{"version":"2.1.251","anchor":"clearer-error-when-remote-control-credentials-not-the-server","canonical_anchor":"clearer-error-when-remote-control-credentials-not-the-server","heading":"Clearer error when remote control credentials, not the server, are the problem","tier":"notice","area":"Remote Control","scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.251\/e\/clearer-error-when-remote-control-credentials-not-the-server","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.251","markdown":"### Clearer error when remote control credentials, not the server, are the problem\n\nRemote control now says credentials are unavailable instead of blaming the network.\n\n**What**\n\nThe retry loop that re-mints remote-control worker credentials now says \"Remote Control credentials unavailable\" on some failures instead of always reporting the server as unreachable, so a credential problem no longer looks like a network problem.\n\n**Details**\n\n- Both messages still come from the same exponential-backoff retry loop; which one appears is chosen by an internal flag, and what sets that flag is not visible from the message site.\n\n**Evidence**\n\n`Remote Control credentials unavailable`\n\n- Area: Remote Control\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 3\/5\n- Signal: 2\/5"}