# Mender-convert failed

**URL:** <https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-convert-failed/3641>\
**Category:** General Discussions\
**Tags:** raspberry-pi-zero-wifi\
**Created:** [May 14, 2021, 11:30am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-convert-failed/3641 "2021-05-14T11:30:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![bob3454356](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c4cdca/32.png) [@bob3454356](https://hub.mender.io/u/bob3454356)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2021, 11:30am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-convert-failed/3641/1 "2021-05-14T11:30:11Z")

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Hi, this issue report is related to the [docker setup for pi zero, available here](https://hub.mender.io/t/raspberry-pi-0-wifi-raspbian/215/19).

When running:  
MENDER\_ARTIFACT\_NAME=release-1 ./docker-mender-convert   
–disk-image input/2021-03-04-raspios-buster-armhf-lite.img   
–config configs/raspberrypi0w\_config   
–overlay ${PWD}/rootfs\_overlay\_demo

The command finished at this:

```
mender-convert-modify has finished. Cleaning up...
2021-05-14 11:13:46 [ERROR] [mender-convert] mender-convert failed
2021-05-14 11:13:46 [DEBUG] [mender-convert-modify] When running: (./mender-convert-modify:317): run_and_log_cmd():

sudo rsync --archive --keep-dirlinks --verbose /Users/barney/Documents/GitHub/mender-convert/rootfs_overlay_demo/ work/rootfs/
sending incremental file list

```

`rsync: change_dir "/Users/username/Documents/GitHub/mender-convert/rootfs_overlay_demo" failed: No such file or directory (2)`

```
sent 20 bytes received 12 bytes 64.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0 speedup is 0.00
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1207) [sender=3.1.3]

```

Notably the previous command caused an error for me also:

```
./scripts/bootstrap-rootfs-overlay-hosted-server.sh \
--output-dir ${PWD}/rootfs_overlay_demo \
--tenant-token "

```

output was: `chown: 501.20: illegal user name`

Would appreciate any insight on this.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![drewmoseley](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/drewmoseley/32/47_2.png) [@drewmoseley](https://hub.mender.io/u/drewmoseley)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2021, 5:42pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-convert-failed/3641/2 "2021-05-15T17:42:01Z")

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That tutorial specifically has you checking out an older version of mender-convert. I’m pretty sure this has been fixed in later versions. Instead of starting with:

```auto
git clone -b 2.2.1 https://github.com/mendersoftware/mender-convert.git

```

can you try?

```auto
git clone -b 2.3.0 https://github.com/mendersoftware/mender-convert.git

```