>>> [!note] Migrated issue <!-- Drupal.org comment --> <!-- Migrated from issue #905386. --> Reported by: [hhg](https://www.drupal.org/user/134867) >>> <p>provision-deploy fails with: Failed to extract the contents of /var/aegir/backups/xxxx.tar.gz to (The target directory could not be written to)</p> <p>The command executed as aegir user:</p> <pre>drush --platform='/var/aegir/drupal-6.19' --uri='model.example.org' provision-deploy /var/aegir/backups/modelgruppen.tar.gz</pre><p>The full output:</p> <pre>Failed to extract the contents of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [error]<br>/var/aegir/backups/modelgruppen.tar.gz to&nbsp; (The target directory<br>could not be written to)<br>An error occurred at function :&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [error]<br>drush_provision_drupal_pre_provision_deploy<br>aegir@node:~/drupal-6.19$ drush --platform='/var/aegir/drupal-6.19' --uri='model.example.org' provision-deploy /var/aegir/backups/modelgruppen.tar.gz<br>Failed to extract the contents of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [error]<br>/var/aegir/backups/modelgruppen.tar.gz to&nbsp; (The target directory<br>could not be written to)<br>An error occurred at function :&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [error]<br>drush_provision_drupal_pre_provision_deploy</pre><p>Notice the lack of a destination in the error messages. I believe the extract path is set in drush_provision_drupal_provision_deploy_validate:<br> (deploy.provision.inc line 38)</p> <pre>drush_set_option('extract_path', d()-&gt;site_path);</pre><p>But where is site_path comming from? From the provisionSite class? (provision.environment.inc line 566) But do we have a Site Enviroment at this time? Or am I just giving the wrong parameters to provision-deply?<br> I must admit, I'm not that familiar with the provison code base to know that???</p> <p>Running the same command with --debug gives this output:</p> <pre> <br>Drush bootstrap phase : _drush_bootstrap_drupal_root() [0.24 sec,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [bootstrap]<br>4.15 MB]<br>Loading drushrc "/var/aegir/drupal-6.19/drushrc.php" into "drupal"&nbsp;&nbsp; [bootstrap]<br>scope. [0.24 sec, 4.15 MB]<br>Initialized Drupal 6.19 root directory at /var/aegir/drupal-6.19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [notice]<br>[0.25 sec, 4.89 MB]<br>Found command: provision-deploy (commandfile=provision) [0.27 sec,&nbsp;&nbsp; [bootstrap]<br>4.88 MB]<br>Initializing drush commandfile: drush_make [0.27 sec, 4.88 MB]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [bootstrap]<br>Initializing drush commandfile: drush_make_d_o [0.27 sec, 4.88 MB]&nbsp;&nbsp; [bootstrap]<br>Initializing drush commandfile: provision [0.27 sec, 4.88 MB]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [bootstrap]<br>Load alias @self [0.27 sec, 4.88 MB]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [notice]<br>Load alias @server_master [0.27 sec, 4.88 MB]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [notice]<br>Loading mysql driver for the db service [0.27 sec, 4.89 MB]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [notice]<br>Loading apache driver for the http service [0.27 sec, 4.89 MB]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [notice]<br>Including /var/aegir/.drush/provision/db/deploy.provision.inc [0.27&nbsp; [bootstrap]<br>sec, 4.89 MB]<br>Including /var/aegir/.drush/provision/http/deploy.provision.inc [0.27[bootstrap]<br>sec, 4.89 MB]<br>Including /var/aegir/.drush/provision/platform/deploy.provision.inc&nbsp; [bootstrap]<br>[0.27 sec, 4.9 MB]<br>Deploying site from /var/aegir/backups/modelgruppen.tar.gz [0.28 sec,&nbsp; [message]<br>4.95 MB]<br>Failed to extract the contents of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [error]<br>/var/aegir/backups/modelgruppen.tar.gz to&nbsp; (The target directory<br>could not be written to) [0.28 sec, 4.95 MB]<br>An error occurred at function :&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [error]<br>drush_provision_drupal_pre_provision_deploy [0.28 sec, 4.96 MB]<br>Changes for drush_provision_drupal_pre_provision_deploy module have&nbsp;&nbsp; [rollback]<br>been rolled back. [0.28 sec, 4.96 MB]<br>Changes for drush_db_pre_provision_deploy module have been rolled&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [rollback]<br>back. [0.28 sec, 4.96 MB]<br>Command dispatch complete [0.28 sec, 4.96 MB]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [notice]<br>Peak memory usage was 5.4 MB [0.28 sec, 4.96 MB]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [memory]</pre><p>aegir version: 0.4-alpha12<br> Drush: 6.x-3.3<br> PHP: 5.2.4<br> Ubuntu 8.04</p> <p>Please advice</p> <p>Thanks<br> Hans Henrik</p>