Atlassian Forge is a powerful platform for building, hosting and deploying cloud applications within the Atlassian ecosystem. With its rich set of APIs, Forge simplifies the development process, allowing developers to focus on building innovative applications that extend the functionality of Atlassian products.
In this blog post, we will discuss two errors experienced when running forge create.
<h3 id="heading-platform-details">Platform Details</h3>
<ul>
<li>Windows 11
</li>
<li>WSL2 (Ubuntu)
</li>
<li>Atlassian JIRA (Test)
</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="heading-error-1">Error #1</h2>
Error: Keytar error detected: Cannot spawn a message bus without a machine-id: Invalid machine ID in /var/lib/dbus/machine-id or /etc/machine-id
<img src="https://t42646153.p.clickup-attachments.com/t42646153/791ce8a7-1ddf-4259-9a1c-502c7b50cf05_large.png" alt="Cannot spawn a message bus without a machine-id" />
As you can see from the screenshot, do the following steps:
<ol>
<li><code>rm /etc/machine-id</code>
</li>
<li><code>sudo systemd-machine-id-setup</code> 
 Check <a target="_blank" href="https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-machine-id-setup.html">this page</a> for more details on <code>systemd-machine-id-setup</code>.
</li>
</ol>
<h2 id="heading-error-2">Error #2</h2>
Error: Keytar error detected: The name <code>org.freedesktop.secrets</code> was not provided by any .service files. Something went wrong while accessing Secret Service API.
<img src="https://t42646153.p.clickup-attachments.com/t42646153/b47ced4e-5e19-4249-a05b-4fa9203d9ce9/image.png" alt />
As you can see from the screenshot, do the following steps:
<ol>
<li><code>sudo apt install gnome-keytring</code>
</li>
<li><code>forge create</code>
 Check about <a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Keyring">Gnome Keyring</a> for more details.
</li>
</ol>
Hope this is helpful.

Atlassian Forge is a powerful platform for building, hosting and deploying cloud applications within the Atlassian ecosystem. With its rich set of APIs, Forge simplifies the development process, allowing developers to focus on building innovative applications that extend the functionality of Atlassian products.

In this blog post, we will discuss two errors experienced when running forge create.

### Platform Details

* Windows 11
    
* WSL2 (Ubuntu)
    
* Atlassian JIRA (Test)
    

## **Error #1**

**Error: Keytar error detected: Cannot spawn a message bus without a machine-id: Invalid machine ID in /var/lib/dbus/machine-id or /etc/machine-id**

![Cannot spawn a message bus without a machine-id](https://t42646153.p.clickup-attachments.com/t42646153/791ce8a7-1ddf-4259-9a1c-502c7b50cf05_large.png align="left")

As you can see from the screenshot, do the following steps:

1. `rm /etc/machine-id`
    
2. `sudo systemd-machine-id-setup`  
      
    Check [this page](https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-machine-id-setup.html) for more details on `systemd-machine-id-setup`.
    

## **Error #2**

**Error: Keytar error detected: The name** `org.freedesktop.secrets` **was not provided by any .service files. Something went wrong while accessing Secret Service API.**

![](https://t42646153.p.clickup-attachments.com/t42646153/b47ced4e-5e19-4249-a05b-4fa9203d9ce9/image.png align="left")

As you can see from the screenshot, do the following steps:

1. `sudo apt install gnome-keytring`
    
2. `forge create`
    
    Check about [Gnome Keyring](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Keyring) for more details.
    

Hope this is helpful.

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