Internal Server Error While Trying to Access Kanban Board Configuration After JIRA Agile Update

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Symptoms

  1. Recently update JIRA Agile

  2. Clicking on the Agile > Kanban Board > Board > Configure causes "Internal Server error"

  3. The following appears in the atlassian-greenhopper.log or atlassian-jira.log:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26   2013-09-13 14:48:48,005 http-bio-8443-exec-292 ERROR zurek 888x1957741x4 1biakez 137.138.248.151 /rest/greenhopper/1.0/rapidviewconfig/editmodel.json [web.rapid.view.RapidViewEditResource] Unable to complete GreenHopper REST method java.lang.NullPointerException at sun.util.calendar.ZoneInfoFile.getZoneIDs(ZoneInfoFile.java:757) at sun.util.calendar.ZoneInfo.getAvailableIDs(ZoneInfo.java:576) at java.util.TimeZone.getAvailableIDs(TimeZone.java:599) at com.atlassian.jira.timezone.TimeZoneIds.getCanonicalIds(TimeZoneIds.java:53) at com.atlassian.jira.timezone.TimeZoneServiceImpl.getCanonicalIds(TimeZoneServiceImpl.java:151) at com.atlassian.jira.timezone.TimeZoneServiceImpl.getAllowedCannonicalIds(TimeZoneServiceImpl.java:125) at com.atlassian.jira.timezone.TimeZoneServiceImpl.getTimeZoneInfos(TimeZoneServiceImpl.java:107) at com.atlassian.jira.timezone.TimeZoneServiceCachingDecorator.getTimeZoneInfos(TimeZoneServiceCachingDecorator.java:120) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor2522.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601) at com.atlassian.multitenant.impl.MultiTenantComponentFactoryImpl$AbstractMultiTenantAwareInvocationHandler.invokeInternal(MultiTenantComponentFactoryImpl.java:181) at com.atlassian.multitenant.impl.MultiTenantComponentFactoryImpl$MultiTenantAwareInvocationHandler.invoke(MultiTenantComponentFactoryImpl.java:211) at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy398.getTimeZoneInfos(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor2522.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601) at com.atlassian.plugin.osgi.hostcomponents.impl.DefaultComponentRegistrar$ContextClassLoaderSettingInvocationHandler.invoke(DefaultComponentRegistrar.java:129) at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy398.getTimeZoneInfos(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor2522.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)

Cause

This error will happen if Oracle JAVA is not being used.

Resolution

Updated on April 8, 2025

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