[BUG]Container crashes on startup with Missing apple_id field when no session exists

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🐛 Container crashes on startup with Missing apple_id field when no session exists

📝 Description

When running mandarons/icloud-docker, the container consistently crashes during startup authentication with the following error:

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icloudpy.exceptions.ICloudPyFailedLoginException:
('Invalid authentication token.', ICloudPyAPIResponseException('Missing apple_id field'))

This happens even in a completely clean environment where no session file exists.

The logs show:

Session file does not exist
Missing apple_id field
Invalid authentication token

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🔁 Steps to reproduce

1. Use a fresh Docker setup with persistent volumes:

volumes:
  - /config:/config
  - /icloud:/icloud

2. Configure credentials:

app:
  credentials:
    username: "your_apple_id@email.com"

3. Ensure no prior session exists:

rm -rf /config/session_data
rm -rf /home/abc/.local/*

4. Start the container:

docker compose up

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❌ Actual behavior

The container crashes immediately and loops:

Session file does not exist
Missing apple_id field
Invalid authentication token

The process restarts continuously.

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✅ Expected behavior

When no session exists, the container should:

• Fall back to username/password authentication
• Trigger fresh Apple login flow (2FA prompt)
• Create a new session file after successful login

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🔍 Observations / possible root cause

It appears the application always attempts token authentication first:

_authenticate_with_token()

even when:

• No session file exists
• No valid token is available

This leads to a failure inside icloudpy:

ICloudPyAPIResponseException('Missing apple_id field')

It looks like an unhandled or invalid token state is being passed into the authentication flow, causing a crash before fallback authentication can occur.

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🧪 Environment

• Image: mandarons/icloud-drive:latest
• Docker version: Docker version 29.6.0, build fb59821
• OS: Linux Debian
• UID/GID: 1000:1000