The aim:-
Server A JIRA 6.4.11 Oracle 11g
Server B JIRA 7.5 Oracle 12c
On Server B I created 6.4.11 and imported my Server A database on Oracle 12c. Was able to log in OK.
On Server B I then tried to upgrade to 7.0 from the download zip. All appears to go OK in the Upgrade Wizard, but when I try to launch it in the Browser, I get a JIRA Access Problem
Description - As error occurred performing the JIRA upgrade
Level - Error
Exception
Error occurred during export before upgrade: Error creating GenericValue (SQL Exception while getting value: (Invalid column type: getBLOB not implemented for class oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CLongRawAccessor))
If necessary, auto-export can be disabled; see http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/docs/latest/upgrade/autoexport.html
org.ofbiz.core.util.GeneralRuntimeException: Error creating GenericValue (SQL Exception while getting value: (Invalid column type: getBLOB not implemented for class oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CLongRawAccessor))
at org.ofbiz.core.entity.EntityListIterator.next(EntityListIterator.java:253)
at com.atlassian.jira.ofbiz.DefaultOfBizListIterator.next(DefaultOfBizListIterator.java:140)
at com.atlassian.jira.ofbiz.WrappingOfBizListIterator.next(WrappingOfBizListIterator.java:80)
at com.atlassian.jira.action.admin.export.DefaultSaxEntitiesExporter.exportEntity(DefaultSaxEntitiesExporter.java:159)
at com.atlassian.jira.action.admin.export.DefaultSaxEntitiesExporter.exportEntities(DefaultSaxEntitiesExporter.java:110)
at com.atlassian.jira.bc.dataimport.DefaultExportService.exportJIRA(DefaultExportService.java:203)
at com.atlassian.jira.bc.dataimport.DefaultExportService.export(DefaultExportService.java:89)
at com.atlassian.jira.bc.dataimport.DefaultExportService.export(DefaultExportService.java:71)
at com.atlassian.jira.bean.export.AutoExportImpl.exportData(AutoExportImpl.java:97)
at com.atlassian.jira.upgrade.UpgradeManagerImpl.doUpgradeIfNeeded(UpgradeManagerImpl.java:442)
at com.atlassian.jira.upgrade.UpgradeManagerImpl.doUpgradeIfNeededAndAllowed(UpgradeManagerImpl.java:392)
at com.atlassian.jira.upgrade.UpgradeLauncher.checkIfUpgradeNeeded(UpgradeLauncher.java:105)
at com.atlassian.jira.upgrade.UpgradeLauncher.start(UpgradeLauncher.java:52)
at com.atlassian.jira.startup.ActiveServicesLauncher.start(ActiveServicesLauncher.java:55)
at com.atlassian.jira.startup.DefaultJiraLauncher.lambda$postDbLaunch$175(DefaultJiraLauncher.java:140)
at com.atlassian.jira.startup.DefaultJiraLauncher$$Lambda$17/760374200.run(Unknown Source)
at com.atlassian.jira.config.database.DatabaseConfigurationManagerImpl.doNowOrEnqueue(DatabaseConfigurationManagerImpl.java:356)
at com.atlassian.jira.config.database.DatabaseConfigurationManagerImpl.doNowOrWhenDatabaseActivated(DatabaseConfigurationManagerImpl.java:226)
at com.atlassian.jira.startup.DefaultJiraLauncher.postDbLaunch(DefaultJiraLauncher.java:126)
at com.atlassian.jira.startup.DefaultJiraLauncher.lambda$start$173(DefaultJiraLauncher.java:92)
at com.atlassian.jira.startup.DefaultJiraLauncher$$Lambda$2/54156685.run(Unknown Source)
at com.atlassian.jira.util.devspeed.JiraDevSpeedTimer.run(JiraDevSpeedTimer.java:34)
at com.atlassian.jira.startup.DefaultJiraLauncher.start(DefaultJiraLauncher.java:90)
at com.atlassian.jira.startup.LauncherContextListener.contextInitialized(LauncherContextListener.java:84)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4710)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5135)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1409)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1399)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)Caused by: org.ofbiz.core.entity.GenericDataSourceException: SQL Exception while getting value: (Invalid column type: getBLOB not implemented for class oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CLongRawAccessor) at org.ofbiz.core.entity.jdbc.SqlJdbcUtil.getValue(SqlJdbcUtil.java:706) at org.ofbiz.core.entity.EntityListIterator.currentGenericValue(EntityListIterator.java:169) at org.ofbiz.core.entity.EntityListIterator.next(EntityListIterator.java:246) ... 32 moreCaused by: java.sql.SQLException: Invalid column type: getBLOB not implemented for class oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CLongRawAccessor at oracle.jdbc.driver.Accessor.unimpl(Accessor.java:412) at oracle.jdbc.driver.Accessor.getBLOB(Accessor.java:1270) at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleResultSetImpl.getBLOB(OracleResultSetImpl.java:1623) at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleResultSetImpl.getBlob(OracleResultSetImpl.java:585) at org.apache.commons.dbcp.DelegatingResultSet.getBlob(DelegatingResultSet.java:550) at org.apache.commons.dbcp.DelegatingResultSet.getBlob(DelegatingResultSet.java:550) at org.ofbiz.core.entity.jdbc.SqlJdbcUtil.getBlobAsByteArray(SqlJdbcUtil.java:741) at org.ofbiz.core.entity.jdbc.SqlJdbcUtil.getValue(SqlJdbcUtil.java:701) ... 34 more