ownCloud 9.0.x (known issues, faq and upgrade problems)

[RealRancor]

Blogpost about upgrading: https://owncloud.org/blog/time-to-upgra ... cloud-9-0/

General changes in this release: https://doc.owncloud.org/server/9.0/adm ... notes.html

Another blogpost how to do a correct upgrade: http://blog.jospoortvliet.com/2016/01/h ... -skip.html

Please read those links carefully!!!

Calendar and contacts in 9.0

The Calendar and Contacts apps have been rewritten and the CalDAV and CardDAV backends of these apps were merged into ownCloud core. During the upgrade existing Calendars and Addressbooks are automatically migrated. As a fallback for failed upgrades or an option to test a migration dav:migrate-calendars and/or dav:migrate-addressbooks scripts are available via the occ command after you have added 'debug' => true to your config/config.php. See https://doc.owncloud.org/server/9.0/adm ... mmand.html how to run occ.

Migration of CalDAV and CardDAV should be done automatically,you can check if everything run perfectly and re-initiate the migration process:
http://morrisjobke.de/2016/03/07/ownClo ... -analysis/


Browser support in Calendar (and probably also contacts) App
-> Only Chrome, Firefox and Safari are supported. No IE/EDGE
https://github.com/owncloud/calendar#supported-browsers


There were problems with the code integrity check. More information…

ownCloud 9 has introduced a code signing and integrity check feature to help you identify modified and corrupted files. If you're getting the mentioned error please see:

https://doc.owncloud.org/server/9.0/adm ... y-messages

More info about code signing are available here: https://owncloud.org/blog/code-signing-in-owncloud-9-0/


If you get this message because you have modified your .htaccess and/or .user.ini (e.g. to raise the upload limits) the upcoming 9.0.1 will include a workaround for this:
https://github.com/owncloud/core/pull/23250
https://github.com/owncloud/core/pull/23270

Common issues

On every major upgrade it is recommended to do a full upgrade by deleting all files and folders within your installation directory except /data/ and /config/ and then extract the new code into this installation directory. How to do a full upgrade can be found at the documentation:

https://doc.owncloud.org/server/9.0/adm ... -procedure

Updates between multiple major versions and downgrades are unsupported.

Please see: viewtopic.php?f=17&t=32087

Known Issues with PHP 7

PHP 7.0.6+ needs ownCloud 9.0.2+
https://github.com/owncloud/core/pull/24343

Please use PHP>7.0.3: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=71466

Other issues

Updates from oC 9.0.0/9.0.1/9.0.2 via the Updater App are delayed because of various bugs in that App:

https://github.com/owncloud/updater/issues/360

Please do a manual update to 9.0.3 for now:

https://doc.owncloud.org/server/9.0/adm ... grade.html

Known Bugs

A list of bugs to fix or features to include for 9.0.4 is available here: https://github.com/owncloud/core/milestones/9.0.4

Unable to share any file when logged with a LDAP user
https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/23816
Fix planned for oC 9.0.4

"Your data directory and your files are probably accessible from the Internet" since oC 9.0.3
https://github.com/owncloud/core/pull/25331
Fix planned for oC 9.0.4 and 9.1.0

Fixed Bugs

User admin page fails to load properly after upgrade to oc 9.0.2
https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/24734
Will be fixed with oC 9.0.3: https://github.com/owncloud/core/pull/25105

expected filesize 4734206 got 0 (Don't mix this with expected filesize 4734206 got 458752!!)
https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/24653
Will be fixed with oC 9.0.3: https://github.com/owncloud/core/pull/24691

Refresh loop when accessing a public folder protected with password / public share with allowed upload and password protection: endless loading loop
Bugreport: https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/23066
Will be fixed with oC 9.0.3: https://github.com/owncloud/core/pull/24956

"Sharing backend for file not found" during update
Bugreport: https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/23497
Will be fixed with oC 9.0.3: https://github.com/owncloud/core/pull/25187

Updating to 9.0.1 via the updater app is triggering the integrity check warning
Bugreport: https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/23857
Caused by this bug in updater: https://github.com/owncloud/updater/issues/316
Fixed with oC 9.0.2: https://github.com/owncloud/core/pull/24134

Updates on systems with a larger filecache-table (~100 000) can take several minutes:
https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/22747
oC 9.0.2 shows a note how to speed things up and how to avoid timeouts

RewriteBase takes one argument, the base URL of the per-directory context
Bugreport: https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/24276
Fixed with oC 9.0.2: https://github.com/owncloud/core/pull/24277

Undefined index: extension at /var/www/owncloud/lib/private/installer.php#272
Bugreport: https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/24228
Fixed with oC 9.0.2: https://github.com/owncloud/core/pull/24282

Cron gives errors on getQuota() on null in apps/files_versions/lib/storage.php on line 691
https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/23513
Fixed with oC 9.0.2

PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function getUID() on a non-object in apps/dav/appinfo/app.php on line 49
https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/23581
Fixed with oC 9.0.2

ownCloud might not work with PHP 7.0.6
https://github.com/owncloud/core/pull/24326
Fixed with oC 9.0.2

Changes on external storages might not be detected
Bugreport: https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/24255
Fixed with oC 9.0.2: https://github.com/owncloud/core/pull/24256

Error while running background job / Session has been closed - no further changes to the session are allowed
https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/23205
Will be fixed with oC 9.0.1: https://github.com/owncloud/activity/pull/486

AutoloadNotAllowedException when files_sharing is disabled
https://github.com/owncloud/activity/issues/491
Will be fixed with oC 9.0.1: https://github.com/owncloud/core/pull/23461

.htaccess file might get rewritten to often causing an integrity check failure
Will be fixed with oC 9.0.1: https://github.com/owncloud/core/pull/23382

No files shown in the web interface and many JavaScript errors in the console after fresh ownCloud 9.0.0 installation
https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/23199
Will be fixed with oC 9.0.1: https://github.com/owncloud/core/pull/23383

jpeg or jpg files in Themes might be broken / not working as expected
https://github.com/owncloud/core/pull/23129

"no app in context" and "not found while trying to get owner" error in logfile
Will be fixed with oC 9.0.1: https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/23343

Changing a shared calendar's color and name also affects all other users
Will be tackled with oC 9.1: https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/22176

Calendar group shares are not properly migrated / Calendar shares read only
Will be fixed with oC 9.0.1: https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/22932

Google Drive external storages broken on PHP 5.4
https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/22960

Tasks-App is not ready for OC 9.0 yet (best is to wait a few weeks). Work in progress:
https://github.com/owncloud/tasks/pull/291
possible workaround: https://github.com/owncloud/tasks/issues/296

On some systems you might get an Error 404 when opening http://yourhost/owncloud:
https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/22970
viewtopic.php?f=38&t=34150

Class 'XMLReader' not found in Reader.php
https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/23003
-> Some distros like Gentoo are not compiling the XMLReader which is required by oC

Undefined index: newVersionString
https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/22917
-> Will be fixed with 9.0.1

Call to undefined method OCA\user_ldap\lib\user\User::setEMailAddress()
https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/23028
-> Will be fixed with 9.0.1: https://github.com/owncloud/core/pull/22825

Call to a member function getDateTime() on null / on a non-object in /var/www/owncloud/apps/dav/lib/caldav/caldavbackend.php on line 1298
https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/23020
-> Will be fixed with 9.0.1: https://github.com/owncloud/core/pull/23048

Call to a member function getRequest() on null
https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/23031
-> Will be fixed with 9.0.1: https://github.com/owncloud/core/pull/23032
--> Reason can be different like seen here: https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues ... -194331081

This directory is unavailable / The folder is not available: File with id \"33084\" has not been found.
https://github.com/owncloud/core/pull/23039

Error 33 interacting with memcached : A BAD KEY WAS PROVIDED\\\/CHARACTERS OUT OF RANGE
https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/23076

public share with allowed upload and password protection: endlees loading loop
https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/23066

Trusted domains check might fail
https://github.com/owncloud/core/pull/23125

logtimezone in config.php might not work correctly (causing e.g. fail2ban to fail)
https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/23134

Solved other issues

When running Apache and PHP there is currently also an issue within the .htaccess shipped by oC. Make sure that you replace:

<IfModule mod_php5.c>

with

<IfModule mod_php7.c>

in your .htaccess. Ref: https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/21146

Encryption no longer working after update from 8.2.2 to 9.0.0
oC 9.0 needs OpenSSL 1.0.1 in its default config.
https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues ... -195806012
Workaround for ancient distros: https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues ... -195807192

xmlns:d: 'DAV:' is not a valid URI in logfiles
oC 9 needs at least libxml2 in version 2.7.0
https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/23168

The nginx config might need a rework before it is compatible with oC9: https://github.com/owncloud/documentation/issues/2014

[jospoortvliet]

PHP7 on openSUSE
A few people (but not all) have bumped into issues with PHP 7 on openSUSE 13.2 after upgrading, perhaps hold off a bit on your update until these are resolved. There's a temporary fix here.

Debian
It seems upgrading on Debian can get you in trouble: due to a interaction between packaging and core, a rewrite rule breaks the ownCloud installation. As a workaround one can add RewriteBase /owncloud after RewriteEngine on in .htaccess or disable mod_rewrite like this:

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a2dismod rewrite

and

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/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Find more info here.

External storage performance
If you have a performance issue and external storage, check this out. You can read info in this blog on how to apply patches.

[eldrich]

The main reason I am posting this is in case someone else has this problem and wants to see a possible solution.

Steps to reproduce
1. sudo -u apache ./occ upgrade

Expected behaviour
Upgrade should complete

Actual behaviour
Upgrade fails with mysql (mariadb) error:
SQLSTATE[42S01]: Base table or view already exists: 1050 Table 'oc_notifications' already exists

Server configuration
Operating system: Centos 7.2
Web server: Apache 2.4
Database: Mariadb 5.5.44
PHP version: 5.4
ownCloud version (see ownCloud admin page): 8.2.2.2 ->> 9.0
Updated from an older ownCloud or fresh install: Updated, originally was an 8.0 sqlite system but updated to mariadb and owncloud 8.2

Essentially running the occ upgrade fails because the oc_notifications table already exists,
Simple solution is to use mysql command to drop that table (verified it was empty first)

%> mysql -u XXX -p
mysql> use owncloud;
mysql> drop table oc_notifications;
mysql> quit;

then rerun the ./occ upgrade and it completes.
I wonder if the failure is because the DB was originally an sqlite one that was upgraded to MySQL?

[interfaSys]

In Gallery, users cannot download shared albums shared via link. Will be in 9.0.1 https://github.com/owncloud/gallery/issues/554

[mmaciel]

Hi all,

I faced some trouble to access my owncloud page after upgrading from 9.02 to 9.03. Let me share my case and how I solved it. This might help our community.

In short, I was unable to access my owncloud page from browsers after the upgrade. A 404 (not found) or 403 (file permissions denied for /owncloud or /app/file directories) error. I changed a line in .htaccess file to solve it.

Details to reproduce the error:

After upgrading from yum, I restarded my server. At this point I was able to access owncloud page, but it was set on maintenance mode. I went back to terminal and went on with the upgrade:

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sudo -u apache php /var/www/html/owncloud/occ maintenance:mode --off
sudo -u apache php /var/www/html/owncloud/occ upgrade
systemctl restart httpd

I also changed file permissions as defined in the Admin document.

After these, I was unable to access my owncloud page and got a 404 error.

On Apache log, I had the following error:

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[Sat Jul 09 12:27:58.390298 2016] [autoindex:error] [pid 1500] [client 192.168.0.100:53938] AH01276: Cannot serve directory /var/www/html/owncloud/: No matching DirectoryIndex (none) found, and server-generated directory index forbidden by Options directive

To solve this,

I changed the .htaccess file as follows:

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vi +96 /var/www/html/owncloud/.htaccess

From:

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RewriteBase /

To:

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RewriteBase /owncloud

Restarted httpd and that's it.

Cheers

[RealRancor]

Hi,

thanks for sharing. If your RewriteBase is wrong then make sure that you have configured this options correctly in your config.php:

htaccess.RewriteBase
overwrite.cli.url

Ref: https://github.com/owncloud/documentation/issues/2431

[mmaciel]

Thanks for commenting. Reading your link helped clearing my mind.

Well, I'd read this page on your link before and also had changed config.php file as described. But these haven't fixed anything. Only when I changed the .htaccess file my problems went away.

Just to give a bit more information, I installed ownCloud with its default settings meaning I access my ownCloud page with "/owncloud" at the end of my domain name. I think it would be nice to have "/owncloud" configured in .htaccess and config.php files. This would reflect a default installation.

This occ maintenance:update:htaccess command will be very welcome. It's a great idea.

Thanks