500 Error Page When Logging Into Fisheye/Crucible

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*Except Fisheye and Crucible

Symptoms

When trying to log into Fisheye/Crucible a 500 error page is shown and the following is visible in the atlassian-fisheye-YYYY-MM-DD.log file:

1 2 3 2013-04-09 05:45:38,416 WARN - header full: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException 2013-04-09 05:45:38,417 ERROR - Exception "null" (java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException) while processing "/login" (Referer:"http://localhost:8060/login") java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException

Cause

This is a know bug in Jetty 6 when too many cookie headers are set:

Workaround

There are two possible workarounds:

  • Delete all the cookies in your browser and re-attempt to log into Fisheye/Crucible.

  • Upgrade Fisheye/Crucible to a version above 3.0 since it is shipped with Jetty 8.

Updated on April 8, 2025

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