Error HTTP Status 404 - The installation of Jira 5.x

Ivan Wagner September 17, 2012

Every once in a while JIRA is not available at startup. Today when I first switched on the server, I got the error. Here are my logs:

localhost.2012-09-18.log

Sep 18, 2012 7:37:03 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext listenerStart

SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class com.atlassian.jira.startup.LauncherContextListener

com.atlassian.jira.exception.DataAccessException: org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: FATAL: the database system is starting up

at com.atlassian.jira.upgrade.util.UpgradeUtils.tableExists(UpgradeUtils.java:127)

at com.atlassian.jira.appconsistency.db.MinimumUpgradableVersionCheck.databaseSetup(MinimumUpgradableVersionCheck.java:49)

at com.atlassian.jira.appconsistency.db.MinimumUpgradableVersionCheck.isOk(MinimumUpgradableVersionCheck.java:30)

at com.atlassian.jira.startup.JiraDatabaseConfigChecklist.doStartupChecks(JiraDatabaseConfigChecklist.java:63)

at com.atlassian.jira.startup.JiraDatabaseConfigChecklist.startupOK(JiraDatabaseConfigChecklist.java:51)

at com.atlassian.jira.startup.DatabaseChecklistLauncher.start(DatabaseChecklistLauncher.java:35)

at com.atlassian.jira.startup.DefaultJiraLauncher$2.run(DefaultJiraLauncher.java:90)

at com.atlassian.jira.config.database.DatabaseConfigurationManagerImpl.doNowOrEnqueue(DatabaseConfigurationManagerImpl.java:284)

at com.atlassian.jira.config.database.DatabaseConfigurationManagerImpl.doNowOrWhenDatabaseConfigured(DatabaseConfigurationManagerImpl.java:175)

at com.atlassian.jira.startup.DefaultJiraLauncher.postDbLaunch(DefaultJiraLauncher.java:85)

at com.atlassian.jira.startup.DefaultJiraLauncher.access$100(DefaultJiraLauncher.java:24)

at com.atlassian.jira.startup.DefaultJiraLauncher$1.run(DefaultJiraLauncher.java:61)

at com.atlassian.jira.util.devspeed.JiraDevSpeedTimer.run(JiraDevSpeedTimer.java:33)

at com.atlassian.jira.startup.DefaultJiraLauncher.start(DefaultJiraLauncher.java:56)

at com.atlassian.jira.startup.LauncherContextListener$1.create(LauncherContextListener.java:67)

at com.atlassian.jira.startup.LauncherContextListener$1.create(LauncherContextListener.java:62)

at com.atlassian.multitenant.impl.MultiTenantComponentMapImpl.get(MultiTenantComponentMapImpl.java:121)

at com.atlassian.multitenant.impl.MultiTenantComponentMapImpl.onTenantStart(MultiTenantComponentMapImpl.java:165)

at com.atlassian.multitenant.impl.DefaultMultiTenantManager$1.consume(DefaultMultiTenantManager.java:134)

at com.atlassian.multitenant.impl.DefaultMultiTenantManager$1.consume(DefaultMultiTenantManager.java:131)

at com.atlassian.multitenant.impl.DefaultMultiTenantManager.runForEachListener(DefaultMultiTenantManager.java:256)

at com.atlassian.multitenant.impl.DefaultMultiTenantManager.startTenant(DefaultMultiTenantManager.java:130)

at com.atlassian.multitenant.impl.DefaultMultiTenantManager.startAll(DefaultMultiTenantManager.java:203)

at com.atlassian.jira.startup.LauncherContextListener.contextInitialized(LauncherContextListener.java:95)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4205)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4704)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1053)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:840)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1053)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:463)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:525)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:754)

at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:595)

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)

at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)

at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)

at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:289)

at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:414)

Caused by: org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: FATAL: the database system is starting up

at org.postgresql.core.v3.ConnectionFactoryImpl.doAuthentication(ConnectionFactoryImpl.java:291)

at org.postgresql.core.v3.ConnectionFactoryImpl.openConnectionImpl(ConnectionFactoryImpl.java:108)

at org.postgresql.core.ConnectionFactory.openConnection(ConnectionFactory.java:66)

at org.postgresql.jdbc2.AbstractJdbc2Connection.<init>(AbstractJdbc2Connection.java:125)

at org.postgresql.jdbc3.AbstractJdbc3Connection.<init>(AbstractJdbc3Connection.java:30)

at org.postgresql.jdbc3g.AbstractJdbc3gConnection.<init>(AbstractJdbc3gConnection.java:22)

at org.postgresql.jdbc4.AbstractJdbc4Connection.<init>(AbstractJdbc4Connection.java:30)

at org.postgresql.jdbc4.Jdbc4Connection.<init>(Jdbc4Connection.java:24)

at org.postgresql.Driver.makeConnection(Driver.java:393)

at org.postgresql.Driver.connect(Driver.java:267)

at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(Unknown Source)

at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(Unknown Source)

at org.ofbiz.core.entity.ConnectionFactory.tryGenericConnectionSources(ConnectionFactory.java:87)

at org.ofbiz.core.entity.transaction.JNDIFactory.getConnection(JNDIFactory.java:146)

at org.ofbiz.core.entity.TransactionFactory.getConnection(TransactionFactory.java:101)

at org.ofbiz.core.entity.ConnectionFactory.getConnection(ConnectionFactory.java:59)

at com.atlassian.jira.ofbiz.DefaultOfBizConnectionFactory.getConnection(DefaultOfBizConnectionFactory.java:28)

at com.atlassian.jira.upgrade.util.UpgradeUtils.tableExists(UpgradeUtils.java:100)

... 38 more

Sep 18, 2012 3:19:58 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log

INFO: org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.utils.Log ERROR: logLevelConf: null

Sep 18, 2012 3:19:58 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log

INFO: org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.UrlRewriteFilter INFO: loaded (conf ok)

Thank you for the support

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Ivan Wagner October 9, 2012

I solved the problem by adding the LSB section in the startup script as follows (adding the following lines in the /etc/init.d/jira file):

### BEGIN INIT INFO

# Provides: jira

# Required-Start: $remote_fs $syslog $named $network $time

# Required-Stop: $remote_fs $syslog $named $network

# Should-Start: postgresql

# Should-Stop: postgresql

# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5

# Default-Stop: 0 1 6

# Short-Description: Atlassian JIRA

### END INIT INFO

Then run the following:

update-rc.d jira defaults

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Kostyantyn Ovechko January 6, 2013

I use MySQL, tried:

### BEGIN INIT INFO

# Provides: jira

# Required-Start: $remote_fs $syslog $named $network $time

# Required-Stop: $remote_fs $syslog $named $network

# Should-Start: mysql

# Should-Stop: mysql

# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5

# Default-Stop: 0 1 6

# Short-Description: Atlassian JIRA

### END INIT INFO

But it didn't help.

Then simply added sleep 30 like this:

# JIRA Linux service controller script

cd "/opt/atlassian/jira/bin"

case "$1" in

start)

sleep 30

./start-jira.sh

;;

stop)

./stop-jira.sh

;;

*)

echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop}"

exit 1

;;

esac

Now it works :)

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petry
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September 18, 2012

This usually happens when a service starts before another, in this case, your JIRA is starting before the PostgreSQL. You need to create a "delay" for the JIRA service to fix this.

If you are using Linux:

You need to set the order of the services by going to /etc/init.d

In Windows:

You can set the dependency of the JIRA service, setting it to wait for the Postgres Service.

Hope that helps. :)

Ivan Wagner September 19, 2012

Thank you for your suggestion. I actually changed when JIRA needs to be started in rc directories but unfortunately 2 times out of 5 boots, JIRA is not coming up correctly.

This is the error I'm having in the catalina log:

SEVERE: Error listenerStart

Ivan Wagner September 23, 2012

I solved the problem by adding the LSB section in the startup script as follows (adding the following lines in the /etc/init.d/jira file):

### BEGIN INIT INFO

# Provides: jira

# Required-Start: $remote_fs $syslog $named $network $time

# Required-Stop: $remote_fs $syslog $named $network

# Should-Start: postgresql

# Should-Stop: postgresql

# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5

# Default-Stop: 0 1 6

# Short-Description: Atlassian JIRA

### END INIT INFO

Then run the following:

update-rc.d jira defaults

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