Login error for all users Internal server error

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Nextcloud version (eg, 12.0.2): 18.02
Operating system and version (eg, Ubuntu 17.04): ubuntu 18.X
Apache or nginx version (eg, Apache 2.4.25): nginx 1.17.9
PHP version (eg, 7.1): 7.3.14

The issue you are facing:
I’m getting a internal server error on all logins via the web.

Is this the first time you’ve seen this error? (Y/N):
Y
Steps to replicate it:
Don’t know, happened overnight… maybe some ubuntu patch?
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The output of your Nextcloud log in Admin > Logging:

Level
App	Message		Time
Fatal	webdav	Sabre\DAV\Exception\BadRequest: Expected filesize of 10000000 bytes but read (from Nextcloud client) and wrote (to Nextcloud storage) 1032192 bytes. Could either be a network problem on the sending side or a problem writing to the storage on the server side.		2020-03-19T13:25:02+0100
Error	no app in context	Sabre\DAV\Exception\BadRequest: Expected filesize of 10000000 bytes but read (from Nextcloud client) and wrote (to Nextcloud storage) 1032192 bytes. Could either be a network problem on the sending side or a problem writing to the storage on the server side.		2020-03-19T13:25:02+0100
Error	PHP	Unknown: POST Content-Length of 134 bytes exceeds the limit of 20 bytes at Unknown#0		2020-03-19T13:22:25+0100
Error	index	Exception: Argument 1 passed to OC\Core\Controller\ClientFlowLoginV2Controller::poll() must be of the type string, null given, called in /var/www/nextcloud/lib/private/AppFramework/Http/Dispatcher.php on line 170		2020-03-19T13:22:25+0100
Error	PHP	Unknown: POST Content-Length of 134 bytes exceeds the limit of 20 bytes at Unknown#0		2020-03-19T13:22:20+0100
Error	index	Exception: Argument 1 passed to OC\Core\Controller\ClientFlowLoginV2Controller::poll() must be of the type string, null given, called in /var/www/nextcloud/lib/private/AppFramework/Http/Dispatcher.php on line 170		2020-03-19T13:22:20+0100
Error	PHP	Unknown: POST Content-Length of 134 bytes exceeds the limit of 20 bytes at Unknown#0		2020-03-19T13:22:15+0100
Error	index	Exception: Argument 1 passed to OC\Core\Controller\ClientFlowLoginV2Controller::poll() must be of the type string, null given, called in /var/www/nextcloud/lib/private/AppFramework/Http/Dispatcher.php on line 170		2020-03-19T13:22:15+0100
Error	PHP	Unknown: POST Content-Length of 134 bytes exceeds the limit of 20 bytes at Unknown#0		2020-03-19T13:22:10+0100
Error	index	Exception: Argument 1 passed to OC\Core\Controller\ClientFlowLoginV2Controller::poll() must be of the type string, null given, called in /var/www/nextcloud/lib/private/AppFramework/Http/Dispatcher.php on line 170		2020-03-19T13:22:10+0100
Error	PHP	Unknown: POST Content-Length of 134 bytes exceeds the limit of 20 bytes at Unknown#0

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

<?php
$CONFIG = array (
  'passwordsalt' => '*',
  'secret' => '*',
  'trusted_domains' =>
  array (
    0 => '*',
  ),
  'datadirectory' => '/var/nc_data',
  'dbtype' => 'mysql',
  'version' => '18.0.2.2',
  'overwrite.cli.url' => '*',
  'dbname' => 'nextcloud',
  'dbhost' => 'localhost',
  'dbport' => '',
  'dbtableprefix' => 'oc_',
  'mysql.utf8mb4' => true,
  'dbuser' => 'nextcloud',
  'dbpassword' => 'nextcloud',
  'installed' => true,
  'instanceid' => 'ocfgco6oa42x',
  'activity_expire_days' => 14,
  'auth.bruteforce.protection.enabled' => true,
  'blacklisted_files' =>
  array (
    0 => '.htaccess',
    1 => 'Thumbs.db',
    2 => 'thumbs.db',
  ),
  'cron_log' => true,
  '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\\Movie',
    6 => 'OC\\Preview\\PDF',
    7 => 'OC\\Preview\\MP3',
    8 => 'OC\\Preview\\TXT',
    9 => 'OC\\Preview\\MarkDown',
  ),
  'filesystem_check_changes' => 0,
  'filelocking.enabled' => 'true',
  'htaccess.RewriteBase' => '/',
  'integrity.check.disabled' => false,
  'knowledgebaseenabled' => false,
  'logfile' => '/var/nc_data/nextcloud.log',
  'loglevel' => 2,
  'logtimezone' => 'Europe/Berlin',
  'log_rotate_size' => 104857600,
  'maintenance' => false,
  'memcache.local' => '\\OC\\Memcache\\APCu',
  'memcache.locking' => '\\OC\\Memcache\\Redis',
  'overwriteprotocol' => 'https',
  'preview_max_x' => 1024,
  'preview_max_y' => 768,
  'preview_max_scale_factor' => 1,
  'redis' =>
  array (
    'host' => '/var/run/redis/redis-server.sock',
    'port' => 0,
    'timeout' => 0.0,
  ),
  'quota_include_external_storage' => false,
  'share_folder' => '/Shares',
  'skeletondirectory' => '',
  'theme' => '',
  'trashbin_retention_obligation' => 'auto, 7',
  'updater.release.channel' => 'stable',
  'data-fingerprint' => '*',
  'mail_smtpmode' => 'smtp',
  'mail_sendmailmode' => 'smtp',
  'mail_from_address' => 'nextcloud',

  'mail_domain' => 'ricohnorge.no',
  'mail_smtpauthtype' => 'LOGIN',
  'mail_smtpauth' => 1,
  'mail_smtphost' => 'm*',
  'mail_smtpport' => '25',
  'mail_smtpname' => 'n*',
  'mail_smtppassword' => '*',
  'twofactor_enforced' => 'false',
  'twofactor_enforced_groups' =>
  array (
  ),
  'twofactor_enforced_excluded_groups' =>
  array (
  ),
  'updater.secret' => '*',
);

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

2020/03/17 07:37:40 [warn] 19818#19818: *1272244 an upstream response is buffered to a temporary file /var/cache/nginx/fastcgi_temp/2/44/0000003442 while reading upstream, client: 84.215.47.23, server: gateway.ricohnorge.no, request: "GET /remote.php/dav/files/opokje/9110_Andromeda/Andromeda%20Firmware/Gammel%20Firmware/Andromeda%20_P1%20software%204.08/M2056027E/M2056027E.fwu HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/run/php/ph$php/php7.3-fpm.sock:", host: "*"

Hello, I had the same problem with same version, at the end I found that post_max_size in 90-ncp.ini (/etc/php/7.3/fpm/conf.d) was wrong. This value can be modified with ncp-config ->CONFIG -> nc-limits
I inserted there MAXFILESIZE 2G and leave the rest on zero. Now everything is working again