key has been specified. at /var/www/html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Encryption/EncryptionServiceProvider.php:79)
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[stacktrace]
#0 /var/www/html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Support/helpers.php(307): Illuminate\Encryption\EncryptionServiceProvider->Illuminate\Encryption\{closure}()
#1 /var/www/html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Encryption/EncryptionServiceProvider.php(77): tap()
#2 /var/www/html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Encryption/EncryptionServiceProvider.php(60): Illuminate\Encryption\EncryptionServiceProvider->key()
#3 /var/www/html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Encryption/EncryptionServiceProvider.php(32): Illuminate\Encryption\EncryptionServiceProvider->parseKey()
#4 /var/www/html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/Container.php(908): Illuminate\Encryption\EncryptionServiceProvider->Illuminate\Encryption\{closure}()
#5 /var/www/html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/Container.php(795): Illuminate\Container\Container->build()
#6 /var/www/html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Application.php(937): Illuminate\Container\Container->resolve()
#7 /var/www/html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/Container.php(731): Illuminate\Foundation\Application->resolve()
#8 /var/www/html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Application.php(922): Illuminate\Container\Container->make()
#9 /var/www/html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/Container.php(1066): Illuminate\Foundation\Application->make()
#10 /var/www/html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/Container.php(982): Illuminate\Container\Container->resolveClass()
#11 /var/www/html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/Container.php(943): Illuminate\Container\Container->resolveDependencies()
#13 /var/www/html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Application.php(937): Illuminate\Container\Container->resolve()
#12 /var/www/html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/Container.php(795): Illuminate\Container\Container->build()
#14 /var/www/html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/Container.php(731): Illuminate\Foundation\Application->resolve()
#15 /var/www/html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Application.php(922): Illuminate\Container\Container->make()
#16 /var/www/html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Http/Kernel.php(255): Illuminate\Foundation\Application->make()
#17 /var/www/html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Http/Kernel.php(213): Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Kernel->terminateMiddleware()
#18 /var/www/html/public/index.php(55): Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Kernel->terminate()
#19 {main}
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Additional context

Is there anything I can do to fix?

[alexjustesen]

What version are you running? APP_KEY is now generated on startup as of 0.12.0

[skubi23t]

com.docker.compose.config-hash	df01b913d0a7c3f325f67fc0004d0b1aa850f1a1ff95049e75ef7d6742ec53d0
com.docker.compose.container-number	1
com.docker.compose.depends_on	db:service_started:false
com.docker.compose.image	sha256:7cf430ee7fe5876401ded70405c3291402c2c31a6c53003a4f27bc34cbc8c6b2
com.docker.compose.oneoff	False
com.docker.compose.project	speedtest-tracker
com.docker.compose.project.config_files	/data/compose/15/docker-compose.yml
com.docker.compose.project.working_dir	/data/compose/15
com.docker.compose.replace	431c937473792db571a640e293a19291d200f2cc65f5d7ad6a0b6a2568edddb9
com.docker.compose.service	speedtest-tracker
com.docker.compose.version	2.20.2
maintainer	Jay Rogers (@jaydrogers)
org.opencontainers.image.created	2023-09-22T16:36:18.585Z
org.opencontainers.image.description	Speedtest Tracker is a self-hosted internet performance tracking application that runs speedtest checks against Ookla's Speedtest service.
org.opencontainers.image.licenses	MIT
org.opencontainers.image.ref.name	ubuntu
org.opencontainers.image.revision	2796405
org.opencontainers.image.source	https://github.com/alexjustesen/speedtest-tracker
org.opencontainers.image.title	speedtest-tracker
org.opencontainers.image.url	https://github.com/alexjustesen/speedtest-tracker
org.opencontainers.image.version	v0.12.2

[skubi23t]

I had to do this manually and now it works fine..

https://docs.speedtest-tracker.dev/faqs#i-get-a-warning-on-container-start-up-that-the-app_key-is-missing

[alexjustesen]

There is an issue with caching env vars I'm aware of that can cause this issue randomly but haven't had time to resolve that yet. Going to close this out as I'm tracking that separately and looks like you're all set.