Jira is having problems to start up

[Saheli Chatterjee]

Getting this :

System plugins failed to start: We haven't been able to start all the required system plugins

We couldn't start the following plugins:

• Jira Projects Plugin (com.atlassian.jira.jira-projects-plugin)
• Embedded Gadgets Plugin (com.atlassian.gadgets.embedded)
• Gadget Directory Plugin (com.atlassian.gadgets.directory)
• Atlassian Jira - Plugins - Gadgets Plugin (com.atlassian.jira.gadgets)
• Atlassian Jira - Plugins - Global Issue Navigator (com.atlassian.jira.jira-issue-nav-plugin)
• Atlassian JIRA - Plugins - Quick Edit Plugin (com.atlassian.jira.jira-quick-edit-plugin)
• Atlassian Jira - Plugins - REST Plugin (com.atlassian.jira.rest)
• Gadget Dashboard Plugin (com.atlassian.gadgets.dashboard)

Please help !

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

This is usually (but not always) that the server is underpowered or struggling with resources for some reason, and it's simply not able to get everything done before the standard timeout.  

That needs to be ruled out first, so have a look at https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/bundled-plugin-not-available-error-thrown-on-jira-server-login-212173447.html

Note that it is not a problem to increase the timeout as documented and leave it in place if it helps.  I often find my older machines run into this when I'm trying to use them for test Jira systems.  One notable one is that I had a Jira Core one that worked fine, but failed with this error once I added Jira Software or Service Desk to it - increasing the timeout let it work, and once started, it worked fine, could not see any problem with a longer timeout.