I hope this is the proper area to post this question. I tried to run a manual update (currently 11.0.3 and going to 12.0.0) with the command sudo -u www-data php /path/to/nextcloud/updater/updater.phar on my nextcloud instance and I got a couple of fatal errors caused by not having the proper PHP modules installed (php-xml, and php-curl). Easily fixed because the update didn’t get very far in the process to break anything. However, the php-zip module was also missing so when the updating process tried to uncompress the nextcloud zip file it threw an error. Looking at the error message i could see that i didn’t have the php-zip module installed so I installed it but when i re-ran the update I get the message “Step 6 is currently in process. Please call this command later.” This is where i sit. Am i able to start over? Is there a temp directory or file I can remove to start the process over again? Any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks.
I’ve experienced a similar issue. Reason being most likely the snap update running repeatedly at the same time, according to syslog this snap stuff has been round-tripping for ages already…
Once I removed the nextcloud snap package (backed up the /var/www/nextcloud folder before), the warnings regarding missing curl and zip modules disappeared. Hope this helps…
no. But it’s strange that you were able to run NC before without all these required modules. I would check first if you have everything in order to avoid that the update process stops somewhere breaking your setup.
After a fair amount of digging i finally found the answer by scrolling down a few more pages in the manual upgrade portion of the server administration documentation. I ran sudo -u www-data php /path/to/nextcloud/occ maintenance:repair
on the command line and it fixed my problem. After that and INSTALLING ALL THE NECESSARY PHP PLUGINS everything ran as advertised.