# Problem with vault

**URL:** <https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/problem-with-vault/58052>\
**Category:** Vault\
**Created:** [September 7, 2023, 10:02pm UTC](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/problem-with-vault/58052 "2023-09-07T22:02:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![dabvastur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@dabvastur](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/u/dabvastur)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2023, 10:02pm UTC](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/problem-with-vault/58052/1 "2023-09-07T22:02:39Z")

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Hello there!

In advanced, I very appreciate your help. Right now, i’m using Vault for store secrets but two days ago I’m facing an issue with Vault because the pods are not initializing and also I have this error `* core: barrier reports initialized but no seal configuration found`. I can’t do anything because I got this error, I tried with: vault status, vault operator init, and a lot of other commands with the same result.

This one is my config:

```auto
disable_mlock = true
ui = true

listener "tcp" {
  tls_disable = 1
  address = "[::]:8200"
  cluster_address = "[::]:8201"
}
storage "gcs" {
  bucket = "vault-storage-prod"
  ha_enabled = "true"
}

service_registration "kubernetes" {}

seal "gcpckms" {
  project = "core-delivery-platform-prod"
  region = "us-east4"
  key_ring = "vault-key-ring"
  crypto_key = "vault-crypto-key"
}

telemetry {
 prometheus_retention_time = "30s",
 disable_hostname = true
}

```

Basically I’m using GCP GCS for storage and GCP KMS for seal. I already test if the pods have the capability to get KMS crypto keys and also the files from GCS.

Can you help me with that please? I recover the secrets but I need figure it out what happened for fix or make sure not happen again.

Thanks in advance!

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**Author:** ![maxb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hashicorp/user_avatar/discuss.hashicorp.com/maxb/32/26655_2.png) [@maxb](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/u/maxb)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2023, 11:40am UTC](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/problem-with-vault/58052/2 "2023-09-09T11:40:22Z")

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The error message suggests that critical Vault data in the storage backend somehow went missing. If I understand the code correctly, it’s saying that `core/seal-config` is missing from the storage, which should be impossible once Vault has been initialized.