Installing Bamboo with MS SQL Server fails with a "No WebApplicationContext found" exception

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Summary

Configuring a fresh Bamboo installation with Microsoft SQL Server stalls on the database step. The following will be thrown in the logs:

2021-02-26 11:57:50,391 INFO [performSetupDatabaseConnectionBackgroundThread] [BrokerService] Using Persistence Adapter: KahaDBPersistenceAdapter[/data/bamboo-home/jms-store/bamboo/KahaDB] 2021-02-26 11:57:50,407 INFO [performSetupDatabaseConnectionBackgroundThread] [SharedFileLocker] Database /data/bamboo-home/jms-store/bamboo/KahaDB/lock is locked by another server. This broker is now in slave mode waiting a lock to be acquired 2021-02-26 11:57:53,789 ERROR [http-nio-8085-exec-17] [FiveOhOh] 500 Exception was thrown. java.lang.IllegalStateException: No WebApplicationContext found: no ContextLoaderListener registered? at org.springframework.web.context.support.WebApplicationContextUtils.getRequiredWebApplicationContext(WebApplicationContextUtils.java:85) at org.springframework.orm.hibernate5.support.OpenSessionInViewFilter.lookupSessionFactory(OpenSessionInViewFilter.java:194) at org.springframework.orm.hibernate5.support.OpenSessionInViewFilter.lookupSessionFactory(OpenSessionInViewFilter.java:180) at org.springframework.orm.hibernate5.support.OpenSessionInViewFilter.doFilterInternal(OpenSessionInViewFilter.java:131) at com.atlassian.bamboo.persistence.BambooSessionInViewFilter.doFilterInternal(BambooSessionInViewFilter.java:24) at org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:119) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:166) at com.atlassian.bamboo.filter.BambooCompressingFilter.doFilter(BambooCompressingFilter.java:39) (...) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:139) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:81) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:87) at org.apache.catalina.valves.StuckThreadDetectionValve.invoke(StuckThreadDetectionValve.java:206) at org.apache.catalina.valves.AbstractAccessLogValve.invoke(AbstractAccessLogValve.java:690) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:343) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.service(Http11Processor.java:615) at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProcessorLight.process(AbstractProcessorLight.java:65) at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$ConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:818) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1626) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.SocketProcessorBase.run(SocketProcessorBase.java:49) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624) at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)

Environment

Bamboo with Microsoft SQL Server as the database

Cause

A lock file is preventing Bamboo from connecting to the database.

Solution

Below is a workaround for this issue:

  1. Shutdown all Bamboo instances. Check for and kill any processes related to Bamboo (including Java and Tomcat ones)

  2. Delete the whole bamboo-home folder

  3. Drop the MS SQL Server database created for Bamboo, in order to avoid any corruptions

  4. Create a new database to be used by Bamboo following these specific steps

  5. Ensure that the user which will be used to start Bamboo has complete ownership and full access to both bamboo-home and bamboo-installation folders

  6. Restart the installation

Updated on September 25, 2025

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