I’m having trouble installing a NextCloud appliance. The script starts to run, but cannot download a required file. I checked the address wget is trying to use, and it 404’s in a web browser. The log looks a bit like this:
Getting scripts from GitHub to be able to run the first setup...
{change_mysql_pass} failed to download. Please run: 'sudo wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/netxcloud/vm/master/static/change_mysql_pass.sh|.php|.py' again.
If you get this error when running the nextcloud-startup-script then just re-run it with: 'sudo bash /var/scripts/nextcloud-startup-script.sh' and all the scripts will be downloaded again
It looks as though the GitHub address is simply not working, and would like to raise this as an issue, just in case it hasn’t been reported yet.
I am using the latest version of the NextCloud OVA, which was downloaded yesterday.
Steps to replicate it:
Import NextCloud OVA into your favourite hypervisor
Go brew a good cuppa
Start the setup process, and follow the prompts until the script attempts to download from GitHub.
It doesn’t seem to matter whether you change the mirrors. The problem occurs regardless.
None of the logs in the support primer can be provided, as NextCloud technically hasn’t been installed yet.
I don’t know why this is happening, as I can browse this github repo manually, at https://github.com/nextcloud/vm/tree/master/static but that wget fails every time it runs. Also, if I go to the exact address the console spits out in a web browser, I get a 404.
Would this have anything to do with Nextcloud being updated to Ubuntu 18.04? I noticed that the startup script has had line 170 changed from
download_static_script change_mysql_pass
to
download_static_script change_db_pass
My guess is that the install script in the appliance is still the old one, which is calling for change_mysql_pass which no longer exists.
Update: It’s definitely the appliance. I just installed Nextcloud on an 18.04 VM with snapd and it worked without a hitch. The script/distro/everything in the OVA needs to be updated to the latest version to fix this.
TL,DR: The OVA doesn’t work. Install a fresh Ubuntu 18.04 server to a VM and install NextCloud with snapd
echo "Getting scripts from GitHub to be able to run the first setup..."
# All the shell scripts in static (.sh)
download_static_script temporary-fix
download_static_script security
download_static_script update
download_static_script trusted
download_static_script test_connection
download_static_script setup_secure_permissions_nextcloud
download_static_script change_db_pass
download_static_script nextcloud
download_static_script update-config
download_static_script index
download_le_script activate-ssl
As you can see the file you tried to download doesn’t exist. Probably you downloaded the VM before the migration happened and ended up with a faulty version of the VM.
The VM works, and would have worked if you downloaded it again after the migration Not easy to know maybe, but as you noticed yourself after some investigation - the file had changed.
The migration happened about 16 days ago with this commit: https://github.com/nextcloud/vm/pull/528
If you downloaded the VM 17 days ago, but didn’t run it until 15 days ago then the scripts wouldn’t work because it was old code.
I read a lot around this issue posted here but I’m sorry to tell you that I still have this issue - and I’m downloaded the latest version of the VM pretty sure… I fixed this by editing the startup script like Silverman wrote but what’s the reason why it’s not yet be inside the current vm?
Sorry for asking (maybe stupid things) but I’m really interested in if I’m to stupid or if it’s still an error
