How do I solve: Error: Failed to list Firebase projects. See firebase-debug.log for more info

Question

So I'm minding my own business trying to initializing a Firebase project in my Angular app when all of the sudden I'm hit with this error:

Error: Failed to list Firebase projects. See firebase-debug.log for more info.

To get to that point, I followed the instructions in the documentation here which are basically run:

$ npm install -g firebase-tools

$ firebase login // Turns out I was already logged in

$ firebase projects:list // Make sure you can access your account.

Anyway, back to the error. "Ok," I think. "I'll just check out the log it's pointing me to." I open the log and see:

HTTP Error: 401, Request had invalid authentication credentials. 
Expected OAuth 2 access token, login cookie or other valid authentication credential.
See https://developers.google.com/identity/sign-in/web/devconsole-project.`
`FirebaseError: HTTP Error: 401, Request had invalid authentication credentials.
Expected OAuth 2 access token, login cookie or other valid authentication credential.
See https://developers.google.com/identity/sign-in/web/devconsole-project.`

The part about "invalid authentication credentials" makes me think it has something to do with me not being logged into firebase but firebase login shows I am logged in.

The URL in the log just takes me to the docs for using firebase auth in my app. Well, I would love to. But first I need this command to work, Firebase.

Has anyone run into this/have a solution for it?

Solution 1

Update

The fix is:

$ firebase login --reauth

Thanks to @kynan in the comments for simplifying the original two-liner down to this one-liner.

If that doesn't work, you can also try logging out and logging back in like the original answer.

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Original Answer

The fix is:

$ firebase logout

$ firebase login

It looks like when you upgrade firebase-tools, that may invalidate your auth token. You just have to log out and log back in.

Here's the message when you log out:

$ firebase logout
!  Invalid refresh token, did not need to deauthorize
+  Logged out from <email>

Solution 2

For people who don't want to logout, the below command will also work.

firebase login --reauth

Solution 3

use firebase logout to log out then use firebase login to log back in to firebase in the CLI

Do this after updating the firebase tools using npm install -g firebase-tools

After succesfull login, use firebase use --add to list all the projects you have

Comments

[kynan]

Alternative: firebase login --reauth

[Reiko Dev]

@kynan thank you man, this really helped me!

[Admin]

worked to me, $ firebase logout $ firebase login

[Brandon Pillay]

After hours of searching. Thanks Patrick.

[huykon225]

I tried but it's not working

[Ray Oei]

The firebase logout/login is the better option in case you have many identities.