[Bug]: Error message when entering a configuration menu

[muchachagrande]

⚠️ 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 OR Nextcloud Community Forum (I've searched it).
• Nextcloud Server is up to date. See Maintenance and Release Schedule for supported versions.
• I agree to follow Nextcloud's Code of Conduct.

Bug description

When entering "Personal -> Additional configuration" screen there is an error logged "Undefined array key "activeSectionId" at /var/www/nextcloud/apps/settings/templates/settings/frame.php#85"
The page seems to work fine and there is no other symptoms than the one I found in the log.

Steps to reproduce

1. Log in to admin account
2. Go to configuration -> personal -> additional configuration menu
3. Go to the log and see the error

Expected behavior

There should be no error at the log

Installation method

Community VM appliance

Nextcloud Server version

27

Operating system

Debian/Ubuntu

PHP engine version

PHP 8.1

Web server

Apache (supported)

Database engine version

PostgreSQL

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": {
        "passwordsalt": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "secret": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "trusted_domains": [
            "localhost",
            "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
            "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
            "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
            "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***"
        ],
        "trusted_proxies": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "allow_local_remote_servers": true,
        "datadirectory": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "dbtype": "pgsql",
        "version": "27.1.3.2",
        "overwrite.cli.url": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "dbname": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "dbhost": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "dbport": "",
        "dbtableprefix": "oc_",
        "dbuser": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "dbpassword": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "installed": true,
        "instanceid": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "upgrade.disable-web": true,
        "log_type": "file",
        "logfile": "\/var\/log\/nextcloud\/nextcloud.log",
        "loglevel": "2",
        "log.condition": {
            "apps": [
                "admin_audit"
            ]
        },
        "mail_smtpmode": "smtp",
        "remember_login_cookie_lifetime": "1800",
        "log_rotate_size": "10485760",
        "trashbin_retention_obligation": "auto, 60",
        "versions_retention_obligation": "auto, 180",
        "activity_expire_days": "120",
        "simpleSignUpLink.shown": false,
        "memcache.local": "\\OC\\Memcache\\Redis",
        "filelocking.enabled": true,
        "memcache.distributed": "\\OC\\Memcache\\Redis",
        "memcache.locking": "\\OC\\Memcache\\Redis",
        "redis": {
            "host": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
            "port": 0,
            "timeout": 0.5,
            "dbindex": 0,
            "password": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***"
        },
        "default_phone_region": "us",
        "logtimezone": "America\/Argentina\/Buenos_Aires",
        "default_language": "es_LA",
        "default_locale": "es_AR",
        "htaccess.RewriteBase": "\/",
        "maintenance": false,
        "mail_smtpsecure": "ssl",
        "mail_sendmailmode": "smtp",
        "mail_smtpauth": 1,
        "mail_smtphost": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "mail_smtpport": "465",
        "mail_smtpauthtype": "LOGIN",
        "mail_from_address": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "mail_domain": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "mail_smtpname": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "mail_smtppassword": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "knowledgebaseenabled": false,
        "lost_password_link": "disabled",
        "enable_previews": true,
        "enabledPreviewProviders": [
            "OC\\Preview\\MP3",
            "OC\\Preview\\TXT",
            "OC\\Preview\\MarkDown",
            "OC\\Preview\\Krita",
            "OC\\Preview\\OpenDocument",
            "OC\\Preview\\Imaginary",
            "OC\\Preview\\PDF",
            "OC\\Preview\\MSOffice2003",
            "OC\\Preview\\MSOfficeDoc",
            "OC\\Preview\\MSOffice2007",
            "OC\\Preview\\StarOffice",
            "OC\\Preview\\SVG",
            "OC\\Preview\\TIFF",
            "OC\\Preview\\Font",
            "OC\\Preview\\Movie",
            "OC\\Preview\\MKV",
            "OC\\Preview\\MP4",
            "OC\\Preview\\AVI",
            "OC\\Preview\\Illustrator",
            "OC\\Preview\\Photoshop",
            "OC\\Preview\\Postscript",
            "OC\\Preview\\Epub"
        ],
        "preview_imaginary_url": "http:\/\/127.0.0.1:9001",
        "twofactor_enforced": "false",
        "twofactor_enforced_groups": [],
        "twofactor_enforced_excluded_groups": [],
        "skeletondirectory": "",
        "theme": "",
        "filesystem_check_changes": true,
        "preview_concurrency_new": "8",
        "preview_concurrency_all": "16",
        "updater.release.channel": "stable",
        "app_install_overwrite": [
            "passwords",
            "metadata",
            "maps",
            "extract",
            "cfg_share_links",
            "uppush",
            "integration_libretranslate"
        ]
    }
}

List of activated Apps

Enabled:
  - activity: 2.19.0
  - admin_audit: 1.17.0
  - bookmarks: 13.1.1
  - calendar: 4.5.3
  - cfg_share_links: 4.2.0
  - circles: 27.0.1
  - cloud_federation_api: 1.10.0
  - comments: 1.17.0
  - contacts: 5.4.2
  - contactsinteraction: 1.8.0
  - dashboard: 7.7.0
  - dav: 1.27.0
  - extract: 1.3.6
  - federatedfilesharing: 1.17.0
  - federation: 1.17.0
  - files: 1.22.0
  - files_external: 1.19.0
  - files_pdfviewer: 2.8.0
  - files_reminders: 1.0.0
  - files_rightclick: 1.6.0
  - files_sharing: 1.19.0
  - files_trashbin: 1.17.0
  - files_versions: 1.20.0
  - integration_giphy: 1.0.8
  - integration_libretranslate: 1.1.0
  - integration_openstreetmap: 1.0.6
  - integration_peertube: 1.0.2
  - integration_replicate: 1.0.8
  - integration_tmdb: 1.0.3
  - integration_youtube: 0.1.4
  - keeweb: 0.6.13
  - logreader: 2.12.0
  - lookup_server_connector: 1.15.0
  - mail: 3.4.4
  - maps: 1.1.1
  - metadata: 0.19.0
  - nextcloud_announcements: 1.16.0
  - notes: 4.8.1
  - notifications: 2.15.0
  - notify_push: 0.6.5
  - oauth2: 1.15.1
  - password_policy: 1.17.0
  - passwords: 2023.11.30
  - phonetrack: 0.7.6
  - photos: 2.3.0
  - picker: 1.0.7
  - privacy: 1.11.0
  - provisioning_api: 1.17.0
  - qownnotesapi: 23.6.0
  - recommendations: 1.6.0
  - related_resources: 1.2.0
  - richdocuments: 8.2.2
  - serverinfo: 1.17.0
  - settings: 1.9.0
  - sharebymail: 1.17.0
  - sketch_picker: 1.0.1
  - socialsharing_email: 3.0.0
  - spreed: 17.1.2
  - stt_whisper: 1.0.7
  - suspicious_login: 5.0.0
  - systemtags: 1.17.0
  - tasks: 0.15.0
  - text: 3.8.0
  - text_templates: 1.0.4
  - theming: 2.2.0
  - twofactor_backupcodes: 1.16.0
  - twofactor_email: 2.7.4
  - twofactor_nextcloud_notification: 3.8.0
  - twofactor_totp: 9.0.0
  - updatenotification: 1.17.0
  - uppush: 1.4.0
  - user_status: 1.7.0
  - viewer: 2.1.0
  - weather_status: 1.7.0
  - workflowengine: 2.9.0

Nextcloud Signing status

No errors have been found.

Nextcloud Logs

{"reqId":"e0dNYNVqrENp0T8ugdcz","level":3,"time":"2023-11-15T14:58:26-03:00","remoteAddr":"****REMOVED****","user":"admin","app":"PHP","method":"GET","url":"/settings/user/additional","message":"Undefined array key \"activeSectionId\" at /var/www/nextcloud/apps/settings/templates/settings/frame.php#85","userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/119.0","version":"27.1.3.2","data":{"app":"PHP"},"id":"655506c27c5b5"}

Additional info

No response

[joshtrichards]

It sounds like you have a very very old app that is still using the legacy forms settings method. That's was replaced in NC12 in #796. What app shows up there?

[muchachagrande]

Hi @joshtrichards, this is a screenshot of what is on the page in question:

It's on the Personal section. As you can see, there is only the personal templates and the global templates.

This is not a very old installation. May be I installed version 24 or 25 and been updating since then.

[joshtrichards]

Looks like your situation was probably introduced here: nextcloud/text_templates#6

I thought the "additional" approach for Settings was deprecated, but not my area of expertise. Maybe I've misunderstood it.

This will either need to be fixed in Server (if it's supposed to be supported still) or addressed in the text_templates app (if it's not).

@nickvergessen Any insight since you touched both ends of that code?

[nickvergessen]

This will either need to be fixed in Server (if it's supposed to be supported still)

We just don't recommend it, but it should work, so should be fixed in server.

[nickvergessen]

Should be a bug from #35609

[LM1LC3N7]

Hello,
I have the same bug, is there any way to discover what is the faulty application?