Error when sharing a folder to a group

[TenderBranson]

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Nextcloud version (eg, 29.0.5): 28.0.6.1
Operating system and version (eg, Ubuntu 24.04): Ubuntu 20.04
Apache or nginx version (eg, Apache 2.4.25): 2.4.41
PHP version (eg, 8.3): 8.1

The issue you are facing:

If you try to share a folder to a group you get the following error

An exception occurred while executing a query: SQLSTATE[45000]: <>: 1644 Cannot rename folder if not owner

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

Steps to replicate it:

1. Try to share a folder to a group

The output of your Nextcloud log in Admin > Logging:

DriverException
An exception occurred while executing a query: SQLSTATE[45000]: <<Unknown error>>: 1644 Cannot rename folder if not owner
Exception thrown: Doctrine\DBAL\Exception\DriverException

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

'dbtype' => 'mysql',
  'version' => '28.0.6.1',
  'dbname' => 'db1',
  'dbhost' => 'localhost',
  'dbport' => '',
  'dbtableprefix' => 'oc_',
  'dbuser' => 'db1',
  'dbpassword' => '',
  'installed' => true,
  'filelocking.enabled' => true,
  'memcache.local' => '\\OC\\Memcache\\APCu',
  'memcache.locking' => '\\OC\\Memcache\\Redis',
  'redis' => 
  array (
    'host' => 'localhost',
    'port' => 6379,
    'timeout' => 0.0,
    'password' => '',
  ),
  'mail_from_address' => 'noreply',
  'mail_smtpmode' => 'smtp',
  'mail_smtpauthtype' => 'LOGIN',
  'mail_domain' => 'domain',
  'maintenance' => false,
  'mail_sendmailmode' => 'pipe',
  'loglevel' => 3,
  'skeletondirectory' => '',
  'default_phone_region' => 'DE',
  'maintenance_window_start' => 1,
  'theme' => '',
  'mysql.utf8mb4' => true,
  'app_install_overwrite' => 
  array (
    0 => 'files_accesscontrol',
    1 => 'spreed',
  ),
  'twofactor_enforced' => 'true',
  'twofactor_enforced_groups' => 
  array (
    0 => '2fa-auth',
  ),

Output errors in nextcloud.log in /var/www/ or as admin user in top right menu, filtering for errors. Use a pastebin service if necessary.

Exception thrown: Doctrine\\DBAL\\Exception\\DriverException","userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/127.0.0.0 Safari/537.36","version":"28.0.6.1","exception":{"Exception":"Doctrine\\DBAL\\Exception\\DriverException","Message":"An exception occurred while executing a query: SQLSTATE[45000]: <<Unknown error>>: 1644 Cannot rename folder if not owner","Code":1644