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[Due for payment 2026-09-28] [Onyx] Investigate UnknownError: Attempt to generate key in database without an in-progress transaction storage error #100046
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Parent issue: #87844.
Coming from #87844 (comment).
Sentry issue: https://expensify.sentry.io/issues/APP-KG
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sosek108 commentedon Sep 1, 2026
This exact log line does not come from Onyx. This is combination of WebKit (100% of occurances are from WebKit) flavour of IndexedDB and 3rd party libs (such as gib.js).
Sometimes (usually after long inactivity or refresh) WebKit kills database's connection and every read/write that were in flight fails with errors like
Attempt to get a record from database without an in-progress transaction..Attempt to generate key in database without an in-progress transactionis a variant of our log lines that are most probably caused by described WK behaviour. It does not come from Onyx, because Onyx does not use any kind of API that raises this error. This is noise related to 3rd party scripts and does not affect user at all.The potential problem that came up while investigating with Claude
The same WebKit behaviour can occur while the application is booting up. Onyx tries to load local data, gets the error, and gives up. The error line that could occur is
Attempt to get records from database without an in-progress transaction.Simple solution is to mark these errors as
TRANSIENTin our error classification (instead of UNKNOWN). Onyx will reconnect to database.This is not solution to
APP-KG.APP-KGis not related to onyx and should be because it's not related to our codebase and does not any harm to userfabioh8010 commentedon Sep 2, 2026
@Julesssss what do you think?
Julesssss commentedon Sep 3, 2026
Great, sounds reasonable to me. And if I understand the PR correctly it's already done?
fabioh8010 commentedon Sep 3, 2026
Yeah Onyx PR was merged, @sosek108 could you do bump to 3.0.110? 3.0.109 hit production already.
sosek108 commentedon Sep 3, 2026
@fabioh8010 @Julesssss Yes, I'll handle this!
sosek108 commentedon Sep 4, 2026
Bump PR here: #100385
melvin-bot commentedon Sep 8, 2026
Triggered auto assignment to @pecanoro, see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/7972 for more details.
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sosek108 commentedon Sep 17, 2026
@pecanoro do you think this issue can be closed / resolved? There was on PR reviewed here
pecanoro commentedon Sep 21, 2026
Ah yes, closing!
DylanDylann commentedon Sep 28, 2026
@pecanoro Could you reopen this issue to handle the payment for my review of #100385?
[-][Onyx] Investigate `UnknownError: Attempt to generate key in database without an in-progress transaction` storage error[/-][+][Due for payment 2026-09-28] [Onyx] Investigate `UnknownError: Attempt to generate key in database without an in-progress transaction` storage error[/+]melvin-bot commentedon Sep 28, 2026
Current assignee @mallenexpensify is eligible for the Awaiting Payment assigner, not assigning anyone new.
pecanoro commentedon Sep 28, 2026
@mallenexpensify, can we issue a payment to @DylanDylann for reviewing the PR?
melvin-bot commentedon Sep 28, 2026
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[No QA][Onyx bump] Bump react-native-onyx from 3.0.109 to 3.0.110 #100385
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Reviewer: @DylanDylann owed $175 via NewDot
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mallenexpensify commentedon Sep 28, 2026
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Contributor+: @DylanDylann due $125 via NewDot
$125 cuz tests weren't needed.