Sabre\DAV\Exception: Unknown error while seeking content

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Nextcloud version (eg, 20.0.5): 23.0.10
Operating system and version (eg, Ubuntu 20.04): Terra-Master TOS (CentOS flavour)
Apache or nginx version (eg, Apache 2.4.25): Apache 2.4
PHP version (eg, 7.4): Php 7.3

The issue you are facing:

Receiving WebDav fatal errors in log.

Is this the first time you’ve seen this error? (Y/N): Yes

Steps to replicate it:

  1. Start server.
  2. Connect clients (whether desktop or iOS)
  3. Clients begin synchronising.

The output of your Nextcloud log in Admin > Logging:

Sabre\DAV\Exception: Unknown error while seeking content

    /mnt/md0/application/Nextcloud_okm/bin/nextcloud/apps/dav/lib/BulkUpload/MultipartRequestParser.php - line 129:

    OCA\DAV\BulkUpload\MultipartRequestParser->isAt("--boundary_ ... n")

    /mnt/md0/application/Nextcloud_okm/bin/nextcloud/apps/dav/lib/BulkUpload/BulkUploadPlugin.php - line 69:

    OCA\DAV\BulkUpload\MultipartRequestParser->isAtLastBoundary()

    /mnt/md0/application/Nextcloud_okm/bin/nextcloud/3rdparty/sabre/event/lib/WildcardEmitterTrait.php - line 89:

    OCA\DAV\BulkUpload\BulkUploadPlugin->httpPost(Sabre\HTTP\Request {}, Sabre\HTTP\Response {})

    /mnt/md0/application/Nextcloud_okm/bin/nextcloud/3rdparty/sabre/dav/lib/DAV/Server.php - line 472:

    Sabre\DAV\Server->emit("method:POST", [ Sabre\HTTP ... }])

    /mnt/md0/application/Nextcloud_okm/bin/nextcloud/3rdparty/sabre/dav/lib/DAV/Server.php - line 253:

    Sabre\DAV\Server->invokeMethod(Sabre\HTTP\Request {}, Sabre\HTTP\Response {})

    /mnt/md0/application/Nextcloud_okm/bin/nextcloud/3rdparty/sabre/dav/lib/DAV/Server.php - line 321:

    Sabre\DAV\Server->start()

    /mnt/md0/application/Nextcloud_okm/bin/nextcloud/apps/dav/lib/Server.php - line 339:

    Sabre\DAV\Server->exec()

    /mnt/md0/application/Nextcloud_okm/bin/nextcloud/apps/dav/appinfo/v2/remote.php - line 35:

    OCA\DAV\Server->exec()

    /mnt/md0/application/Nextcloud_okm/bin/nextcloud/remote.php - line 166:

    require_once("/mnt/md0/ap ... p")

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

<?php
$CONFIG = array (
  'instanceid' => 'ocy3ml194qsh',
  'passwordsalt' => 'xx',
  'secret' => 'xxx',
  'trusted_domains' =>
  array (
    0 => '192.168.x.xxx:xxxxx',
    1 => '192.168.x.xxx:xxxxx',
  ),
  'datadirectory' => '/mnt/md2/nextcloud/data',
  'dbtype' => 'mysql',
  'version' => '23.0.0.10',
  'overwrite.cli.url' => 'https://192.168.x.xxx:xxxxx',
  'dbname' => 'nextcloud',
  'dbhost' => '127.0.0.1:3307',
  'dbport' => '',
  'dbtableprefix' => 'oc_',
  'mysql.utf8mb4' => true,
  'dbuser' => 'nextcloud',
  'dbpassword' => ' ',
  'installed' => true,
  'memcache.local' => '\\OC\\Memcache\\APCu',
  'filelocking.enabled' => true,
  'memcache.locking' => '\\OC\\Memcache\\Redis',
  'redis' =>
  array (
    'host' => '127.0.0.1',
    'port' =>  ,
  ),
  'default_phone_region' => ' ',
  0 =>
  array (
    'trusted_proxies' => ' ',
    'overwritehost' => ' ',
    'overwriteprotocol' => 'https',
    'overwritewebroot' => 'http:// ',
  ),
  'mail_smtpmode' => 'smtp',
  'mail_smtpsecure' => 'ssl',
  'mail_sendmailmode' => 'smtp',
  'mail_from_address' => ' ',
  'mail_domain' => ' ',
  'mail_smtpauthtype' => 'LOGIN',
  'mail_smtpauth' => 1,
  'mail_smtphost' => ' ',
  'mail_smtpport' => ' ',
  'mail_smtpname' => ' ',
  'mail_smtppassword' => ' ',
);

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

2021/12/03 17:43:45 [error] 2775#2775: *34022 open() "/usr/www/favicon.ico" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 192.168.7.124, server: znasnginx, request: "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1", host: "192.168.x.xxx:5443", referrer: "https://192.168.x.xxx:xxxx/"
2021/12/03 17:44:11 [error] 2775#2775: *34066 recv() failed (104: Connection reset by peer) while reading response header from upstream, client: 192.168.7.124, server: znasnginx, request: "GET /tos/index.php HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/tmp/php-fpm.sock:", host: "192.168.x.xxx:xxxx", referrer: "https://192.168.7.xxx:xxxx/tos/index.php?user/login"
2021/12/03 20:05:13 [error] 2775#2775: *38832 recv() failed (104: Connection reset by peer) while reading response header from upstream, client: 192.168.x.xxx, server: znasnginx, request: "GET /tos/index.php HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/tmp/php-fpm.sock:", host: "192.168.x.xxx:xxxx", referrer: "https://192.168.x.xxx:xxxx/tos/index.php?user/login"
2021/12/04 05:39:33 [error] 2778#2778: *45530 recv() failed (104: Connection reset by peer) while reading response header from upstream, client: 192.168.x.xxx, server: znasnginx, request: "GET /tos/index.php?user/common_js&type=desktop&id=eKTEYMCF HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/tmp/php-fpm.sock:", host: "192.168.7.xxx:xxxx", referrer: "https://192.168.x.xxx:xxxx/tos/index.php"
2021/12/04 07:19:47 [error] 2778#2778: *48279 open() "/usr/www/favicon.ico" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 192.168.x.xx, server: znasnginx, request: "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1", host: "192.168.x.xxx:xxxx", referrer: "https://192.168.x.xxx:xxxx/"
2021/12/04 07:19:58 [error] 2775#2775: *48301 recv() failed (104: Connection reset by peer) while reading response header from upstream, client: 192.168.x.xx, server: znasnginx, request: "GET /tos/index.php HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/tmp/php-fpm.sock:", host: "192.168.x.xxx:xxxx", referrer: "https://192.168.x.xxx:xxxx/tos/index.php?user/login"
2021/12/04 21:22:48 [warn] 2778#2778: *48917 a client request body is buffered to a temporary file /var/cache/nginx/client-body/0000000808, client: 192.168.x.xxx, server: znasnginx, request: "POST /modules/Nextcloud_okm/www/ax/handler.php HTTP/1.1", host: "192.168.x.xxx:xxxx", referrer: "https://192.168.x.xxx:xxxx/modules/Nextcloud_okm/www/index.php?page=2"
2021/12/04 21:30:41 [warn] 2775#2775: *49308 a client request body is buffered to a temporary file /var/cache/nginx/client-body/0000000809, client: 192.168.x.xxx, server: znasnginx, request: "POST /modules/Nextcloud_okm/www/ax/handler.php HTTP/1.1", host: "192.168.x.xxx:xxxx", referrer: "https://192.168.x.xxx:xxxx/modules/Nextcloud_okm/www/index.php?page=2"
2021/12/04 21:31:06 [warn] 2775#2775: *49225 a client request body is buffered to a temporary file /var/cache/nginx/client-body/0000000810, client: 192.168.x.xxx, server: znasnginx, request: "POST /modules/Nextcloud_okm/www/ax/handler.php HTTP/1.1", host: "192.168.x.xxx:xxxx", referrer: "https://192.168.x.xxx:xxxx/modules/Nextcloud_okm/www/index.php?page=2"
2021/12/04 21:31:27 [warn] 2775#2775: *49425 a client request body is buffered to a temporary file /var/cache/nginx/client-body/0000000811, client: 192.168.x.xxx, server: znasnginx, request: "POST /modules/Nextcloud_okm/www/ax/handler.php HTTP/1.1", host: "192.168.x.xxx:xxxx", referrer: "https://192.168.x.xxx:xxxx/modules/Nextcloud_okm/www/index.php?page=2"
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Same problem here:

[webdav] Fatal: Unknown error while seeking content

POST /remote.php/dav/bulk

/var/www/nextcloud/apps/dav/lib/BulkUpload/MultipartRequestParser.php - line 129:

OCA\DAV\BulkUpload\MultipartRequestParser->isAt()

/var/www/nextcloud/apps/dav/lib/BulkUpload/BulkUploadPlugin.php - line 69:

OCA\DAV\BulkUpload\MultipartRequestParser->isAtLastBoundary()

/var/www/nextcloud/3rdparty/sabre/event/lib/WildcardEmitterTrait.php - line 89:

OCA\DAV\BulkUpload\BulkUploadPlugin->httpPost()

/var/www/nextcloud/3rdparty/sabre/dav/lib/DAV/Server.php - line 472:

Sabre\DAV\Server->emit()

/var/www/nextcloud/3rdparty/sabre/dav/lib/DAV/Server.php - line 253:

Sabre\DAV\Server->invokeMethod()

/var/www/nextcloud/3rdparty/sabre/dav/lib/DAV/Server.php - line 321:

Sabre\DAV\Server->start()

/var/www/nextcloud/apps/dav/lib/Server.php - line 339:

Sabre\DAV\Server->exec()

/var/www/nextcloud/apps/dav/appinfo/v2/remote.php - line 35:

OCA\DAV\Server->exec()

/var/www/nextcloud/remote.php - line 166:

require_once("/var/www/ne ... p")

Same problem here:

Nextcloud version (eg, 20.0.5): 23.0.10

[webdav] Fatal: Unknown error while seeking content

POST […]/nextcloud/remote.php/dav/bulk
from […] by […] at 2021-12-21T12:02:32+00:00

{
  "reqId": "[...]",
  "level": 4,
  "time": "2021-12-21T12:03:32+00:00",
  "remoteAddr": "[...]",
  "user": "[...]",
  "app": "webdav",
  "method": "POST",
  "url": "[basePath]/remote.php/dav/bulk",
  "message": "Unknown error while seeking content",
  "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux) [...] (Nextcloud, linuxmint-5.4.0-91-generic ClientArchitecture: x86_64 OsArchitecture: x86_64)",
  "version": "23.0.0.10",
  "exception":
    {
      "Exception": "Sabre\\DAV\\Exception",
      "Message": "Unknown error while seeking content",
      "Code": 500,
      "Trace":
        [
          {
            "file": "[basePath]/apps/dav/lib/BulkUpload/MultipartRequestParser.php",
            "line": 129,
            "function": "isAt",
            "class": "OCA\\DAV\\BulkUpload\\MultipartRequestParser",
            "type": "->",
            "args": ["--boundary_.oOo._[...]--\r\n"],
          },
          {
            "file": "[basePath]/apps/dav/lib/BulkUpload/BulkUploadPlugin.php",
            "line": 69,
            "function": "isAtLastBoundary",
            "class": "OCA\\DAV\\BulkUpload\\MultipartRequestParser",
            "type": "->",
            "args": [],
          },
          {
            "file": "[basePath]/3rdparty/sabre/event/lib/WildcardEmitterTrait.php",
            "line": 89,
            "function": "httpPost",
            "class": "OCA\\DAV\\BulkUpload\\BulkUploadPlugin",
            "type": "->",
            "args":
              [
                { "__class__": "Sabre\\HTTP\\Request" },
                { "__class__": "Sabre\\HTTP\\Response" },
              ],
          },
          {
            "file": "[basePath]/3rdparty/sabre/dav/lib/DAV/Server.php",
            "line": 472,
            "function": "emit",
            "class": "Sabre\\DAV\\Server",
            "type": "->",
            "args":
              [
                "method:POST",
                [
                  { "__class__": "Sabre\\HTTP\\Request" },
                  { "__class__": "Sabre\\HTTP\\Response" },
                ],
              ],
          },
          {
            "file": "[basePath]/3rdparty/sabre/dav/lib/DAV/Server.php",
            "line": 253,
            "function": "invokeMethod",
            "class": "Sabre\\DAV\\Server",
            "type": "->",
            "args":
              [
                { "__class__": "Sabre\\HTTP\\Request" },
                { "__class__": "Sabre\\HTTP\\Response" },
              ],
          },
          {
            "file": "[basePath]/3rdparty/sabre/dav/lib/DAV/Server.php",
            "line": 321,
            "function": "start",
            "class": "Sabre\\DAV\\Server",
            "type": "->",
            "args": [],
          },
          {
            "file": "[basePath]/apps/dav/lib/Server.php",
            "line": 339,
            "function": "exec",
            "class": "Sabre\\DAV\\Server",
            "type": "->",
            "args": [],
          },
          {
            "file": "[basePath]/apps/dav/appinfo/v2/remote.php",
            "line": 35,
            "function": "exec",
            "class": "OCA\\DAV\\Server",
            "type": "->",
            "args": [],
          },
          {
            "file": "[basePath]/remote.php",
            "line": 166,
            "args":
              ["[basePath]/apps/dav/appinfo/v2/remote.php"],
            "function": "require_once",
          },
        ],
      "File": "[basePath]/apps/dav/lib/BulkUpload/MultipartRequestParser.php",
      "Line": 111,
      "CustomMessage": "--",
    },
  "id": "[...]",
}

I die some Research. For me an account without a FN-Property was not set. This caused the error.

HTTP RESPONSE
Response{protocol=http/1.1, code=415, message=Unsupported Media Type, url=https://[...].vcf}
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<d:error xmlns:d="DAV:" xmlns:s="http://sabredav.org/ns">%
  <s:exception>Sabre\DAV\Exception\UnsupportedMediaType</s:exception>
  <s:message>Validation error in vCard: The FN property must appear in the VCARD component exactly 1 time</s:message>
</d:error>

Request:

HTTP REQUEST
Request{method=PUT, url=[...], headers=[If-None-Match:*, User-Agent:DAVx5/4.0-gplay (2021/10/10; dav4jvm; okhttp/4.9.1) Android/11, Accept-Language:en-GB, en;q=0.7, *;q=0.5]}
BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:4.0
PRODID:+//IDN bitfire.at//DAVx5/4.0-gplay ez-vcard/0.11.2
UID:[...]
TEL;TYPE=cell:[masked Phone No]
REV:[...]
END:VCARD

After deletiing the Contact everything works fine again. Maybe this will help someone else.

Same exact error as OP here. Is there any news on what causes this? Fresh install of Nextcloud 23.0.0

I spent a long time trying to figure this one out and eventually managed to solve the problem by disabling previews in the local file browsers where the clients were trying to sync. As soon as I changed the default view settings recursively to filenames only all files immediately started syncing properly!

Hope that helps someone else scratching their head.

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Is that client side or the nextcloud interface file browser?

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Same problem here
Nextcloud version : 23.0.0
Operating system and version : Debian 10 (Linux 5.10.0-8-amd64 x86_64)
Apache or nginx version : Apache 2.4.52
PHP version: 7.4.25
no account without a FN-Property were found as xy8000 suggested.

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Same problem. Linking my post:

/Me2. Same system 23.0.0. bullseye with default packages (apache):

{"reqId":"Ao55gznvcRFzK0A2q8dd","level":4,"time":"2022-01-11T14:01:30+00:00","remoteAddr":"213.168.215.242","user":"Maik Holtkamp","app":"webdav","method":"POST","url":"/nextcloud/remote.php/dav/bulk","message":"Unknown error while seeking content","userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows) mirall/3.4.1stable-Win64 (build 20211221) (Nextcloud, windows-10.0.19044 ClientArchitecture: x86_64 OsArchitecture: x86_64)","version":"23.0.0.10","exception":{"Exception":"Sabre\\DAV\\Exception","Message":"Unknown error while seeking content","Code":500,"Trace":[{"file":"/var/www/medizintechnik/nextcloud/apps/dav/lib/BulkUpload/MultipartRequestParser.php","line":129,"function":"isAt","class":"OCA\\DAV\\BulkUpload\\MultipartRequestParser","type":"->"},{"file":"/var/www/medizintechnik/nextcloud/apps/dav/lib/BulkUpload/BulkUploadPlugin.php","line":69,"function":"isAtLastBoundary","class":"OCA\\DAV\\BulkUpload\\MultipartRequestParser","type":"->"},{"file":"/var/www/medizintechnik/nextcloud/3rdparty/sabre/event/lib/WildcardEmitterTrait.php","line":89,"function":"httpPost","class":"OCA\\DAV\\BulkUpload\\BulkUploadPlugin","type":"->"},{"file":"/var/www/medizintechnik/nextcloud/3rdparty/sabre/dav/lib/DAV/Server.php","line":472,"function":"emit","class":"Sabre\\DAV\\Server","type":"->"},{"file":"/var/www/medizintechnik/nextcloud/3rdparty/sabre/dav/lib/DAV/Server.php","line":253,"function":"invokeMethod","class":"Sabre\\DAV\\Server","type":"->"},{"file":"/var/www/medizintechnik/nextcloud/3rdparty/sabre/dav/lib/DAV/Server.php","line":321,"function":"start","class":"Sabre\\DAV\\Server","type":"->"},{"file":"/var/www/medizintechnik/nextcloud/apps/dav/lib/Server.php","line":339,"function":"exec","class":"Sabre\\DAV\\Server","type":"->"},{"file":"/var/www/medizintechnik/nextcloud/apps/dav/appinfo/v2/remote.php","line":35,"function":"exec","class":"OCA\\DAV\\Server","type":"->"},{"file":"/var/www/medizintechnik/nextcloud/remote.php","line":166,"args":["/var/www/medizintechnik/nextcloud/apps/dav/appinfo/v2/remote.php"],"function":"require_once"}],"File":"/var/www/medizintechnik/nextcloud/apps/dav/lib/BulkUpload/MultipartRequestParser.php","Line":111,"CustomMessage":"--"},"id":"61dda120088e0"}

Back on 3.3.6 client now, which is working.

I got the exact same issue on a completely fresh Install of Nextcloud 23.0.0 with the Windows and Linux Nextcloud clients.

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Add me to the ‘me too’ list. Been running without problems for about six months.
Yesterday on two machines with different versions of the sync client, the client stopped responding (task manager needed to kill it) Only recent change was updating the container to bring things up to 25.0.2

Apparently now a known issue Windows and Linux clients freezing when bulk uploading · Issue #4106 · nextcloud/desktop · GitHub
In my case, on both machines I set the bandwidth to ‘limit automatically’ while trying to sort out a different problem. Setting this back to ‘unlimited’ seems to have fixed things.

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I have this the first time under NC 26.0.0

Errorlog shows
Sabre\DAV\Exception: Unknown error while seeking content

followed by
no app in context OCP\AppFramework\Db\DoesNotExistException: Did expect one result but found none when executing: query "SELECT * FROM PREFIXfiles_versions WHERE (file_id = :dcValue1) AND (timestamp = :dcValue2)";

I already found this on github

a command

occ versions:expire
or
occ versions:cleanup

didn’t solve this.
Don’t know if these both error belong together but they occur every time to the same log-time

Same problem here on Nextcloud 25.0.5.1 running on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with PHP 8.1.2.

The client affected is a Windows 11 client. The error occurs everytime the synchronization is triggerd by that client. The client version seems to be actual, but the button to start the synchronization from the taskbar flyout is not displayed. The user reported to me that it was there before. The flyout tells that all is synchronized, but there are some files not transferred to server. Most of the affected files are scanned PDFs. The explorer plugin shows those files as not synchronized. The problem exists since months, but yesterday I detected where to find out (only in the log file itself) which user is affected. That client is the only Windows 11 client, the other clients are Windows 10 and I didn’t notify that problem for them. The file sizes are lower than the limits in config files (NC + PHP).

The log entries are similar to those from m707:
{“reqId”:“xJ8wfbU7wo6YwtFdqWNc”,“level”:3,“time”:“2023-04-17T07:26:00+00:00”,“remoteAddr”:“nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn”,“user”:“aaaaa”,“app”:“webdav”,“method”:“POST”,“url”:“/remote.php/dav/bulk”,“message”:“Unknown error while seeking content”,“userAgent”:“Mozilla/5.0 (Windows) mirall/3.4.1stable-Win64 (build 20211221) (Nextcloud, windows-10.0.22621 ClientArchitecture: x86_64 OsArchitecture: x86_64)”,“version”:“25.0.5.1”,“exception”:{“Exception”:“Sabre\DAV\Exception”,“Message”:“Unknown error while seeking content”,“Code”:500,“Trace”:[{“file”:“/var/www/html/apps/dav/lib/BulkUpload/MultipartRequestParser.php”,“line”:129,“function”:“isAt”,“class”:“OCA\DAV\BulkUpload\MultipartRequestParser”,“type”:“->”},{“file”:“/var/www/html/apps/dav/lib/BulkUpload/BulkUploadPlugin.php”,“line”:71,“function”:“isAtLastBoundary”,“class”:“OCA\DAV\BulkUpload\MultipartRequestParser”,“type”:“->”},{“file”:“/var/www/html/3rdparty/sabre/event/lib/WildcardEmitterTrait.php”,“line”:89,“function”:“httpPost”,“class”:“OCA\DAV\BulkUpload\BulkUploadPlugin”,“type”:“->”},{“file”:“/var/www/html/3rdparty/sabre/dav/lib/DAV/Server.php”,“line”:472,“function”:“emit”,“class”:“Sabre\DAV\Server”,“type”:“->”},{“file”:“/var/www/html/3rdparty/sabre/dav/lib/DAV/Server.php”,“line”:253,“function”:“invokeMethod”,“class”:“Sabre\DAV\Server”,“type”:“->”},{“file”:“/var/www/html/3rdparty/sabre/dav/lib/DAV/Server.php”,“line”:321,“function”:“start”,“class”:“Sabre\DAV\Server”,“type”:“->”},{“file”:“/var/www/html/apps/dav/lib/Server.php”,“line”:360,“function”:“exec”,“class”:“Sabre\DAV\Server”,“type”:“->”},{“file”:“/var/www/html/apps/dav/appinfo/v2/remote.php”,“line”:35,“function”:“exec”,“class”:“OCA\DAV\Server”,“type”:“->”},{“file”:“/var/www/html/remote.php”,“line”:171,“args”:[“/var/www/html/apps/dav/appinfo/v2/remote.php”],“function”:“require_once”}],“File”:“/var/www/html/apps/dav/lib/BulkUpload/MultipartRequestParser.php”,“Line”:111,“message”:“Unknown error while seeking content”,“exception”:{},“CustomMessage”:“Unknown error while seeking content”}}