OC 9.1 and News 8.8.0 does not play well: Class '\OCP\Backgroundjob' not found in /var/www/owncloud/apps/news/config/appconfig.php

[jas4711]

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Explain the Problem

Enabling the news 8.8.0 app in ownCloud 9.1 results in immediate failure:

PHP Fatal error: Class '\OCP\Backgroundjob' not found in /var/www/owncloud/apps/news/config/appconfig.php on line 88

Steps to Reproduce

Explain what you did to encounter the issue

1. Upgrade OC from 9.0.4 to 9.1
2. occ app:enable news
3. do anything, visit web page, or run 'occ'.

System Information

• News app version: 8.8.0
• ownCloud version: 9.1.0
• PHP version: 5.6.23
• Database and version: MySQL 5.5.49
• Browser and version: FireFox 45.2
• Distribution and version: Debian Jessie

Contents of owncloud/data/owncloud.log

{"reqId":"RvMIkEOfwNePjD+ZnD1x","remoteAddr":"","app":"PHP","message":"Class '\\OCP\\Backgroundjob' not found at \/var\/www\/owncloud\/apps\/news\/config\/appconfig.php#88","level":3,"time":"2016-07-21T09:47:32+00:00","method":"--","url":"\/owncloud\/occ","user":"--"}

[jas4711]

Here is a possible patch.... at least it silences the hard failure, but I'm not sure it does what it is supposed to do.

--- news/config/appconfig.php.orig  2016-07-21 10:07:37.644578259 +0000
+++ news/config/appconfig.php   2016-07-21 10:08:09.212578280 +0000
@@ -83,9 +83,7 @@
     public function registerAll() {
         $this->registerNavigation();
         $this->registerHooks();
-        // IJob API is fucked up, so silence the code checker
-        $class = '\OCP\Backgroundjob';
-        $class::addRegularTask($this->config['cron']['job'], 'run');
+        \OC::$server->getJobList()->add($this->config['cron']['job']);
         App::registerAdmin($this->config['id'], $this->config['admin']);
     }

[mis4s]

@jas4711 thx

[jajaX]

Hi (sorry same problem for me)

I have this msg "Erreur : Cette application ne peut pas être activer car cela le serveur instable ." (error, this application don't be actived because the server is instable)

jas4711, it must just replace your text in the appconfig.php file ?

[DeepDiver1975]

The correct class name is \OCP\BackgroundJob not \OCP\Backgroundjob

[ebugnet]

@jajaX
Yes, changing Backgroundjob by BackgroundJob let me install the apps !
Éric

[jajaX]

Hi !

ok, I make that yesterday and it works again ! thanks ;)

I propose same thing for boorkmarks apps on comments in apps owncloud website !

[Dark-Fenix]

Hi,

I just corrected the appconfig.php according to DeepDiver1975's comment, it works !

[zkvvoob]

Hello,

I followed your suggestions above and managed to get the News app running in OC 9.1 with 32-bit PHP/Ubuntu. However, even though the cron seems to be working fine (every 15 min) the news feed have not updated in more than 3 hours.

Any idea how I can solve this without having to go back to OC 9.0.1?

Thanks!

[LennartRoeder]

sometimes the cron gets hung up.
check with htop or top if it is still running. If it is, kill it and wait, or run it with:
sudo -u www-data php -f /var/www/owncloud/cron.php

[paroj]

fixed in #999. Just need a new release of the news app.

[pbek]

great, thank you! renaming the class-name to \OCP\BackgroundJob did the trick for me to!

[farga93]

Renaming \OCP\Backgroundjob to OCP\BackgroundJob in apps/news/config/appconfig.php works.

[alandolsi]

This worked for me!

[nille02]

Today i updated my box and i run in the same problem. Why is it after 2 Weeks not fixed upstream?

By the Way the music app is also affected by the Rename.

[paroj]

the news app is currently unmaintained as the original maintainer moved to nextcloud.

[okias]

same issue (that it need renaming s/Backgroundjob/BackgroundJob/ ) is needed even in nextcloud 10 beta...