Hi all,
I updated my running Nexcloud instance to the latest stable version. In the Admin Settings, I get the organge text info that my php is running on 32 bit and that 64 bit will be needed. My Nextcloud instance is running on a Raspberry Pi 4 that had been running on Raspberry Pi OS 10 (32 bit). I upgraded from Raspberry Pi OS 10 to the latest version 11 and I activated the 64 bit kernel. However, php 8.1 is still running at 32 bit. I read that upgrading from Raspberry Pi OS 10 32 bit to version 11 will only allow running the 64 bit kernel in an otherwise 32 bit context.
I have a few main questions now:
Is there any way to “update” the php from 32 bit to 64 bit?
If that does not work, what would be the best solution to install a fresh Raspberry Pi OS 11 (64 bit) without losing the current Nextcloud instance?
Only the 64bit Kernel will not do the job, the rest of your software stays on 32bit. And that is what causes the incompatibility. I had exactly the same problem and decided to give my Raspberry Pi4 a complete 64bit refresh, while at the same time eliminating old software installs.
The Pi4 runs like a charm now. I would really suggest a complete OS upgrade. Maybe you have the possibility to backup your 32bit OS from the SD card to some connected harddrive, then it is a lot less work and you can get the most needed configs out of your old /etc directory.
I case you do not want to stick with your Debian 11 Bullseye, get the Raspberry 64bit version here:
Thanks a lot for all the suggestions! The whole issue is now clear. However, since I had a lot of trouble getting my NextcloudPi correctly set up for external access, I am really skeptical about the fresh install. @flow-axel Can you recommend any website/tutorial that may help recovering some of the previous settings (sounds like you did that). Any suggestion is highly appreciated. Cheers!
Well, I had a rather simple approach here. I backed up the /root, /etc, /var/www/nextcloud and the /home directories directly to the Pi-attached USB drive with rsync. Then just used the Pi Imager to install a fresh 64bit debian bullseye install to the Rapsberry’s SD card and installed everything from scratch. This had the advantage that I got every program in the latest version and I got rid of unused programs and tons of space wasting log files and old installations.
Whatever files of all users were needed were still in the /home directories or in my old /root, which were copied to the USB drive, so I just moved everything back to the new /root and /home.
Whenever I had to find old configurations, I found them in the old /etc directory.
And I actually have a lot of services on my Pi: nextcloud with 250k pictures and facerecognition, motion with 2 cameras on motion detection recording, PiHole, webserver, some own servers and backup solutions. But basically, everything runs fine in parallel.