vectordotdev/vector · error

failed to turn path into string

Error message

failed to turn path into string: {}

What it means

After globbing artifacts, the command converts each path's OsString into a Rust String to pass to the `gh` CLI. Non-UTF-8 artifact filenames cannot be converted, so this error is raised rather than passing a lossy/garbled name to gh.

Solutions

1. List target/artifacts and rename any non-UTF-8 filenames (`convmv -f latin1 -t utf8 target/artifacts/*`).
2. Fix the packaging step that creates the artifact names to emit plain UTF-8/ASCII names.
3. Clean target/artifacts and regenerate artifacts, then re-run `vdev release github`.

Example fix

// before
artifact named 'bundle\xff.tar.gz' in target/artifacts/
// after
mv target/artifacts/bundle*.tar.gz target/artifacts/bundle.tar.gz  # valid UTF-8

for p in std::fs::read_dir("target/artifacts")? {
    let p = p?.path();
    assert!(p.to_str().is_some(), "non-UTF-8 artifact name: {p:?}");
}

fn has_utf8_name(p: &std::path::Path) -> bool { p.to_str().is_some() }

When it happens

Trigger: Running `vdev release github` when a file under target/artifacts/ has a name containing invalid UTF-8 bytes (e.g. produced by a build tool embedding raw bytes into a filename).

Common situations: A packaging script generates artifact names from untrusted/legacy-encoded input; test fixture names with unusual bytes copied into target/artifacts; locale-related encoding issues in CI.

Understand the failure class

Background: "Invalid ... format", "must be in format X", "does not look like a ..." — invalid argument format errors across CLI tools and libraries — this error's family across 17 libraries.

Related errors

• Fragment path is not valid UTF-8
• Bad fragment filename
• Failed to convert OsStr to &str for
• Failed to find validation configuration from given test…
• Failed to get metadata for

AI-assisted analysis of vectordotdev/vector@bdb87aeaa4 (2026-09-16). Data as JSON: /api/errors/0f913e098a8fd598. Report an issue: GitHub.

Appendix: source

Thrown at vdev/src/commands/release/github.rs:20

use anyhow::{Ok, Result, anyhow};
use glob::glob;
use std::process::Command;

/// Uploads target/artifacts to GitHub releases
#[derive(clap::Args, Debug)]
#[command()]
pub struct Cli {}

impl Cli {
    pub fn exec(self) -> Result<()> {
        let artifacts = glob("target/artifacts/*")
            .expect("failed to read glob pattern")
            .collect::<Result<Vec<_>, _>>()
            .map_err(|e| anyhow!("failed to read path: {e}"))?
            .into_iter()
            .map(|p| p.into_os_string().into_string())
            .collect::<Result<Vec<_>, _>>()
            .map_err(|e| anyhow!("failed to turn path into string: {}", e.to_string_lossy()))?;

        let version = cargo::get_version()?;
        let mut command = Command::new("gh");
        command.in_repo();
        command.args(
            [
                "release",
                "--repo",
                "vectordotdev/vector",
                "create",
                &format!("v{version}"),
                "--title",
                &format!("v{version}"),
                "--notes",
                &format!(
                    "The [COSE team](https://opensource.datadoghq.com/about/#the-community-open-source-engineering-team) is excited to announce version `{version}`! 🚀\n\n[View release notes](https://vector.dev/releases/{version})"
                ),
            ]

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