[REALMS-289] Could not authorize you against Realms server: Invalid session id

I have a Windows laptop that consistently gives "Invalid session id" when trying to authenticate with Realms server (when accessing "Minecraft Realms" from the menu, or "Multiplayer" when servers are in online-mode=true).

The error seems to happen only on one laptop. I can access Realms and Multiplayer on another machine using my account. This has been happening for over a year - since version 1.9. I have logged out. Re-installed. Restarted. This occurred with the old launcher and continues after installing the new launcher. I have re-installed Java.

See [REALMS-45] and other related issues. (They were closed with no actual resolution.)

[0214/194701:INFO:GameCallbacks.cpp(186)] game/com.mojang.realmsclient.client.RealmsClient (Realms Notification Availability checker #1) info Could not authorize you against Realms server: Invalid session id

Any ideas would be appreciated!
Thanks!

Linked issues

duplicates 1

REALMS-622 Invalid session ID Resolved

Comments 4

CubeTheThird 2017-02-15T02:36:16Z

To clarify, you say you've logged out of the game launcher, closed it and re-opened it, then logged back in?

Ed Eddington 2017-02-15T13:49:08Z

Yes. I have logged out of launcher, closed launcher, re-opened, logged back in. On this laptop, I always get this error. On another laptop, I never get this error.

Ed Eddington 2017-02-16T21:15:16Z

Is this considered "RESOLVED"?

Jeremy Ancog 2018-04-04T20:04:59Z

I have found that by removing or renaming the file 'realms_persistence.json' in the .minecraft directory of the user AppData->Roaming folder fixed the problem (at least for me).