Fix error "Something went wrong while trying to serve your request" that occurs when viewing pull requests in Bitbucket Data Center

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Summary

This article covers how to resolve the pop-up error message that appears in Bitbucket Data Center while viewing pull requests: "Something went wrong while trying to serve your request."

Environment

All versions of Bitbucket Data Center.

Diagnosis

The atlassian-bitbucket.log file will show a message similar to this:

2025-04-10 07:49:36,066 ERROR [http-nio-8080-exec-6] USER *9IH2BBx469x89775x7 12b7ny 127.0.0.1 "GET /rest/ui/latest/projects/PROJ/repos/repo/pull-requests/123/merge HTTP/1.1" c.a.p.r.v.e.ThrowableExceptionMapper Uncaught exception c0c23f89-a364-480e-8ffb-1bfde2e544b4 thrown by REST service: com/atlassian/utils/process/ProcessException java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/atlassian/utils/process/ProcessException at com.pbaranchikov.stash.checks.EolCheckHook.lambda$new$0(EolCheckHook.java:48) at com.pbaranchikov.stash.checks.EolCheckHook.checkForWrongEol(EolCheckHook.java:65) at com.pbaranchikov.stash.checks.MergeCheck.checkForWrongEol(MergeCheck.java:73) at com.pbaranchikov.stash.checks.MergeCheck.preUpdate(MergeCheck.java:44) at com.pbaranchikov.stash.checks.MergeCheck.preUpdate(MergeCheck.java:23) at com.atlassian.stash.internal.hook.repository.DefaultRepositoryHookService.preUpdate(DefaultRepositoryHookService.java:844) [...] Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.atlassian.utils.process.ProcessException not found by com.pbaranchikov.stash-eol-check [129] at org.apache.felix.framework.BundleWiringImpl.findClassOrResourceByDelegation(BundleWiringImpl.java:1591) ... 100 common frames omitted

Cause

This is caused by the stash-eol-check app, which is incompatible with your version of Bitbucket Data Center.

Solution

Check with the vendor of the app to see if a newer version is available, or turn off or uninstall the app from Bitbucket Data Center.

Updated on May 16, 2025

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