When upgrading from 31.0.13 to 32.0.5, user accounts disappear from Nextcloud

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The Basics

  • Nextcloud Server version (e.g., 29.x.x):
    • 32.0.4, 32.0.5
  • Operating system and version (e.g., Ubuntu 24.04):
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 9.7 (Plow)
  • Web server and version (e.g, Apache 2.4.25):
    • replace me
  • Reverse proxy and version _(e.g. nginx 1.27.2)
    • nginx/1.20.1
  • PHP version (e.g, 8.3):
    • PHP 8.3.30
  • Is this the first time you’ve seen this error? (Yes / No):
    • Yes
  • When did this problem seem to first start?
    • When upgrading from 31.0.13 to 32.0.5
  • Installation method (e.g. AlO, NCP, Bare Metal/Archive, etc.)
    • Archive
  • Are you using CloudfIare, mod_security, or similar? (Yes / No)
    • replace me

Summary of the issue you are facing:

When upgrading from 31.0.13 to 32.0.5, at least one of the user accounts disappears from Nextcloud.
Upgrade from 30.0.17 to 31.0.13 worked fine.

Users are authenticated against Active Directory using SSO & SAML authentication app

The user in question has e-mail identical to 14 other webdav/api accounts. After upgrade, the users personal account is missing, but other accounts are still present and the users gets logged is as one of the webdav/api accounts.

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

  1. Upgrade from 31.0.13 to 32.0.4 or 32.0.5

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.

PASTE HERE

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.

PASTE

Web server / Reverse Proxy

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

PASTE HERE

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!):

PASTE HERE

Apps

The output of occ app:list (if possible).

Enabled:

  • activity: 4.0.0
  • admin_audit: 1.21.0
  • app_api: 5.0.2
  • bruteforcesettings: 4.0.0
  • cloud_federation_api: 1.14.0
  • dav: 1.33.0
  • encryption: 2.19.0
  • federatedfilesharing: 1.21.0
  • files: 2.3.1
  • files_antivirus: 6.0.7
  • files_downloadlimit: 4.0.0
  • files_reminders: 1.4.0
  • groupfolders: 19.1.13
  • lookup_server_connector: 1.19.0
  • oauth2: 1.19.1
  • password_policy: 3.0.0
  • profile: 1.0.0
  • provisioning_api: 1.21.0
  • related_resources: 2.0.0
  • serverinfo: 3.0.0
  • settings: 1.14.0
  • theming: 2.6.1
  • twofactor_backupcodes: 1.20.0
  • user_saml: 7.1.1
  • viewer: 4.0.0
  • webhook_listeners: 1.2.0
  • workflowengine: 2.13.0
    Disabled:
  • circles: 31.0.0 (installed 0.21.4)
  • comments: 1.21.0 (installed 1.10.0)

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Perhaps you can share a bit more about:

  • Precisely how you confirmed this
  • Your user_saml configuration
  • Your Nextcloud config (as requested in the support template)
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Before the upgrade, user account exists in /settings/users table

After upgrade it is missing

sudo -u apache php occ saml:config:get

  • 1:
    • general-idp0_display_name: STAT
    • general-uid_mapping: mail
    • idp-entityId: http://token.a.b.c/adfs/services/trust
    • idp-singleLogoutService.url: https://a.b.c/
    • idp-singleSignOnService.url: Sign In
    • idp-x509cert: MIIC…==
    • saml-attribute-mapping-displayName_mapping: displayName
    • saml-attribute-mapping-email_mapping: mail
    • saml-attribute-mapping-quota_mapping: Quota

sudo -u apache php occ config:list system

{
“system”: {
“instanceid”: “REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE”,
“passwordsalt”: “REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE”,
“secret”: “REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE”,
“trusted_domains”: [
“a.b.c”
],
“datadirectory”: “REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE”,
“dbtype”: “mysql”,
“version”: “31.0.13.1”,
“overwrite.cli.url”: “https://a.b.c”,
“dbname”: “REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE”,
“dbhost”: “REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE”,
“dbport”: “”,
“dbtableprefix”: “oc_”,
“mysql.utf8mb4”: true,
“dbuser”: “REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE”,
“dbpassword”: “REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE”,
“installed”: true,
“maintenance”: false,
“log_type”: “file”,
“logfile”: “/var/log/nextcloud/nextcloud.log”,
“logmode”: 416,
“logfilemode”: 420,
“logdateformat”: “F d, Y H:i:s”,
“mail_domain”: “REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE”,
“mail_smtpmode”: “smtp”,
“mail_sendmailmode”: “smtp”,
“mail_from_address”: “REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE”,
“mail_smtphost”: “REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE”,
“mail_smtpport”: “25”,
“memcache.local”: “\OC\Memcache\Redis”,
“filelocking.enabled”: “true”,
“memcache.distributed”: “\OC\Memcache\Redis”,
“memcache.locking”: “\OC\Memcache\Redis”,
“redis”: {
“host”: “***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***”,
“port”: 6379,
“timeout”: 0,
“dbindex”: 0
},
“skeletondirectory”: “”,
“theme”: “”,
“loglevel”: 0,
“default_locale”: “et_EE”,
“default_language”: “et”,
“defaultapp”: “files”,
“updatechecker”: false,
“updater.release.channel”: “stable”,
“proxy”: “http:\/\/172.24.152.10:3128”,
“twofactor_enforced”: “false”,
“twofactor_enforced_groups”: ,
“twofactor_enforced_excluded_groups”: ,
“app_install_overwrite”: [
“occweb”
],
“allow_user_to_change_display_name”: false,
“default_phone_region”: “EE”,
“enable_previews”: false,
“htaccess.RewriteBase”: “\/”
}

}