Cannot register account ("Account already exists")

[angelo-v]

Solid Server Versions:

• 5.0.0-beta.2
• 5.0.0-beta.3
• 5.0.0-beta.4

Expected Behaviour: After setting up a solid server it should be possible to register an account

Actual Behaviour: When trying to register any account by submitting the registration form, the following error occurs: "Account already exists"

Steps to reproduce:

1. Visit https://angelo.veltens.org or set up your own solid-server on version 5.0.0-beta.3
2. Click Register
3. Fill out the registration form
4. Click Submit
5. See the mentioned error message on top of the page

[RubenVerborgh]

Are you in multiuser mode?

[angelo-v]

Since I did not enable it explicitly I guess not

[angelo-v]

This is the form data that is transmitted to api/accounts/new:

username: solid-demo
password: *******
repeat_password: *******
name: solid-demo
email: me@mail.example
externalWebId: 
returnToUrl: 
response_type: 
display: 
scope: 
client_id: 
redirect_uri: 
state: 
nonce: 
request: 

Is it correct, that the latter params are all empty?

[RubenVerborgh]

Yeah it’s the multiUser setting. Confusingly wrong error message. I’d recommend setting it up again.

[angelo-v]

I do not want to run in multiuser mode. So how do I disable it, and why is it enabled in the first place?

[RubenVerborgh]

Not enabled by default; but then you cannot sign up (another time).

[angelo-v]

But how can I sign up the first time?

[RubenVerborgh]

Mmm that is weird indeed.

[angelo-v]

Unfortunately the solid-server logs are quite silent... It's hard to find out what is going on. Is there some verbose mode or something?

[kjetilk]

Sorry, I want to introduce a multi-level logger for exactly these occasions, but we haven't gotten to that yet. I'll try to see if I can reproduce the behaviour when getting back to work on Monday.

[kjetilk]

Unfortunately the solid-server logs are quite silent... It's hard to find out what is going on. Is there some verbose mode or something?

Actually, up to recently, I had verbose output with no further ado, but for some reason, I now need to set an environment variable, e.g.

export DEBUG=solid:*

does that improve the logging situation for you, @angelo-v ?

[angelo-v]

Thanks, I tried that already, but didn't help. If you say it should, I will try again, to be sure I had no typo or something

[angelo-v]

Ok, got it working, but doesn't help that much:

 solid:accounts Canceling account creation, https://angelo.veltens.org/profile/card#me already exists 

[megoth]

I've been able to reproduce this bug (not being able to create accounts when server is set to singleuser; I'll look into this when I have time.