Error: "Please activate your account"

[Pixie35]

With a fresh install on ubuntu (18.04.4), docker engine (19.03.8) and docker compose (1.25.4), I am getting a error message displayed "Please activate your account".
The activation code works, because I've tried it outside being a container and I've put in the wrong code to prove it was right.

Looking through the code, no where do I put in any form of account details that, in my head, would link the container to the expressvpn services.
Therefore I'm assuming I've missed something.

[Pixie35]

I think I figured it out.
The expressvpn desktop needs to be connected already before running the container for the first attempt.
Which seems very bizarre, but fixes my issue short term.