nextcloud-aio-stalwart stuck on Starting with an error message: Invalid configuration file: Expected ['\n'] but found '=' in value at line 1.

TeoM2025 · December 21, 2025, 7:44am

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The Basics

Nextcloud Server version (e.g., 29.x.x):
- NextCloud AIO v12.3.0
Operating system and version (e.g., Ubuntu 24.04):
- Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS
- Web server and version (e.g, Apache 2.4.25):
- Apache/2.4.66
Reverse proxy and version _(e.g. nginx 1.27.2)
- ```
nginx v1.0.3
```
PHP version (e.g, 8.3):
- replace me
Is this the first time you’ve seen this error? (Yes / No):
- Yes
When did this problem seem to first start?
- After NextCloud-AIO-v12.2.0 upgrade to v12.2.1 and also to v12.3.1
Installation method (e.g. AlO, NCP, Bare Metal/Archive, etc.)
- AIO
Are you using CloudfIare, mod_security, or similar? (Yes / No)
- No

Summary of the issue you are facing:

[…]

Steps to replicate it (hint: details matter!):

Remove NextCloud-AIO instances as documented and re-installed fresh

Log entries

Nextcloud

Please provide the log entries from your Nextcloud log that are generated during the time of problem (via the Copy raw option from Administration settings->Logging screen or from your nextcloud.log located in your data directory). Feel free to use a pastebin/gist service if necessary.

 Testing search platform. fail Fulltextsearch failed. Could not index.
If you want to skip indexing in the future, see https://github.com/nextcloud/all-in-one/discussions/1709
whiteboard is up-to-date or no updates could be found
Config value were not updated
Config value were not updated
Waiting for nextcloud-aio-apache to become available...
Scanning nextcloud-aio-caddy folder for admin user...
Starting scan for user 1 out of 1 (admin)
Path not found: /admin/files/nextcloud-aio-caddy
+---------+-------+-----+---------+---------+--------+--------------+
| Folders | Files | New | Updated | Removed | Errors | Elapsed time |
+---------+-------+-----+---------+---------+--------+--------------+
| 0       | 0     | 0   | 0       | 0       | 1      | 00:00:00     |
+---------+-------+-----+---------+---------+--------+--------------+
facerecognition already installed
App "Face Recognition" cannot be installed because it is not compatible with this version of the server.
System config value facerecognition.external_model_url set to string nextcloud-aio-facerecognition:5000
System config value facerecognition.external_model_api_key set to string a02b7fcde073339ab00a8e12c0efb54ac960852c49345e0e
Config value were not updated
System config value enabledFaceRecognitionMimetype => 0 set to string image/jpeg
System config value enabledFaceRecognitionMimetype => 1 set to string image/png
System config value enabledFaceRecognitionMimetype => 2 set to string image/heic
System config value enabledFaceRecognitionMimetype => 3 set to string image/tiff
System config value enabledFaceRecognitionMimetype => 4 set to string image/webp
user_ldap already installed
user_ldap already enabled
Scanning nextcloud-aio-local-ai folder for admin user...
Starting scan for user 1 out of 1 (admin)
Path not found: /admin/files/nextcloud-aio-local-ai
+---------+-------+-----+---------+---------+--------+--------------+
| Folders | Files | New | Updated | Removed | Errors | Elapsed time |
+---------+-------+-----+---------+---------+--------+--------------+
| 0       | 0     | 0   | 0       | 0       | 1      | 00:00:00     |
+---------+-------+-----+---------+---------+--------+--------------+
integration_openai already installed
integration_openai already enabled
Config value were not updated
assistant already installed
assistant already enabled
memories already installed
memories already enabled
System config value memories.vod.external set to boolean true
System config value memories.vod.connect set to string nextcloud-aio-memories:47788
System config value objectstore => class set to string OC\Files\ObjectStore\S3
System config value objectstore => arguments => autocreate set to boolean true
System config value objectstore => arguments => use_path_style set to boolean true
System config value objectstore => arguments => use_ssl set to boolean false
System config value objectstore => arguments => region set to empty string
System config value objectstore => arguments => bucket set to string nextcloud
System config value objectstore => arguments => key set to string nextcloud
System config value objectstore => arguments => secret set to string 5bc39e6b36f12ba821ff1d9f271d78b79909d4dce8b035be
System config value objectstore => arguments => port set to string 9000
System config value objectstore => arguments => hostname set to string nextcloud-aio-minio
Config value were not updated
Activating Collabora config...
✓ Set WOPI url to http://nextcloud-aio-apache:23973
✓ Set callback url to http://nextcloud-aio-apache:23973
Checking configuration
🛈 Configured WOPI URL: http://nextcloud-aio-apache:23973
🛈 Configured public WOPI URL: https://meetinghub.online
🛈 Configured callback URL: http://nextcloud-aio-apache:23973

✓ Fetched /hosting/discovery endpoint
✓ Valid mimetype response
✓ Valid capabilities entry
✓ Fetched /hosting/capabilities endpoint
✓ Detected WOPI server: Collabora Online Development Edition 25.04.7.3

Collabora URL (used for Nextcloud to contact the Collabora server):
  http://nextcloud-aio-apache:23973
Collabora public URL (used in the browser to open Collabora):
  https://meetinghub.online
Callback URL (used by Collabora to connect back to Nextcloud):
  http://nextcloud-aio-apache:23973

Web Browser

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PASTE

Web server / Reverse Proxy

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

PASTE HERE

Configuration

Nextcloud

The output of occ config:list system or similar is best, but, if not possible, the contents of your config.php file from /path/to/nextcloud is fine (make sure to remove any identifiable information!):

PASTE HERE

Apps

The output of occ app:list (if possible).

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szaimen · December 21, 2025, 10:15am

Hi, please report this to GitHub · Where software is built