Cannot upgrade to V73

Help with Setup/Upgrade
1

I have attempted to upgrade to v73 today and get an error I am not sure about.

When I try curl -s https://mailinabox.email/setup.sh | sudo bash I get:

ubuntu@box:~$ curl -s https://mailinabox.email/setup.sh | sudo bash
Updating Mail-in-a-Box to v73 . . .
remote: Enumerating objects: 1, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (1/1), done.
remote: Total 1 (delta 0), reused 1 (delta 0), pack-reused 0 (from 0)
Unpacking objects: 100% (1/1), 507 bytes | 507.00 KiB/s, done.
error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by checkout:
management/dns_update.py
Please commit your changes or stash them before you switch branches.
Aborting
Update failed. Did you modify something in /root/mailinabox?

When I try sudo mailinabox I get the expected grey on blue messages and then this:

Primary Hostname: box.xxxxxxx.com (disguised)
Public IP Address: 5x.6x.1xx.2xx (disguised)
Private IP Address: 17x.2x.x.1xx (disguised)
Mail-in-a-Box Version: v72

Updating system packages…
Installing system packages…
Initializing system random number generator…
Firewall is active and enabled on system startup
Synchronizing state of fail2ban.service with SysV service script with /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install.
Executing: /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install enable fail2ban
Installing nsd (DNS server)…
Installing Postfix (SMTP server)…
Installing Dovecot (IMAP server)…
Installing OpenDKIM/OpenDMARC…
Installing SpamAssassin…
Installing Nginx (web server)…
Installing Roundcube (webmail)…
Installing Nextcloud (contacts/calendar)…
Nextcloud is already latest version
Installing Z-Push (Exchange/ActiveSync server)…
Installing Mail-in-a-Box system management daemon…
Installing Mail-in-a-Box system management daemon…
Installing Munin (system monitoring)…
updated DNS: OpenDKIM configuration

Your Mail-in-a-Box is running.

Please log in to the control panel for further instructions at:

https://box.xxxxxxx.com/admin

If you have a DNS problem put the box’s IP address in the URL
(https://5x.6x.1xx.2xx/admin) but then check the TLS fingerprint:
xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
ubuntu@box:~$

I am a bit lost on this… after a reboot, status page still says new version is available

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This message says that something in your installation folder has changed. If you are not aware of any changes, you can just move the folder away. mv mailinabox mailinabox_backup and rerun the upgrade / installation command (the one starting with curl).
If all is well after this you can remove the mailimabox_backup folder.
If you’re curious about what’s changed you can do

cd mailinabox
git diff
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Thank you for that. I did the mv and re-ran the curl/bash command but still it errors with:

ubuntu@box:~$ curl -s https://mailinabox.email/setup.sh | sudo bash
Updating Mail-in-a-Box to v73 . . .
remote: Enumerating objects: 1, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (1/1), done.
remote: Total 1 (delta 0), reused 1 (delta 0), pack-reused 0 (from 0)
Unpacking objects: 100% (1/1), 507 bytes | 507.00 KiB/s, done.
error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by checkout:
management/dns_update.py
Please commit your changes or stash them before you switch branches.
Aborting
Update failed. Did you modify something in /root/mailinabox?

Clearly, I had fiddled with dns_update.py to reduce TTL, however i restored the backup file i took, but still update script fails with error above.

Am I facing a backup and restore action to clean build with v73?

4

Also, the correct install command (from the instructions) is:

curl -s https://mailinabox.email/setup.sh | sudo -E bash

Note the -E option.

And if you’ve been changing things, some kind of git restore might clean it up.

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5

Hmmmm

The link: https://mailinabox.email/maintenance.html#upgrade

shows:

curl -s https://mailinabox.email/setup.sh | sudo bash

The link: https://mailinabox.email/guide.html

shows

curl -s https://mailinabox.email/setup.sh | sudo -E bash

NOW it appears to work!! Now I’m upgraded!!

Thank you so much

Terry