Activation key has expired

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Hi,

I received sometimes ago a licence key to unlock some paid features on my community edition of n8n. It worked fine but after an issue I needed to reinstall the n8n (with I think a different encription key). When trying to re-input my old licence key, I got an error message:

Activation key has expired

when checking the logs, I see these messages

n8n_app | Failed to renew license: renewal failed because current cert is not initialized
n8n_app | [license SDK] license activation failed: reservation ID is no longer valid

How to debug this?

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I activated it with the key, was this distributed key single-use? @n8n

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I had the same issue, and here’s the note I left for myself in my notes: you need to clean up the data about the old key. I cleaned the data on both the old and the new server.

What to do when there are license issues on the n8n server?

This is the error that pops up:

Activation failed

Failed to activate license: license activation failed: device fingerprint mismatch

In that case, you need to clear the license history. In the terminal, you need to enter the container and remove the license:

text

`

docker exec -it n8n-n8n-1 sh

n8n license:info
n8n license:clear

exit
docker restart n8n-n8n-1

`

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I already did this, but without success. I retried once again and still got the same error messages

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