App needs an external service account before it can start

Error recorded 5 times in PanelAlpha Engine deploys on Docker Compose. The deploy log below is the recorded failure output.

Seen5 times · 2 variants
WhereDocker Compose

Why it happens

This app cannot run without an account or server at a third-party service (for example an API key, an OAuth app, a claim token or the address of a server it manages). Its recipe checks for those settings and stops the deploy when they are missing.

What the log looks like

Deploy log
Failed to start app: The service <account>-claim did not start (exited with code 1), so the application was not started either. It printed: <account>: <account>.tv did not accept PLEX_CLAIM (claim tokens expire after 4 minutes and work once). Get a fresh one at https://<account>.tv/claim, update PLEX_CLAIM and redeploy. The full output is in the deploy log. | Deploy failed with custom environment variables — consider retrying without them to see whether they caused it.

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