Upgrade to Jira Service Desk 4.0.0 FAILS

[Toby Pittman]

The upgrade installation of Jira Service Desk from build 3.16.1 to 4.0.0 says it completed successfully but does not start. Checked the windows services and the service no longer exists. Is this happening to others? We could not get the new version to start up so we had to roll back to build 3.16.1  

If there is a fix or possibly build installation 4.0.0 has an issue?

Thanks.

TJP

[Daniel Eads]

Hey all,

I'd like to follow up with everyone regarding the Windows Service disappearing after upgrading to Jira 8.0.0 / Service Desk 4.0.0. This is a known issue and tracked in JRASERVER-68865. I hope you were able to get Jira running manually after your upgrade (or that you were working on a test instance) if you ran into this issue.

Going forward, this issue has been fixed in Jira 8.0.1 / Service Desk 4.0.1 which were released this morning. If you are still having issues with the service not running, an upgrade from 8.0.0 to 8.0.1 (or Service Desk 4.0.0 to 4.0.1) should reinstall the service for you.

The latest releases are available here:

• Jira Software
• Jira Service Desk

Cheers,
Daniel | Atlassian Support

[Toby Pittman]

Did what you suggested and this is what I receive back now-

E:\>cd Program Files\Atlassian\JIRA\bin

E:\Program Files\Atlassian\JIRA\bin>service.bat install Jira
Installing the service 'JIRAServiceDesk281218110756' ...
Using CATALINA_HOME:    "E:\Program Files\Atlassian\JIRA"
Using CATALINA_BASE:    "E:\Program Files\Atlassian\JIRA"
Ignoring JAVA_HOME:        "E:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_192"
Using JRE_HOME:         "E:\Program Files\Atlassian\JIRA\jre"
Using JVM:              "E:\Program Files\Atlassian\JIRA\jre\bin\server\jvm.dll"
8 was unexpected at this time.

E:\Program Files\Atlassian\JIRA\bin>

[Dave Theodore [Coyote Creek Consulting]]

There is a note in the setup doc that says you need to use 8.3 path names. What happens if you try something this instead?

E:\>cd Progra~1\Atlass~1\JIRA\bin

 Then try to add the service

E:\Progra~1\Atlass~1\JIRA\bin>service.bat install Jira

If you have more than more directory in any of those locations, you may need to change to ~2 or other number.  

[Dave Theodore [Coyote Creek Consulting]]

Also you can use

dir /x

to see the 8.3 file/directory names. 

[Toby Pittman]

Tried your suggestion and this is what I receive back-

E:\>cd Progra~1\Atlass~1\JIRA\bin
The system cannot find the path specified.

E:\>dir /x
 Volume in drive E is SCSI_Vol2
 Volume Serial Number is 56D9-91AD Directory of E:\01/05/2019  04:12 PM    <DIR>                       Crowd_Install
01/02/2019  02:08 PM    <DIR>                       data
01/02/2019  01:52 PM    <DIR>                       Program Files
01/21/2019  12:39 PM    <DIR>                       Program Files (x86)
               0 File(s)              0 bytes
               4 Dir(s)  78,896,680,960 bytes free 

[Jaakko Sarakoski]

Ran into the same issue, when trying to do a clean install of jsd 4.0 on new windows server. After trying to install the service manually using the service.bat. I checked registry and noticed that you can see the service added to registry with String: installedAsService Value: true.

[Toby Pittman]

Also... should I restart the server after setting the environment variable?

[Dave Theodore [Coyote Creek Consulting]]

I think you should be able to fix this by manually setting up the service. It's pretty easy to do.

[Toby Pittman]

Tried that and it did not work. The service.bat file is missing or corrupt. 

[Dave Theodore [Coyote Creek Consulting]]

I would download the Standalone ZIP version and manually install it. If you point it to your existing home directory, it should see your existing configuration and start right up.  If you ran the installer multiple times, you will need to restore the original home directory and point to that.

[Toby Pittman]

Thank you... I'll give it a try.

[Toby Pittman]

Where is the zip version of Jira Service Desk 4.0.0 located. Can't find it on the site. Only the installer version.

[Toby Pittman]

Searched the site again and cannot find the zipped version of Jira Service Desk 4.0.0

[Dave Theodore [Coyote Creek Consulting]]

You can get Jira Software 8. It's the same thing. Just install your JSD license key and it won't activate the Software functions.

[Daniel Eads]

Hey Toby,

The non-installer versions of our products are a little hidden. Here's a quick link to the zipped version of Jira Service Desk 4.0.

In the future you can access zipped versions of the software by:

1. Visiting the downloads page for the product (e.g. Jira Software or Jira Service Desk) you're after
2. Click the "All Server versions" link on the page
3. Use the "View all versions" link to change to an older version if you're not after the most current release
4. Select the Zip Archive from the dropdown menu, then click "Get Started" to agree to the license terms and start the download

Cheers,
Daniel

[Toby Pittman]

Tried that two and had the same results. I'm thinking pulling down the zip and manually installing will do the trick but I can't seem to find any zip files of Jira 8 or Jira Service Desk 4.0.0

[Toby Pittman]

Have others reported the same issue with the installer? After looking at the zip file downloaded my directory structure is setup differently. If I extract to the Jira directory it'll mess up the current installation. Any suggestions?  

[Dave Theodore [Coyote Creek Consulting]]

I would extract the zip in to a dedicated directory and configure it there.  There is no telling what is messed up with your current directory, so I wouldn't trust it. It's easy to manually set Jira up and point it to existing data per the doc that I linked previously. I feel it's faster and more reliable that using the upgrader, personally.

[Toby Pittman]

I was able to get Jira Service Desk 4.0.0 installed and can run it via the start-jira from the prompt but cannot get the windows service to load. This is the error I receive-

E:\Program Files\Atlassian\JIRA\bin>service.bat install Jira
Installing the service 'JIRAServiceDesk281218110756' ...
Using CATALINA_HOME:    "E:\Program Files\Atlassian\JIRA"
Using CATALINA_BASE:    "E:\Program Files\Atlassian\JIRA"
Ignoring JAVA_HOME:        "E:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_192"
Using JRE_HOME:         "E:\Program Files\Atlassian\JIRA\bin\\..\jre"
Using JVM:              "E:\Program Files\Atlassian\JIRA\bin\\..\jre\bin\server\jvm.dll"
8 was unexpected at this time.

Any help getting this fixed would be great.... as I'm at a loss. 

Thank you.

[Dave Theodore [Coyote Creek Consulting]]

That JRE_HOME path looks a little wacky.  Can you set the correct location as an environment variable for the user that you are starting Jira with?

I'd expect it to be something like this path

E:\Program Files\Atlassian\JIRA\jre

[Toby Pittman]

Like this?