I have set up a new installation of Confluence 5.3 with an 11G Oracle DB. I have the driver in place, and seem to be able to connect to the DB, and to start configuring it at least in some way, but part-way through the process it fails with:
Error occurred during template rendering: Invocation of method 'getRenderedTemplateHtml' in class com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.soy.VelocityFriendlySoyTemplateRenderer threw exception com.google.template.soy.tofu.SoyTofuException: In template navlinks.templates.appswitcher.switcher: When evaluating "showAppSwitcher()": Error while computing function "showAppSwitcher()": could not read a hi value - you need to populate the table: hibernate_unique_key; nested exception is net.sf.hibernate.id.IdentifierGenerationException: could not read a hi value - you need to populate the table: hibernate_unique_key at /decorators/includes/common-header.vm[line 4, column 49]. Contact your administrator for assistance.
If I attempt to restart the Database process, it will advise me that tables already exist, and I ask that it overwrite the tables, but then I receive the same error. Does anybody know what could be going on here?
EDIT:
Troubling log entries in the Tomcat log:
SEVERE: The web application [] registered the JDBC driver [org.hsqldb.jdbc.JDBCDriver] but failed to unregister it when the web application was stopped. To prevent a memory leak, the JDBC Driver has been forcibly unregistered.
Jun 21, 2013 9:27:36 AM org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader clearReferencesJdbc
SEVERE: The web application [] registered the JDBC driver [org.postgresql.Driver] but failed to unregister it when the web application was stopped. To prevent a memory leak, the JDBC Driver has been forcibly unregistered.
Jun 21, 2013 9:27:36 AM org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader clearReferencesJdbc
SEVERE: The web application [] registered the JDBC driver [oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver] but failed to unregister it when the web application was stopped. To prevent a memory leak, the JDBC Driver has been forcibly unregistered.
Jun 21, 2013 9:27:36 AM org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader clearReferencesThreads
SEVERE: The web application [] appears to have started a thread named [Timer-2] but has failed to stop it. This is very likely to create a memory leak.
Jun 21, 2013 9:27:36 AM org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader clearReferencesThreads
SEVERE: The web application [] appears to have started a thread named [com.mchange.v2.async.ThreadPoolAsynchronousRunner$PoolThread-#0] but has failed to stop it. This is very likely to create a memory leak.
Jun 21, 2013 9:27:36 AM org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader clearReferencesThreads
SEVERE: The web application [] appears to have started a thread named [com.mchange.v2.async.ThreadPoolAsynchronousRunner$PoolThread-#1] but has failed to stop it. This is very likely to create a memory leak.
Jun 21, 2013 9:27:36 AM org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader clearReferencesThreads
SEVERE: The web application [] appears to have started a thread named [com.mchange.v2.async.ThreadPoolAsynchronousRunner$PoolThread-#2] but has failed to stop it. This is very likely to create a memory leak.
