Site UUID in source storage does not match the target storage When I run drush cim -y on my staging instance of my site I get the following error:


  Drupal\Core\Config\ConfigImporterException: There were errors
  validating the config synchronization. in Drupal\Core\Config\ConfigImporter->validate() (line 728 of /var/www/xeno/docroot/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Config/ConfigImporter.php).
  The import failed due for the following reasons: Site UUID in source storage does not match the target storage. Entities exist of type Paragraph and Paragraph type Image. These entities need to be deleted before importing.


This is what I did:


Copied the database from staging and pulled the latest code
Ran drush cex -y
Committed configuration
Went to staging and pull latest code
Ran drush cim -y and get the error stated above


When I run drush cget system.site uuid on local and staging I get the same uuid so I am not sure why I am getting this error.

How can I fix the error?
You can fix this by changing your local site UUID using drush.

I also needed to run a mix of drush entity-updates -y and installing specific modules with drush en &lt;module_name&gt; -y before the configs would import on a new fresh database.

Update: you shouldn't use drush entity-updates -y anymore.  See https://www.drupal.org/node/3034742