Confluence server in docker crashes during initialization during setuppaths.action

[Scott Howell]

I'm trying to run an eval of confluence on Mac OSX using the atlassian confluence docker image from docker hub but as I go through the SetupWizard on localhost:8090, after the DB setup completes and I reach setup/setuppaths.action, the confluence server (and docker container) crashes consistently.

I've confirmed its not an issue with file/directory permissions with the mounted directory and I believe I've set the database up following the posted instructions.  The logs/atlassian-confluence.log doesn't appear to contain any errors.

Is this a known issue with my platform or database choice or.....?

Any insight on the issue would be appreciated.  Here are some additional details:

Docker image:

https://hub.docker.com/r/atlassian/confluence-server

Docker run command:

docker run -v /tmp/data/confluence-home:/var/atlassian/application-data/confluence --name="confluence" --user 2002:2002 -d -p 8090:8090 -p 8091:8091 atlassian/confluence-server

Database:

Postgres 13

Database create command used:

CREATE DATABASE confluence WITH TEMPLATE = template0 ENCODING = 'UTF8' LC_COLLATE = 'en_US.UTF-8' LC_CTYPE = 'en_US.UTF-8';

The last line in the log prior to the crash is: 

"2021-04-13 20:31:08,350 INFO [Catalina-utility-1] [atlassian.plugin.manager.DefaultPluginManager] logTime Plugin system lateStartup ended"

If its useful, if I restart the docker container w/o cleaning up the contents of $CONFLUENCE_HOME, I get the following additional log entry:

Cause

com.atlassian.util.concurrent.LazyReference$InitializationException: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Spring Application context has not been set
    at com.atlassian.util.concurrent.LazyReference.getInterruptibly(LazyReference.java:149)

caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Spring Application context has not been set
    at com.atlassian.spring.container.SpringContainerContext.getComponent(SpringContainerContext.java:48)

[Scott Howell · Accepted solution]

FYI....Got it working.  Turns out the memory recommendation on the site for the docker image (https://hub.docker.com/r/atlassian/confluence-server) is incorrect: "We recommend 2GiB of memory allocated to accommodate the application server."  docker stats shows it taking up 3GiB during initialization and during runtime.

[Christian]

That's good news Scott! Because this is exactly what I can trying to accomplish and also run into weird crashes and nothing ever booting. It just seemed to cycle.

I don't remember the cpu/memory limits I set but as assume they were too small as well.

Awesome :D Now I can try again! And thanks for sharing the docker run cmdline with your volumes and port mapping. That clears up another question I had!