Vault 1.9.1 worked great forever but suddenly won't start ui

Vault
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running vault 1.9.1 for a while.

suddenly stopped allowing us to run the UI?

certificate is not expired.
binary is unchanged.

can’t find anything anywhere describing what might be occurring.

closest thing was people on homebrew w/same error, but running hashicorp vault github binary on alpine linux. same config for over a year. the server seems to start, it just won’t open UI. we wrote some docs to explain how to use it but they don’t work w/out the ui.

(please don’t respond telling us to use CLI, appreciate that thx)

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What does “suddenly stopped allowing us to run the UI?” mean?

Put the server in debug mode and see what the log says when trying to access it.

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sorry, when we go to the vault ui (eg /ui/vault), instead of seeing the normal login, we see message:

“Vault UI is not available in this binary.”

There is no error in console.

We’ve been using vault UI for some time now through this binary, so I’m a little confused how it could just shutoff when it’s same exe and config.

Running in test mode is a good idea to try to get more information.

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ok didn’t figure out why this suddenlly happened but did find a solution.

just updated the binary download url and forced a new download, restarted and message went away.

5

Most likely Vault was restarted without the

ui = true

in the config file. That’s how you get that message.

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while it’s true not enabling the ui could cause that message, not issue here. our config is in version control and ‘ui = true’ has not changed since the first checkin. also restarting it did not solve issue.

this message can also be caused by running a build w/out ui support compiled in, but also was not case as we’ve used this binary w/UI for months.

thinking our source binary got corrupted somehow is most likely culprit, since re-downloading fixed issued.

i’ve looked for a way to mark this issue as ‘resolved’, but i can’t find one.

I’ll just say, this issue was SOLVED / RESOLVED: re-downloaded 1.9.1 release.

thx