improve GUI administration for multi-language collaborative efforts #17631

TP75 · 2019-10-22T00:41:08Z

Steps to reproduce

Establish several items i.e. a set of mixed website entries to the 'External sites' app sequentially and with different locales selected to the admin account in use. Arbitrarily re-order these items by help of the 'App order' app with different locales selected.

Arbitrarily select and deselect the administrative views of both apps several times each and make changes to the resp. app settings inside each of their views. This is understood as an usual administration task in a multi-language collaborative environment like a productive distributed Nextcloud in the EU.

Expected behaviour

Presumably all NC administration and certainly the GUI administration tasks in a multi-language collaborative effort require:

Any combination of locales and languages with selectable setup items shall establish a stable and reasonable setup (i.e. list of apps in this use case) in the database.
Any administrative entries to the NC database shall happen in a reasonable & transparent way and the integrity of the administrative setup shall be ensured at all times.
Use of locales and translations should be as flexible as possible and should be evenly distributed to the connected clients and the accessing web browsers.
The combination of both the 'External sites' app and the 'App order' app should always provide a stable set of data.

Furthermore, the NC PHP and SQL code should provide some reasonable safety measures for the extended reliability and improved usability of all desktop clients connected.

Actual behaviour

While establishing the a.m. mixed items by the 'External sites' app view several times some or even more superfluous items were observed. These entires appeared automatically and were redundantly listed in the view i.e. became added automatically to the bottom of the websites list. However, the viewed superfluous entries apparently vanished after closing the 'External sites' app view and could not be found in the GUI administration later.

No errors were found in the 'Logging' GUI. Only some days later the apparent b.m. issue of "the 'app list' of doom" was observed by coincidence and from several different NC desktop clients connected to this NC server. Presumably, the a.m. superfluous entries only vanished from the GUI admin view but as data entries unfortunately remained in great numbers in the database.

Intended website items and app order of the 'External sites' setup in this use case:

Handbuch (DE) - top bar: 1st in apporder for DE locale 'Deutsch(Förmlich/Sie)', not for EN & NL locales
Manual (EN) - top bar: for EN & NL locales, 1st in apporder for DE locale 'Deutsch(Du)' and 2nd in apporder for DE locale 'Deutsch(Förmlich/Sie)'
Handbuch (DE) - top bar: 2nd in apporder for DE locale 'Deutsch(Du)', not for EN & NL locales
Geräte (DE) - bottom of NC home page
Devices (EN) - bottom of NC home page

See the screenshot below.

Server configuration detail

Operating system: Linux 4.19.0-6-amd64 - Debian 4.19.67-2+deb10u1 (2019-09-20) x86_64

Webserver: Apache (apache2handler) -- 2.4.38-3+deb10u3

Database: mysql 10.3.17 -- mariadb-server 10.3.17-0+deb10u1

PHP version:

7.3.9-1~deb10u1
Modules loaded: Core, date, libxml, openssl, pcre, zlib, filter, hash, Reflection, SPL, session, sodium, standard, apache2handler, mysqlnd, PDO, xml, apcu, bz2, calendar, ctype, curl, dom, mbstring, fileinfo, ftp, gd, gettext, gmp, iconv, igbinary, imagick, imap, intl, json, ldap, exif, mysqli, pdo_mysql, apc, posix, readline, redis, shmop, SimpleXML, smbclient, sockets, sysvmsg, sysvsem, sysvshm, tokenizer, wddx, xmlreader, xmlwriter, xsl, zip, Phar, libsmbclient, Zend OPcache

Nextcloud version: 16.0.5 - 16.0.5.1

Updated from an older Nextcloud/ownCloud or fresh install: updated from 16.0.4.1 via CLI

Where did you install Nextcloud from:

official NC repositiory
16.0.5 updated manually acc. to NC 16 Admin Docs » Maintenance » Upgrade manually

Signing status

List of activated apps

Enabled:
 - accessibility: 1.2.0
 - activity: 2.9.1
 - admin_audit: 1.6.0
 - announcementcenter: 3.5.1
 - **apporder: 0.8.0**
 - bruteforcesettings: 1.4.0
 - calendar: 1.7.1
 - cloud_federation_api: 0.2.0
 - comments: 1.6.0
 - contacts: 3.1.6
 - dav: 1.9.2
 - **external: 3.3.1**
 - federatedfilesharing: 1.6.0
 - federation: 1.6.0
 - files: 1.11.0
 - files_accesscontrol: 1.6.0
 - files_pdfviewer: 1.5.0
 - files_rightclick: 0.15.1
 - files_sharing: 1.8.0
 - files_texteditor: 2.8.0
 - files_trashbin: 1.6.0
 - files_versions: 1.9.0
 - files_videoplayer: 1.5.0
 - firstrunwizard: 2.5.0
 - gallery: 18.3.0
 - groupfolders: 4.1.4
 - issuetemplate: 0.5.0
 - logreader: 2.1.0
 - lookup_server_connector: 1.4.0
 - nextcloud_announcements: 1.5.0
 - notes: 3.0.3
 - notifications: 2.4.1
 - oauth2: 1.4.2
 - password_policy: 1.6.0
 - polls: 0.10.2
 - privacy: 1.0.0
 - provisioning_api: 1.6.0
 - recommendations: 0.4.0
 - richdocuments: 3.4.2
 - serverinfo: 1.6.0
 - sharebymail: 1.6.0
 - survey_client: 1.4.0
 - systemtags: 1.6.0
 - tasks: 0.11.3
 - text: 1.0.2
 - theming: 1.7.0
 - twofactor_backupcodes: 1.5.0
 - updatenotification: 1.6.0
 - viewer: 1.1.0
 - workflowengine: 1.6.0
Disabled:
 - encryption
 - files_external
 - spreed
 - support
 - user_ldap

Configuration (config/config.php)

{
    "debug": false,
    "trusted_domains": [
        "*redacted*",
        "*redacted*"
    ],
    "datadirectory": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
    "dbtype": "mysql",
    "version": "16.0.5.1",
    "dbname": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
    "dbhost": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
    "dbport": "",
    "dbtableprefix": "oc_",
    "dbuser": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
    "dbpassword": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
    "logtimezone": "Europe\/Berlin",
    "logdateformat": "Y-m-d H:i:s",
    "log_rotate_size": 52428800,
    "loglevel": 2,
    "activity_expire_days": 190,
    "installed": true,
    "memcache.local": "\\OC\\Memcache\\APCu",
    "memcache.distributed": "\\OC\\Memcache\\Redis",
    "filelocking.enabled": "true",
    "memcache.locking": "\\OC\\Memcache\\Redis",
    "redis": {
        "host": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "port": 0,
        "dbindex": 0,
        "timeout": 1.5
    },
    "ldapIgnoreNamingRules": false,
    "ldapProviderFactory": "\\OCA\\User_LDAP\\LDAPProviderFactory",
    "maintenance": false,
    "instanceid": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
    "overwrite.cli.url": "*redacted*",
    "theme": "",
    "mail_smtpmode": "smtp",
    "mail_smtpauthtype": "PLAIN",
    "mail_smtphost": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
    "mail_from_address": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
    "mail_domain": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
    "mail_smtpport": "25",
    "updater.release.channel": "production",
    "mysql.utf8mb4": true
}

Are you using external storage, if yes which one:

Are you using encryption:

Are you using an external user-backend, if yes which one:

Client configuration

Browser: Mozilla Firefox/60.0, Apple Safari 12.x / 13.x

Operating system: Mac OS X / macOS , Debian Linux, MS-Windows

For more details on the client config and some ~~funny~~ relevant NC desktop screenshots refer to the related issue i.e. the parallel bug report nextcloud/desktop - avoid "the 'app list' of doom" # 1545

Logs

Web server error log

remains open until further clarification

Nextcloud log

until now no errors were found in the 'logging' view of the NC GUI which would relate to this issue
remains open until further clarification

Browser log

seems to be not applicable to this issue until further clarification

Server Administration

View of the 'External sites' setup:

View of the resp. 'App order' setup with the 'English(US)' EN variant locale selected:

View of the resp. 'App order' setup with the 'Deutsch(Förmlich/Sie)' DE variant locale selected:

View of the resp. 'App order' setup with the 'Deutsch(Du)' DE variant locale selected:

View of the resp. 'App order' setup with the 'Nederlands' NL locale selected:

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juliushaertl · 2019-10-22T10:02:38Z

Not as server issue but a limitation of the current apporder app. See nextcloud/external#164 (comment) as well

TP75 · 2019-10-22T10:21:07Z

@juliushaertl Thank you.

I fully agree after myself learning the same NC server account and the same 'External sites' setup on a Linux machine with the Version 2.5.1git desktop client produces a stable view.

Maybe not truly related to 'External sites' as presumed before?

Maybe an issue limited to an unstable Version 2.6.1RC1 desktop client?

juliushaertl · 2019-10-22T11:47:02Z

Lets continue over at nextcloud/external#164 since you posted the same questions there 😉

TP75 added 0. Needs triage Pending check for reproducibility or if it fits our roadmap bug labels Oct 22, 2019

This was referenced Oct 22, 2019

avoid "the 'app list' of doom" nextcloud/desktop#1545

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improve reliability and GUI administration nextcloud/external#164

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juliushaertl closed this as completed Oct 22, 2019

This was referenced Oct 22, 2019

make true redicts possible nextcloud/external#165

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macOS client: crash on exit after quit nextcloud/desktop#1551

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improve GUI administration for multi-language collaborative efforts #17631

improve GUI administration for multi-language collaborative efforts #17631

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improve GUI administration for multi-language collaborative efforts #17631

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