Jira upgrade 6.3.7 issue

[shyam]

Hi,

We have upgraded JIRA from 6.0.7 to 6.3.7. After upgrade JIRA didn't startup.

This error was showing :-

Error occurred while starting component 'com.atlassian.jira.service.DefaultServiceManager'. caused by: Error creating underlying Quartz scheduler

Please help us in resolving this issue.

[Boris Berenberg]

We would need to see more of the error to understand what went wrong. Please collect the logs manually by going to <JIRA_INSTALL>/logs and <JIRA_HOME>/log combining all the logs into one zip file. Then send us the same thing as what you wrote above, and those logs to support@atlassian.com

[David Swain]

I received the same error when upgrading to this version.

When I looked in <jiraHome>/log/atlassian-jira.log I saw several entries like:

2014-10-22 09:30:43,965 localhost-startStop-1 ERROR      
[core.entity.jdbc.DatabaseUtil] Could not create table 
"JQUARTZ_BLOB_TRIGGERS"
2014-10-22 09:30:43,965 localhost-startStop-1
 ERROR      [core.entity.jdbc.DatabaseUtil] SQL Exception while 
executing the following:
CREATE TABLE JQUARTZ_BLOB_TRIGGERS 
(SCHED_NAME VARCHAR(120), TRIGGER_NAME VARCHAR(200) NOT NULL, 
TRIGGER_GROUP VARCHAR(200) NOT NULL, BLOB_DATA BLOB, CONSTRAINT 
PK_JQUARTZ_BLOB_TRIGGERS PRIMARY KEY (TRIGGER_NAME, TRIGGER_GROUP))
Error was: com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.MySQLSyntaxErrorException: Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes

Our db was set to use utf8 with myisam tables.
myisam has a 1000 bytes total limit for a key

utf8 uses up to 3 bytes per character

when calculating requirements for keys mysql assumes the worst (ie 3 bytes per character)

the key lengths in that table total 400 characters, ie 1200 bytes

Resolution (for us):

Stop Jira

Modify the database schema to use innodb tables as per the recommendations on the Atlassian website.

(we did this by dumping the whole db to a file, using find/replace, dropping the db, then re-importing it)

Modify <jiraHome>/dbconfig.xml to include

sessionVariables=storage_engine=InnoDB

as per the instructions at https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Connecting+JIRA+to+MySQL

Start Jira

if your log doesn't show those same entries then this probably isn't the course of action for you, but I hope it is and that you can get running again.

:- Dave