Pixelfed: Error when upgrading to v. 0.12.6~ynh1 / No such file or directory: ‘/etc/postfix/app_senders_login_maps.db’

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What type of hardware are you using: VPS bought online
What YunoHost version are you running: 0.12.5~ynh1
What app is this about: Pixelfed

Describe your issue

Hello!
I tried to upgrade Pixelfed to the new version today but I have the following error:

2025-09-06 23:10:45,509: INFO - Updating sources…
2025-09-06 23:10:45,509: DEBUG - Prefetching asset main: https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/archive/refs/tags/v0.12.6.tar.gz …
2025-09-06 23:10:48,026: INFO - Updating system_user…
2025-09-06 23:12:30,547: WARNING - Failed to update system_user : Error when changing permissions for /etc/postfix/app_senders_login_maps.db: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘/etc/postfix/app_senders_login_maps.db’
2025-09-06 23:12:30,549: INFO - Reverting sources…
2025-09-06 23:12:30,550: DEBUG - Prefetching asset main: https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/archive/refs/tags/v0.12.5.tar.gz …
2025-09-06 23:12:33,276: INFO - Reverting system_user…
2025-09-06 23:14:15,830: ERROR - Failed to rollback system_user : Error when changing permissions for /etc/postfix/app_senders_login_maps.db: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘/etc/postfix/app_senders_login_maps.db’
2025-09-06 23:14:15,834: ERROR - Provisioning, deprovisioning, or updating resources for pixelfed__2 failed: Error when changing permissions for /etc/postfix/app_senders_login_maps.db: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘/etc/postfix/app_senders_login_maps.db’

Should I do anything from my side?
Thanks for your help!

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I tried a second time but I still have the same problem. Do other Pixelfed admins are facing the same situation?

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It’s not related to pixelfed per se, but to the postfix conf

Can you share what happens when you run sudo postmap /etc/postfix/app_senders_login_maps ?

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What yunohost version do you have?
Anything interesting in the diagnosis?

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Thanks for the suggestion, I run your command, I had this result:

root@hhh: /etc/postfix# sudo postmap app_senders_login_maps
BDB0002 __fop_file_setup: Retry limit (100) exceeded
postmap: fatal: open database app_senders_login_maps.db: File exists

So I had to delete the existing file (0 bytes) and rerun your command, and then I could finally upgrade Pixelfed. Thanks for your help!

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I tried that but it doesn’t recreate the file :frowning:

Any idea ? :pray:

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By the way:

Warning: Failed to update system_user : Error when changing permissions for /etc/postfix/app_senders_login_maps.db: \[Errno 2\] No such file or directory: '/etc/postfix/app_senders_logi n_maps.db'

But there is a app_senders_login_maps file, without the .db extension.

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I have deleted the app_senders_login_maps file, restarted postfix and then it worked without complaints. Not sure if you should delete the file in your setup, in my case it was empty, but still causing issues.

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Thanks for sharing your feedback.
Was it recreated then ?

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yes, it wasn’t present immediately after the restart but now is there and it has some content, so looks like it’s working :slight_smile:

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For me there was a __db.app_senders_login_maps.db file and I had to rename/delete that for the file to be generated properly.