Some issues after 21.0.3 upgrade

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Nextcloud version: 21.0.3
Operating system and version: Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
Apache or nginx version: Caddy server v2.3.0
PHP version: 7.4.3

The issue you are facing:
Cannot update missing indices.

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

Steps to replicate it:

  1. sudo -u www-data php occ db:add-missing-indices

The output of your Nextcloud log in Admin > Logging:

(no idea where I can find that info)

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

...
  'memcache.local' => '\\OC\\Memcache\\APCu',
...

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

command-line output:
An unhandled exception has been thrown:
OC\HintException: [0]: Memcache \OC\Memcache\APCu not available for local cache (Is the matching PHP module installed and enabled?)

Additional info:
I upgraded from 20.0.11 (I think, latest), then to 21.0.3, which arrived yesterday (I waited for it to appear in “stable”, as I was trying to avoid issues like these).

There was a 2nd problem after this upgrade: cron ceased to work. I switched to AJAX, the only option which made the error message go away (“cron has not run for 2 days”).

Update - as mentioned in the guide, the cron issue can be fixed by adding --define apc.enable_cli=1 to the cron job. It’s odd that this change is needed after the upgrade, but at least it seems to solve the cron issue.

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To follow up: this problem can be fixed by adding this:

apc.enable_cli=1

to /etc/php7.4/cli/conf.d/20-apci.ini. As mentioned here.

In summary: everything is working now, but these issues were unexpected for a 21.0.3 release, i.e. after several months of deploymeny and a few revisions.

Suggestion: perhaps consider adding extra tests to the upgrade scripts to catch this?

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@jcw thanks for catching this and I agree
Same issue on Ubuntu 18.04 - PHP7.4 - NC v21.0.3

~b10

same issue here after upgrade NC 21.0.2 to 21.0.3
Operating system and version: Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
nginx version: 1.18.0-0ubuntu1.2
PHP version: 7.3.29

web server reports ‘Internal server error’ and occ command-line output:

OC\HintException: [0]: Memcache \OC\Memcache\APCu not available for local cache (Is the matching PHP module installed and enabled?)

I tried the solutions proposed here (and else where) without success, what finally worked for me is to (temporarily?) disable Memory caching (both APCu and Redis) by commenting/removing the lines in
/var/www/nextcloud/config/config.php
# ‘memcache.local’ => ‘\OC\Memcache\APCu’,
# ‘memcache.locking’ => ‘\OC\Memcache\Redis’,

=> not a final fix, but may help others to get their Nextcloud install back online :wink:

There seems to be typo in this solution. According to the linked solution, the file is 20-apcu.ini rather than 20-apci.ini.

Thanks though @jcw - this thread solved the same problem for me.