New install of Jira won't start and catalina log is 76245 lines long

[Deleted user]

Sort of an ugly start to the day but essentially a new install of Jira blows up badly after running bin/start-jira.sh -fg wherein I see tons of SEVERE errors like :

17-Sep-2018 15:08:44.469 SEVERE [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotationsWebResource Unable to process web resource [/WEB-INF/classes/com/atlassian/m
ail/server/managers/OFBizMailServerManager$AllMailServersSupplier$1.class] for annotations
java.io.IOException: Stream closed
at java.io.BufferedInputStream.getInIfOpen(BufferedInputStream.java:159)
at java.io.BufferedInputStream.fill(BufferedInputStream.java:246)
at java.io.BufferedInputStream.read(BufferedInputStream.java:265)
at java.io.DataInputStream.readInt(DataInputStream.java:387)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.bcel.classfile.ClassParser.readID(ClassParser.java:199)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.bcel.classfile.ClassParser.parse(ClassParser.java:78)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotationsStream(ContextConfig.java:2043)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotationsWebResource(ContextConfig.java:1942)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotationsWebResource(ContextConfig.java:1936)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotationsWebResource(ContextConfig.java:1936)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotationsWebResource(ContextConfig.java:1936)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotationsWebResource(ContextConfig.java:1936)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processAnnotationsWebResource(ContextConfig.java:1936)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.webConfig(ContextConfig.java:1143)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.configureStart(ContextConfig.java:765)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConfig.java:299)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleBase.java:94)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5113)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1421)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1411)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)

 Those go on endlessly.