Nextcloud version 17.0.2
Operating system and version Debian Buster
Apache or nginx version Apache 2.4.38-3+deb10u3
PHP version 7.3
The issue you are facing:
The Overview page on the web UI reports:
Last background job execution ran 3 days ago. Something seems wrong. Check the background job settings.
This message started after I switched from webcron to system cron, as directed by the News app.
I have followed the instructions for setting up a cron job, and checking /var/log/syslog I can see that the cron job is in fact running every 5 minutes.
crontab -u www-data -l
...
*/5 * * * * php -f /var/www/nextcloud/cron.php
root@XXXXX:/var/log# grep CRON /var/log/syslog | tail
Dec 27 09:45:02 cabbagetown CRON[25316]: (root) CMD (command -v debian-sa1 > /dev/null && debian-sa1 1 1)
Dec 27 09:50:01 cabbagetown CRON[25330]: (www-data) CMD (php -f /var/www/nextcloud/cron.php)
Dec 27 09:55:01 cabbagetown CRON[25350]: (www-data) CMD (php -f /var/www/nextcloud/cron.php)
Dec 27 09:55:01 cabbagetown CRON[25351]: (root) CMD (command -v debian-sa1 > /dev/null && debian-sa1 1 1)
Dec 27 10:00:01 cabbagetown CRON[25407]: (www-data) CMD (php -f /var/www/nextcloud/cron.php)
Dec 27 10:05:01 cabbagetown CRON[25423]: (www-data) CMD (php -f /var/www/nextcloud/cron.php)
Dec 27 10:05:01 cabbagetown CRON[25424]: (root) CMD (command -v debian-sa1 > /dev/null && debian-sa1 1 1)
Dec 27 10:09:01 cabbagetown CRON[25437]: (root) CMD ( [ -x /usr/lib/php5/sessionclean ] && /usr/lib/php5/sessionclean)
Dec 27 10:09:01 cabbagetown CRON[25438]: (root) CMD ( [ -x /usr/lib/php/sessionclean ] && if [ ! -d /run/systemd/system ]; then /usr/lib/php/sessionclean; fi)
Dec 27 10:10:02 cabbagetown CRON[25499]: (www-data) CMD (php -f /var/www/nextcloud/cron.php)
I don’t know what the root cron job is, it’s not something I set manually. I assume it was set up by the Debian package manager.
Is this the first time you’ve seen this error? (Y):
Steps to replicate it:
- login to the web interface with an admin user
- check the overview tab in the setting menu
The output of your Nextcloud log in Admin > Logging:
Many info lines from the updater, related to updating from 17.0.1 to 17.0.2, which I did hoping it might fix the problem (it didn’t). Prior to that some errors regarding the php-pgsql module, which I fixed before getting the current problem. (that error hasn’t recurred since).
eg:
[updater] Info: \OC\Updater::resetLogLevel: Reset log level to Warning(2)
GET /nextcloud/core/ajax/update.php?requesttoken=pQXphw9ceMumJNOcpsTBWK2YecXqY7ZaDFX81vJ9ppc%3D%3A627C4jgPTPL8b6fxwbzyOuWrM6SFFoFoNGaasrEW59g%3D
from 70.54.111.45 at 2019-12-24T03:34:59+00:00
The output (I think you mean contents?) of your config.php file in
/path/to/nextcloud (make sure you remove any identifiable information!):
<?php
$CONFIG = array (
'passwordsalt' => <deleted>,
'secret' => <deleted>,
'trusted_domains' =>
array (
0 => <deleted>,,
),
'datadirectory' => '/var/www/nextcloud/data',
'dbtype' => 'mysql',
'version' => '17.0.2.1',
'overwrite.cli.url' => 'http://localhost',
'dbname' => 'nextcloud',
'dbhost' => 'localhost',
'dbport' => '',
'dbtableprefix' => 'oc_',
'instanceid' => <deleted>,
'dbuser' => 'oc_admin',
'dbpassword' => <deleted>,
'mysql.utf8mb4' => true,
'installed' => true,
'maintenance' => false,
'updater.secret' => <deleted>,
'theme' => '',
'loglevel' => 2,
'mail_from_address' => <deleted>,
'mail_smtpmode' => 'smtp',
'mail_sendmailmode' => 'smtp',
'mail_domain' => <deleted>,
'mail_smtphost' => <deleted>,
'mail_smtpport' => '465',
'mail_smtpauthtype' => 'PLAIN',
'mail_smtpsecure' => 'ssl',
'mail_smtpauth' => 1,
'mail_smtpname' => <deleted>,
'mail_smtppassword' => <deleted>,
);
The output of your Apache/nginx/system log in /var/log/____:
root@XXXXX:/var/log/apache2# cat error.log
[Fri Dec 27 00:00:02.124691 2019] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 606] AH00163: Apache/2.4.38 (Debian) OpenSSL/1.1.1d configured -- resuming normal operations
[Fri Dec 27 00:00:02.124749 2019] [core:notice] [pid 606] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'
[Fri Dec 27 06:20:23.753092 2019] [php7:error] [pid 22236] [client 45.251.240.44:58077] script '/var/www/html/router.php' not found or unable to stat
[Fri Dec 27 06:26:09.119708 2019] [php7:error] [pid 22256] [client 75.147.197.137:59826] script '/var/www/html/download.php' not found or unable to stat, referer: http://plantarum.ca/download.php?file=../../../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd
[Fri Dec 27 07:51:58.030937 2019] [php7:error] [pid 22239] [client 45.251.240.44:51777] script '/var/www/html/router.php' not found or unable to stat
[Fri Dec 27 10:11:30.667923 2019] [authz_core:error] [pid 25507] [client 23.233.87.120:33124] AH01630: client denied by server configuration: /var/www/nextcloud/data/.ocdata
I have additional issues in my Overview page. I have been working down the list, and haven’t tried to fix these yet:
-
Your web server is not properly set up to resolve “/.well-known/caldav”.
Further information can be found in the documentation. -
Your web server is not properly set up to resolve “/.well-known/carddav”.
Further information can be found in the documentation. -
No memory cache has been configured. To enhance performance, please
configure a memcache, if available. Further information can be found in
the documentation. -
Some columns in the database are missing a conversion to big int. Due to
the fact that changing column types on big tables could take some time
they were not changed automatically. By running ‘occ
db:convert-filecache-bigint’ those pending changes could be applied
manually. This operation needs to be made while the instance is offline.
For further details read the documentation page about this.- mounts.storage_id
- mounts.root_id
- mounts.mount_id
Is my cron job running properly? What do I need to do to fix the cron job, or set up nextcloud so that it recognizes the cron job is running as expected?