Hi,
We have been using JIRA 5.1.4 on Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS since 2012. We have periodically stopped and restarted the system without problems and haven't needed to for a year now, but on a restart (stop-jira.sh / start-jira.sh) today it will not start back up, and we get the following error in the logs:
17-Nov-2015 11:03:15 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext listenerStart
SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class com.atlassian.jira.startup.LauncherContextListener
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class com.atlassian.jira.servlet.JiraCaptchaServiceImpl
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:534)
at org.picocontainer.defaults.InstantiatingComponentAdapter.newInstance(InstantiatingComponentAdapter.java:100)
at org.picocontainer.defaults.ConstructorInjectionComponentAdapter.instantiateComponent(ConstructorInjectionComponentAdapter.java:200)
at org.picocontainer.defaults.InstantiatingComponentAdapter.getComponentInstance(InstantiatingComponentAdapter.java:48)
at org.picocontainer.defaults.DecoratingComponentAdapter.getComponentInstance(DecoratingComponentAdapter.java:42)
at org.picocontainer.defaults.SynchronizedComponentAdapter.getComponentInstance(SynchronizedComponentAdapter.java:35)
at org.picocontainer.defaults.DecoratingComponentAdapter.getComponentInstance(DecoratingComponentAdapter.java:42)
at com.atlassian.jira.config.component.ProfilingComponentAdapter.getComponentInstance(ProfilingComponentAdapter.java:45)
at org.picocontainer.defaults.ConstructorInjectionComponentAdapter.getConstructorArguments(ConstructorInjectionComponentAdapter.java:222)
at org.picocontainer.defaults.ConstructorInjectionComponentAdapter.instantiateComponent(ConstructorInjectionComponentAdapter.java:198)
at org.picocontainer.defaults.InstantiatingComponentAdapter.getComponentInstance(InstantiatingComponentAdapter.java:48)
at org.picocontainer.defaults.DecoratingComponentAdapter.getComponentInstance(DecoratingComponentAdapter.java:42)
at org.picocontainer.defaults.SynchronizedComponentAdapter.getComponentInstance(SynchronizedComponentAdapter.java:35)
at org.picocontainer.defaults.DecoratingComponentAdapter.getComponentInstance(DecoratingComponentAdapter.java:42)
at com.atlassian.jira.config.component.ProfilingComponentAdapter.getComponentInstance(ProfilingComponentAdapter.java:45)
at org.picocontainer.defaults.ConstructorInjectionComponentAdapter.getConstructorArguments(ConstructorInjectionComponentAdapter.java:222)
at org.picocontainer.defaults.ConstructorInjectionComponentAdapter.instantiateComponent(ConstructorInjectionComponentAdapter.java:198)
at org.picocontainer.defaults.InstantiatingComponentAdapter.getComponentInstance(InstantiatingComponentAdapter.java:48)
at org.picocontainer.defaults.DecoratingComponentAdapter.getComponentInstance(DecoratingComponentAdapter.java:42)
at org.picocontainer.defaults.SynchronizedComponentAdapter.getComponentInstance(SynchronizedComponentAdapter.java:35)
at org.picocontainer.defaults.DecoratingComponentAdapter.getComponentInstance(DecoratingComponentAdapter.java:42)
at com.atlassian.jira.config.component.ProfilingComponentAdapter.getComponentInstance(ProfilingComponentAdapter.java:45)
at com.atlassian.jira.ComponentContainer.getComponentInstance(ComponentContainer.java:105)
at com.atlassian.jira.ComponentContainer$Registry.getComponents(ComponentContainer.java:334)
at com.atlassian.jira.ComponentContainer$HostComponentProviderImpl.provide(ComponentContainer.java:124)
at com.atlassian.jira.multitenant.MultiTenantHostComponentProvider.provide(MultiTenantHostComponentProvider.java:31)
at com.atlassian.plugin.osgi.container.felix.FelixOsgiContainerManager.collectHostComponents(FelixOsgiContainerManager.java:463)
at com.atlassian.plugin.osgi.container.felix.FelixOsgiContainerManager.start(FelixOsgiContainerManager.java:231)
at com.atlassian.jira.plugin.JiraOsgiContainerManager.start(JiraOsgiContainerManager.java:79)
at com.atlassian.jira.ComponentManager.runStartable(ComponentManager.java:277)
at com.atlassian.jira.ComponentManager.startJIRA(ComponentManager.java:242)
at com.atlassian.jira.ComponentManager.quickStart(ComponentManager.java:209)
at com.atlassian.jira.ComponentManager.start(ComponentManager.java:194)
at com.atlassian.jira.upgrade.PluginSystemLauncher.start(PluginSystemLauncher.java:23)From the documentation I can find, it may be to do with file permissions for one of the jar files used on startup, but I have checked the ones in atlassian-jira/WEB-INF/lib and bin and they are all the owned by the 'jira' user.
It is also perhaps due to the version of Java running (1.6.0_36, OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.13.8) (6b36-1.13.8-0ubuntu1~12.04)) - which the JIRA documentation says is unsupported, but it's been happily using this for years so I'm unsure about that being the issue.
There have been no changes to the server or the configuration that I can find.
Please can anyone help as this is our main project development tool. If we should use a different version to the OpenJDK on ubuntu, please let us know which one to use.
