Unable to Start Confluence with "cannot restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied" Error
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*Except Fisheye and Crucible
Symptoms
You are trying to run Confluence in an OS with SELinux
The following appears in catalina.out:
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Error: failed /home/test/jdk1.7/jdk1.7.0_17/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so, because /home/test/jdk1.7/jdk1.7.0_17/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so: cannot restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied
Error: dl failure on line 864Cause
SELinux is installed and enabled in the OS.
Workaround
Temporarily disable SELinux by running this command in the terminal:
1/usr/sbin/setenforce 0Restart Confluence
To re-enable SELinux, run this:
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