This is from the developer-console of the main window; the console of the window which displays the browser itself is completely silent.
Seems there is some authentication issue.
See this both with existing (migrated) and newly created databases.
Also notice the code is checking http://dist.neo4j.org/neo4j-desktop/win/latest.yml while this is a Mac 
@michael.hunger tried and failed (but i think that's another story)."
I've been using instructions from here : https://neo4j.com/docs/operations-manual/current/configuration/password-and-user-recovery/ by using "Open Terminal" inside the graph and got an error saying that -d is not recognised.
DB is indeed 3.4.1 but i'm afraid to upgrade it to 4.0 at this point
Downloaded the latest version of the cypher-shell from here : https://neo4j.com/download-center/#cyphershell, it does say that it only works from 4.0...maybe the instructions should present this in a more clear way? or does it and i cannot see it?
so, 11511 is the port of some other db instance (in some other project).(picture 1)
Seems to stay even if i start a graph from some other project
what i did to connect was to use ":server disconnect", then ":server connect" to show me the form with the link, user, pass, etc
corrected the port and got connected (picture 2)
Picture 1:
Picture 2
Restarted everything, same behaviour.
Workaround:
:server disconnect
:server connect
check the correct port in Settings \ dbms.connector.bolt.listen_address=:xyztw (xyztw=port)
copy port to Connect URL
enter password, connect, everything is ok
Another observation, this morning (after restart of my dev-station) I got the dreaded authorisation failures while yesterday all was fine.
observation 1:
Tried to reset the password couple of times in the Administration section of the Desktop app.
All I got was a non-detailed "failed" message. Luckily the console showed the real reason:
[10:50:22:0771] reset password error: Neo4jError: Failed to alter the specified user 'neo4j': Old password and new password cannot be the same.
It would be great if that was actually displayed in the UI
After resetting it to something else it worked fine, however trying to login from my app (using py2neo) still did not work.
Digging around I found a /data/dbms/auth.ini newly created, I moved that one away and suddenly it worked.
With "it works" I mean the databases and data are shown via http://localhost:7474/ and accesible via py2neo for my application. The "browser" part of Desktop still is empty and silent.
At least for I can continue my development work using the :7474 interface
Hi there,
after hours of working with Desktop 1.2.4, Neo4j 4.0.0 yesterday (thousands of node & rels) and shut down normally,
today I get the same dreaded password failed error as reported by paulj. database.db always unavailable; on opening, always "Password has been changed", and always "Failed - not a valid password". Have I lost the db? I've tried passord revovery:
C:\neo4j\neo4jDatabases\database-bbb4a47e-b1a4-47a8-bc7f-bcbb72b1e715\installation-4.0.0\bin>cypher-shell -d system
There is no procedure with the name `dbms.showCurrentUser` registered for this database instance. Please ensure you've spelled the procedure name correctly and that the procedure is properly deployed.
I cannot even dump the db:
C:\neo4j\neo4jDatabases\database-bbb4a47e-b1a4-47a8-bc7f-bcbb72b1e715\installation-4.0.0\import>../bin/neo4j-admin.bat dump --database=graph.db --to=./calc-12-feb-2020.10.31.neo4j
Active logical log detected, this might be a source of inconsistencies.
Please recover database before running the dump.
To perform recovery please start database and perform clean shutdown.
But I cannot start.
BTW, I had got version 4.0.0 finally working only by creating a new db and loading a 3.5.14 dump; never succeeded in simply upgrading from 3.5.14.
But now my db seems dead? what else can I do?
With so much unexpected frustration, how can I recommend this nice Neo4j to less experienced developers?
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