First Restart after Installation fails

[Michael Grabow]

After Installation of JIRA <atlassian-jira-software-7.5.0-x64.bin> and a Restart of my Ubuntu access to my JIRA-instance fails.

cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=16.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=xenial
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS"

catalina.out ->

...

02-Oct-2017 22:30:41.514 SCHWERWIEGEND [Catalina-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.beforeStart Unable to create directory for deployment: /opt/atlassian/jira/conf/Catalina/localhost
02-Oct-2017 22:30:41.527 SCHWERWIEGEND [Catalina-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.beforeStart Unable to create directory for deployment: /opt/atlassian/jira/conf/Catalina/localhost
02-Oct-2017 22:30:41.545 SCHWERWIEGEND [Catalina-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.beforeStart Unable to create directory for deployment: /opt/atlassian/jira/conf/Catalina/localhost
02-Oct-2017 22:30:41.562 SCHWERWIEGEND [Catalina-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.beforeStart Unable to create directory for deployment: /opt/atlassian/jira/conf/Catalina/localhost
02-Oct-2017 22:30:41.611 SCHWERWIEGEND [Catalina-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.beforeStart Unable to create directory for deployment: /opt/atlassian/jira/conf/Catalina/localhost
02-Oct-2017 22:30:41.645 SCHWERWIEGEND [Catalina-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.beforeStart Unable to create directory for deployment: /opt/atlassian/jira/conf/Catalina/localhost
2017-10-02 22:31:32,201 localhost-startStop-1 INFO      [c.a.jira.startup.JiraHomeStartupCheck] The jira.home directory '/var/atlassian/application-data/jira' is validated and locked for exclusive use by this instance.
2017-10-02 22:31:33,426 JIRA-Bootstrap INFO      [c.a.jira.startup.JiraStartupLogger]

    ****************
    JIRA starting...
    ****************

...

It looks for me as a permission problem.

The installation was made as 'root' (sudo -iu root)

I have choosed the 'custom' installation, have left all as standard and answer the question for installing as a service with 'yes'

[Michael Grabow]

Some more information:

After executing

/opt/atlassian/jira/bin# ./start-jira.sh

all seems fine, only automatic start isn't still able.