Consul: Mismatching encryption key error message

Created on 8 Jun 2015 · 8Comments · Source: hashicorp/consul

It would be helpful to get a more descriptive error message when joining a cluster with the wrong encryption key. Right now this is the output I get from my agent as it fails to connect

==> Starting Consul agent...
==> Starting Consul agent RPC...
==> Joining cluster...
==> EOF

Something simple like

Invalid encryption key

would be very helpful

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koliyo

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+2 (hours ... the time I lost because of this)
Also add a message when you dont enter the encryption key at all

MansM on 5 May 2016

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Agreed, thanks!

ryanuber on 8 Jun 2015

johntdyer on 29 Dec 2015

+2 (hours ... the time I lost because of this)
Also add a message when you dont enter the encryption key at all

MansM on 5 May 2016

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+1 faced the same issue
more detailed message would be great!

Mehonoshin on 7 Jun 2016

DjinnS on 10 Jun 2016

awwithro on 8 Jul 2016

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logie17 on 18 Jul 2016

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+1, its ridiculous that there isn't a more coherent error message for this. So many people have lost so much time from the ominous "EOF" error. Fix this in the next release, PLEASE.