Images and PDFs are corrupt when downloaded / viewed via web-ui

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Nextcloud version (eg, 20.0.5): 21.0.1
Operating system and version (eg, Ubuntu 20.04): Ubuntu 20.04
Apache or nginx version (eg, Apache 2.4.25): Apache/2.4.41
PHP version (eg, 7.4): PHP 7.4.3

The issue you are facing:

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

Steps to replicate it:

  1. upgrade to 21.0.1
  2. upload a new pdf or image
  3. try to view or download that file after (file will be corrupt, some info is still there but e.g. images have large missing parts)
  4. view the same file directly from the storage, not via web-ui (file looks perfectly fine)

The output of your Nextcloud log in Admin > Logging:

https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/4nwqhM6Z86/

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

<?php
$CONFIG = array (
  'passwordsalt' => '<redacted>',
  'secret' => '<redacted>',
  'trusted_domains' =>
  array (
    0 => 'localhost',
    1 => '<redacted>',
    2 => '<redacted>',
    3 => '<redacted>',
  ),
  'datadirectory' => '/mnt/ncdata',
  'dbtype' => 'pgsql',
  'version' => '21.0.1.1',
  'overwrite.cli.url' => '<redacted>',
  'dbname' => 'nextcloud_db',
  'dbhost' => 'localhost',
  'dbport' => '',
  'dbtableprefix' => 'oc_',
  'dbuser' => '<redacted>',
  'dbpassword' => '<redacted>',
  'installed' => true,
  'instanceid' => '<redacted>',
  'upgrade.disable-web' => 'true',
  'log_type' => 'file',
  'logfile' => '/var/log/nextcloud/nextcloud.log',
  'loglevel' => '2',
  'log.condition' =>
  array (
    'apps' =>
    array (
      0 => 'admin_audit',
    ),
  ),
  'mail_smtpmode' => 'smtp',
  'remember_login_cookie_lifetime' => '1800',
  'log_rotate_size' => '10485760',
  'trashbin_retention_obligation' => 'auto, 180',
  'versions_retention_obligation' => 'auto, 365',
  'simpleSignUpLink.shown' => false,
  'memcache.local' => '\\OC\\Memcache\\APCu',
  'filelocking.enabled' => true,
  'memcache.distributed' => '\\OC\\Memcache\\Redis',
  'memcache.locking' => '\\OC\\Memcache\\Redis',
  'redis' =>
  array (
    'host' => '/var/run/redis/redis-server.sock',
    'port' => 0,
    'timeout' => 0.5,
    'dbindex' => 0,
    'password' => '<redacted>',
  ),
  'logtimezone' => 'Europe/Zurich',
  'htaccess.RewriteBase' => '/',
  'enable_previews' => true,
  'enabledPreviewProviders' =>
  array (
    11 => 'OC\\Preview\\PNG',
    12 => 'OC\\Preview\\JPEG',
    13 => 'OC\\Preview\\GIF',
    14 => 'OC\\Preview\\BMP',
    15 => 'OC\\Preview\\MarkDown',
    16 => 'OC\\Preview\\MP3',
    17 => 'OC\\Preview\\TXT',
    18 => 'OC\\Preview\\Movie',
  ),
  'preview_max_x' => '2048',
  'preview_max_y' => '2048',
  'jpeg_quality' => '60',
  'maintenance' => false,
  'mail_smtpsecure' => 'ssl',
  'mail_sendmailmode' => 'smtp',
  'mail_smtpauth' => 1,
  'mail_smtpauthtype' => 'LOGIN',
  'mail_from_address' => 'noreply',
  'mail_domain' => '<redacted>',
  'mail_smtphost' => '<redacted>',
  'mail_smtpport' => '465',
  'mail_smtpname' => '<redacted>',
  'mail_smtppassword' => '<redacted>',
  'default_phone_region' => 'ch',
);


The output of your Apache/nginx/system log in /var/log/____:

upon request

to elaborate on the issue, i can check the files where they are stored (external drives) and they are fine but if I download the file via the web-ui or view it online, many images are corrupt.
syncing via the client seems to work fine as well, only web-ui is an issue
thanks for any help

Hi, this issue looks also like:

(Which has a workaround linked)

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thanks!
its exactly that issue and the workaround worked as well… (although a chown -R www-data:www-data) was necessary as well

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