Plugin Error while Jira Software 7.4.1 start up

[Martin Pralat]

Hello,

After every start up of our jira server we get some errors that some, even important plugins, can't be loaded. We get the following error message.

5 plugins failed to load during JIRA startup.

'com.atlassian.servicedesk.project-ui' - 'JIRA Service Desk Project Plugin' failed to load.
Failed to parse configuration class [com.atlassian.servicedesk.project.internal.web.action.ProjectApplicationAction]; nested exception is java.io.FileNotFoundException: class path resource [co
m/atlassian/jira/web/util/AuthorizationSupport.class] cannot be opened because it does not exist
class path resource [com/atlassian/jira/web/util/AuthorizationSupport.class] cannot be opened because it does not exist

It was loaded from /var/atlassian/application-data/jira/plugins/installed-plugins/servicedesk-project-ui-plugin-3.0.9.jar

'com.pyxis.greenhopper.jira' - 'JIRA Agile' failed to load.
The plugin has been disabled. A likely cause is that it timed out during initialisation

It has the following missing service dependencies :
&pluginLicenseEventRegistry of type (objectClass=com.atlassian.upm.api.license.PluginLicenseEventRegistry)
&pluginLicenseManager of type (objectClass=com.atlassian.upm.api.license.PluginLicenseManager)

It was loaded from /var/atlassian/application-data/jira/plugins/installed-plugins/jira-greenhopper-plugin-7.4.0-DAILY20170620023133.jar

'com.atlassian.servicedesk.plugins.automation.servicedesk-automation-modules-plugin' - 'Service Desk Automation Modules Plugin' failed to load.
The plugin has been disabled. A likely cause is that it timed out during initialisation

It has the following missing service dependencies :
&requestTypeService of type (&(objectClass=com.atlassian.servicedesk.api.requesttype.RequestTypeService)(objectClass=com.atlassian.servicedesk.api.requesttype.RequestTypeService))
&serviceDeskLicenseService of type (&(objectClass=com.atlassian.servicedesk.api.license.ServiceDeskLicenseService)(objectClass=com.atlassian.servicedesk.api.license.ServiceDeskLicense
Service))
&serviceDeskService of type (&(objectClass=com.atlassian.servicedesk.api.ServiceDeskService)(objectClass=com.atlassian.servicedesk.api.ServiceDeskService))
&serviceDeskCommentService of type (&(objectClass=com.atlassian.servicedesk.api.comment.ServiceDeskCommentService)(objectClass=com.atlassian.servicedesk.api.comment.ServiceDeskComment
Service))
&serviceDeskPermissionService of type (&(objectClass=com.atlassian.servicedesk.api.permission.ServiceDeskPermissionService)(objectClass=com.atlassian.servicedesk.api.permission.Servic
eDeskPermissionService))
&portalService of type (&(objectClass=com.atlassian.servicedesk.api.portal.PortalService)(objectClass=com.atlassian.servicedesk.api.portal.PortalService))
&serviceDeskManager of type (&(objectClass=com.atlassian.servicedesk.api.ServiceDeskManager)(objectClass=com.atlassian.servicedesk.api.ServiceDeskManager))
&serviceDeskCustomerRequestService of type (&(objectClass=com.atlassian.servicedesk.api.request.ServiceDeskCustomerRequestService)(objectClass=com.atlassian.servicedesk.api.request.Se
rviceDeskCustomerRequestService))

It was loaded from /var/atlassian/application-data/jira/plugins/installed-plugins/servicedesk-automation-modules-plugin-1.2.12.jar

'com.atlassian.upm.atlassian-universal-plugin-manager-plugin' - 'Atlassian Universal Plugin Manager Plugin' failed to load.
Error creating bean with name 'disallowStartupInCloud' defined in URL [bundle://177.0:0/META-INF/spring/atlassian-plugins-components.xml]: Instantiation of bean failed; nested exception is org
.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Failed to instantiate [com.atlassian.upm.DisallowStartupInCloud]: Constructor threw exception; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalStateException: this Serv
er version of UPM cannot be used in a Cloud environment
Failed to instantiate [com.atlassian.upm.DisallowStartupInCloud]: Constructor threw exception; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalStateException: this Server version of UPM cannot be
used in a Cloud environment
this Server version of UPM cannot be used in a Cloud environment

It was loaded from /var/atlassian/application-data/jira/plugins/installed-plugins/plugin.8608492972167793158.atlassian-universal-plugin-manager-plugin-2.22.3.jar

'com.atlassian.servicedesk' - 'JIRA Service Desk' failed to load.
The plugin has been disabled. A likely cause is that it timed out during initialisation

It has the following missing service dependencies :
&pluginLicenseManager of type (&(objectClass=com.atlassian.upm.api.license.PluginLicenseManager)(objectClass=com.atlassian.upm.api.license.PluginLicenseManager))
&pluginLicenseEventRegistry of type (&(objectClass=com.atlassian.upm.api.license.PluginLicenseEventRegistry)(objectClass=com.atlassian.upm.api.license.PluginLicenseEventRegistry))

It was loaded from /var/atlassian/application-data/jira/plugins/installed-plugins/jira-servicedesk-3.0.9.jar

[Andy Heinzer]

Did you just upgrade when this started happening?

Well the JIRA Service Desk 3.0.9 won't be able to work with JIRA 7.4.1, that version is incompatible, you will need to update Service Desk plugin in order for it to work with this newer JIRA version.

Most of these errors appear to be plugins failing to startup within the allotted time.   If so then the most common cause for this is that the new JIRA install might have reverted your memory allocation settings.   By default JIRA only ships with an Xmx max value of 768m.  But if you have a large number of issues, or several custom fields, JIRA will need much more memory to be able to run properly and load these plugins.

JIRA Sizing Guide - Atlassian Documentation- to help understand how much resources should be allocated to JIRA

Increasing memory JIRA- For steps on how to increase memory for JIRA

You can also extend the timeout period so JIRA will wait longer for these plugins to load, How to extend the timeout period for plugin loading in JIRA

It might also help to stop JIRA, temporarily move all the files out of the JIRAHOME/plugins/installed-plugins/ directory and then start JIRA again.   This will start JIRA without any user plugins at all, but from that point you should then be able to use the UPM within JIRA in order to install updated and compatible plugins for your version from the marketplace site if your JIRA instance has access to the internet.