Upgraded to PHP8 before upgrading to NC21 --> problems

Hi, wanting the new nextcloud 21 i went to updater and beta and received 20.0.8Rc1 so i updated. The bad and obviously dumb mistake i made was updating php8 first. I’ve tried everything including purging to rollback. Now i cant get nextcloud back up and running and again now have php8 installed and I’m just trying to install nextcloud 21 by command line since i cant get into my web updater.

I’ve tried the following to install nextcloud 21:
Turn off maintenance mode
@nextcloudpi:~ $ sudo -u www-data php /var/www/nextcloud/occ maintenance:mode --off
This version of Nextcloud is not compatible with > PHP 7.4.
You are currently running 8.0.2.

Command updater:
from below
https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual/maintenance/update.htm

Received the following with command

i@nextcloudpi:~ $ sudo -u www-data php /var/www/nextcloud/updater/updater.phar
Nextcloud Updater - version: v20.0.0beta4-11-g68fa0d4

Current version is 20.0.8 RC1.
PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function NC\Updater\curl_init() in phar:///var/www/nextcloud/updater/updater.phar/lib/Updater.php:455
Stack trace:
#0phar:///var/www/nextcloud/updater/updater.phar/lib/Updater.php(119): NC\Updater\Updater->getUpdateServerResponse()
#1phar:///var/www/nextcloud/updater/updater.phar/lib/UpdateCommand.php(147): NC\Updater\Updater->checkForUpdate()
#2phar:///var/www/nextcloud/updater/updater.phar/vendor/symfony/console/Command/Command.php(256): NC\Updater\UpdateCommand->execute()
#3phar:///var/www/nextcloud/updater/updater.phar/vendor/symfony/console/Application.php(820): Symfony\Component\Console\Command\Command->run()
#4phar:///var/www/nextcloud/updater/updater.phar/vendor/symfony/console/Application.php(187): Symfony\Component\Console\Application->doRunCommand()
#5phar:///var/www/nextcloud/updater/updater.phar/vendor/symfony/console/Application.php(118): Symfony\Component\Console\Application->doRun()
#6phar:///var/www/nextcloud/updater/updater.phar/updater.php(10): Symfony\Component\Console\Application->run()
#7 /var/www/nextcloud/updater/updater.phar(10): require(’…’)
#8 {main}
thrown in phar:///var/www/nextcloud/updater/updater.phar/lib/Updater.php on line 455

Here is my system

  • raspberry pi 4 8gb overclocked 2.0GHz
  • @nextcloudpi:~ $ php -v
    PHP 8.0.2 (cli) (built: Feb 20 2021 05:34:43) ( NTS )
    Copyright © The PHP Group
    Zend Engine v4.0.2, Copyright © Zend Technologies
    with Zend OPcache v8.0.2, Copyright ©, by Zend Technologies
  • php modules
    @nextcloudpi:~ $ php -m
    [PHP Modules]
    calendar
    Core
    ctype
    date
    exif
    FFI
    fileinfo
    filter
    ftp
    gettext
    hash
    iconv
    json
    libxml
    openssl
    pcntl
    pcre
    PDO
    Phar
    posix
    readline
    Reflection
    session
    shmop
    sockets
    sodium
    SPL
    standard
    sysvmsg
    sysvsem
    sysvshm
    tokenizer
    Zend OPcache
    zlib

[Zend Modules]
Zend OPcache

**** Nextcloud System Info***

System Info

NextCloudPi version v1.34.7
NextCloudPi image NextCloudPi_11-27-20
distribution Debian GNU/Linux 10 \n \l
automount yes
USB devices sda sdb sdc
datadir /media/myCloudDrive/ncdata
data in SD no
data filesystem btrfs
data disk usage 12G/7.3T
rootfs usage 4.8G/29G
swapfile /var/swap
dbdir /var/lib/mysql
Nextcloud check error
HTTPD service up
PHP service up
MariaDB service up
Redis service up
Postfix service up
internet check ok
port check 80 open
port check 443 open
IP
gateway
interface eth0
certificates
NAT loopback no
uptime 54min

version 20.0.8.0

Updating question:
I would like to know if there is any way to just update and/or upgrade to NC 21 with a command line or lines and if so what are they? I have been researching and trying different methods for a day now and cant find a solution. Any help wound be greatly appreciated! Thank you!

Sorry I don’t have any other logs as I can’t grab them

**|UPDATE2021-02-24T23:16:00Z___________________

Well after reading my own post i noticed missing modules. lol
So I installed this command:

sudo apt install -y php8.0-curl php8.0-gd php8.0-mbstring php8.0-xml php8.0-zip

new module list:

@nextcloudpi:~ $ php -m
[PHP Modules]
calendar
Core
ctype
curl
date
dom
exif
FFI
fileinfo
filter
ftp
gd
gettext
hash
iconv
json
libxml
mbstring
mysqli
mysqlnd
openssl
pcntl
pcre
PDO
pdo_mysql
Phar
posix
readline
Reflection
session
shmop
SimpleXML
sockets
sodium
SPL
standard
sysvmsg
sysvsem
sysvshm
tokenizer
xml
xmlreader
xmlwriter
xsl
Zend OPcache
zip
zlib

[Zend Modules]
Zend OPcache

Updating Now:

That worked for the update to perform but as of now it is only installing the below
@nextcloudpi:~ $ sudo -u www-data php /var/www/nextcloud/updater/updater.phar
Nextcloud Updater - version: v20.0.0beta4-11-g68fa0d4

Current version is 20.0.8 RC1.

Update to Nextcloud 20.0.8 available. (channel: “beta”)
Following file will be downloaded automatically: https://download.nextcloud.com/server/releases/nextcloud-20.0.8.zip
Open changelog :arrow_upper_right:

Steps that will be executed:
Check for expected files
Check for write permissions
Create backup
Downloading
Verify integrity
Extracting
Enable maintenance mode
Replace entry points
Delete old files
Move new files in place
Done

Start update? [y/N] y

Info: Pressing Ctrl-C will finish the currently running step and then stops the updater.

[:heavy_check_mark:] Check for expected files
[:heavy_check_mark:] Check for write permissions
[:heavy_check_mark:] Create backup
[:heavy_check_mark:] Downloading
[:heavy_check_mark:] Verify integrity
[:heavy_check_mark:] Extracting
[:heavy_check_mark:] Enable maintenance mode
[:heavy_check_mark:] Replace entry points
[:heavy_check_mark:] Delete old files
[:heavy_check_mark:] Move new files in place
[:heavy_check_mark:] Done

Update of code successful.

Should the “occ upgrade” command be executed? [Y/n] y
This version of Nextcloud is not compatible with > PHP 7.4.
You are currently running 8.0.2.
Keep maintenance mode active? [y/N] n
This version of Nextcloud is not compatible with > PHP 7.4.
You are currently running 8.0.2.
Maintenance mode is disabled

After Update:

I still cannot update to nextcloud 21 is there a way to force NC21 since after the update it stays on 20.0.0.8?
Thank you

hey @sharkbyte

pls don’t hijack other threads for your own - and apparently - different problems. it makes solving any problems (and marking them solved) more difficult (even impossible) and causes everyone here more work to make a new thread out of it (btw: you can edit the new title of your thread now at your own will)

then… there has been severel threads already on how to downgrade any php-version. pls search/read before posting.

The forum knows about every way you could do that.
But while you’re running ncp I’d recommend to ONLY use the ncp-updater to make updating smooth (dev’s are really working hard on that task for their users)… ok, it might take a little while until they’ll upgrade to next major version (usually around minor x.y.2-release) - but it’s always for the better of their users.

again, you might wanna search the forum for the answer(s) of that question.

psoitive side of your posting is: you have put loads of infos in it. great!

aww, I just found out that this is a kind of crossposting… I really ask you to not crosspost stuff.
closed this thread in favor for