Please help - Lab 7A issue
I was having issues with lab 8 and could not move forward, so I started all over again.
Now I am having an issue in Lab 7A
flux bootstrap github --owner=$GITHUB_USER --repository=flux-infra --branch=main --path="./clusters/staging" --personal --log-level=debug --network-policy=false
► connecting to github.com
► cloning branch "main" from Git repository "https://github.com/guyenko/flux-infra.git"
✔ cloned repository
► generating component manifests
✔ generated component manifests
✔ component manifests are up to date
✔ reconciled components
► determining if source secret "flux-system/flux-system" exists
✔ source secret up to date
✗ sync path configuration ("./clusters/staging") would overwrite path ("./cluster/dev") of existing Kustomization
Why do I get this error?
Best Answer
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Hi @idelossantos4,
Have you bootstrapped the same source before in the same system? I haven't seen this issue before, but it looks like flux already have done this, and now it's complaining about overwriting the local files.
I found an issue that looks pretty similar:
https://github.com/fluxcd/flux2/discussions/1517
So, you can delete the local directory, do a 'flux uninstall' and try again.
I hope that helps.
Luis.1
Answers
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I ran
flux uninstall --namespace=flux-systemI was able to proceed bootstrapping flux for the staging cluster1 -
Hi @idelossantos4, thanks for confirming the solution! I'm glad it worked

Regards,
Luis.0
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