diff --git a/config/chroot_local-includes/usr/local/bin/tails-upgrade-frontend-wrapper b/config/chroot_local-includes/usr/local/bin/tails-upgrade-frontend-wrapper
index 978958b62b8a057e48a07ef974670f0a37e92a81..c6176a283549a63b8987b45db682ccb303840d4b 100755
--- a/config/chroot_local-includes/usr/local/bin/tails-upgrade-frontend-wrapper
+++ b/config/chroot_local-includes/usr/local/bin/tails-upgrade-frontend-wrapper
@@ -68,6 +68,11 @@ sleep 30
 
 check_free_memory "$MIN_MEMFREE" "$MIN_TOTAL_MEMFREE"
 
+# Go to a place where everyone, especially Archive::Tar::Wrapper called by
+# tails-install-iuk, can chdir back after it has chdir'd elsewhere to do
+# its job.
+cd /
+
 xhost +SI:localuser:"$RUN_AS_USER"
 if [ $# -gt 0 ] ; then
    gksudo -u "$RUN_AS_USER" "/usr/bin/tails-upgrade-frontend $@"