🐛 Can't set up a tunnel on macOS in 2024.2.1 about cloudflared HOT 8 CLOSED

Ahh, this is embarrassing. 😳 I had been running the uninstallation command by copy/pasting it from the output of sudo cloudflared service install, which means I was running cloudflared service uninstall and not sudo cloudflared service uninstall that whole time. Sorry to waste your time on an issue that ended up being user error! 🤦‍♂️

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It's working for me... M1 Mac Mini on macOS 14.4

You're installing with sudo right? (You need to)

sudo cloudflared service install <very_long_key> (~180 chars)

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You're installing with sudo right? (You need to)

Yeah, I'm just pasting the commands right from the dashboard, and they include sudo. I'm on a Mac Studio M2 Ultra.

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Why is the daemon plist under your user account? (/Users/adam/Library/LaunchAgents/com.cloudflare.cloudflared.plist)

Shouldn't it be in /Library/LaunchDaemons/ (that's where mine is)

I would try manually deleting that plist and then running the install command again.

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Why is the daemon plist under your user account? (/Users/adam/Library/LaunchAgents/com.cloudflare.cloudflared.plist)

It isn't actually there though; the error just says that it can't delete a file at that location since it doesn't exist. I don't know why it's looking in that location in the first place though, nor do I know where it used to look a few weeks ago when this was working. 😢

Like I said though, if I touch that file and then run the uninstall command, then the uninstallation goes from failing to passing:

2024-03-09T21:24:59Z INF Uninstalling cloudflared as a user launch agent
2024-03-09T21:24:59Z INF Launchd for cloudflared was uninstalled successfully

...but then the installation still fails:

sudo cloudflared service install [omitted the token]
2024-03-09T21:25:12Z INF Installing cloudflared client as a system launch daemon. cloudflared client will run at boot
2024-03-09T21:25:12Z ERR error generating launchd template error="cloudflared service is already installed at /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.cloudflare.cloudflared.plist; if you are running a cloudflared tunnel, you can point it to multiple origins, avoiding the need to run more than one cloudflared service in the same machine; otherwise if you are really sure, you can do `cloudflared service uninstall` to clean up the existing service and then try again this command"
cloudflared service is already installed at /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.cloudflare.cloudflared.plist; if you are running a cloudflared tunnel, you can point it to multiple origins, avoiding the need to run more than one cloudflared service in the same machine; otherwise if you are really sure, you can do `cloudflared service uninstall` to clean up the existing service and then try again this command

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Ok. That's really odd. And, even if you become root, there's no corresponding file at /Library/LaunchDaemons ?

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And, even if you become root, there's no corresponding file at /Library/LaunchDaemons

That file exists, and deleting it and then running the install command worked! 🎉

So maybe the real issue here is that cloudflared service uninstall is trying to delete the wrong file? Even after verifying that my tunnel is up and running, I still get this:

╰─❯ cloudflared service uninstall
2024-03-10T03:44:34Z INF Uninstalling cloudflared as a user launch agent
error deleting /Users/adam/Library/LaunchAgents/com.cloudflare.cloudflared.plist: remove /Users/adam/Library/LaunchAgents/com.cloudflare.cloudflared.plist: no such file or directory

I'm just not sure how that could happen. Is there any configuration that I can look into...?

(P.S. thank you very much for the help! 🙏)

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Not sure either, but glad you got it working!

According to the source code

It seems that somehow the program is not properly detecting that you're running as root. I would troubleshoot it from that angle.

The code is just checking if your EUID is 0

What does the command below yield on your system?

sudo bash -c 'echo $EUID'

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