Failed Upgrade to 0.53.4

[gmarnin]

Help. I run ChangeDetection in Kubernetes. I know I was on a recent version but not sure exactly which version I was running. When I tied to upgrade to 0.53.4, I ran into a migration error and I'm not sure how to workaround it to complete the upgrade:

2026-02-18 15:25:34.197 | DEBUG    | changedetectionio.model:commit:670 - Committed watch 8b360140-1bd1-48c8-9cb1-a64bdc631882 to 8b360140-1bd1-48c8-9cb1-a64bdc631882/watch.json
2026-02-18 15:25:34.209 | DEBUG    | changedetectionio.model:commit:670 - Committed watch cc792e0b-f341-4ce6-8446-0a24f17a8e38 to cc792e0b-f341-4ce6-8446-0a24f17a8e38/watch.json
2026-02-18 15:25:34.209 | CRITICAL | changedetectionio.store.updates:migrate_legacy_db_format:605 - Phase 1 complete: Saved 1466 watches
2026-02-18 15:25:34.209 | CRITICAL | changedetectionio.store.updates:migrate_legacy_db_format:608 - Phase 2/4: Verifying all watch.json files were created...
2026-02-18 15:25:36.401 | CRITICAL | changedetectionio.store.updates:run_updates:228 - Error while trying update_26
2026-02-18 15:25:36.401 | ERROR    | changedetectionio.store.updates:run_updates:229 - Migration failed: 3 watch files missing: ['60a51c81-d4c8-4c91-803e-1840f650f095', '8f7b535e-68b4-4569-9b49-0be1ff09d9f5', '18e42660-2638-4360-ab79-19aba3f9b064']... url-watches.json remains intact, safe to retry.
Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/app/./changedetection.py", line 8, in <module>
    changedetectionio.main()
    │                 └ <function main at 0x7f2fbf4040e0>
    └ <module 'changedetectionio' from '/app/changedetectionio/__init__.py'>

  File "/app/changedetectionio/__init__.py", line 369, in main
    datastore = store.ChangeDetectionStore(datastore_path=app_config['datastore_path'], version_tag=__version__, include_default_watches=include_default_watches)
                │     │                                   │                                         │                                    └ True
                │     │                                   │                                         └ '0.53.4'
                │     │                                   └ {'datastore_path': '/datastore', 'batch_mode': False, 'recheck_watches': None, 'recheck_repeat_count': 1}
                │     └ <class 'changedetectionio.store.ChangeDetectionStore'>
                └ <module 'changedetectionio.store' from '/app/changedetectionio/store/__init__.py'>

  File "/app/changedetectionio/store/__init__.py", line 62, in __init__
    self.reload_state(datastore_path=datastore_path, include_default_watches=include_default_watches, version_tag=version_tag)
    │    │                           │                                       │                                    └ '0.53.4'
    │    │                           │                                       └ True
    │    │                           └ '/datastore'
    │    └ <function ChangeDetectionStore.reload_state at 0x7f2fbe6eaac0>
    └ <changedetectionio.store.ChangeDetectionStore object at 0x7f2fbe0ae2d0>

  File "/app/changedetectionio/store/__init__.py", line 237, in reload_state
    self.run_updates(current_schema_version=current_schema)
    │    │                                  └ 25
    │    └ <function DatastoreUpdatesMixin.run_updates at 0x7f2fbe6e91c0>
    └ <changedetectionio.store.ChangeDetectionStore object at 0x7f2fbe0ae2d0>

> File "/app/changedetectionio/store/updates.py", line 226, in run_updates
    update_method = getattr(self, f"update_{update_n}")()
                            └ <changedetectionio.store.ChangeDetectionStore object at 0x7f2fbe0ae2d0>

  File "/app/changedetectionio/store/updates.py", line 670, in update_26
    self.migrate_legacy_db_format()
    │    └ <function DatastoreUpdatesMixin.migrate_legacy_db_format at 0x7f2fbe6ea520>
    └ <changedetectionio.store.ChangeDetectionStore object at 0x7f2fbe0ae2d0>

  File "/app/changedetectionio/store/updates.py", line 617, in migrate_legacy_db_format
    raise Exception(

Exception: Migration failed: 3 watch files missing: ['60a51c81-d4c8-4c91-803e-1840f650f095', '8f7b535e-68b4-4569-9b49-0be1ff09d9f5', '18e42660-2638-4360-ab79-19aba3f9b064']... url-watches.json remains intact, safe to retry.

[dgtlmoon]

strange, can you add more of the logs?

[dgtlmoon]

I know I was on a recent version but not sure exactly which version I was running.

I'de love to know which version, and if you can, attach the backup export .zip

[gmarnin]

Full log: changedetection-99cb47649-88f4b-changedetection.log

Still working on the backup export zip, I don't have direct access to that

[gmarnin]

I just got access to the zip logs. I emailed them to you 🙏

[dgtlmoon]

@gmarnin thanks, the problem is that you have something "different" about your datastore, like some custom setup, some kind of disk full, or other... Permission denied: you can see in the logs.

kubernetes is really problematic, can you think why problems with file permissions only apply to your setup? i dont know anything about kubernetes.

2026-02-19 16:48:14.464 | DEBUG    | changedetectionio.model:commit:670 - Committed watch d11a8b59-6c95-40d0-a6a3-d9df148fcf65 to d11a8b59-6c95-40d0-a6a3-d9df148fcf65/watch.json
2026-02-19 16:48:14.473 | DEBUG    | changedetectionio.model:commit:670 - Committed watch 5d8a007b-7165-47fb-accf-05105017c322 to 5d8a007b-7165-47fb-accf-05105017c322/watch.json
2026-02-19 16:48:14.475 | ERROR    | changedetectionio.model:commit:672 - Failed to commit 60a51c81-d4c8-4c91-803e-1840f650f095: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/datastore/60a51c81-d4c8-4c91-803e-1840f650f095/json-zlx0xvbl.tmp'
2026-02-19 16:48:14.477 | ERROR    | changedetectionio.model:commit:672 - Failed to commit 8f7b535e-68b4-4569-9b49-0be1ff09d9f5: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/datastore/8f7b535e-68b4-4569-9b49-0be1ff09d9f5/json-ngwg493s.tmp'
2026-02-19 16:48:14.480 | ERROR    | changedetectionio.model:commit:672 - Failed to commit 18e42660-2638-4360-ab79-19aba3f9b064: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/datastore/18e42660-2638-4360-ab79-19aba3f9b064/json-bcv3i6qn.tmp'
2026-02-19 16:48:14.490 | DEBUG    | changedetectionio.model:commit:670 - Committed watch af1a4b22-c72d-43d3-b37b-5edbd1ff3927 to af1a4b22-c72d-43d3-b37b-5edbd1ff3927/watch.json

[dgtlmoon]

Works perfectly when i run your dataset locally..

[gmarnin]

I found the directories in /datastore owned by root.root rather than the UID that the container runs as, including /datastore/ea49d7fa-64e9-4a82-8c3d-8ce82325a924. Not exactly sure how that happened, since this pod can't run as root.

I was able to correct the permissions and upgrade to v0.54.1

Thank you for the assistance