Error "Description Time Level Exception" upon JIRA upgrade

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Symptoms

Upon upgrading JIRA to JIRA version 6.x, the following error will be thrown :

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 JIRA Access Constraints You cannot access JIRA at present. Description Time Level Exception An error occurred performing JIRA upgrade The data before the upgrade has been exported to /var/atlassian/application-data/jira/export/jira_autoexport_20130612_052939.zip 2013-06-12 05:30:37 error Exception thrown during upgrade: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.searchers.DateTimeRangeSearcher.(Lcom/atlassian/jira/security/JiraAuthenticationContext;Lcom/atlassian/jira/jql/operand/JqlOperandResolver;Lcom/atlassian/jira/util/velocity/VelocityRequestContextFactory;Lcom/atlassian/jira/config/properties/ApplicationProperties;Lcom/atlassian/velocity/VelocityManager;Lcom/atlassian/jira/web/action/util/CalendarLanguageUtil;Lcom/atlassian/jira/jql/util/JqlDateSupport;Lcom/atlassian/jira/issue/customfields/searchers/transformer/CustomFieldInputHelper;Lcom/atlassian/jira/timezone/TimeZoneManager;Lcom/atlassian/jira/datetime/DateTimeFormatterFactory;)V com.atlassian.util.concurrent.LazyReference$InitializationException: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.searchers.DateTimeRangeSearcher.(Lcom/atlassian/jira/security/JiraAuthenticationContext;Lcom/atlassian/jira/jql/operand/JqlOperandResolver;Lcom/atlassian/jira/util/velocity/VelocityRequestContextFactory;Lcom/atlassian/jira/config/properties/ApplicationProperties;Lcom/atlassian/velocity/VelocityManager;Lcom/atlassian/jira/web/action/util/CalendarLanguageUtil;Lcom/atlassian/jira/jql/util/JqlDateSupport;Lcom/atlassian/jira/issue/customfields/searchers/transformer/CustomFieldInputHelper;Lcom/atlassian/jira/timezone/TimeZoneManager;Lcom/atlassian/jira/datetime/DateTimeFormatterFactory;)V at com.atlassian.util.concurrent.LazyReference.getInterruptibly(LazyReference.java:149) at com.atlassian.util.concurrent.LazyReference.get(LazyReference.java:112) at com.atlassian.util.concurrent.ResettableLazyReference.get(ResettableLazyReference.java:87) ... Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.searchers.DateTimeRangeSearcher.(Lcom/atlassian/jira/security/JiraAuthenticationContext;Lcom/atlassian/jira/jql/operand/JqlOperandResolver;Lcom/atlassian/jira/util/velocity/VelocityRequestContextFactory;Lcom/atlassian/jira/config/properties/ApplicationProperties;Lcom/atlassian/velocity/VelocityManager;Lcom/atlassian/jira/web/action/util/CalendarLanguageUtil;Lcom/atlassian/jira/jql/util/JqlDateSupport;Lcom/atlassian/jira/issue/customfields/searchers/transformer/CustomFieldInputHelper;Lcom/atlassian/jira/timezone/TimeZoneManager;Lcom/atlassian/jira/datetime/DateTimeFormatterFactory;)V ... at com.atlassian.util.concurrent.LazyReference$Sync.run(LazyReference.java:321) at com.atlassian.util.concurrent.LazyReference.getInterruptibly(LazyReference.java:143) ... 38 more

Cause

The cause of the above error is the interference of Charting plugin after the upgrade is performed.

Workaround

The workaround for this error, is to disable Charting plugin.

If you are unable to access JIRA's UI:

In this case, you'll want to remove the plugin manually:

  • Shutdown JIRA

  • Navigate to: $JIRA_HOME/plugins/installed-plugins

  • Remove the charting plugins's *.jar file

    • It should have a filename similar to jira-charting-plugin-x.x.jar

  • Restart JIRA

Updated on April 11, 2025

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