# Etherpad\_mypads upgrade failed : tar: Exiting with failure
**URL:** https://forum.yunohost.org/t/etherpad-mypads-upgrade-failed-tar-exiting-with-failure/39930
**Category:** Support apps
**Tags:** etherpad\_mypads, bug, english
**Created:** [September 4, 2025, 7:43pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/etherpad-mypads-upgrade-failed-tar-exiting-with-failure/39930 "2025-09-04T19:43:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@Bachy](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/Bachy)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2025, 7:43pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/etherpad-mypads-upgrade-failed-tar-exiting-with-failure/39930/1 "2025-09-04T19:43:21Z")
**What type of hardware are you using** : dedicated ovh serveur
**What YunoHost version are you running** : 12.1.17.1
**What app is this about** : etherpad\_mypads
### Describe your issue
etherpad\_mypads upgrade (de 1.8.4~ynh2 à 1.9.1~ynh3) faile with the following error :
```auto
2025-09-04 19:04:51,764: DEBUG - + tar --extract --file=/var/cache/yunohost/download/etherpad_mypads/main --directory=/var/www/etherpad_mypads --strip-components 1
2025-09-04 19:04:51,770: WARNING - tar: bin: Cannot create symlink to ‘src/bin’: File exists
2025-09-04 19:04:51,820: WARNING - tar: tests: Cannot create symlink to ‘src/tests’: File exists
2025-09-04 19:04:51,821: WARNING - tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
2025-09-04 19:04:51,821: DEBUG - + ynh_exit_properly
2025-09-04 19:04:51,821: DEBUG - + local exit_code=2
2025-09-04 19:04:51,821: DEBUG - + [[upgrade =~ ^install$|^upgrade$|^restore$]]
2025-09-04 19:04:51,822: DEBUG - + '[' 2 -eq 0 ']'
2025-09-04 19:04:52,426: ERROR - Failed to upgrade etherpad_mypads: An error occurred inside the app upgrade script
```
i tried to “remove” the bin and tests folders after stoping the etherpad\_mypad systemd service but obviously upgrade failed anyway.
is it the upgrade script which does not clean properly the install directory before installing new sources ? is it the tar command which is not called properly (without --overwrite option) ?
is the tar error irrelevant here, if yes, why does the upgrade fail ?
what can i do ?
please help
### Share relevant logs or error messages
> **[Your app etherpad\_mypads is currently under maintenance!](https://paste.yunohost.org/raw/eqonibulax)**
---
### Author:  [@rodinux](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/rodinux)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2025, 6:18pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/etherpad-mypads-upgrade-failed-tar-exiting-with-failure/39930/2 "2025-09-05T18:18:27Z")
There is symbolic links for these 2 folders
```auto
ls -l /var/www/etherpad_mypads/
total 1252
-rw-r----- 1 etherpad_mypads etherpad_mypads 64 Aug 4 2022 APIKEY.txt
lrwxrwxrwx 1 etherpad_mypads etherpad_mypads 7 Jun 26 2023 bin -> src/bin
-rw-rw---- 1 etherpad_mypads etherpad_mypads 60229 Jun 26 2023 CHANGELOG.md
-rw-rw---- 1 etherpad_mypads etherpad_mypads 8922 Jun 26 2023 CONTRIBUTING.md
-rw------- 1 etherpad_mypads etherpad_mypads 1627 Dec 17 2023 credentials.json
drwxrwx--- 6 etherpad_mypads etherpad_mypads 4096 Jun 26 2023 doc
-rw-rw---- 1 etherpad_mypads etherpad_mypads 3683 Jun 26 2023 Dockerfile
-rw-rw---- 1 etherpad_mypads etherpad_mypads 11353 Jun 26 2023 LICENSE
-rw-rw---- 1 etherpad_mypads etherpad_mypads 1573 Jun 26 2023 make_docs.js
-rw-rw---- 1 etherpad_mypads etherpad_mypads 849 Jun 20 2023 Makefile
drwxrwx--- 582 etherpad_mypads etherpad_mypads 20480 Nov 10 2024 node_modules
-rw-r--r-- 1 etherpad_mypads etherpad_mypads 862529 Dec 17 2023 package-lock.json
-rw-rw---- 1 etherpad_mypads etherpad_mypads 12254 Jun 26 2023 README.md
-rw-rw---- 1 etherpad_mypads etherpad_mypads 118 Jun 26 2023 SECURITY.md
-rw-r----- 1 etherpad_mypads etherpad_mypads 64 Aug 4 2022 SESSIONKEY.txt
-rw------- 1 etherpad_mypads etherpad_mypads 19834 Nov 10 2024 settings.json
-rw-rw---- 1 etherpad_mypads etherpad_mypads 23827 Jun 26 2023 settings.json.docker
-rw------- 1 etherpad_mypads etherpad_mypads 17812 Dec 17 2023 settings.json.origin
-rw-rw---- 1 etherpad_mypads etherpad_mypads 21490 Jun 26 2023 settings.json.template
drwxrwx--- 9 etherpad_mypads etherpad_mypads 4096 Jun 26 2023 src
-rw-rw---- 1 etherpad_mypads etherpad_mypads 695 Jun 26 2023 start.bat
lrwxrwxrwx 1 etherpad_mypads etherpad_mypads 9 Jun 26 2023 tests -> src/tests
drwxrwx--- 2 etherpad_mypads etherpad_mypads 163840 Jul 23 10:59 var
```
---
### Author:  [@Bachy](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/Bachy)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2025, 7:32pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/etherpad-mypads-upgrade-failed-tar-exiting-with-failure/39930/3 "2025-09-05T19:32:25Z")
and ?
but nope, not on my instance :
```auto
$ ls /var/www/etherpad_mypads
total 508K
4.0K -rw-r--r-- 1 etherpad_mypads etherpad_mypads 64 Jan 28 2019 APIKEY.txt
4.0K drwxrwxr-x 4 etherpad_mypads etherpad_mypads 4.0K May 15 2020 bin
32K -rw-rw-r-- 1 etherpad_mypads etherpad_mypads 29K May 15 2020 CHANGELOG.md
12K -rw-rw-r-- 1 etherpad_mypads etherpad_mypads 8.1K May 15 2020 CONTRIBUTING.md
4.0K -rw------- 1 etherpad_mypads etherpad_mypads 1.6K Apr 29 2021 credentials.json
4.0K drwxrwxr-x 6 etherpad_mypads etherpad_mypads 4.0K May 15 2020 doc
4.0K -rw-rw-r-- 1 etherpad_mypads etherpad_mypads 1.7K May 15 2020 Dockerfile
12K -rw-rw-r-- 1 etherpad_mypads etherpad_mypads 12K May 15 2020 LICENSE
4.0K -rw-rw-r-- 1 etherpad_mypads etherpad_mypads 837 May 15 2020 Makefile
12K drwxr-xr-x 252 etherpad_mypads etherpad_mypads 12K Apr 29 2021 node_modules
328K -rw-r--r-- 1 etherpad_mypads etherpad_mypads 326K Aug 1 2020 package-lock.json
8.0K -rw-rw-r-- 1 etherpad_mypads etherpad_mypads 7.4K May 15 2020 README.md
4.0K -rw-r--r-- 1 etherpad_mypads etherpad_mypads 64 Jan 28 2019 SESSIONKEY.txt
20K -rw-r--r-- 1 etherpad_mypads etherpad_mypads 17K Apr 29 2021 settings.json
20K -rw-rw-r-- 1 etherpad_mypads etherpad_mypads 19K May 15 2020 settings.json.docker
20K -rw-rw-r-- 1 etherpad_mypads etherpad_mypads 17K May 15 2020 settings.json.template
4.0K drwxrwxr-x 7 etherpad_mypads etherpad_mypads 4.0K Apr 29 2021 src
4.0K -rw-rw-r-- 1 etherpad_mypads etherpad_mypads 51 May 15 2020 start.bat
4.0K drwxrwxr-x 5 etherpad_mypads etherpad_mypads 4.0K May 15 2020 tests
4.0K drwxrwxr-x 2 etherpad_mypads etherpad_mypads 4.0K Sep 4 09:50 var
```
---
### Author:  [@rodinux](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/rodinux)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2025, 8:00pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/etherpad-mypads-upgrade-failed-tar-exiting-with-failure/39930/4 "2025-09-05T20:00:39Z")
Hummm… is a quiet old version 1.8.4…
The actual version 1.9.1 is here since few years.
Have you try `yunohost app upgrade etherpad_mypads --debug --force` ?
---
### Author:  [@Bachy](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/Bachy)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2025, 10:47am UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/etherpad-mypads-upgrade-failed-tar-exiting-with-failure/39930/5 "2025-09-06T10:47:45Z")
yes, same result
> **[Your app etherpad\_mypads is currently under maintenance!](https://paste.yunohost.org/raw/acahisucav)**
---
### Author:  [@rodinux](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/rodinux)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2025, 3:10pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/etherpad-mypads-upgrade-failed-tar-exiting-with-failure/39930/6 "2025-09-06T15:10:51Z")
Ok,
Could you try upgrade to this commit ( version 1.8.18 ), first create a backup to be sure…
```auto
yunohost app upgrade etherpad_mypads -u https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/etherpad_mypads_ynh/tree/cb3c63914a47a3b5189226737da56d915a5e002b
```
---
### Author:  [@Bachy](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/Bachy)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2025, 5:03pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/etherpad-mypads-upgrade-failed-tar-exiting-with-failure/39930/7 "2025-09-06T17:03:34Z")
tried, same result
> **[Your app etherpad\_mypads is currently under maintenance!](https://paste.yunohost.org/raw/oyequvufos)**
how does the ynh apps release system works ? I thought about upgrading first to intermediate release, but i can’t find any release nor tag on github …
---
### Author:  [@rodinux](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/rodinux)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2025, 5:54pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/etherpad-mypads-upgrade-failed-tar-exiting-with-failure/39930/8 "2025-09-06T17:54:48Z")
it was the idea with 1.8.18…
Not sure is the solution…
The problem seems still the symslinks here…
Perhaps you can try this:
- do first a backup.
- stop the service etherpad\_mypads
```auto
yunohost service stop etherpad_mypads
```
- mv the files `bin` and `tar` on the folder `src`
```auto
mv /var/www/etherpad_mypads/bin /var/www/etherpad_mypads/src/bin
mv /var/www/etherpad_mypads/tests /var/www/etherpad_mypads/src/tests
```
- recreate the symbolinks
```auto
ln -sf /var/www/etherpad_mypads/src/bin /var/www/etherpad_mypads/bin
ln -sf /var/www/etherpad_mypads/src/tests /var/www/etherpad_mypads/tests
chown etherpad_mypads: /var/www/etherpad_mypads/tests
chown etherpad_mypads: /var/www/etherpad_mypads/bin
chown -R etherpad_mypads: /var/www/etherpad_mypads/
```
- And try do the upgrade
About the search for oldest version, it is looking for on the commits, explicitly the ones merged from testing… and then «Browse the repisotirory at this point» and read the manifest.toml where the version is edited… It can take long time…
---
### Author:  [@rodinux](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/rodinux)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2025, 5:59pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/etherpad-mypads-upgrade-failed-tar-exiting-with-failure/39930/9 "2025-09-06T17:59:32Z")
- I have review…
---
### Author:  [@Bachy](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/Bachy)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2025, 9:22pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/etherpad-mypads-upgrade-failed-tar-exiting-with-failure/39930/10 "2025-09-07T21:22:55Z")
ok so now i have npm integrity error …
```auto
2025-09-07 18:56:05,342: DEBUG - npm ERR! sha1-y+vouKCHn0ypcMPWm9V44pHW6DU= integrity checksum failed when using sha1: wanted sha1-y+vouKCHn0ypcMPWm9V44pHW6DU= but got sha512-iY4+J8D+S5OP6dP9bSomJfN7zIZMcsO8h7J+EsxXod+iUpnQXmIIYsb9+Ui1Fz4KFiGbMDSaDP6Ipqz/l/1hmA== sha1-m+EdkJEyAkYaXXAYLWEDNfHAKs4=. (33035 bytes)
```
with both releases
> **[Your app etherpad\_mypads is currently under maintenance!](https://paste.yunohost.org/raw/edozuhukak)**
> **[Your app etherpad\_mypads is currently under maintenance!](https://paste.yunohost.org/raw/sofacakexa)**
i think i may be better removing the app, installing last version from scratch, restoring the db and, some how, upgrading the db. Is it doable ?
---
### Author:  [@Bachy](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/Bachy)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2025, 8:41am UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/etherpad-mypads-upgrade-failed-tar-exiting-with-failure/39930/11 "2025-09-09T08:41:40Z")
So,
1. i made a backup of the app with ynh,
2. removed the app with ynh,
3. installed the last version from scratch with ynh,
4. stopped the service `systemctl stop etherpad_mypads`,
5. emptied the mysql db with phpmyadmin
6. imported the old db `mysql -uroot -p etherpad_mypad < backuped_db.sql`
7. restarted the app `systemctl start etherpad_mypads`
so far so good, everything seems to work, all my pads are alive.
---
### Author:  [@system](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2025, 8:42am UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/etherpad-mypads-upgrade-failed-tar-exiting-with-failure/39930/12 "2025-09-24T08:42:32Z")
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