# Unable to convert mender artifacts

**URL:** <https://hub.mender.io/t/unable-to-convert-mender-artifacts/6108>\
**Category:** General Discussions\
**Tags:** mender-convert\
**Created:** [August 14, 2023, 10:27am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/unable-to-convert-mender-artifacts/6108 "2023-08-14T10:27:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![AkshatVyas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e99b99/32.png) [@AkshatVyas](https://hub.mender.io/u/AkshatVyas)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2023, 10:27am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/unable-to-convert-mender-artifacts/6108/1 "2023-08-14T10:27:02Z")

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Hi team,

I was mainly using Mender to understand the operating system update. In my case, I am using two virtual machines and mainly trying to update from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

I have been stuck at a point while converting from .img to .mender using mender-convert while [Convert a Mender Debian image | Mender documentation](https://docs.mender.io/operating-system-updates-debian-family/convert-a-mender-debian-image). I have executed all the steps carefully. So, after executing the below command.

_MENDER\_ARTIFACT\_NAME=release-1 ./docker-mender-convert \*  
\*\* --disk-image input/golden-image-1.img \*_  
\*\* --config configs/raspberrypi3\_config \*\*  
\*\* --overlay input/rootfs\_overlay\_demo/\*\*

The log it is showing is below:

Running mender-convert-extract: --config ./work/override\_compression\_config --disk-image input/gateway-os-image.img --config configs/generic\_x86-64\_hdd\_config.save --overlay ./rootfs\_overlay\_demo/  
2023-08-11 13:19:37 [INFO] [mender-convert-extract] Using configuration file: configs/mender\_convert\_config  
2023-08-11 13:19:37 [INFO] [mender-convert-extract] Using configuration file: ./work/override\_compression\_config  
2023-08-11 13:19:37 [INFO] [mender-convert-extract] Using configuration file: configs/generic\_x86-64\_hdd\_config.save  
2023-08-11 13:19:37 [INFO] [mender-convert-extract] Validating disk image  
2023-08-11 13:19:37 [INFO] [mender-convert-extract] Disk parsed successfully  
2023-08-11 13:19:37 [INFO] [mender-convert-extract] NUMBER OF PARTS: 3 TYPE: gpt  
2023-08-11 13:19:37 [INFO] [mender-convert-extract] PART 1: SIZE: 29.9G TYPE: 0fc63daf-8483-4772-8e79-3d69d8477de4  
2023-08-11 13:19:37 [INFO] [mender-convert-extract] PART 1: extracting to work/part-1.fs  
2023-08-11 13:32:41 [INFO] [mender-convert-extract] PART 14: SIZE: 4M TYPE: 21686148-6449-6e6f-744e-656564454649  
2023-08-11 13:32:41 [INFO] [mender-convert-extract] PART 14: extracting to work/part-14.fs  
2023-08-11 13:32:42 [INFO] [mender-convert-extract] PART 15: SIZE: 106M TYPE: c12a7328-f81f-11d2-ba4b-00a0c93ec93b  
2023-08-11 13:32:42 [INFO] [mender-convert-extract] PART 15: extracting to work/part-15.fs  
mender-convert-extract has finished. Cleaning up…  
Running mender-convert-modify: --config ./work/override\_compression\_config --disk-image input/gateway-os-image.img --config configs/generic\_x86-64\_hdd\_config.save --overlay ./rootfs\_overlay\_demo/  
2023-08-11 13:32:43 [INFO] [mender-convert-modify] Using configuration file: configs/mender\_convert\_config  
2023-08-11 13:32:43 [INFO] [mender-convert-modify] Using configuration file: ./work/override\_compression\_config  
2023-08-11 13:32:43 [INFO] [mender-convert-modify] Using configuration file: configs/generic\_x86-64\_hdd\_config.save  
mount: /data/mender-convert/work/rootfs: special device work/part-2.fs does not exist.  
mender-convert-modify has finished. Cleaning up…  
umount: work/rootfs: not mounted.  
2023-08-11 13:32:43 [ERROR] [mender-convert] mender-convert failed  
2023-08-11 13:32:43 [DEBUG] [mender-convert-extract] When running: (modules/disk.sh:63): run\_and\_log\_cmd():

```
    dd if=input/gateway-os-image.img of=work/part-15.fs skip=10240 bs=512 count=217088 conv=sparse status=none

```

2023-08-11 13:32:43 [INFO] [mender-convert-modify] Using configuration file: configs/mender\_convert\_config  
2023-08-11 13:32:43 [INFO] [mender-convert-modify] Using configuration file: ./work/override\_compression\_config  
2023-08-11 13:32:43 [INFO] [mender-convert-modify] Using configuration file: configs/generic\_x86-64\_hdd\_config.save  
2023-08-11 13:32:44 [ERROR] [mender-convert] mender-convert exit code: 32

Kindly, provide some solution ASAP.  
Thanks