Endless activation

[mak163]

I have installed NextCloudPi in the LXC Proxmox container. After installation, when I go to the page https://nextcloudpi.local/activate / the system suggests saving passwords and activating NextCloudPi . When I press "Activate", the message "NextCloudPi not yet initialized, trying again in a few seconds ..." is displayed and the circle turns endlessly.

[cblt2l]

I ran into the same issue trying to install as an LXC on Proxmox. I set it up with 1 cpu core, 1GiB ram and set it to run as a privileged container.

running journalctl -ef in the running container, I could see the following lines repeating endlessly.

Dec 27 17:42:45 nextcloud sudo[4164]:     root : PWD=/ ; USER=www-data ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/php /var/www/nextcloud/occ config:system:get overwrite.cli.url
Dec 27 17:42:45 nextcloud sudo[4164]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user www-data(uid=33) by (uid=0)
Dec 27 17:42:45 nextcloud sudo[4164]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user www-data
Dec 27 17:42:48 nextcloud sudo[4168]:     root : PWD=/ ; USER=www-data ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/php /var/www/nextcloud/occ config:system:get overwrite.cli.url
Dec 27 17:42:48 nextcloud sudo[4168]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user www-data(uid=33) by (uid=0)
Dec 27 17:42:48 nextcloud sudo[4168]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user www-data
Dec 27 17:42:49 nextcloud sudo[4172]: www-data : PWD=/var/www/ncp-web ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/home/www/ncp-launcher.sh nc-admin
Dec 27 17:42:49 nextcloud sudo[4172]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root(uid=0) by (uid=33)
Dec 27 17:42:49 nextcloud sudo[4191]:     root : PWD=/var/www/ncp-web ; USER=www-data ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/php /var/www/nextcloud/occ status
Dec 27 17:42:49 nextcloud sudo[4191]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user www-data(uid=33) by (uid=0)
Dec 27 17:42:49 nextcloud sudo[4191]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user www-data
Dec 27 17:42:49 nextcloud sudo[4218]:     root : PWD=/var/www/ncp-web ; USER=www-data ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/php /var/www/nextcloud/occ user:resetpassword --password-from-env ncp
Dec 27 17:42:49 nextcloud sudo[4218]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user www-data(uid=33) by (uid=0)

[Futty87]

Hello!
same problem here, in my case the database is probably not running...

Proxmox LXC with "NextcloudPI_LXC_x86_v1.55.3.tar.gz", 2GB Ram / 2 cpu cores / 2 GB Swap, 8GB diskspace.
"apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" does not help.
I just changed the default ports to 82 / 2443 / 4443 and set a new IP address in "/etc/systemd/network/eth0.network"

systemctl status mysql
× mariadb.service - MariaDB 10.11.6 database server
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/mariadb.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2025-01-16 19:11:57 UTC; 1h 41min ago
       Docs: man:mariadbd(8)
             https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/systemd/
   Main PID: 337 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
     Status: "MariaDB server is down"
        CPU: 129ms

Jan 16 19:11:57 nextcloud systemd[1]: Starting mariadb.service - MariaDB 10.11.6 database server...
Jan 16 19:11:57 nextcloud mariadbd[337]: 2025-01-16 19:11:57 0 [Warning] Can't create test file '/var/lib/mysql/nextcloud.lower-test' (Errcode: 13 "Permission denied")
Jan 16 19:11:57 nextcloud mariadbd[337]: 2025-01-16 19:11:57 0 [Note] Starting MariaDB 10.11.6-MariaDB-0+deb12u1 source revision  as process 337
Jan 16 19:11:57 nextcloud mariadbd[337]: 2025-01-16 19:11:57 0 [ERROR] mariadbd: Can't create/write to file './ddl_recovery.log' (Errcode: 13 "Permission denied")
Jan 16 19:11:57 nextcloud mariadbd[337]: 2025-01-16 19:11:57 0 [ERROR] DDL_LOG: Failed to create ddl log file: ./ddl_recovery.log
Jan 16 19:11:57 nextcloud mariadbd[337]: 2025-01-16 19:11:57 0 [ERROR] Aborting
Jan 16 19:11:57 nextcloud systemd[1]: mariadb.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jan 16 19:11:57 nextcloud systemd[1]: mariadb.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jan 16 19:11:57 nextcloud systemd[1]: Failed to start mariadb.service - MariaDB 10.11.6 database server.

cat /var/log/ncp.log
[ nc-admin ] (Thu Jan 16 21:08:37 UTC 2025)
Cannot load Zend OPcache - it was already loaded
An unhandled exception has been thrown:
Doctrine\DBAL\Exception: Failed to connect to the database: An exception occurred in the driver: SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] No such file or directory in /var/www/nextcloud/lib/private/DB/Connection.php:233
Stack trace:
#0 /var/www/nextcloud/3rdparty/doctrine/dbal/src/Connection.php(453): OC\DB\Connection->connect()
#1 /var/www/nextcloud/3rdparty/doctrine/dbal/src/Connection.php(411): Doctrine\DBAL\Connection->getDatabasePlatformVersion()
#2 /var/www/nextcloud/3rdparty/doctrine/dbal/src/Connection.php(318): Doctrine\DBAL\Connection->detectDatabasePlatform()
#3 /var/www/nextcloud/lib/private/DB/Connection.php(899): Doctrine\DBAL\Connection->getDatabasePlatform()
#4 /var/www/nextcloud/lib/private/DB/ConnectionAdapter.php(235): OC\DB\Connection->getDatabaseProvider()
#5 /var/www/nextcloud/lib/private/DB/QueryBuilder/QueryBuilder.php(96): OC\DB\ConnectionAdapter->getDatabaseProvider()
#6 /var/www/nextcloud/lib/private/AppConfig.php(1211): OC\DB\QueryBuilder\QueryBuilder->expr()
#7 /var/www/nextcloud/lib/private/AppConfig.php(237): OC\AppConfig->loadConfig()
#8 /var/www/nextcloud/lib/private/AppConfig.php(1351): OC\AppConfig->searchValues()
#9 /var/www/nextcloud/lib/private/App/AppManager.php(126): OC\AppConfig->getValues()
#10 /var/www/nextcloud/lib/private/App/AppManager.php(147): OC\App\AppManager->getInstalledAppsValues()
#11 /var/www/nextcloud/lib/private/legacy/OC_App.php(191): OC\App\AppManager->getInstalledApps()
#12 /var/www/nextcloud/lib/private/AppFramework/Bootstrap/Coordinator.php(48): OC_App::getEnabledApps()
#13 /var/www/nextcloud/lib/base.php(657): OC\AppFramework\Bootstrap\Coordinator->runInitialRegistration()
#14 /var/www/nextcloud/lib/base.php(1132): OC::init()
#15 /var/www/nextcloud/console.php(28): require_once('...')
#16 /var/www/nextcloud/occ(11): require_once('...')
#17 {main}

[Scud0]

today still an issue with latest; NextcloudPi_LXC_x86_v1.55.3.tar.gz.

installed and pressing activate results in an error in ncp.log

Doctrine\DBAL\Exception: Failed to connect to the database: An exception occurred in the driver: SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] No such file or directory in /var/www/nextcloud/lib/private/DB/Connection.php:233

[Belaial]

Mentioned here also,

#1994

But I'm experiencing the same thing in Proxmox with LXC and "NextcloudPi_LXC_x86_v1.55.3.tar.gz", have not looked into logs and so on since I just wanted to test this out, will keep an eye on how this might progress.

[neoscaler]

Can confirm issue is still present in latest NextcloudPi_LXC_x86_v1.55.3.tar.gz

[Vaskyy]

Assuming also having the same issue:
Tried the Proxmox VE Helper Script. Added lxc bind mount mapping.
nc-passwd doesnt work anymore, cannot use anything anymore.

My Issue described better:
#2086 (comment)

[ALEX8642]

I've had the same experience on different pc's with different Proxmox versions separated by more than a year. I can never get past the activation screen.