Packaging teleport for openSUSE: 18.x shows "path not found" internal error after registering the first user

[kastl-ars]

Dear all,

I have been maintaining the teleport package for openSUSE for quite some time. As I moved my private teleport installation to kubernetes, I have a vagrant setup to test the package once in a while.

https://github.com/johanneskastl/teleport_with_vagrant_libvirt
(major overhaul and update is in progress)

Starting with 18.x, I can start up the server, accept the self-signed certificate and get the webUI. I can create a user via tctl users add first_user..., set the pasword and OTP. I then get a button saying "Go to dashboard". After clicking this button the only thing is an "internal error" saying path not found.

Using the same setup with 17.x this works and I get the dashboard.

So it seems I missed some change going from 17.x to 18.x in regards to the packaging. Could anyone point me in the right direction, as I fail to notice the obvious changes (or I need more coffee...).

Thanks in advance!

Kind Regards,
Johannes

[zmb3]

Logs from the proxy service and the browser console would be helpful for troubleshooting this one.

[kastl-ars]

I finally had some minutes to test this again. Still failing, but I noticed this error in the systemd journal for the teleport service:

Feb 20 10:52:36 teleport-server teleport[10458]: 2026-02-20T10:52:36.281+01:00 ERRO [WEB]       Could not read apphash from embedded webassets. Using version only as ETag for Web UI assets error:[
Feb 20 10:52:36 teleport-server teleport[10458]: ERROR REPORT:
Feb 20 10:52:36 teleport-server teleport[10458]: Original Error: *fs.PathError open apphash: file does not exist
Feb 20 10:52:36 teleport-server teleport[10458]: Stack Trace:
Feb 20 10:52:36 teleport-server teleport[10458]:         /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/teleport-18.6.6-build/teleport-18.6.6/lib/web/apiserver.go:5664 github.com/gravitational/teleport/lib/web.readEtagFromAppHash
Feb 20 10:52:36 teleport-server teleport[10458]:         /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/teleport-18.6.6-build/teleport-18.6.6/lib/web/apiserver.go:619 github.com/gravitational/teleport/lib/web.NewHandler
Feb 20 10:52:36 teleport-server teleport[10458]:         /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/teleport-18.6.6-build/teleport-18.6.6/lib/service/service.go:5399 github.com/gravitational/teleport/lib/service.(*TeleportProcess).initProxyEndpoint
Feb 20 10:52:36 teleport-server teleport[10458]:         /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/teleport-18.6.6-build/teleport-18.6.6/lib/service/service.go:4377 github.com/gravitational/teleport/lib/service.(*TeleportProcess).initProxy.func1
Feb 20 10:52:36 teleport-server teleport[10458]:         /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/teleport-18.6.6-build/teleport-18.6.6/lib/service/supervisor.go:659 github.com/gravitational/teleport/lib/service.(*LocalService).Serve
Feb 20 10:52:36 teleport-server teleport[10458]:         /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/teleport-18.6.6-build/teleport-18.6.6/lib/service/supervisor.go:353 github.com/gravitational/teleport/lib/service.(*LocalSupervisor).serve.func1
Feb 20 10:52:36 teleport-server teleport[10458]:         /usr/lib64/go/1.24/src/runtime/asm_amd64.s:1700 runtime.goexit
Feb 20 10:52:36 teleport-server teleport[10458]: User Message: open apphash: file does not exist] web/apiserver.go:621
Feb 20 10:52:36 teleport-server teleport[10458]: 2026-02-20T10:52:36.282+01:00 INFO [WEB]       Proxy handler features watcher has started interval:8m24.838717535s web/features.go:53

Digging into this now, let's see...