[CLIENT] Unexpected error with the login session. Please try again.

Sashii·Jan 23, 2020·12 votes·9,209 views

The game disconnected so I tried restarting and I can't log back in. Every time I try to log in it shows this error: 'There was an unexpected error with the login session. Please try again later.' I click exit and the client closes. I tried terminating every riot process in task manager to start anew. I tried logging out of my account to try to log back in but I still get the same error as soon as the game logs me in. It goes through the login screen into the actual client but it has no buttons images or anything on it it's just a blank black client the only thing that it shows is the tracker exclamation mark. ( see the screenshot ) What I did:

I was in a tft ranked game you can check my history for the one I had yorick lvl 2 with 7 lights (ah so close to the 9 lights synergy).
Game disconnected so I tried restarting but now I can't log back in. Internet is A-okay everything's working. This error has been happening for the past 30 minutes and I still cannot log in to the game I get the same error. I'll try again in the morning but at this point I've already lost my ranked tft game so it doesn't matter.

EDIT: Alright so it's been a while and I still can't log in but the error is different. Now instead of the old one it shows: 'The login queue is experiencing heavy traffic. Try again later or check the server status ~~here~~. Nothing shown on the server status page for login problems so I'm confused as to whether I'm doing something wrong. The ranked queues for patch 10.2 are supposed to be disabled in 7 hours from now. What's the problem?

EDIT 2: Alright now I'm getting the same error I was getting in the begging. 'There was an unexpected error with the login session. Please try again later.' It seems that I just randomly get one or the other so I'm even more confused now LOL

EDIT 3: The hunt for errors continues. 3rd edit for a 3rd error. Now I'm getting 'An unexpected error occurred while logging in. Please try again. If this issue persists contact support at support.riotgames.com' I don't know who's in charge of thinking up all these error messages but he's doing some work here.

EDIT 4: I'm goin to bed

https://imgur.com/wUmdzNy

27 Comments

PodurJan 23, 20203 votes

Same thing happened to me. In my promos for Plat 3, start lagging weirdly but my ping still shows it is normal. Lagging very bad like inputs happen 7 seconds after i press them. I restart client and computer to fix it, try to log back in and I get the same message every time I try to log in. Rip my promos

PodurJan 23, 20201 votes

https://imgur.com/a/MUTKcpe

Heres a special, if you use hextech tool to repair it, it will show the update in the background lol

https://imgur.com/a/cNFM3bs

BoomNeonJan 23, 20203 votes

Everybody, you just have to right click on taskbar clock, next go to adjust date/time, then toggle to sync your clock to real time, it worked for me!!

EdyTheJokerJan 24, 20201 votes

Yep mates. That did the trick for me too. You should give it a try.[vayne-pose]

7733377Jan 23, 20202 votes

same here - some troll (15mB) patching in between - but the client stays - again for the 10000000000th time - useless

SashiiJan 23, 20202 votes

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same here - some troll (15mB) patching in between - but the client stays - again for the 10000000000th time - useless

I'm not patching at all but I can't even get into the game. I just get an error with an exit button and I'm not really left with much choice there.

BAYAF AAAAAAAHHHJan 23, 20202 votes

Same thing happened to me. RIOT ANYTHING?

heavenfallerJan 23, 20202 votes

same thing just happened. Dced in the middle of my promotion game. what a joke. then unable to go back in. Now I exit the client, cant even go back in again. "unknown error" had occur. Be noted, I am also having the friend bar problem z.

GunhaverJan 23, 20201 votes

Same here for me and my regular group, no one can get in

drunkcolin2014Jan 23, 20201 votes

I was not in a game, just trying to login to do my last ranked game for the mecha event mission, but keep getting this error at login for past 30 min. I'm also going to do something else and hopefully it will be fixed in the morning tomorrow I guess.

MinteyJan 23, 20201 votes

I lost a ranked match because of this, and still can't get back in

daznballerJan 23, 20201 votes

Hopefully, this gets fixed soon. I was looking to grind out some games tonight for my battle pass. :(

Son Goku IJan 23, 20201 votes

same [zombie-brand-facepalm]

iChristinaaJan 23, 20201 votes

The exact thing happened to me. FPS and ping were normal, but I was having weird lag spikes.

Restarted and now I can't log in. The client runs, but goes black and then I get an error message.

A lot of bugs happening with the new client recently :/

iChristinaaJan 23, 20201 votes

UPDATE: Started working randomly wth

The Positive GuyJan 23, 20201 votes

I was getting this every soo often the last 2 days, now tonight I cannot login at all. Any response from Riot? :(

WarMungrelJan 23, 20201 votes

In the middle of champion selection, I got that message, saying session expired and that I must log out. When I click the ok button the game closed. When I log back it, I get punished for leaving champion selection?

Tryn or DodgeJan 23, 20201 votes

Same thing happened to me literally a minute ago

Support PositionJan 23, 20201 votes

Hey there I had this same problem, look at your router firewall. As the security maybe stopping you from connecting to league. What happened to me.

papa fioraJan 23, 20201 votes

SAME HERE!! super fed and about to win, albeit norms on 2nd acc, and disconnected with perfect internet and same login issue. very very tilted ;-;

CaptainKronickJan 23, 20201 votes

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BearerOfTheCurseJan 23, 20201 votes

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Same here, thankfully it was only an ARAM but I was 7-0 on Jhin with over 4k gold and just randomly disconnect from the server for zero reason and perfect internet. So I close the client proceed to log back in only to get this error. I guarantee you my whole team just reported me because of this shit client. Now 30 minutes later when i go to log back in. I'm getting the login queue is experiencing heavy traffic. Try again later or check the server status. Server status says nothing of this bug. Plus it's 3:30 AM how in the hell are they experiencing heavy traffic????

On 01/23/20, starting at, 01:30 Pacific Time (09:30 UTC), ranked queues will be disabled in preparation for patch 10.02. At 03:00 Pacific time (11:00 UTC), the servers will be shut down and all games currently in progress will end in a draw and stats will not be recorded. We estimate the battlegrounds will be unavailable for 3 hours.

CaptainKronickJan 23, 20201 votes

Now login queue having heavy traffic makes sense lol but regardless I have had this error or random disconnect happen at least once a day for about a week or two.

BearerOfTheCurseJan 23, 20201 votes

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Now login queue having heavy traffic makes sense lol but regardless I have had this error or random disconnect happen at least once a day for about a week or two.

I have heard a lot of people have been having disconnect issues due to their PC clocks being off. If you sync your time it fixes the unexpected login issue.

Also if you are getting the trying to reconnect issue. This is usually ISP related. I suggest getting a continuous connection monitoring tool to make sure that you aren't actually losing connection then having it stabilize before you are able to check it. I was having an issue like that and my games were disconnecting, come to find out My internet would drop for about 20 seconds, long enough to kick me from the game but not long enough for me to notice once I got back to the desktop and was able to run a speed test.