Cannot log in Nextcloud client on boot

📱 Desktop & mobile clients
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Hi, I have the same issue as the one closed Jun 2025. Serious issue since I end up having to resync all data.

OS: Ubuntu 24.04
Nextcloud client version: 3.11 (from the Ubuntu 24.04 repository)
When I log into my system, I the sync client does not log in. Moreover, clicking on the sync client’s login does nothing. I cannot log in.
Attempts to install and run Nextcloud-4.0.7-x86_64.AppImage
just yield a lot of errors about missing Qt_6.9 that I cannot resolve.

Any help appreciated.
Thanks

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Hi All, Update: It appears that the client does eventually let me log in, but I have to do it manually. I’m wondering why the Nextcloud client doesn’t log in automatically. It does start automatically. I am running the client on the same machine as the server and I access the server machine via TurboVNC. Thanks

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Sorry, but when I see setups like this, I sometimes really wonder why Nextcloud is being used at all. I mean, you have a Nextcloud server, why not access it directly from your clients via the web interface or the desktop/mobile apps?

That said, this doesn’t really answer the question of why the client isn’t logging in automatically—or maybe it does, indirectly. Does your client–server hybrid automatically log in to the desktop environment after a reboot? Is GNOME Keyring installed and working? Are you even using GNOME, or something else such as Kubuntu (KDE) or Xubuntu (XFCE) etc…?

Have you also tried this PPA? Desktop client : “Nextcloud development” team

Questions over questions. :wink:

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Hi bb77 and thanks for your response. The Nextcloud server machine, thor serves two main purposes for me:

  1. High-performance compute node
  2. It has the lion’s share of my storage - 10 6TB hard drives in a RAID Z2 ZFS array. So I want to run my Nextcloud server here, on my machine which has the storage capacity.
    So why in the world would I run a Nextcloud sync client on thor???
    Because the Nextcloud data is operated on using thor due to thor’s compute power. The sync tool also allows remote sync on a laptop controlling a tube furnace process for a small company in CA. I’m developing C++/Qt programs which run on that remote laptop to control the tube furnace and I need to use thor to edit the code and compile to test locally as well.
    Yes, I know, one could use WebDav to access the Nextcloud synced data on thor and I tested that - only to find that:
    a. I don’t want to sync all file types because some files contain code that is only applicable to thor (Ubuntu Linux) and the remote laptop is a Windows machine - so there are .pro files (to guide builds on Qtcreator) which are machine-specific and I don’t want to sync these. So the Nextcloud files accessed by WebDav won’t contain the .pro files at all. Yes, I could include them here but there’s still another problem, namely:
    b. WebDav is insufferably slow -even when file access is local. I find that this renders WebDav basically useless for any application and I fail to understand why this wasn’t addressed by the WebDav developers??
    So there you have it. My reason for running both the Nextcloud server and a Nextcloud client on my big NAS storage machine, thor.
    If you have a better idea(s) or see something I overlooked, please kindly inform me.

Thanks

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Also, on thor, I’m using XFCE via TurboVNC. thor is running Xubuntu 24.04.
Checking gnome-keyring:
$ps aux | grep gnome-keyring-daemon
viking 9210 0.0 0.0 319040 9988 ? Ssl 11:29 0:00 /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --foreground --components=pkcs11,secrets --control-directory=/run/user/1000/keyring
viking 21020 0.0 0.0 319040 9924 ? Sl 12:27 0:00 /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --start --foreground --components=secrets
viking 36957 0.0 0.0 11840 2392 pts/3 S+ 14:40 0:00 grep --color=auto gnome-keyring-daemon
###########

appears to indicate that it’s running?
The problem is that the Nextcloud sync client does start on booting of thor but does not log in automatically and I have to manually log it in to the Nextcloud server on thor. Also, logging in the client manually is very slow - taking about 10min to get a response.
I tried to set the keyring password but find that seahorse simply has no menu selection to change the login keyring. Posts had indicated that this is an old unresolved bug in seahorse.
Oddly enough, when thor was running Xbuntu 22.04 the Nextcloud client would log in automatically once I entered the keyring password on login via VNC, but now, with thor at Xbuntu 24.04, I get no keyring prompt and the Nextcloud client has to be manually logged in.

thanks

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By the way, I will try your PPA suggestion and thanks.