Fisheye/Crucible with MySQL does not start
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Symptoms
Fisheye/Crucible with MySQL does not start.
The following appears in the atlassian-fisheye-<date>.log:
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2012-12-31 07:45:03,914 INFO - Starting database...
2012-12-31 07:45:03,932 ERROR - The Web context could not be started
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'dbControlFactory' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]: Instantiation of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Could not instantiate bean class [com.cenqua.crucible.hibernate.DBControlFactoryImpl]: Constructor threw exception; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalStateException: Database not available (Unable to connect to MySQL database jdbc:mysql://localhost/fisheye: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver: is the database driver jar file properly installed in the FISHEYE_INST/lib directory?). Current state: NO_DB
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.ConstructorResolver.autowireConstructor(ConstructorResolver.java:288)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.autowireConstructor(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1003)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBeanInstance(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:907)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:485)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:456)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:291)
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Caused by: org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Could not instantiate bean class [com.cenqua.crucible.hibernate.DBControlFactoryImpl]: Constructor threw exception; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalStateException: Database not available (Unable to connect to MySQL database jdbc:mysql://localhost/fisheye: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver: is the database driver jar file properly installed in the FISHEYE_INST/lib directory?). Current state: NO_DB
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Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Database not available (Unable to connect to MySQL database jdbc:mysql://localhost/fisheye: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver: is the database driver jar file properly installed in the FISHEYE_INST/lib directory?). Current state: NO_DBCause
The JDBC driver for MySQL is not bundled with Fisheye/Crucible 2.9+ (due to licensing restrictions).
Resolution
Download the MySQL Connector/J JDBC driver from the MySQL download website.
Expand the downloaded zip/tar.gz file.
Copy the
.jarfile to yourFISHEYE_INST/libdirectory. If thelib/directory doesn't already exist, you will need to create it.Restart Fisheye/Crucible.
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