The Basics
- Operating system and version (e.g., Ubuntu 24.04):
Ubuntu 24.04
- Is this the first time you’ve seen this error? (Yes / No):
No -- Persistent Error
- When did this problem seem to first start?
Last Week
- Installation method (e.g. AlO, NCP, Bare Metal/Archive, etc.)
AppImage
Summary of the issue you are facing:
I had been using the Nextcloud Client AppImage with no problems for a while. At some point last week, something I did unrelated to nextcloud must have messed with the installation.
When run from the GUI, it fails silently. When I run it from the terminal, I get the following:
$ bin/Nextcloud-4.0.6-x86_64.AppImage
nextcloud.gui.application: Migrating old config from "/home/treesMG/.local/share/Nextcloud" to "/home/treesMG/.config/Nextcloud"
nextcloud.gui.application: Failed to move the old config directory to its new location ( "/home/treesMG/.local/share/Nextcloud" to "/home/treesMG/.config/Nextcloud" )
nextcloud.gui.application: Will move the individual files QList("NC-heavy_sync.log")
nextcloud.gui.application: Fallback move of "NC-heavy_sync.log" also failed
nextcloud.sync.configfile: Default update channel is "stable"
nextcloud.gui.application: Already running, exiting...
I did a little investigation:
$ ls -l ~/.config | grep Nextcloud
drwxrwxr-x 3 treesMG treesMG 4096 Feb 11 08:39 Nextcloud
$ ls ~/.config/Nextcloud/
cookies0.db NC-heavy_sync.log nextcloud.cfg.backup_20260126_153137
logs nextcloud.cfg
$ ls ~/.local/share/Nextcloud/
NC-heavy_sync.log
$ mv .local/share/Nextcloud/NC-heavy_sync.log ~/bak/NC-heavy_sync.log.bak
$ mv .local/share/Nextcloud/ bak/local/share/Nextcloud
I tried restarting Nextcloud
$ pgrep Nextcloud
4918
$ ps -p 4918
PID TTY TIME CMD
4918 ? 00:00:00 Nextcloud-4.0.6
$ kill 4918
$ bin/Nextcloud-4.0.6-x86_64.AppImage
nextcloud.sync.configfile: Default update channel is "stable"
nextcloud.gui.application: Already running, exiting...
Steps to replicate it (hint: details matter!):
- Not sure how to get it into this state
Log entries
I cannot find where the AppImage puts its logs. 