[SOLVED] Nextcloud + Built-in CODE Server >24.4.502

[standy]

TL/DR: install app-crypt/mit-krb5

Hi,

I had problem to load newer built-in CODE Server with Nextcloud. Last version that worked was 24.4.502 from July 2024. Today, I finally found solution and I want to share it, because somebody might have the same problem.

CODE Server is Collabora Online server, in this case built-in to nextcloud. It works as sort of appimage, that is extracted to /tmp. There is a log /tmp/coolwsd.*/coolwsd.log.

In my case, in the log were lines like:

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[ coolforkit-ns ] FTL  Failed to load /tmp/appimage_extracted_bla123/opt/collaboraoffice/program/libmergedlo.so:
[ coolforkit-ns ] FTL  Failed to preinit lokit.| kit/ForKit.cpp:789
[ coolforkit-ns ] FTL  Forced Exit with code: 70| common/Util.cpp:822

No explanation, no documentation, I searched Collabora and Nextcloud forums and other places without success. There are tons of instructions on how to troubleshoot Nginx, PHP, Proxy, ..., but in my case these were obviously configured ok, because older version worked. But there was apparently a problem with my environment, that prevented the libmergedlo.so to load.

Here is how to find what is missing:
run

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ldd /tmp/appimage*/opt/collaboraoffice/program/libmergedlo.so

Check and install missing dependencies, in my case there was:

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...
libgssapi_krb5.so.2 => not found
...

And I found on this forum, that for this file, I had to install app-crypt/mit-krb5. Which is nowhere mentioned as a dependency. It helped, new office works ok.

Problem solved. Good luck.

[Oddly]

Thank you so much! I was running into the exact same issue!

[huhn_m]

Thanks from me as well. I was at the same point with finding the the so is not loading and googling brought me to your post. This helped me save quite some time.