What type of hardware are you using: Old laptop or computer What YunoHost version are you running: YunoHost 12.1.39 (stable) How are you able to access your server: The webadmin Are you in a special context or did you perform specific tweaking on your YunoHost instance ?: no
Describe your issue
I had issues with an app so de-installed it via the web interface. The app in question is Vaultwarden but the issue I think relates to YNH overall rather than the Vaultwarden app itself. I re-installed the app and noticed (later) that it had called it Vaultwarden_2 rather than just Vaultwarden. The installed app works fine but here is the issue, when an upgrade was issued I had TWO apps on the Upgrade page showing a need for upgrade, one called Vaultwarden(Vaultwarden_2) and one called Vaultwarden (Vaultwarden). I upgraded the former, and it went fine. The app itself (Vaultwarden_2) is working fine. The upgrade for Vaultwarden (Vaultwarden) keeps failing. It fails, I believe, as it canât create a backup because the app directories donât exist. Which makes sense as it is not actually installed twice. In fact , if I look at installed apps and domains , Vaultwarden is only installed once on one domain. Some residue must be stuck somewhere from the original install, how can I clear this out?
Share relevant logs or error messages
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Error: â500â
Error message:
Aborting the upgrade, because a safety backup could not be created (Failed to collect files to be backed up)
While processing the action the server said:
Collecting files to be backed up for vaultwardenâŚ
Declaring files to be backed upâŚ
File or folder â/var/www/vaultwardenâ to be backed up does not exist
Failed to collect files to backed up for vaultwarden.
Unless I am mistaken, it appears that YNH installs applications (or their parameters) in a directory called /var/www . Here I see that there is a directory called vaultwarden_2 but no directory called vaultwarden. It appears that at the removal and replacement of vaultwarden something was left behind and YNH does seem to be able to install multiple app instances and just adds the â_2â to directory names when they already exist. But where is the original vaultwarden directory? Itâs not the one in /var/www. It must be another area used for apps core install rather than the vars? Where is that? If I can find it I can delete the rogue âvaultwarden â directory. It must be where YNH looks to see its âlistâ of apps and then look for updates⌠where is it ? Does anyone know? Please advise. I canât force a CLI de-install of vaultwarden as the vaultwarden_2 app is now in use by multiple users.
I may have found it. There is a directory called yunohost.app (seems a sensible name for app installs). In here there is a directory call vaultwarden and vaultwarden_2. I presume this is the one to delete?
Wierdly I also spot two directories that seem to be related to my install of the app Cockpit. One is called a nice clean name = monitorix the other is called monitorix_2025901.194134 . I wonder if they are similarly a double install of Cockpit? They both seem to have all the same files inside them? IS there some YNH command I can issue to clean these up ?
I deleted the empty yunohost.app/vaultwarden directory it didnât seem to break anything but this hasnât fixed the rogue update issue. YNH Updates screen throught the web interface is still offering to upgrade the non-existent Vaultarden app. Where does the Updates screen get itâs list of apps from ? Does anyone have any pointers?
I also found a directory /etc/yunohost/apps . This also contains a directory for each of my installed apps including the two directories for Vaultwarden. They both seem to have a plethora of files in them , they do look like duplicate directories. I will delete the orogonal vaultwarden directory.
I think I arrived late, but it would be good to check with sudo yunohost app list and then if you find it just use sudo yunohost app remove <your_app_id>. Usually itâs a better idea to uninstall an app cleanly instead of just deleting the folder, however if it worked I think itâs fine, but donât be surprised if thereâre some other files remaining somewhere, probably they wonât bother anyway.
