Accessing moved issue through original issue key or attempting to move issues in Jira Data Center fails

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Note that this KB was created for the Data Center version of the product. Data Center KBs for non-Data-Center-specific features may also work for Server versions of the product, however they have not been tested. Support for Server* products ended on February 15th 2024. If you are running a Server product, you can visit the Atlassian Server end of support announcement to review your migration options.

*Except Fisheye and Crucible

Summary

Problem

When attempting to access a moved issue by its original Issue Key, as well as triggering the Move function on Jira, the following stack trace is displayed on the interface:

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Technical details
Log's referral number: ec54d7fe-ed3d-47da-980e-c00af4dda984

Cause
Referer URL: https://yourjirainstance.com/issues/&#63;jql=issuekey%20%3DPROJKEY-865\\ 
java.lang.ClassFormatError: com/atlassian/jira/issue/MovedIssueKey
java.lang.ClassFormatError: com/atlassian/jira/issue/MovedIssueKey
at com.atlassian.jira.entity.MovedIssueKeyFactory.build(MovedIssueKeyFactory.java:20) [classes/:?]

Looking over at the atlassian-jira.log, we can see the following stack trace:

2018-09-04 15:18:33,607 http-nio-8080-exec-661 url:/secure/GHGoToBoard.jspa username:jirauser  ERROR      [o.a.c.c.C.[.[localhost].[/].[action]] Servlet.service() for servlet [action] in context with path [] threw exception [Filter execution threw an exception] with root cause
java.lang.ClassFormatError: com/atlassian/jira/issue/MovedIssueKey
	at com.atlassian.jira.entity.MovedIssueKeyFactory.build(MovedIssueKeyFactory.java:20)
	at com.atlassian.jira.entity.MovedIssueKeyFactory.build(MovedIssueKeyFactory.java:12)
	at com.atlassian.jira.entity.SelectQueryImpl$ExecutionContextImpl.forEach(SelectQueryImpl.java:231)
	at com.atlassian.jira.entity.SelectQueryImpl$ExecutionContextImpl.consumeWith(SelectQueryImpl.java:214)
	at com.atlassian.jira.entity.SelectQueryImpl$ExecutionContextImpl.singleValue(SelectQueryImpl.java:191)
	at com.atlassian.jira.issue.util.MovedIssueKeyStoreImpl.getMovedIssueId(MovedIssueKeyStoreImpl.java:43)
	at com.atlassian.jira.issue.managers.DefaultIssueManager.findMovedIssue(DefaultIssueManager.java:283)
	at com.atlassian.jira.issue.managers.DefaultIssueManager$IssueFinder.getIssue(DefaultIssueManager.java:961)
	at com.atlassian.jira.issue.managers.DefaultIssueManager.getIssueByKeyIgnoreCase(DefaultIssueManager.java:354)
	at com.atlassian.jira.issue.managers.RequestCachingIssueManager.getIssueByKeyIgnoreCase(RequestCachingIssueManager.java:91)
	at com.atlassian.jira.jql.util.JqlIssueSupportImpl.getIssue(JqlIssueSupportImpl.java:70)
	at com.atlassian.jira.jql.util.JqlIssueSupportImpl.getIssue(JqlIssueSupportImpl.java:62)
	at com.atlassian.jira.jql.query.IssueIdClauseQueryFactory.createQueryForKey(IssueIdClauseQueryFactory.java:163)
	at com.atlassian.jira.jql.query.IssueIdClauseQueryFactory.createQueryForNotEmptyValue(IssueIdClauseQueryFactory.java:156)
	at com.atlassian.jira.jql.query.IssueIdClauseQueryFactory.createQuery(IssueIdClauseQueryFactory.java:148)
	at com.atlassian.jira.jql.query.IssueIdClauseQueryFactory.createPositiveEqualsQuery(IssueIdClauseQueryFactory.java:134)
	at com.atlassian.jira.jql.query.IssueIdClauseQueryFactory.handleEquals(IssueIdClauseQueryFactory.java:129)
	at com.atlassian.jira.jql.query.IssueIdClauseQueryFactory.getQuery(IssueIdClauseQueryFactory.java:68)
	at com.atlassian.jira.jql.query.ContextAwareQueryVisitor.visit(ContextAwareQueryVisitor.java:97)
	at com.atlassian.jira.jql.query.ContextAwareQueryVisitor.visit(ContextAwareQueryVisitor.java:25)
	at com.atlassian.query.clause.TerminalClauseImpl.accept(TerminalClauseImpl.java:143)
	at com.atlassian.jira.jql.query.ContextAwareQueryVisitor.visit(ContextAwareQueryVisitor.java:71)
	at com.atlassian.jira.jql.query.ContextAwareQueryVisitor.visit(ContextAwareQueryVisitor.java:25)
	at com.atlassian.query.clause.OrClause.accept(OrClause.java:28)
	at com.atlassian.jira.jql.query.QueryVisitor.createQuery(QueryVisitor.java:51)
	at com.atlassian.jira.jql.query.DefaultLuceneQueryBuilder.createLuceneQuery(DefaultLuceneQueryBuilder.java:29)
	at com.atlassian.jira.issue.search.providers.LuceneSearchProvider.search(LuceneSearchProvider.java:231)
	at com.atlassian.jira.issue.search.providers.LuceneSearchProvider.searchOverrideSecurity(LuceneSearchProvider.java:135)
	... 2 filtered
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
	at com.atlassian.plugin.util.ContextClassLoaderSettingInvocationHandler.invoke(ContextClassLoaderSettingInvocationHandler.java:26)
	at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy493.searchOverrideSecurity(Unknown Source)
	... 2 filtered
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
	at com.atlassian.plugin.osgi.bridge.external.HostComponentFactoryBean$DynamicServiceInvocationHandler.invoke(HostComponentFactoryBean.java:136)
	at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy493.searchOverrideSecurity(Unknown Source)
	at com.atlassian.greenhopper.service.issue.IssueDataServiceImpl.findImpl(IssueDataServiceImpl.java:150)
	at com.atlassian.greenhopper.service.issue.IssueDataServiceImpl.findOverrideSecurity(IssueDataServiceImpl.java:78)
	at com.atlassian.greenhopper.customfield.epiclink.EpicLinkResolver.findEpicIssueIdsByEpicKeyOrLabel(EpicLinkResolver.java:103)
	at com.atlassian.greenhopper.customfield.epiclink.EpicLinkResolver.getQuery(EpicLinkResolver.java:58)
	at com.atlassian.greenhopper.customfield.epiclink.EpicLinkEqualityQueryFactory.getQuery(EpicLinkEqualityQueryFactory.java:200)
	at com.atlassian.greenhopper.customfield.epiclink.EpicLinkEqualityQueryFactory.handleIn(EpicLinkEqualityQueryFactory.java:146)
	at com.atlassian.greenhopper.customfield.epiclink.EpicLinkEqualityQueryFactory.createResult(EpicLinkEqualityQueryFactory.java:102)
	at com.atlassian.greenhopper.customfield.epiclink.EpicLinkEqualityQueryFactory.createQueryForMultipleValues(EpicLinkEqualityQueryFactory.java:60)
	at com.atlassian.greenhopper.customfield.searcher.GhGenericClauseQueryFactory.getQuery(GhGenericClauseQueryFactory.java:68)
	at com.atlassian.greenhopper.customfield.epiclink.EpicLinkClauseQueryFactory.getQuery(EpicLinkClauseQueryFactory.java:31)
	at com.atlassian.jira.jql.query.ContextAwareQueryVisitor.visit(ContextAwareQueryVisitor.java:97)
	at com.atlassian.jira.jql.query.ContextAwareQueryVisitor.visit(ContextAwareQueryVisitor.java:25)
	at com.atlassian.query.clause.TerminalClauseImpl.accept(TerminalClauseImpl.java:143)
	at com.atlassian.jira.jql.query.ContextAwareQueryVisitor.visit(ContextAwareQueryVisitor.java:71)
	at com.atlassian.jira.jql.query.ContextAwareQueryVisitor.visit(ContextAwareQueryVisitor.java:25)
	at com.atlassian.query.clause.OrClause.accept(OrClause.java:28)
	at com.atlassian.jira.jql.query.ContextAwareQueryVisitor.visit(ContextAwareQueryVisitor.java:55)
	at com.atlassian.jira.jql.query.ContextAwareQueryVisitor.visit(ContextAwareQueryVisitor.java:25)
	at com.atlassian.query.clause.AndClause.accept(AndClause.java:28)
	at com.atlassian.jira.jql.query.ContextAwareQueryVisitor.visit(ContextAwareQueryVisitor.java:55)
	at com.atlassian.jira.jql.query.ContextAwareQueryVisitor.visit(ContextAwareQueryVisitor.java:25)
	at com.atlassian.query.clause.AndClause.accept(AndClause.java:28)
	at com.atlassian.jira.jql.query.QueryVisitor.createQuery(QueryVisitor.java:51)
	at com.atlassian.jira.jql.query.DefaultLuceneQueryBuilder.createLuceneQuery(DefaultLuceneQueryBuilder.java:29)
	at com.atlassian.jira.issue.search.providers.LuceneSearchProvider.createLuceneQuery(LuceneSearchProvider.java:272)
	at com.atlassian.jira.issue.search.providers.LuceneSearchProvider.getHitCount(LuceneSearchProvider.java:177)
	at com.atlassian.jira.issue.search.providers.LuceneSearchProvider.searchCountOverrideSecurity(LuceneSearchProvider.java:121)
	... 2 filtered
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
	at com.atlassian.plugin.util.ContextClassLoaderSettingInvocationHandler.invoke(ContextClassLoaderSettingInvocationHandler.java:26)
	at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy493.searchCountOverrideSecurity(Unknown Source)
	... 2 filtered
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
	at com.atlassian.plugin.osgi.bridge.external.HostComponentFactoryBean$DynamicServiceInvocationHandler.invoke(HostComponentFactoryBean.java:136)
	at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy493.searchCountOverrideSecurity(Unknown Source)
	at com.atlassian.greenhopper.service.issue.SearchServiceImpl.searchCountOverrideSecurity(SearchServiceImpl.java:166)
	at com.atlassian.greenhopper.service.rapid.RapidViewLocationServiceImpl.doesSprintMatchQuery(RapidViewLocationServiceImpl.java:366)
	at com.atlassian.greenhopper.service.rapid.RapidViewLocationServiceImpl.getRapidViewsForSprint(RapidViewLocationServiceImpl.java:231)
	at com.atlassian.greenhopper.web.rapid.RapidViewLocationResolverFactory$SprintRapidViewLocationResolver.getRapidViewsForObject(RapidViewLocationResolverFactory.java:203)
	at com.atlassian.greenhopper.web.rapid.RapidViewLocationResolverFactory$SprintRapidViewLocationResolver.getRapidViewsForObject(RapidViewLocationResolverFactory.java:185)
	at com.atlassian.greenhopper.web.rapid.BoardDispatchAction._doGoToBoard(BoardDispatchAction.java:116)
	at com.atlassian.greenhopper.web.rapid.BoardDispatchAction.doGoToBoard(BoardDispatchAction.java:61)
	... 2 filtered
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
	at webwork.util.InjectionUtils$DefaultInjectionImpl.invoke(InjectionUtils.java:70)
	at webwork.util.InjectionUtils.invoke(InjectionUtils.java:56)
	... 2 filtered
	at com.atlassian.jira.action.JiraActionSupport.execute(JiraActionSupport.java:63)
	... 7 filtered
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:729)
	... 52 filtered
	at com.atlassian.servicedesk.internal.web.ExternalCustomerLockoutFilter.doFilter(ExternalCustomerLockoutFilter.java:56)
	... 4 filtered
	at com.atlassian.greenhopper.jira.filters.ClassicBoardRouter.doFilter(ClassicBoardRouter.java:62)
	... 7 filtered
	at com.atlassian.web.servlet.plugin.request.RedirectInterceptingFilter.doFilter(RedirectInterceptingFilter.java:21)
	... 47 filtered
	at com.atlassian.ams.shipit.servlet.filter.AbstractThreadFilter.runWithChangedThreadName(AbstractThreadFilter.java:71)
	at com.atlassian.ams.shipit.servlet.filter.AbstractThreadFilter.doFilter(AbstractThreadFilter.java:53)
	at com.atlassian.ams.shipit.servlet.filter.AbstractThreadFilter.doFilter(AbstractThreadFilter.java:37)
	... 14 filtered
	at com.atlassian.jira.security.JiraSecurityFilter.lambda$doFilter$0(JiraSecurityFilter.java:80)
	... 1 filtered
	at com.atlassian.jira.security.JiraSecurityFilter.doFilter(JiraSecurityFilter.java:78)
	... 36 filtered
	at com.atlassian.jira.servermetrics.CorrelationIdPopulatorFilter.doFilter(CorrelationIdPopulatorFilter.java:30)
	... 5 filtered
	at com.atlassian.servicedesk.internal.web.CustomerContextSettingFilter.lambda$invokeFilterChain$0(CustomerContextSettingFilter.java:181)
	at com.atlassian.servicedesk.internal.utils.context.ReentrantThreadLocalBasedCodeContext.rteInvoke(ReentrantThreadLocalBasedCodeContext.java:134)
	at com.atlassian.servicedesk.internal.utils.context.ReentrantThreadLocalBasedCodeContext.runOutOfContext(ReentrantThreadLocalBasedCodeContext.java:87)
	at com.atlassian.servicedesk.internal.utils.context.CustomerContextServiceImpl.runOutOfCustomerContext(CustomerContextServiceImpl.java:64)
	at com.atlassian.servicedesk.internal.web.CustomerContextSettingFilter.outOfCustomerContext(CustomerContextSettingFilter.java:174)
	at com.atlassian.servicedesk.internal.web.CustomerContextSettingFilter.doFilterImpl(CustomerContextSettingFilter.java:130)
	at com.atlassian.servicedesk.internal.web.CustomerContextSettingFilter.doFilter(CustomerContextSettingFilter.java:121)
	... 4 filtered
	at com.atlassian.jwt.internal.servlet.JwtAuthFilter.doFilter(JwtAuthFilter.java:32)
	... 8 filtered
	at com.atlassian.web.servlet.plugin.request.RedirectInterceptingFilter.doFilter(RedirectInterceptingFilter.java:21)
	... 4 filtered
	at com.atlassian.ams.shipit.servlet.filter.AbstractThreadFilter.runWithChangedThreadName(AbstractThreadFilter.java:71)
	at com.atlassian.ams.shipit.servlet.filter.AbstractThreadFilter.doFilter(AbstractThreadFilter.java:53)
	at com.atlassian.ams.shipit.servlet.filter.AbstractThreadFilter.doFilter(AbstractThreadFilter.java:37)
	... 3 filtered
	at com.atlassian.web.servlet.plugin.LocationCleanerFilter.doFilter(LocationCleanerFilter.java:36)
	... 29 filtered
	at com.atlassian.jira.servermetrics.MetricsCollectorFilter.doFilter(MetricsCollectorFilter.java:25)
	... 28 filtered
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
	at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748

Diagnosis

Environment

JIRA Data Center

In this case, we've also noticed the following, which might be one of the reasons for the cache failure:

2018-08-29 11:11:21,958 ehcache-replicator-19 ERROR      [c.a.j.c.cache.ehcache.BlockingParallelCacheReplicator] Exception on replication of remove. Exception creating connection to: 100.99.16.212; nested exception is: 
    	java.net.SocketException: Too many open files. Cache: com.atlassian.jira.crowd.embedded.ofbiz.OfBizUserDao.userAttributesCache Peer: com.atlassian.jira.crowd.embedded.ofbiz.OfBizUserDao.userAttributesCache
java.rmi.ConnectIOException: Exception creating connection to: 100.99.16.212; nested exception is: 
	java.net.SocketException: Too many open files
	at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPEndpoint.newSocket(TCPEndpoint.java:631)
	at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPChannel.createConnection(TCPChannel.java:216)
	at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPChannel.newConnection(TCPChannel.java:202)
	at sun.rmi.server.UnicastRef.invoke(UnicastRef.java:130)
	at net.sf.ehcache.distribution.RMICachePeer_Stub.remove(Unknown Source)
	at com.atlassian.jira.cluster.cache.ehcache.BlockingParallelCacheReplicator.lambda$replicateRemovalNotification$1(BlockingParallelCacheReplicator.java:163)
	at com.atlassian.jira.cluster.cache.ehcache.BlockingParallelCacheReplicator.lambda$null$3(BlockingParallelCacheReplicator.java:203)
	at com.atlassian.jira.cluster.cache.ehcache.ClassLoaderSwitchingRunnable.run(ClassLoaderSwitchingRunnable.java:18)
	at java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture$AsyncRun.run(CompletableFuture.java:1626)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
Caused by: java.net.SocketException: Too many open files

Cause

This is caused by a cache replication failure. The node is not replicating the cache correctly, thus causing the issues to not be found and the move operation to fail.

Solution

Workaround / Resolution

Restart the node with the broken replication. This will ensure that the cache will be replicated from a healthy node and the operations will be fixed.

Updated on September 26, 2025

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