could not decrypt pcs cookie

[mikewei]

Overview

I got the error below after authentication:
Internal error (could not decrypt pcs cookie)

thanks

Steps to Reproduce

$ icloudpd --username ... --auth-only
2024-06-25 12:47:45 DEBUG Authenticating...
2024-06-25 12:47:50 INFO Authentication completed successfully

$ icloudpd --directory /data/icloudpd --username ... --watch-with-interval 3600
2024-06-25 12:46:35 DEBUG Authenticating...
2024-06-25 12:46:41 ERROR could not decrypt pcs cookie (INTERNAL_ERROR)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "starters/icloudpd.py", line 6, in
File "click/core.py", line 1157, in call
File "click/core.py", line 1078, in main
File "click/core.py", line 1434, in invoke
File "click/core.py", line 783, in invoke
File "icloudpd/base.py", line 499, in main
File "icloudpd/base.py", line 983, in core
File "pyicloud_ipd/base.py", line 477, in photos
File "pyicloud_ipd/services/photos.py", line 279, in init
File "pyicloud_ipd/services/photos.py", line 166, in init
File "requests/sessions.py", line 637, in post
File "pyicloud_ipd/session.py", line 168, in request
File "pyicloud_ipd/session.py", line 197, in _raise_error
pyicloud_ipd.exceptions.PyiCloudAPIResponseException: could not decrypt pcs cookie (INTERNAL_ERROR)

[jessedc]

I received this error when running the command for the first time, but subsequent runs a few minutes later were successful. Have you been able to get past this issue?