Cannot View Thumbnails of the Attachments in the Issue

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Symptoms

The thumbnails of the attached pictures are not visible in the issues although the 'Enable Thumbnails' field has been set 'ON' in Administration >> Global Settings >> Attachments.

The log file contains the following errors:

1 2 3 4 ERROR - an.core.util.thumbnail.Thumber - Unable to create thumbnail image of attachment with id:11280 java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError: Found class com.sun.image.codec.jpeg.JPEGImageEncoder, but interface was expected at com.atlassian.core.util.thumbnail.Thumber.storeThumbImage(Thumber.java:265) at com.atlassian.core.util.thumbnail.Thumber.createThumbnail(Thumber.java:175)

Cause

The JIRA instance is using an unsupported Java distribution such as OpenJDK instead of Oracle JDK.

Resolution

Download and install an Oracle JDK version supported by the installed JIRA version.

Updated on April 8, 2025

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