Tried to log in but could not verify token

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The Basics

  • Nextcloud Server version (e.g., 29.x.x):
    • 32.0.4
  • Operating system and version (e.g., Ubuntu 24.04):
    • Ubuntu 24.0.4.2 LTS
  • Web server and version (e.g, Apache 2.4.25):
    • Apache/2.4.66 (Unix)
  • Reverse proxy and version _(e.g. nginx 1.27.2)
    • 1.29.1
  • PHP version (e.g, 8.3):
    • 8.3.29
  • Is this the first time you’ve seen this error? (Yes / No):
    • No
  • When did this problem seem to first start?
    • November 2025
  • Installation method (e.g. AlO, NCP, Bare Metal/Archive, etc.)
    • AIO Docker
  • Are you using CloudfIare, mod_security, or similar? (Yes / No)
    • No

Summary of the issue you are facing:

Every now and then an user has to login again, instead of getting redirected to the dashboard. This isn’t consistent. Sometimes it occurs everyday for two weeks and then it stops for a month again. In the Log I see “Tried to log in but could not verify token“. Setupwise nothing changes between these times.

Browser is configured to not open tabs from old session on startup. Interface is accessed by domain, every other user uses as well. Also tried with disabled adblocker, didn’t change anything.

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

  1. Inital Login with “Remember Me” checked

  2. Close Browser

  3. Open Browser and access Interface

  4. Doesnt open dashboard but instead loginscreen

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.

{"reqId":"5x8OZBCab2232cbpELYD","level":1,"time":"2026-03-17T09:28:20+00:00","remoteAddr":"10.0.9.9","user":"--","app":"core","method":"GET","url":"/","scriptName":"/index.php","message":"Tried to log in but could not verify token","userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/146.0.0.0 Safari/537.36","version":"32.0.4.1","data":{"app":"core","user":"USER"},"id":"69b925229c969"}

Web Browser

If the problem is related to the Web interface, open your browser inspector Console and Network tabs while refreshing (reloading) and reproducing the problem. Provide any relevant output/errors here that appear.

See Console Output below after reloading interface.

I also have .har file from network tab, but I don’t see any obvious error, responses are all 200.

index.mjs:41 [INFO] core: session heartbeat polling started Object
browser-integration.js:2 port disconnected from addon code: 6c038dfb-21be-4fc5-ae8a-a810d7858d9f
(anonymous) @ browser-integration.js:2
Navigated to https://DOMAIN/login
session-heartbeat.ts:80 [INFO] core: session heartbeat polling started {app: 'core', level: 1}
Navigated to https://DOMAIN/login
session-heartbeat.ts:80 [INFO] core: session heartbeat polling started {app: 'core', level: 1}

Web server / Reverse Proxy

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

[17/Mar/2026:09:28:23 +0100] GET /ocs/v2.php/apps/dashboard/api/v2/widget-items?widgets%5B%5D=activity HTTP/1.1 - "172.16.199.25:11000" 200 "DOMAIN" "DOMAIN" "Reverse_Proxy-IP" "443" "172.16.199.25:11000" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/145.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"

[17/Mar/2026:09:28:50 +0100] PUT /ocs/v2.php/apps/user_status/api/v1/heartbeat?format=json HTTP/1.1 - "172.16.199.25:11000" 200 "DOMAIN" "DOMAIN" "Reverse_Proxy-IP" "443" "172.16.199.25:11000" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/145.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"

[17/Mar/2026:09:28:50 +0100] PUT /ocs/v2.php/apps/user_status/api/v1/heartbeat?format=json HTTP/1.1 - "172.16.199.25:11000" 200 "DOMAIN" "DOMAIN" "Reverse_Proxy-IP" "443" "172.16.199.25:11000" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/145.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"

[17/Mar/2026:09:28:50 +0100] GET /ocs/v2.php/apps/notifications/api/v2/notifications HTTP/1.1 - "172.16.199.25:11000" 304 "DOMAIN" "DOMAIN" "Reverse_Proxy-IP" "443" "172.16.199.25:11000" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/145.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"

[17/Mar/2026:09:28:58 +0100] PUT /ocs/v2.php/apps/user_status/api/v1/heartbeat?format=json HTTP/1.1 - "172.16.199.25:11000" 200 "DOMAIN" "DOMAIN" "Reverse_Proxy-IP" "443" "172.16.199.25:11000" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/145.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"

[17/Mar/2026:09:29:02 +0100] PROPFIND /remote.php/dav/files/USER/ HTTP/1.1 - "172.16.199.25:11000" 207 "DOMAIN" "DOMAIN" "Reverse_Proxy-IP" "443" "172.16.199.25:11000" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows) mirall/3.17.0 (build 20250813) (Nextcloud, windows-10.0.26100 ClientArchitecture: x86_64 OsArchitecture: x86_64)"

[17/Mar/2026:09:29:07 +0100] GET /apps/richdocuments/settings/fonts.json HTTP/1.1 - "172.16.199.25:11000" 304 "DOMAIN" "DOMAIN" "Reverse_Proxy-IP" "443" "172.16.199.25:11000" "COOLWSD HTTP Agent 25.04.8.1"

[17/Mar/2026:09:29:23 +0100] GET /ocs/v2.php/apps/dashboard/api/v2/widget-items?widgets%5B%5D=activity HTTP/1.1 - "172.16.199.25:11000" 200 "DOMAIN" "DOMAIN" "Reverse_Proxy-IP" "443" "172.16.199.25:11000" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/145.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
	

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!):

{
    "system": {
        "one-click-instance": true,
        "one-click-instance.user-limit": 100,
        "memcache.local": "\\OC\\Memcache\\APCu",
        "apps_paths": [
            {
                "path": "\/var\/www\/html\/apps",
                "url": "\/apps",
                "writable": false
            },
            {
                "path": "\/var\/www\/html\/custom_apps",
                "url": "\/custom_apps",
                "writable": true
            }
        ],
        "check_data_directory_permissions": false,
        "memcache.distributed": "\\OC\\Memcache\\Redis",
        "memcache.locking": "\\OC\\Memcache\\Redis",
        "redis": {
            "host": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
            "password": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
            "port": 6379
        },
        "overwritehost": "XXXXXX",
        "overwriteprotocol": "https",
        "passwordsalt": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "secret": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "trusted_domains": [
            "localhost",
            "XXXXXX"
        ],
        "datadirectory": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "dbtype": "pgsql",
        "version": "32.0.4.1",
        "overwrite.cli.url": "https:\/\/XXXXXX\/",
        "dbname": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "dbhost": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "dbport": "",
        "dbtableprefix": "oc_",
        "dbuser": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "dbpassword": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "installed": true,
        "instanceid": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "maintenance": false,
        "updatechecker": false,
        "loglevel": 1,
        "log_type": "file",
        "logfile": "\/var\/www\/html\/data\/nextcloud.log",
        "log_rotate_size": 10485760,
        "log.condition": {
            "apps": [
                "admin_audit"
            ]
        },
        "preview_max_x": 2048,
        "preview_max_y": 2048,
        "jpeg_quality": 60,
        "enabledPreviewProviders": {
            "1": "OC\\Preview\\Image",
            "2": "OC\\Preview\\MarkDown",
            "3": "OC\\Preview\\MP3",
            "4": "OC\\Preview\\TXT",
            "5": "OC\\Preview\\OpenDocument",
            "6": "OC\\Preview\\Movie",
            "7": "OC\\Preview\\Krita",
            "0": "OC\\Preview\\Imaginary",
            "23": "OC\\Preview\\ImaginaryPDF"
        },
        "enable_previews": true,
        "upgrade.disable-web": true,
        "mail_smtpmode": "smtp",
        "trashbin_retention_obligation": "auto, 30",
        "versions_retention_obligation": "auto, 30",
        "activity_expire_days": 30,
        "simpleSignUpLink.shown": false,
        "share_folder": "\/Shared",
        "one-click-instance.link": "https:\/\/nextcloud.com\/all-in-one\/",
        "upgrade.cli-upgrade-link": "https:\/\/github.com\/nextcloud\/all-in-one\/discussions\/2726",
        "updatedirectory": "\/nc-updater",
        "maintenance_window_start": 100,
        "allow_local_remote_servers": true,
        "davstorage.request_timeout": 3600,
        "documentation_url.server_logs": "https:\/\/github.com\/nextcloud\/all-in-one\/discussions\/5425",
        "htaccess.RewriteBase": "\/",
        "dbpersistent": false,
        "auth.bruteforce.protection.enabled": true,
        "ratelimit.protection.enabled": true,
        "files_external_allow_create_new_local": true,
        "trusted_proxies": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "preview_imaginary_url": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "preview_imaginary_key": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "mail_smtpsecure": "ssl",
        "mail_sendmailmode": "smtp",
        "mail_from_address": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "mail_domain": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "mail_smtphost": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "mail_smtpport": "465",
        "mail_smtpauth": true,
        "mail_smtpname": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "mail_smtppassword": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "skeletondirectory": "\/mnt\/ncdata\/skeleton",
        "twofactor_enforced": "true",
        "twofactor_enforced_groups": [],
        "twofactor_enforced_excluded_groups": [
            "XXXXX",
            "XXXXX"
        ],
        "activity_use_cached_mountpoints": true,
        "ldapProviderFactory": "OCA\\User_LDAP\\LDAPProviderFactory",
        "forwarded_for_headers": [
            "HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR",
            "HTTP_X_REAL_IP"
        ],
        "DOMAIN": "XXXXXX"
    }
}

Apps

The output of apps list:

Enabled:
  - activity: 5.0.0-dev.0
  - admin_audit: 1.22.0
  - assistant: 2.12.0
  - bruteforcesettings: 5.0.0-dev.0
  - circles: 32.0.0
  - cloud_federation_api: 1.16.0
  - collectives: 3.5.0
  - comments: 1.22.0
  - contacts: 8.3.1
  - contactsinteraction: 1.13.1
  - dashboard: 7.12.0
  - dav: 1.34.2
  - deck: 1.16.3
  - drawio: 3.1.2
  - external: 7.0.0
  - federatedfilesharing: 1.22.0
  - federation: 1.22.0
  - files: 2.4.0
  - files_accesscontrol: 3.0.2
  - files_automatedtagging: 3.0.3
  - files_bpm: 1.7.3
  - files_downloadlimit: 5.0.0-dev.0
  - files_linkeditor: 1.1.23
  - files_pdfviewer: 5.0.0-dev.0
  - files_reminders: 1.5.0
  - files_retention: 3.0.0
  - files_sharing: 1.24.1
  - files_trashbin: 1.22.0
  - files_versions: 1.25.0
  - firstrunwizard: 5.0.0-dev.0
  - flow_notifications: 3.0.0
  - groupfolders: 20.1.10
  - guests: 4.6.0
  - integration_openai: 3.10.0
  - logreader: 5.0.0-dev.0
  - lookup_server_connector: 1.20.0
  - nextcloud-aio: 0.8.0
  - nextcloud_announcements: 4.0.0-dev.0
  - notifications: 5.0.0-dev.0
  - notify_push: 1.3.0
  - oauth2: 1.20.0
  - password_policy: 4.0.0-dev.0
  - privacy: 4.0.0-dev.0
  - profile: 1.1.0
  - provisioning_api: 1.22.0
  - recommendations: 5.0.0-dev.0
  - related_resources: 3.0.0-dev.0
  - richdocuments: 9.0.2
  - serverinfo: 4.0.0-dev.0
  - settings: 1.15.1
  - sharebymail: 1.22.0
  - spreed: 22.0.8
  - support: 4.0.0-dev.0
  - survey_client: 4.0.0-dev.0
  - systemtags: 1.22.0
  - text: 6.0.1
  - theming: 2.7.0
  - theming_customcss: 1.19.0
  - twofactor_backupcodes: 1.21.0
  - twofactor_totp: 14.0.0
  - updatenotification: 1.22.0
  - user_ldap: 1.23.0
  - user_status: 1.12.0
  - viewer: 5.0.0-dev.0
  - weather_status: 1.12.0
  - webhook_listeners: 1.3.0
  - welcome: 1.4.0
  - whiteboard: 1.5.5
  - workflow_script: 3.0.0
  - workflowengine: 2.14.0
Disabled:
  - app_api: 32.0.0 (installed 5.0.2)
  - calendar: 6.1.6 (installed 6.1.6)
  - context_chat: 5.2.1 (installed 5.2.1)
  - encryption: 2.20.0
  - files_external: 1.24.0 (installed 1.23.0)
  - files_inotify: 0.2.4
  - files_mindmap: 0.0.33 (installed 0.0.33)
  - group_everyone: 0.1.18 (installed 0.1.18)
  - integration_excalidraw: 3.0.1 (installed 3.0.1)
  - notes: 4.13.0 (installed 4.13.0)
  - photos: 5.0.0-dev.1 (installed 4.0.0)
  - suspicious_login: 10.0.0-dev.0
  - tables: 1.0.3 (installed 1.0.3)
  - tasks: 0.17.1 (installed 0.17.1)
  - twofactor_nextcloud_notification: 6.0.0-dev.0

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