Solved Unable to change avatar

[klawitterb]

Hi,

I'm trying to update my profile avatar but on save the following JS error is thrown:

Anything I can do about this?

Thanks!

[girish]

@klawitterb It seems rename() is not allowed on your filesystem/server. Is there anything special about your setup? What file system are you using? Maybe you can give us df -h output.

What's happening is the avatar gets uploaded to /tmp. And then it gets renamed from there to profile. But the rename system call is failing.

[klawitterb]

@girish hope this helps:

[girish]

@klawitterb Ah, I see. /tmp (as part of /) and /home are in different partitions.

I have made a fix for the next release (https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/box/-/commit/370485eee668a08c4b63642c5afe6a1905cae3ee). You can fix it like so:

• Edit /home/yellowtent/box/src/users.js. In line 828 or so, inside setAvatar function, there is a fs.rename. Just change it to fs.copyFile. The actual patch also removes the temp file but you can ignore the unlink stuff.
• systemctl restart box

[klawitterb]

@girish makes sense

Your workaround worked like a charm, thanks!