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Vaultwarden fails to start after update – DB migration error (SSO)

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  • jamesJ james

    Hello @factord
    This looks like a copy-paste issue from Windows.
    \r in line 2 is a blank line, so a line break.
    When you copy and pasted, it pasted the line breaks windows style.

    Please describe how you have copy and pasted the code into the /app/data/fix_db.sh file.

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    jdaviescoates
    wrote on last edited by
    #40

    @apesorguk looks like you've hit the same copy-paste issue @james described here:

    @james said in Vaultwarden fails to start after update – DB migration error (SSO):

    This looks like a copy-paste issue from Windows.
    \r in line 2 is a blank line, so a line break.
    When you copy and pasted, it pasted the line breaks windows style.

    Please describe how you have copy and pasted the code into the /app/data/fix_db.sh file.

    I use Cloudron with Gandi & Hetzner

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      apesorguk
      wrote on last edited by apesorguk
      #41

      Thanks all fixed now. I found this worked even with the line brake.

      I have run the command sed -i 's/\r$//g' /app/data/fix_db.sh to fix the new line characters and then run bash /app/data/fix_db.sh again and it ran as expected. Disabled recover mode and confirmed things are back to working as expected.
      
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        overholt
        wrote on last edited by
        #42

        Vaultwarden not responding. Backup restore from December 29th, 2025 works. No backups after that are working. There is nothing in the Cloudron logs that show any error. There was only an update on Dec 31st that appears to be the start of the problem.

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          jdaviescoates
          wrote on last edited by jdaviescoates
          #43

          @overholt Very likely you've hit the same thing as this thread. Solution here https://forum.cloudron.io/post/117779

          I use Cloudron with Gandi & Hetzner

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            marcusquinn
            wrote on last edited by marcusquinn
            #44

            I used this issue to improve my aidevops cloudron subagent, and it managed to fix the issue on all instances. More info here for anyone interested to add this to your toolkit:

            • https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/14688/ai-devops

            Web Design & Development: https://www.evergreen.je
            Technology & Apps: https://www.marcusquinn.com

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              overholt
              wrote on last edited by overholt
              #45

              Script fix works. Thank you!

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              • ChristopherMagC ChristopherMag

                I have run the command sed -i 's/\r$//g' /app/data/fix_db.sh to fix the new line characters and then run bash /app/data/fix_db.sh again and it ran as expected. Disabled recover mode and confirmed things are back to working as expected.

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                ryansebo
                wrote on last edited by
                #46

                @ChristopherMag Thanks, this fixed my issue.

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                • ChristopherMagC ChristopherMag

                  I have run the command sed -i 's/\r$//g' /app/data/fix_db.sh to fix the new line characters and then run bash /app/data/fix_db.sh again and it ran as expected. Disabled recover mode and confirmed things are back to working as expected.

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                  composer
                  wrote on last edited by
                  #47

                  @ChristopherMag
                  That worked for me, Thanks.

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                  • jamesJ james

                    Hello @vaultwarden users

                    Since users have voiced their concerns about manually editing the database I have created a bash script that does it for you.
                    Please follow these steps if you have this issue:

                    1. create an app backup of your @vaultwarden Cloudron app
                    2. put the erroring @vaultwarden app in recovery mode
                    3. open the File Manager of your @vaultwarden app and create a fix_db.sh file
                    4. copy and paste the following script into the just created fix_db.sh file:
                      #!/bin/bash
                      
                      echo "=> Checking if DEFAULT_CHARACTER_SET_NAME and DEFAULT_COLLATION_NAME are set to utf8mb4 and utf8mb4_unicode_ci"
                      
                      CURRENT_DEFAULT_CHARACTER_SET_NAME=$(mysql --silent --skip-column-names --user=${CLOUDRON_MYSQL_USERNAME} --password=${CLOUDRON_MYSQL_PASSWORD} --host=${CLOUDRON_MYSQL_HOST} ${CLOUDRON_MYSQL_DATABASE} -e "SELECT DEFAULT_CHARACTER_SET_NAME FROM information_schema.SCHEMATA WHERE SCHEMA_NAME = '${CLOUDRON_MYSQL_DATABASE}';" 2>/dev/null)
                      CURRENT_DEFAULT_COLLATION_NAME=$(mysql --silent --skip-column-names --user=${CLOUDRON_MYSQL_USERNAME} --password=${CLOUDRON_MYSQL_PASSWORD} --host=${CLOUDRON_MYSQL_HOST} ${CLOUDRON_MYSQL_DATABASE} -e "SELECT DEFAULT_COLLATION_NAME FROM information_schema.SCHEMATA WHERE SCHEMA_NAME = '${CLOUDRON_MYSQL_DATABASE}';" 2>/dev/null)
                      FIX_NEEDED=0
                      
                      if [ "${CURRENT_DEFAULT_CHARACTER_SET_NAME}" != "utf8mb4" ] || [ "${CURRENT_DEFAULT_COLLATION_NAME}" != "utf8mb4_unicode_ci" ]; then
                          echo "=> DEFAULT_CHARACTER_SET_NAME or DEFAULT_COLLATION_NAME is not set to utf8mb4 or utf8mb4_unicode_ci."
                          echo "==> Current values are: DEFAULT_CHARACTER_SET_NAME=${CURRENT_DEFAULT_CHARACTER_SET_NAME}, DEFAULT_COLLATION_NAME=${CURRENT_DEFAULT_COLLATION_NAME}"
                          FIX_NEEDED=1
                      else
                          echo "=> DEFAULT_CHARACTER_SET_NAME is ${CURRENT_DEFAULT_CHARACTER_SET_NAME} and DEFAULT_COLLATION_NAME is ${CURRENT_DEFAULT_COLLATION_NAME}"
                          echo "=> Nothing to do - quitting."
                          FIX_NEEDED=0
                          exit 0
                      fi
                      
                      if [ ${FIX_NEEDED} -eq 1 ]; then
                          read -p "Have you created a backup of your Cloudron Vaultwarden app? (y/N): " yn
                          case $yn in
                              [Yy]* )
                                  echo "=> Setting database character set and collation to utf8mb4 and utf8mb4_unicode_ci."
                                  mysql --user=${CLOUDRON_MYSQL_USERNAME} --password=${CLOUDRON_MYSQL_PASSWORD} --host=${CLOUDRON_MYSQL_HOST} ${CLOUDRON_MYSQL_DATABASE} -e "ALTER DATABASE \`${CLOUDRON_MYSQL_DATABASE}\` CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;" 2>/dev/null
                                  echo "=> Converting all tables to character set utf8mb4 and collation utf8mb4_unicode_ci."
                                  mysql --silent --skip-column-names \
                        --user="${CLOUDRON_MYSQL_USERNAME}" \
                        --password="${CLOUDRON_MYSQL_PASSWORD}" \
                        --host="${CLOUDRON_MYSQL_HOST}" \
                        "${CLOUDRON_MYSQL_DATABASE}" \
                        -e "SELECT CONCAT('ALTER TABLE \`', TABLE_NAME,'\` CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;') AS CharSetConvert FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES WHERE TABLE_SCHEMA='${CLOUDRON_MYSQL_DATABASE}' AND TABLE_TYPE=\"BASE TABLE\";" 2>/dev/null | while read -r sql_command; do
                                      echo "==> Executing: ${sql_command}"
                                      mysql --user=${CLOUDRON_MYSQL_USERNAME} --password=${CLOUDRON_MYSQL_PASSWORD} --host=${CLOUDRON_MYSQL_HOST} ${CLOUDRON_MYSQL_DATABASE} -e "SET foreign_key_checks=0; ${sql_command} SET foreign_key_checks=1;" 2>/dev/null
                                  done
                                  ;;
                              [Nn]* )
                                  echo "=> Please create a backup of your database before proceeding with the fix. Exiting."
                                  exit 1
                                  ;;
                              * )
                                  echo "=> Invalid response. Please answer with y or n. Exiting."
                                  exit 1
                                  ;;
                          esac
                      fi
                      
                    5. open the Web Terminal of your @vaultwarden Cloudron app
                    6. execute the following command:
                      bash /app/data/fix_db.sh
                      
                    7. Execute the following command to start @vaultwarden:
                      /app/pkg/start.sh
                      
                    8. Validate if your @vaultwarden is now working correctly
                    9. If validated working, you can delete the fix_db.sh file and disable the recovery mode of your @vaultwarden Cloudron app

                    If you run into any issues, copy the output of the terminal, post it here and restore your app from the backup created.

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                    composer
                    wrote on last edited by
                    #48

                    @james That helped. Thanks.

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                    • ChristopherMagC ChristopherMag

                      I have run the command sed -i 's/\r$//g' /app/data/fix_db.sh to fix the new line characters and then run bash /app/data/fix_db.sh again and it ran as expected. Disabled recover mode and confirmed things are back to working as expected.

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                      Purple8
                      wrote on last edited by
                      #49

                      @ChristopherMag Thank you ! It worked for me

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                      • jamesJ james

                        Hello @factord
                        This looks like a copy-paste issue from Windows.
                        \r in line 2 is a blank line, so a line break.
                        When you copy and pasted, it pasted the line breaks windows style.

                        Please describe how you have copy and pasted the code into the /app/data/fix_db.sh file.

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                        factord
                        wrote on last edited by
                        #50

                        @james hi James, same than @christophermag , copy/paste in Windows 11, applying his sed fix did the trick for me too.

                        PS: i didn't receive any email notification of the mentions.

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                          james
                          Staff
                          wrote on last edited by
                          #51

                          Hello @factord
                          This is due to your forum profile settings.
                          If you visit https://forum.cloudron.io/user/factord/settings you can see under Notifications the option When someone mentions you is set to None.
                          If you wish to get notifications on mention, you will have to enable this.
                          Although, you should have got a notification that there were new posts in this topic unless you have changed the topic notification status to Not Watching or Ignoring since in your forum profile settings the following is set:
                          c03d6b0d-34c2-4f6b-8c08-8a0aad2ee534-image.png

                          Did you change the notification setting in this topic (top right bell icon)?
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                            humptydumpty
                            wrote on last edited by
                            #52

                            I just noticed TODAY that my VW was down. Thanks @james @christophermag for the fix. I also ran into the windows 11 copy/paste issue.
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                              nilp
                              wrote on last edited by james
                              #53

                              I've got an error during upgrade of Vaultwarden from 1.22.2 to 1.23.0 or more 1.24.0 etc... :

                               Please generate a secure Argon2 PHC string by using `vaultwarden hash` or `argon2`.
                              Jan 17 19:10:33 See: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/wiki/Enabling-admin-page#secure-the-admin_token
                              Jan 17 19:10:33 2026-01-17T19:10:33+01:00
                              Jan 17 19:10:34 [2026-01-17 18:10:34.083][panic][ERROR] thread 'main' panicked at 'Error running migrations: QueryError(DieselMigrationName { name: "2024-03-06-170000_add_sso_users", version: MigrationVersion("20240306170000") }, DatabaseError(Unknown, "Referencing column 'user_uuid' and referenced column 'uuid' in foreign key constraint 'sso_users_ibfk_1' are incompatible."))': src/db/mod.rs:505
                              Jan 17 19:10:34 0: vaultwarden::init_logging::{{closure}}
                              Jan 17 19:10:34 1: std::panicking::panic_with_hook
                              Jan 17 19:10:34 2: std::panicking::panic_handler::{{closure}}
                              Jan 17 19:10:34 3: std::sys::backtrace::__rust_end_short_backtrace
                              Jan 17 19:10:34 4: __rustc::rust_begin_unwind
                              Jan 17 19:10:34 5: core::panicking::panic_fmt
                              Jan 17 19:10:34 6: core::result::unwrap_failed
                              Jan 17 19:10:34 7: vaultwarden::db::DbPool::from_config
                              Jan 17 19:10:34 8: vaultwarden::main::{{closure}}
                              Jan 17 19:10:34 9: vaultwarden::main
                              Jan 17 19:10:34 10: std::sys::backtrace::__rust_begin_short_backtrace
                              Jan 17 19:10:34 11: main
                              Jan 17 19:10:34 12: <unknown>
                              Jan 17 19:10:34 13: __libc_start_main
                              Jan 17 19:10:34 14: _start
                              Jan 17 19:10:34 2026-01-17T19:10:34+01:00
                              

                              Can you help me ?

                              Regards

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                                james
                                Staff
                                wrote on last edited by
                                #54

                                Hello @nilp and welcome to the Cloudron Forum

                                This issue has been adressed and a fix is avaiable here: https://forum.cloudron.io/post/117779
                                I will merge this topic into the existing one.

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                                  nilp
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                                  #55

                                  thank you James !

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