Users unable to login to Fisheye due to java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Multiple entries with same key

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Summary

When users attempt to log in to Fisheye/Crucible, they are redirected back to the login page and cannot access the instance.

Environment

Fisheye/Crucible 

External user directory (e.g. Jira, LDAP and etc)

Diagnosis

There are multiple stacktraces in the logs of the form:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 DATE time WARN [qtp478489615-283528 ] fisheye DefaultUserManager-validateCurrentUser - Problem logging user out com.google.common.util.concurrent.UncheckedExecutionException: com.google.common.util.concurrent.UncheckedExecutionException: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Multiple entries with same key: userA=com.atlassian.crowd.model.user.InternalUser@xxx[id=xxx,name=userA ,xxxxx] and userA=com.atlassian.crowd.model.user.InternalUser@xxx[id=xxxx,name=userA,xxxxxx] at com.google.common.cache.LocalCache$Segment.get(LocalCache.java:2203) [guava-18.0.jar:?] at com.google.common.cache.LocalCache.get(LocalCache.java:3937) [guava-18.0.jar:?] at com.google.common.cache.LocalCache.getOrLoad(LocalCache.java:3941) [guava-18.0.jar:?] at com.google.common.cache.LocalCache$LocalLoadingCache.get(LocalCache.java:4824) [guava-18.0.jar:?] at com.google.common.cache.LocalCache$LocalLoadingCache.getUnchecked(LocalCache.java:4830) [guava-18.0.jar:?] at com.atlassian.fisheye.user.permissions.cache.SyncGlobalPermissionCache.getUsersWithPermission(SyncGlobalPermissionCache.java:57) [fisheye.jar:?] at com.atlassian.fisheye.user.permissions.DefaultGlobalPermissionManager.getUsersWithPermission(DefaultGlobalPermissionManager.java:84) [fisheye.jar:?] at com.atlassian.fisheye.user.permissions.DefaultGlobalPermissionManager.hasPermission(DefaultGlobalPermissionManager.java:65) [fisheye.jar:?] at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor662.invoke(Unknown Source) [?:?] at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImp .......

Cause

Note the format of the 2 entries: userA and userA[whitespace]:

1 Multiple entries with same key: userA=com.atlassian.crowd.model.user.InternalUser@xxx[id=xxx,name=userA ,xxxxx] and userA=com.atlassian.crowd.model.user.InternalUser@a48dc1a[id=xxxx,name=userA,xxxxxx]

Fisheye trims whitespaces to construct the index of unique user names.

When constructing the index it throws the error since it finds 2 identical keys, after trimming the whitespace from one of the account names

The multiple key exception then affects the login for all users due to an internal consistency check.

Solution

Rename one of the users in the external directory (don't just remove the whitespace, to avoid a database constraint violation). 

Updated on March 21, 2025

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