Error : 'Credential implementation provided to initializeApp() via the "credential" property failed to fetch a valid Google OAuth2 access token with the following error: "Error fetching access token: Error while making request: .".'

[Rohan-SE]

[REQUIRED] Step 2: Describe your environment

• Operating System version: Linux using from Chrome os
• Firebase SDK version: firebase-admin : 12..2.0
• Firebase Product: auth
• Node.js version: V20.14.0
• NPM version: 10.7.0

[REQUIRED] Step 3: Describe the problem

Facing this error:
'Credential implementation provided to initializeApp() via the "credential" property failed to fetch a valid Google OAuth2 access token with the following error: "Error fetching access token: Error while making request: .".'
I set env also when I check it from console.log I got service account file values as object but still face this error when it hit that post request I got this error

Relevant Code:

that's my code:
const admin =require ('firebase-admin')
const { getAuth } = require('firebase-admin/auth');
try {
admin.initializeApp()

} catch (error) {
console.log(error)
}

app.post('/api/auth/signup',async(req,res)=>{
try {
const {email,password,username} = req.body;
const user = await getAuth().createUser({
email,
password,
})
}
catch(error){
console.log(error
}
}

[KennethicEnergy]

have the same issue

[alexaanderk]

Same for me, the code works on my local machine but I get the same error on my VPS, exact same env-vars and package versions on both systems (node 20.17.0 and firebase-admin 12.5.0). Has anyone solved this?

[alexaanderk]

I solved it, printed the error directly from "sendWithRetry" in utils/api-request.js and got a much more descriptive error: [errors]: [ Error: connect ETIMEDOUT redacted at createConnectionError (node:net:1648:14) at Timeout.internalConnectMultipleTimeout (node:net:1707:38) at listOnTimeout (node:internal/timers:583:11) at process.processTimers (node:internal/timers:519:7) { errno: -110, code: 'ETIMEDOUT', syscall: 'connect', address: 'redacted', port: 443 }, Error: connect ENETUNREACH redacted - Local (:::0) at internalConnectMultiple (node:net:1182:16) at Timeout.internalConnectMultipleTimeout (node:net:1712:5) at listOnTimeout (node:internal/timers:583:11) at process.processTimers (node:internal/timers:519:7) { errno: -101, code: 'ENETUNREACH', syscall: 'connect', address: 'redacted', port: 443 } ]

I found this stackoverflow question and tried turning off IPv6 and it now works. So I think the http client tried to use IPv6 even though the machine had no connection via IPv6 (idk how IPv6 works, but thats my assumption).

[lahirumaramba]

Since it sounds like you were able to fix the issue, I will close this for now. Thanks!