Failed to renew license error occured

Questions
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Describe the problem/error/question

I’m using n8n’s community edition, but the following error appears in the log.
Can I ignore this error log? Or do I need to do something extra to host the Self-hosted Community Edition?

What is the error message (if any)?

{
“level”: “error”,
“message”: “Failed to renew license: renewal failed because current cert is not initialized”,
“metadata”: {
“file”: “license.service.js”,
“function”: “mapErrorMessage”,
“stack”: “Error: renewal failed because current cert is not initialized\n at C._renew (/home/ec2-user/.nvm/versions/node/v18.20.3/lib/node_modules/n8n/node_modules/@n8n_io/license-sdk/src/LicenseManager.ts:338:13)\n …”,
“timestamp”: “2024-06-03T11:23:32.564Z”
}
}

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Information on your n8n setup

  • n8n version: 1.42.1
  • Database (default: SQLite):SQLite
  • n8n EXECUTIONS_PROCESS setting (default: own, main): default
  • Running n8n via (Docker, npm, n8n cloud, desktop app):npm
  • Operating system: Amazon Linux 2023
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Hey @YongMoon_Lee,

You can ignore that error, I would also recommend using the Docker image over NPM as when using NPM your linux distro of choice may not have everything installed that we need.

3

Awesome! :+1:
I’ll try to using Docker thank you for advice

4

I have the same issue with n8n running on Docker on Ubuntu server.

Failed to renew license: renewal failed because current cert is not initialized
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same here!!!