# Mender.conf error with mender-convert-modify **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussions\ **Created:** [December 15, 2020, 12:11pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-conf-error-with-mender-convert-modify/2989 "2020-12-15T12:11:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![agniiyer](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/agniiyer/32/980_2.png) [@agniiyer](https://hub.mender.io/u/agniiyer)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 12:11pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-conf-error-with-mender-convert-modify/2989/1 "2020-12-15T12:11:51Z")
Once I configure the mender client server configuration, I have my mender.conf file in roots\_overlay\_demo. However it is only accessible with sudo nano. Xcode doesn’t seem to be able to view it. When I run mender-convert, I get the following error: ``` mender-convert-extract has finished. Cleaning up... Running mender-convert-modify: --disk-image input/golden-image-1.img --config configs/raspberrypi4_config --overlay rootfs_overlay_demo/ 2020-12-15 11:40:46 [INFO] [mender-convert-modify] Using configuration file: configs/mender_convert_config 2020-12-15 11:40:46 [INFO] [mender-convert-modify] Using configuration file: configs/raspberrypi4_config 2020-12-15 11:40:46 [INFO] [mender-convert-modify] Installing Mender client and related files 2020-12-15 11:40:51 [INFO] [mender-convert-modify] Using root device A in mender.conf: /dev/mmcblk0p2 2020-12-15 11:40:51 [INFO] [mender-convert-modify] Using root device B in mender.conf: /dev/mmcblk0p3 2020-12-15 11:40:51 [INFO] [mender-convert-modify] Creating state scripts version file. 2020-12-15 11:40:51 [INFO] [mender-convert-modify] Installing a custom /etc/fstab (see work/convert.log for more info) 2020-12-15 11:40:51 [INFO] [mender-convert-modify] Using boot partition device in fstab: /dev/mmcblk0p1 2020-12-15 11:40:51 [INFO] [mender-convert-modify] Using data partition device in fstab: /dev/mmcblk0p4 2020-12-15 11:40:51 [INFO] [mender-convert-modify] Performing platform specific modifications (if any) 2020-12-15 11:40:51 [INFO] [mender-convert-modify] Running hook: platform_modify 2020-12-15 11:40:51 [INFO] [mender-convert-modify] Performing user/local specific modifications (if any) 2020-12-15 11:40:51 [INFO] [mender-convert-modify] Running hook: user_local_modify 2020-12-15 11:40:51 [INFO] [mender-convert-modify] Applying rootfs overlay: rootfs_overlay_demo/ mender-convert-modify has finished. Cleaning up... 2020-12-15 11:40:54 [ERROR] [mender-convert] mender-convert failed 2020-12-15 11:40:52 [DEBUG] [mender-convert-modify] When running: (./mender-convert-modify:317): run_and_log_cmd(): sudo rsync --archive --keep-dirlinks --verbose rootfs_overlay_demo// work/rootfs/ sending incremental file list ./ .gitkeep etc/ etc/mender/ rsync: send_files failed to open "/mender-convert/rootfs_overlay_demo/etc/mender/mender.conf": Operation not permitted (1) sent 224 bytes received 73 bytes 594.00 bytes/sec total size is 846 speedup is 2.85 rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1207) [sender=3.1.3] 2020-12-15 11:40:54 [ERROR] [mender-convert] mender-convert failed 2020-12-15 11:40:54 [ERROR] [mender-convert] mender-convert exit code: 23 ``` I tried setting permissions with sudo chmod +x mender.conf but it hasn’t worked. Any advice on how to fix this would be appreciated! ---
**Author:** ![mirzak](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/mirzak/32/2056_2.png) [@mirzak](https://hub.mender.io/u/mirzak)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 12:40pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-conf-error-with-mender-convert-modify/2989/2 "2020-12-15T12:40:17Z")
What does the following show you: ```auto ls -alh rootfs_overlay_demo/etc/mender/mender.conf ``` Also I can not see, if you are running `mender-convert` or `docker-mender-convert`? Probably would recommend the second one. ---
**Author:** ![agniiyer](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/agniiyer/32/980_2.png) [@agniiyer](https://hub.mender.io/u/agniiyer)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 1:01pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-conf-error-with-mender-convert-modify/2989/3 "2020-12-15T13:01:44Z")
Hi your command gives me the following output: `-rw------- 1 root wheel 846B Dec 15 17:54 rootfs_overlay_demo/etc/mender/mender.conf` I’m running docker-mender-convert with: ``` MENDER_ARTIFACT_NAME=release-1 ./docker-mender-convert \ --disk-image input/golden-image-1.img \ --config configs/raspberrypi4_config \ --overlay rootfs_overlay_demo/ ``` I had to modify bootstrap-rootfs-overlay-hosted-server.sh as given [here](https://github.com/mendersoftware/mender-convert/pull/264/files) and [here](https://github.com/mendersoftware/mender-convert/pull/266/files) to get mender.conf. Perhaps the code that sets permissions for mender.conf there needs to be modified? ---
**Author:** ![mirzak](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/mirzak/32/2056_2.png) [@mirzak](https://hub.mender.io/u/mirzak)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 2:56pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-conf-error-with-mender-convert-modify/2989/4 "2020-12-15T14:56:14Z")
I can not access the provided links, but is it similar to what is done [here](https://github.com/mendersoftware/mender-convert/blob/master/scripts/bootstrap-rootfs-overlay-hosted-server.sh#L56-L74) ? ---
**Author:** ![agniiyer](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/agniiyer/32/980_2.png) [@agniiyer](https://hub.mender.io/u/agniiyer)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 2:58pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-conf-error-with-mender-convert-modify/2989/5 "2020-12-15T14:58:32Z")
Yes! Except I used 0 instead of root. I’ve also updated my earlier links. Any ideas on what the problem might be? ---
**Author:** ![agniiyer](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/agniiyer/32/980_2.png) [@agniiyer](https://hub.mender.io/u/agniiyer)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2020, 12:54pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-conf-error-with-mender-convert-modify/2989/6 "2020-12-16T12:54:32Z")
SOLVED: You have to use sudo chmod on mender.conf in usr/local/bin instead of the mender-convert directory.