Access to Files no longer possible in WebUI after Update to Nextcloud 21

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Nextcloud version (eg, 20.0.5): 21.0.1.1
Operating system and version (eg, Ubuntu 20.04): Debian 10
Apache or nginx version (eg, Apache 2.4.25): Apache 2.4.38
PHP version (eg, 7.4): 7.3.27

The issue you are facing:
I have recently upgraded from Nextcloud 20 to 21 since then I can no longer access my files in the WebUI. When I access http://Nextcloud/apps/files the WebUI shows the following error:

Service Unavailable

The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.

Everything else still works: file synchronization and mobile apps are still working and all other apps (dashboard, photos, settings, music, talk) are also working in the WebUI.
I don’t see anything in the Nextcloud log, but mysql is showing an aborted connection after accessing http://Nextcloud/apps/files

I have already tried rescanning all files (occ files:scan -all & files:cleanup) and reinstalling PHP with no success.

Is this the first time you’ve seen this error? (Y/N): Y

Steps to replicate it:

  1. Update NC from 20 to 21
  2. Login to WebUI
  3. Go to Files
  4. See error: 503 Service Unavailable

The output of your Nextcloud log in Admin > Logging:

Empty

The output of your config.php file in /path/to/nextcloud (make sure you remove any identifiable information!):

<?php
$CONFIG = array (
  'instanceid' => '*',
  'passwordsalt' => '*',
  'secret' => '*',
  'trusted_domains' => 
  array (
    0 => '*',
  ),
  'datadirectory' => '/media/data/nextcloud/data',
  'overwrite.cli.url' => '*',
  'dbtype' => 'mysql',
  'version' => '21.0.1.1',
  'dbname' => '*',
  'dbhost' => '*',
  'dbport' => '3306',
  'dbtableprefix' => 'oc_',
  'dbuser' => '*',
  'dbpassword' => '*',
  'logtimezone' => 'Europe/Berlin',
  'log_type' => 'file',
  'logfile' => '/var/log/nextcloud/nextcloud.log',
  'loglevel' => 2,
  'log_rotate_size' => 104857600,
  'default_locale' => 'de_DE',
  'default_phone_region' => 'DE',
  'installed' => true,
  'memcache.distributed' => '\\OC\\Memcache\\Redis',
  'memcache.local' => '\\OC\\Memcache\\APCu',
  'memcache.locking' => '\\OC\\Memcache\\Redis',
  'redis' => 
  array (
    'host' => '*',
    'port' => 6381,
    'password' => '*',
  ),
  'mail_smtpmode' => 'smtp',
  'mail_from_address' => '*',
  'mail_domain' => '*',
  'mail_smtpauthtype' => 'LOGIN',
  'mail_smtpauth' => 1,
  'mail_smtphost' => '*',
  'mail_smtpport' => '587',
  'mail_smtpname' => '*',
  'mail_smtppassword' => '*',
  'maintenance' => false,
  'enable_previews' => true,
  'enabledPreviewProviders' => 
  array (
    0 => 'OC\\Preview\\PNG',
    1 => 'OC\\Preview\\JPEG',
    2 => 'OC\\Preview\\GIF',
    3 => 'OC\\Preview\\BMP',
    4 => 'OC\\Preview\\XBitmap',
    5 => 'OC\\Preview\\MP3',
    6 => 'OC\\Preview\\TXT',
    7 => 'OC\\Preview\\MarkDown',
    8 => 'OC\\Preview\\Movies',
    9 => 'OC\\Preview\\MSOffice2003',
    10 => 'OC\\Preview\\MSOffice2007',
    11 => 'OC\\Preview\\MSOfficeDoc',
    12 => 'OC\\Preview\\OpenDocument',
    13 => 'OC\\Preview\\PDF',
    14 => 'OC\\Preview\\SVG',
    15 => 'OC\\Preview\\TIFF',
    16 => 'OC\\Preview\\Font',
    17 => 'OC\\Preview\\Photoshop',
    18 => 'OC\\Preview\\HEIC',
    19 => 'OC\\Preview\\Image',
    20 => 'OC\\Preview\\Movie',
    21 => 'OC\\Preview\\MP4',
    22 => 'OC\\Preview\\MOV',
    23 => 'OC\\Preview\\MKV',
    24 => 'OC\\Preview\\AVI',
    25 => 'OC\\Preview\\JPG',
  ),
  'theme' => '',
  'updater.release.channel' => 'stable',
  'mysql.utf8mb4' => true,
);

The output of your Apache log in /var/log/apache2/error.log:

[Tue Apr 20 17:33:14.111940 2021] [proxy_fcgi:error] [pid 32765:tid 2880580416] [client XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:54344] AH01067: Failed to read FastCGI header
[Tue Apr 20 17:33:14.137941 2021] [proxy_fcgi:error] [pid 32765:tid 2880580416] (104)Connection reset by peer: [client XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:54344] AH01075: Error dispatching request to : 
[Tue Apr 20 17:33:18.403969 2021] [proxy_fcgi:error] [pid 32765:tid 2880580416] [client XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:54346] AH01067: Failed to read FastCGI header
[Tue Apr 20 17:33:18.404033 2021] [proxy_fcgi:error] [pid 32765:tid 2880580416] (104)Connection reset by peer: [client XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:54346] AH01075: Error dispatching request to : 

The output of your MySql log in /var/log/mysql/error.log:

2021-04-20 17:33:14 2077 [Warning] Aborted connection 2077 to db: 'XXX' user: 'XXX' host: 'XXX' (Got an error reading communication packets)
2021-04-20 17:33:18 2079 [Warning] Aborted connection 2079 to db: 'XXX' user: 'XXX' host: 'XXX' (Got an error reading communication packets)

Hey jwl … had a similar issue just some days ago … did the upgrade from 20.0.6 to 21.0.1.
Got an internal Server. Reboot VM, Reboot Hypervisor - nothing helped. See here.

Internal Server Error after Upgrade from 20.0.6 to 21.0.1 - no login possible anymore · Issue #26573 · nextcloud/server (github.com)

At the end i got it to run …

  • save config.php
  • rebuild config.php from scratch
  • got new instanceid
  • run nc with this for 1 day
  • NC 21.0.1 crashed again
  • set Maint.Mode
  • Restore old instanceid appdata_ocxxxxxxx
  • Restore old config.php
  • run: occ files:scan-app-data

Everything is running again for now