Error while starting confluence 5.4

March 25, 2014

I upgraded confluence from 4.0 to 5.4 and now getting an error while trying to start confluence on tomcat localhost.

First it starts with a warning :

WARN [main] [atlassian.comgif.cml.AbstractDom4jXmlCofigurationPersister] saveDocumentAtomically Unable to move D:\data\confluence\confluence.cfg.xml172486425157717352tmp to D:\data\confluence\confluence.cfg.cml. Falling back to non-atomic overwrite.

Then tomcat keeps trying for liek 10 mins then error out and logs the below logs

Mar 25, 2014 3:30:52 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.SetPropertiesRule begin

Mar 25, 2014 3:30:52 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol init

INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8090

Mar 25, 2014 3:30:52 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load

INFO: Initialization processed in 451 ms

Mar 25, 2014 3:30:52 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService start

INFO: Starting service Tomcat-Standalone

Mar 25, 2014 3:30:52 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start

INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/6.0.35

Mar 25, 2014 3:42:22 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol start

INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8090

Mar 25, 2014 3:42:22 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start

INFO: Server startup in 690260 ms

Mar 25, 2014 3:42:24 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve custom

SEVERE: Exception Processing ErrorPage[errorCode=500, location=/500page.jsp]

java.lang.NullPointerException

at com.atlassian.spring.container.ContainerManager.getComponent(ContainerManager.java:33)

at com.atlassian.confluence.setup.sitemesh.PluginDecoratorMapper.getPluginAccessor(PluginDecoratorMapper.java:74)

at com.atlassian.confluence.setup.sitemesh.PluginDecoratorMapper.getDecorator(PluginDecoratorMapper.java:23)

at com.opensymphony.module.sitemesh.mapper.AbstractDecoratorMapper.getDecorator(AbstractDecoratorMapper.java:45)

at com.opensymphony.module.sitemesh.mapper.InlineDecoratorMapper.getDecorator(InlineDecoratorMapper.java:41)

at com.atlassian.confluence.util.profiling.ConfluenceDecoratorSelector.selectDecorator(ConfluenceDecoratorSelector.java:58)

at com.opensymphony.sitemesh.webapp.SiteMeshFilter.doFilter(SiteMeshFilter.java:83)

at com.atlassian.confluence.util.profiling.ProfilingPageFilter.doFilter(ProfilingPageFilter.java:44)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)

at com.atlassian.plugin.servlet.filter.ServletFilterModuleContainerFilter.doFilter(ServletFilterModuleContainerFilter.java:71)

at com.atlassian.plugin.servlet.filter.ServletFilterModuleContainerFilter.doFilter(ServletFilterModuleContainerFilter.java:63)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)

at com.atlassian.seraph.filter.SecurityFilter.doFilter(SecurityFilter.java:211)

at com.atlassian.confluence.web.filter.ConfluenceSecurityFilter.doFilter(ConfluenceSecurityFilter.java:27)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)

at com.atlassian.seraph.filter.BaseLoginFilter.doFilter(BaseLoginFilter.java:150)