An unhandled exception has been thrown when performing files:transfer-ownership

[FeistyViking]

Steps to reproduce

1. Create local user
2. Generate shares relying on external storage file/folder
3. Create new saml authorized user
4. Transfer ownership of files and shares from local user to new saml authorized user

Expected behaviour

should transfer all files and shares sucessfully

Actual behaviour

Files transfer successfully but shares do not. Met with the below details

An unhandled exception has been thrown:
Error: Call to a member function getUID() on null in /var/www/nextcloud/lib/private/Share20/Manager.php:294
Stack trace:
#0 /var/www/nextcloud/lib/private/Share20/Manager.php(847): OC\Share20\Manager->generalCreateChecks(Object(OC\Share20\Share))
#1 /var/www/nextcloud/apps/files/lib/Command/TransferOwnership.php(282): OC\Share20\Manager->updateShare(Object(OC\Share20\Share))
#2 /var/www/nextcloud/apps/files/lib/Command/TransferOwnership.php(157): OCA\Files\Command\TransferOwnership->restoreShares(Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput))
#3 /var/www/nextcloud/3rdparty/symfony/console/Command/Command.php(255): OCA\Files\Command\TransferOwnership->execute(Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput))
#4 /var/www/nextcloud/3rdparty/symfony/console/Application.php(901): Symfony\Component\Console\Command\Command->run(Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput))
#5 /var/www/nextcloud/3rdparty/symfony/console/Application.php(262): Symfony\Component\Console\Application->doRunCommand(Object(OCA\Files\Command\TransferOwnership), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput))
#6 /var/www/nextcloud/3rdparty/symfony/console/Application.php(145): Symfony\Component\Console\Application->doRun(Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput))
#7 /var/www/nextcloud/lib/private/Console/Application.php(213): Symfony\Component\Console\Application->run(Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput))
#8 /var/www/nextcloud/console.php(97): OC\Console\Application->run()
#9 /var/www/nextcloud/occ(11): require_once('/var/www/nextcl...')

Server configuration detail

Operating system: Linux 4.15.0-54-generic #58-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jun 24 10:55:24 UTC 2019 x86_64

Webserver: Apache/2.4.29 (Ubuntu) (fpm-fcgi)

Database: pgsql PostgreSQL 10.9 (Ubuntu 10.9-0ubuntu0.18.04.1) on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (Ubuntu 7.4.0-1ubuntu1~18.04.1) 7.4.0, 64-bit

PHP version:

7.2.19-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
Modules loaded: Core, date, libxml, openssl, pcre, zlib, filter, hash, Reflection, SPL, sodium, session, standard, cgi-fcgi, json, PDO, xml, apcu, apc, bz2, calendar, ctype, curl, dom, mbstring, fileinfo, ftp, gd, gettext, gmp, iconv, igbinary, imagick, imap, intl, redis, ldap, exif, pdo_pgsql, pgsql, Phar, posix, readline, shmop, SimpleXML, smbclient, soap, sockets, sysvmsg, sysvsem, sysvshm, tokenizer, wddx, xmlreader, xmlwriter, xsl, zip, libsmbclient, Zend OPcache

Nextcloud version: 16.0.3 - 16.0.3.0

Updated from an older Nextcloud/ownCloud or fresh install: updated from 16.0.1

Where did you install Nextcloud from: using NextcloudVM

Signing status

Array
(
[core] => Array
(
[INVALID_HASH] => Array
(
[.user.ini] => Array
(
[expected] => 4843b3217e91f8536cb9b52700efb20300290292cf6286f92794d4cec99df286afeb7dd6c91b1be20bc55eda541eef230a5c5e7dcd46c189edd0ed1e80c6d3f5
[current] => 3fadb60f97666a1f66cf5ef4a4b4944f9326f6c7e6c2eae8b8b7f0a7ece705c67a99624c6ea56e4a6526ea9ac5611563b0df56b093c6f5f48c1ee2ff560d54cc
)

            )

    )

)

List of activated apps

Enabled:
 - accessibility: 1.2.0
 - activity: 2.9.1
 - admin_audit: 1.6.0
 - cloud_federation_api: 0.2.0
 - comments: 1.6.0
 - dav: 1.9.2
 - federatedfilesharing: 1.6.0
 - files: 1.11.0
 - files_accesscontrol: 1.6.0
 - files_antivirus: 2.1.1
 - files_excludedirs: 0.0.1
 - files_external: 1.7.0
 - files_pdfviewer: 1.5.0
 - files_rightclick: 0.13.0
 - files_sharing: 1.8.0
 - files_texteditor: 2.8.0
 - files_trashbin: 1.6.0
 - files_versions: 1.9.0
 - groupfolders: 4.0.4
 - impersonate: 1.3.0
 - issuetemplate: 0.5.0
 - logreader: 2.1.0
 - lookup_server_connector: 1.4.0
 - nextcloud_announcements: 1.5.0
 - notifications: 2.4.1
 - oauth2: 1.4.2
 - password_policy: 1.6.0
 - privacy: 1.0.0
 - provisioning_api: 1.6.0
 - serverinfo: 1.6.0
 - sharebymail: 1.6.0
 - survey_client: 1.4.0
 - suspicious_login: 1.0.0
 - systemtags: 1.6.0
 - theming: 1.7.0
 - twofactor_backupcodes: 1.5.0
 - twofactor_totp: 2.1.2
 - updatenotification: 1.6.0
 - user_external: 0.6.4
 - user_saml: 2.3.1
 - viewer: 1.0.0
 - workflowengine: 1.6.0
Disabled:
 - encryption
 - federation
 - files_videoplayer
 - firstrunwizard
 - gallery
 - recommendations
 - support
 - user_ldap

Configuration (config/config.php)

{
    "passwordsalt": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
    "secret": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
    "trusted_domains": [
        "localhost",
        "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***"
    ],
    "datadirectory": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
    "dbtype": "pgsql",
    "version": "16.0.3.0",
    "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***",
    "mail_smtpmode": "smtp",
    "log_rotate_size": "10485760",
    "memcache.local": "\\OC\\Memcache\\APCu",
    "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***"
    },
    "htaccess.RewriteBase": "\/",
    "loglevel": "1",
    "log_type": "file",
    "logfile": "\/mnt\/ncdata\/nextcloud.log",
    "logtimezone": "America\/Los_Angeles",
    "maintenance": false,
    "mail_smtpsecure": "tls",
    "mail_from_address": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
    "mail_domain": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
    "mail_smtphost": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
    "mail_smtpport": "587",
    "skeletondirectory": "",
    "updater.release.channel": "production",
    "preview_max_filesize_image": 100,
    "theme": ""
}

Are you using external storage, if yes which one: sftp

Are you using encryption: false

Are you using an external user-backend, if yes which one: SSO and SAML authentication to Google

Client configuration

Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/75.0.3770.142 Safari/537.36

Operating system:

Logs

Web server error log

Insert your web server log here 

Nextcloud log

Insert your Nextcloud log here

Browser log

An unhandled exception has been thrown:
Error: Call to a member function getUID() on null in /var/www/nextcloud/lib/private/Share20/Manager.php:294
Stack trace:
#0 /var/www/nextcloud/lib/private/Share20/Manager.php(847): OC\Share20\Manager->generalCreateChecks(Object(OC\Share20\Share))
#1 /var/www/nextcloud/apps/files/lib/Command/TransferOwnership.php(282): OC\Share20\Manager->updateShare(Object(OC\Share20\Share))
#2 /var/www/nextcloud/apps/files/lib/Command/TransferOwnership.php(157): OCA\Files\Command\TransferOwnership->restoreShares(Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput))
#3 /var/www/nextcloud/3rdparty/symfony/console/Command/Command.php(255): OCA\Files\Command\TransferOwnership->execute(Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput))
#4 /var/www/nextcloud/3rdparty/symfony/console/Application.php(901): Symfony\Component\Console\Command\Command->run(Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput))
#5 /var/www/nextcloud/3rdparty/symfony/console/Application.php(262): Symfony\Component\Console\Application->doRunCommand(Object(OCA\Files\Command\TransferOwnership), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput))
#6 /var/www/nextcloud/3rdparty/symfony/console/Application.php(145): Symfony\Component\Console\Application->doRun(Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput))
#7 /var/www/nextcloud/lib/private/Console/Application.php(213): Symfony\Component\Console\Application->run(Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput))
#8 /var/www/nextcloud/console.php(97): OC\Console\Application->run()
#9 /var/www/nextcloud/occ(11): require_once('/var/www/nextcl...')
#10 {main}root@artbox:/home/ncadmin# cd /mnt/ncdata/ahreha/

[FeistyViking]

If anyone happens to notice. I didn't realize I had a file integrity check issue with my .user.ini file whoops! I resolved that now and just for giggles ran the transfer-ownership command again but got the same results.

[szaimen]

I'm closing this issue due to inactivity. If this is still happening please make sure to upgrade to the latest version. After that, feel free to reopen.