JIRA doesn't start due to "Unable to start JIRA due to Java Error" with Lucene
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*Except Fisheye and Crucible
Symptoms
The following appears in the atlassian-jira.log:
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___ Plugin System Started _________________
2013-07-31 10:18:42,442 localhost-startStop-1 ERROR [atlassian.jira.startup.LauncherContextListener] Unable to start JIRA due to Java Error.
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.apache.lucene.analysis.standard.StandardAnalyzer: method <init>()V not found
at com.atlassian.jira.plugin.ext.subversion.revisions.RevisionIndexer.<clinit>(RevisionIndexer.java:77)
at com.atlassian.jira.plugin.ext.subversion.MultipleSubversionRepositoryManagerImpl.<init>(MultipleSubversionRepositoryManagerImpl.java:99)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
at org.picocontainer.defaults.InstantiatingComponentAdapter.newInstance(InstantiatingComponentAdapter.java:100)
at org.picocontainer.defaults.ConstructorInjectionComponentAdapter.instantiateComponent(ConstructorInjectionComponentAdapter.java:200)
at org.picocontainer.defaults.InstantiatingComponentAdapter.getComponentInstance(InstantiatingComponentAdapter.java:48)
at org.picocontainer.defaults.DecoratingComponentAdapter.getComponentInstance(DecoratingComponentAdapter.java:42)
at org.picocontainer.defaults.SynchronizedComponentAdapter.getComponentInstance(SynchronizedComponentAdapter.java:35)
at org.picocontainer.defaults.DecoratingComponentAdapter.getComponentInstance(DecoratingComponentAdapter.java:42)
at com.atlassian.jira.config.component.ProfilingComponentAdapter.getComponentInstance(ProfilingComponentAdapter.java:45)
at org.picocontainer.defaults.DefaultPicoContainer.getComponentInstancesOfType(DefaultPicoContainer.java:274)
at com.atlassian.jira.ComponentManager.runStartable(ComponentManager.java:283)
at com.atlassian.jira.ComponentManager.startJIRA(ComponentManager.java:237)
at com.atlassian.jira.ComponentManager.quickStart(ComponentManager.java:212)
at com.atlassian.jira.ComponentManager.start(ComponentManager.java:197)
at com.atlassian.jira.upgrade.PluginSystemLauncher.start(PluginSystemLauncher.java:23)
at com.atlassian.jira.startup.DefaultJiraLauncher$3.run(DefaultJiraLauncher.java:115)
at com.atlassian.jira.config.database.DatabaseConfigurationManagerImpl.doNowOrEnqueue(DatabaseConfigurationManagerImpl.java:315)
at com.atlassian.jira.config.database.DatabaseConfigurationManagerImpl.doNowOrWhenDatabaseActivated(DatabaseConfigurationManagerImpl.java:209)
at com.atlassian.jira.startup.DefaultJiraLauncher.postDbLaunch(DefaultJiraLauncher.java:105)
at com.atlassian.jira.startup.DefaultJiraLauncher.access$100(DefaultJiraLauncher.java:30)
at com.atlassian.jira.startup.DefaultJiraLauncher$1.run(DefaultJiraLauncher.java:69)
at com.atlassian.jira.util.devspeed.JiraDevSpeedTimer.run(JiraDevSpeedTimer.java:33)
at com.atlassian.jira.startup.DefaultJiraLauncher.start(DefaultJiraLauncher.java:64)
at com.atlassian.jira.startup.LauncherContextListener.contextInitialized(LauncherContextListener.java:54)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4791)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5285)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1559)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1549)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:895)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:918)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)Cause
This error is thrown because of incompatible plugins with the installed JIRA release (either third-party or system-ones after upgrade).
Resolution
Identify the problematic plugins in <<JIRA_HOME>>/plugins/installed-plugins.
Check also if there aren't any incompatible plugins in <<JIRA_INSTALL>>/atlassian-jira/WEB-INF/lib. In case there are, please move these out of the folder.
Updated on April 11, 2025
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