Restoring a Bamboo instance after a crash
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Note that this KB was created for the Data Center version of the product. Data Center KBs for non-Data-Center-specific features may also work for Server versions of the product, however they have not been tested. Support for Server* products ended on February 15th 2024. If you are running a Server product, you can visit the Atlassian Server end of support announcement to review your migration options.
*Except Fisheye and Crucible
Symptoms
Bamboo cannot start up. The Bamboo log shows errors like:
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Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Factory method [public com.atlassian.bamboo.configuration.AdministrationConfiguration com.atlassian.bamboo.persister.file.FileBasedPersister.getAdministrationConfiguration()] threw exception; nested exception is com.thoughtworks.xstream.io.StreamException: : input contained no data
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Caused by: com.thoughtworks.xstream.io.StreamException: : input contained no data
at com.thoughtworks.xstream.io.xml.XppReader.pullNextEvent(XppReader.java:80)
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Caused by: java.io.EOFException: input contained no data
at org.xmlpull.mxp1.MXParser.fillBuf(MXParser.java:2982)
Cause
Bamboo has been shut down improperly. Possible causes are:
Ran out of disk space on the Bamboo server
Power outage on the Bamboo server
Resolution
Check all files in <BAMBOO_HOME>/xml-data/configuration/*.xml and see if they are ok.
If not please restore these files from a Bamboo backup zip. You can simply unzip the backup and copy the administration.xml file from the <backup-zip>/configuration directory.
If you don't have a backup you can:
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bamboo.homein<bamboo-install>/atlassian-bamboo/WEB-INF/classes/bamboo-init.propertiesto a temporary location<temp-bamboo-home>.if you are using an external database - create a new temporary database for this procedure.
start Bamboo, run through the setup wizard entering the data as if in your production instance (except for db name). File
<temp-bamboo-home>/xml-data/configuration/administration.xmlwill be created.copy the above file into
<bamboo-home>/xml-data/configuration/.Double check the copied files for correctness regarding paths and URLs.
This should restore the missing files for your production instance.
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