Perforce Jobs do not get created

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*Except Fisheye and Crucible

Symptoms

Perforce Jobs do not get created. The following appears in the atlassian-jira.log:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 2012-08-24 10:01:24,886 http-8088-10 ERROR admin 601x235615x1 129vy25 127.0.0.1 /secure/CommentAssignIssue.jspa [jira.event.issue.IssueEventListenerHandler] Exception thrown from listener [com.atlassian.jirafisheyeplugin.perforce.listener.JobUpdateListener] : null java.lang.ClassCastException at java.lang.Class.cast(Class.java:2990) at com.atlassian.jira.plugin.JiraOsgiContainerManager.getOsgiComponentOfType(JiraOsgiContainerManager.java:66) at com.atlassian.jira.ComponentManager.getOSGiComponentInstanceOfType(ComponentManager.java:570) at com.atlassian.jirafisheyeplugin.perforce.listener.JobUpdateListener.getPerforceManager(JobUpdateListener.java:86) at com.atlassian.jirafisheyeplugin.perforce.listener.JobUpdateListener.workflowEvent(JobUpdateListener.java:29) at com.atlassian.jira.event.issue.IssueEventListenerHandler$IssueEventInvoker.invoke(IssueEventListenerHandler.java:49) at com.atlassian.event.internal.AsynchronousAbleEventDispatcher$2.run(AsynchronousAbleEventDispatcher.java:60) at com.atlassian.event.internal.AsynchronousAbleEventDispatcher$1.execute(AsynchronousAbleEventDispatcher.java:28) at com.atlassian.event.internal.AsynchronousAbleEventDispatcher.dispatch(AsynchronousAbleEventDispatcher.java:56) at com.atlassian.event.internal.EventPublisherImpl.invokeListeners(EventPublisherImpl.java:151) at com.atlassian.event.internal.EventPublisherImpl.publish(EventPublisherImpl.java:70) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor40.invoke(Unknown Source)

Cause

There are multiple version of JIRA Fisheye plugin installed.

Resolution

  1. Stop JIRA.

  2. Remove any older Fisheye plugin from $JIRA_HOME/plugins/installed-plugins.

  3. Start JIRA.

Updated on April 8, 2025

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