[Bug]: Error when deleting folder: `rename()`: The first argument to `copy()` function cannot be a directory #38569

mebtte · 2023-06-01T07:45:11Z

⚠️ This issue respects the following points: ⚠️

This is a bug, not a question or a configuration/webserver/proxy issue.
This issue is not already reported on Github (I've searched it).
Nextcloud Server is up to date. See Maintenance and Release Schedule for supported versions.
Nextcloud Server is running on 64bit capable CPU, PHP and OS.
I agree to follow Nextcloud's Code of Conduct.

Bug description

When deleting a folder (whatever it is empty or not), it will report a error.

After reloading page, the folder is gone and I couldn't find it on trash bin or anywhere. The Logging has some errors:

Steps to reproduce

select a existing folder or create a new folder
delete it
error happens

Expected behavior

The folder should be in the trash bin after deleting.

Installation method

Community Docker image

Nextcloud Server version

26

Operating system

Debian/Ubuntu

PHP engine version

8.2.6

Web server

Apache (supported)

Database engine version

MySQL

Is this bug present after an update or on a fresh install?

None

Are you using the Nextcloud Server Encryption module?

Encryption is Disabled

What user-backends are you using?

Default user-backend (database)
LDAP/ Active Directory
SSO - SAML
Other

Configuration report

{
    "system": {
        "overwrite.cli.url": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "filesystem_check_changes": 1,
        "htaccess.RewriteBase": "\/",
        "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
            }
        ],
        "instanceid": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "passwordsalt": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "secret": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "trusted_domains": [
            "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
            "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***"
        ],
        "datadirectory": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "dbtype": "mysql",
        "version": "26.0.2.1",
        "dbname": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "dbhost": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "dbport": "",
        "dbtableprefix": "oc_",
        "mysql.utf8mb4": true,
        "dbuser": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "dbpassword": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "installed": true,
        "twofactor_enforced": "true",
        "twofactor_enforced_groups": [],
        "twofactor_enforced_excluded_groups": [],
        "mail_smtpmode": "smtp",
        "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": 1,
        "mail_smtpname": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "mail_smtppassword": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "loglevel": 2,
        "maintenance": false
    }
}

List of activated Apps

Enabled:
  - activity: 2.18.0
  - cloud_federation_api: 1.9.0
  - comments: 1.16.0
  - dav: 1.25.0
  - federatedfilesharing: 1.16.0
  - files: 1.21.1
  - files_pdfviewer: 2.7.0
  - files_rightclick: 1.5.0
  - files_sharing: 1.18.0
  - files_trashbin: 1.16.0
  - files_versions: 1.19.1
  - logreader: 2.11.0
  - lookup_server_connector: 1.14.0
  - notifications: 2.14.0
  - oauth2: 1.14.0
  - photos: 2.2.0
  - provisioning_api: 1.16.0
  - serverinfo: 1.16.0
  - settings: 1.8.0
  - text: 3.7.2
  - theming: 2.1.1
  - twofactor_backupcodes: 1.15.0
  - twofactor_totp: 8.0.0
  - viewer: 1.10.0
  - workflowengine: 2.8.0
Disabled:
  - admin_audit: 1.16.0
  - bruteforcesettings: 2.6.0
  - circles: 26.0.0 (installed 26.0.0)
  - contactsinteraction: 1.7.0 (installed 1.7.0)
  - dashboard: 7.6.0 (installed 7.6.0)
  - encryption: 2.14.0
  - federation: 1.16.0 (installed 1.16.0)
  - files_external: 1.18.0
  - firstrunwizard: 2.15.0 (installed 2.15.0)
  - nextcloud_announcements: 1.15.0 (installed 1.15.0)
  - password_policy: 1.16.0 (installed 1.16.0)
  - privacy: 1.10.0 (installed 1.10.0)
  - recommendations: 1.5.0 (installed 1.5.0)
  - related_resources: 1.1.0-alpha1 (installed 1.1.0-alpha1)
  - sharebymail: 1.16.0 (installed 1.16.0)
  - support: 1.9.0 (installed 1.9.0)
  - survey_client: 1.14.0 (installed 1.14.0)
  - suspicious_login: 4.4.0
  - systemtags: 1.16.0 (installed 1.16.0)
  - updatenotification: 1.16.0 (installed 1.16.0)
  - user_ldap: 1.16.0
  - user_status: 1.6.0 (installed 1.6.0)
  - weather_status: 1.6.0 (installed 1.6.0)

Nextcloud Signing status

No errors have been found.

Nextcloud Logs

No response

Additional info

No response

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joshtrichards · 2023-06-01T12:14:31Z

Unable to reproduce.

Can you provide the entire stack trace please? You should be able to get to it by going to the far right of the log entry, clicking the clipboard icon that appears, and selecting Copy raw.

The only thing unusual in your base config I see is filesystem_check_changes set to 1. Was there a particular reason you need that parameter enabled? What is the underlying filesystem used for your datadirectory? Anything unusual about it?

mebtte · 2023-06-02T03:10:05Z

@joshtrichards Here is the raw log:

{
  "reqId": "fT2UdsZKOcyJbsu2MjGj",
  "level": 3,
  "time": "2023-06-01T07:24:23+00:00",
  "remoteAddr": "172.18.0.1",
  "user": "{username}",
  "app": "PHP",
  "method": "DELETE",
  "url": "/remote.php/dav/files/{username}/download/test",
  "message": "rename(/var/www/html/data/{username}/files/download/test,/var/www/html/data/{username}/files_trashbin/files/test.d1685604263): Success at /var/www/html/lib/private/Files/Storage/Local.php#378",
  "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/113.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
  "version": "26.0.2.1",
  "data": {
    "app": "PHP"
  },
  "id": "64795a57487fe"
}

{
  "reqId": "fT2UdsZKOcyJbsu2MjGj",
  "level": 3,
  "time": "2023-06-01T07:24:23+00:00",
  "remoteAddr": "172.18.0.1",
  "user": "{username}",
  "app": "PHP",
  "method": "DELETE",
  "url": "/remote.php/dav/files/{username}/download/test",
  "message": "rename(): The first argument to copy() function cannot be a directory at /var/www/html/lib/private/Files/Storage/Local.php#378",
  "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/113.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
  "version": "26.0.2.1",
  "data": {
    "app": "PHP"
  },
  "id": "64795a5748828"
}

The reason I set filesystem_check_changes to 1 is the datadirectory shares with other services, like using qBittorrent to download something and then view it on nextcloud. The filesystem is ext4.

joshtrichards · 2023-06-02T15:01:49Z

Duplicate of #37741

(at least the NC26 follow-up comment one from the OP)

My bad - it just dawned on my that you're using External Storage and that download is a local External Storage mount.

Discovered a couple of interesting things, but still poking around.

Let's take follow-up over there.

joshtrichards · 2023-06-02T16:36:05Z

Correction:

Duplicate of #14743

mebtte · 2023-06-03T12:42:56Z

My docker compose like this:

version: '2'
services:
  nextcloud:
    container_name: nextcloud
    image: nextcloud
    restart: always
    user: 1000:1000
    ports:
      - {port}:80
    volumes:
      - /home/{username}/nextcloud:/var/www/html
      - /disk_mount_dir/nextcloud_data:/var/www/html/data
      - /disk_mount_dir/download:/var/www/html/data/{username}/files/download

solracsf · 2023-06-05T13:12:39Z

Feel free to try #38623

mebtte · 2023-08-14T08:01:50Z

Does this release? I have this issue still on 27.0.2.

kesselb · 2023-08-14T10:01:55Z

28

eugenov · 2023-09-14T05:22:10Z

Have this issue with 27.0.2. No external storage, ext4

mebtte added 0. Needs triage Pending check for reproducibility or if it fits our roadmap bug labels Jun 1, 2023

szaimen added the 26-feedback label Jun 1, 2023

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solracsf removed the needs info label Jun 2, 2023

solracsf changed the title ~~[Bug]: php report error when deleting folder~~ [Bug]: Error when deleting folder: rename(): The first argument to copy() function cannot be a directory Jun 2, 2023

joshtrichards mentioned this issue Jun 2, 2023

can not copy or move directory between different external file storage, but files work fine #14743

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solracsf mentioned this issue Jun 2, 2023

fix(storage): fallback to copy and unlink when rename fails #38623

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kesselb closed this as completed in #38623 Jul 31, 2023

joshtrichards mentioned this issue Oct 22, 2023

Invalid cross-device link at /var/www/html/lib/private/Files/Storage/Local.php#339 nextcloud/docker#1162

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[Bug]: Error when deleting folder: `rename()`: The first argument to `copy()` function cannot be a directory #38569

[Bug]: Error when deleting folder: `rename()`: The first argument to `copy()` function cannot be a directory #38569

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[Bug]: Error when deleting folder: rename(): The first argument to copy() function cannot be a directory #38569

[Bug]: Error when deleting folder: rename(): The first argument to copy() function cannot be a directory #38569

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⚠️ This issue respects the following points: ⚠️

Bug description

Steps to reproduce

Expected behavior

Installation method

Nextcloud Server version

Operating system

PHP engine version

Web server

Database engine version

Is this bug present after an update or on a fresh install?

Are you using the Nextcloud Server Encryption module?

What user-backends are you using?

Configuration report

List of activated Apps

Nextcloud Signing status

Nextcloud Logs

Additional info

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[Bug]: Error when deleting folder: `rename()`: The first argument to `copy()` function cannot be a directory #38569

[Bug]: Error when deleting folder: `rename()`: The first argument to `copy()` function cannot be a directory #38569

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