JIRA Fails to Connect to Database on System Reboot

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Symptoms

After performing a system restart, the JIRA server is unable to connect to the database and the following errors are recorded:

1 2 3 4 5 6 2008-03-13 03:02:07,593 Thread-1 ERROR [jira.appconsistency.db.DatabaseConsistencyCheck] There was a SQL exception checking for database driver correctness. Skipping. org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.SQLNestedException: Cannot create PoolableConnectionFactory (Network error IOException: Connection refused: connect) at org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSource.createDataSource(BasicDataSource.java:855) at org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSource.getConnection(BasicDataSource.java:540) at org.ofbiz.core.entity.transaction.JNDIFactory.getJndiConnection(JNDIFactory.java:212) at org.ofbiz.core.entity.transaction.JNDIFactory.getConnection(JNDIFactory.java:140)

Cause

The database server is being hosted on the same machine, and was starting up while JIRA tried to establish the connection with the database.

Resolution

Change the service start-up order, so that database server is started before JIRA service starts up as described in this Microsoft Article.

Updated on April 7, 2025

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