Hi Vaultwarden community — first time posting here. I’ve been banging my head on this for hours and figured it’s time to ask for help.
Setup:
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Vaultwarden in Docker
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Caddy (also in Docker) as reverse proxy
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Seafile running on the same host
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Admin panel enabled
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Everything was working fine prior to a power outage
What happened:
After a recent power outage, I booted the system back up but Vaultwarden wouldn’t start. I killed the Docker processes and got things running again. Caddy wouldn’t start initially, but I resolved it by running docker rm -f caddy (thanks, ChatGPT), and both containers are now running fine.
The issue:
I can’t log in to any user account — it says the master password is incorrect.
I can access the admin panel, but it shows no users or organizations.
The database (db.sqlite3) is intact — I’ve verified the UUIDs, emails, and orgs manually via sqlite3, and everything looks correct.
I’ve also:
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Tried restoring older DB backups
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Checked that the admin token is still valid
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Verified file permissions on the DB
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Restarted containers many times
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Enabled debug logging (nothing obviously wrong appears)
Still, the admin panel sees nothing, and login fails. I really don’t want to lose access to orgs and user shares.
Anyone seen this before? Any suggestions on recovering access?
Thanks in advance —
Eli