Build failing after upgrade due to Bamboo 5.x due to installed third party plugin

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You have recently upgraded from older versions of Bamboo to the recent Bamboo 5.0 and noticed that the build is failing with error in the logs.

The atlassian-bamboo.log shows the following:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 2013-08-22 15:13:13,577 ERROR [AtlassianEvent::0-BAM::EVENTS:pool-2-thread-15] [EventInvokerRunnable] Uncaught exception running event: com.atlassian.bamboo.v2.build.events.BuildTriggeredEvent[source=com.atlassian.bamboo.build.DefaultBuildExecutionManager@415be27a] and invoker SingleParameterMethodListenerInvoker{method=public void com.atlassian.bamboo.v2.build.queue.BuildTriggeredListener.handleEvent(com.atlassian.bamboo.v2.build.events.BuildTriggeredEvent), listener=com.atlassian.bamboo.v2.build.queue.BuildTriggeredListener@7903a8e8} java.lang.RuntimeException: com.edwardawebb.bamboo.groupagent.filter.GroupAgentFilter.filter(Lcom/atlassian/bamboo/v2/build/CommonContext;Ljava/util/Collection;Lcom/atlassian/bamboo/v2/build/agent/capability/RequirementSet;)Ljava/util/Collection; at com.atlassian.event.internal.SingleParameterMethodListenerInvoker.invoke(SingleParameterMethodListenerInvoker.java:54) at com.atlassian.bamboo.event.spi.EventInvokerRunnable.run(EventInvokerRunnable.java:28) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603) at com.atlassian.bamboo.build.pipeline.concurrent.NamedThreadFactory$2.run(NamedThreadFactory.java:52) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722) Caused by: java.lang.AbstractMethodError: com.edwardawebb.bamboo.groupagent.filter.GroupAgentFilter.filter(Lcom/atlassian/bamboo/v2/build/CommonContext;Ljava/util/Collection;Lcom/atlassian/bamboo/v2/build/agent/capability/RequirementSet;)Ljava/util/Collection; at com.atlassian.bamboo.plan.ExecutableAgentsHelperImpl.filterWithPlugins(ExecutableAgentsHelperImpl.java:358) at com.atlassian.bamboo.plan.ExecutableAgentsHelperImpl.getExecutableAgents(ExecutableAgentsHelperImpl.java:134) at com.atlassian.bamboo.v2.build.queue.BuildQueueManagerImpl.addToJmsQueue(BuildQueueManagerImpl.java:881) at com.atlassian.bamboo.v2.build.queue.BuildQueueManagerImpl.access$400(BuildQueueManagerImpl.java:72) at com.atlassian.bamboo.v2.build.queue.BuildQueueManagerImpl$2.run(BuildQueueManagerImpl.java:215) at com.atlassian.bamboo.v2.build.queue.BuildQueueManagerImpl$CleanupOnErrorRunnable.call(BuildQueueManagerImpl.java:174) at com.atlassian.bamboo.v2.build.queue.BuildQueueManagerImpl$CleanupOnErrorRunnable.call(BuildQueueManagerImpl.java:169) at com.atlassian.bamboo.v2.build.queue.BuildQueueManagerImpl$9.doInTransaction(BuildQueueManagerImpl.java:684) at org.springframework.transaction.support.TransactionTemplate.execute(TransactionTemplate.java:127) at com.atlassian.bamboo.v2.build.queue.BuildQueueManagerImpl.withWriteLock(BuildQueueManagerImpl.java:676) at com.atlassian.bamboo.v2.build.queue.BuildQueueManagerImpl.withWriteLockAndCleanup(BuildQueueManagerImpl.java:666) at com.atlassian.bamboo.v2.build.queue.BuildQueueManagerImpl.addToQueue(BuildQueueManagerImpl.java:203) at com.atlassian.bamboo.v2.build.queue.BuildTriggeredListener.handleEvent(BuildTriggeredListener.java:33) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601) at com.atlassian.event.internal.SingleParameterMethodListenerInvoker.invoke(SingleParameterMethodListenerInvoker.java:36)

Cause

You seem to be using the bamboo group agent plugin which is no longer compatible with 5.0.x.

Resolution

Try to check back with the plugin developer if a newer version is released OR you can try to remove the plugin altogether

Updated on April 8, 2025

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