Elastic Bamboo Configuration Missing after Upgrade

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Summary

After Bamboo upgrade, the Elastic Configurations went missing from Bamboo UI.

Environment

Not applicable

Diagnosis

The user can see a similar message in atlassian-bamboo.log file:

ERROR [FileBasedPersister] Failed to save administration configuration data
com.atlassian.bamboo.persister.PersisterException: Failed to save administration configuration
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.persister.xstream.XStreamAdminConfigPersister.saveConfiguration(XStreamAdminConfigPersister.java:88)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.persister.file.FileBasedPersister.saveAdministrationConfiguration(FileBasedPersister.java:249)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.configuration.AdministrationConfigurationPersisterImpl.saveAdministrationConfiguration(AdministrationConfigurationPersisterImpl.java:25)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.event.FeatureManagerStartupListener.handleEvent(FeatureManagerStartupListener.java:62)
	at com.atlassian.event.internal.SingleParameterMethodListenerInvoker.invoke(SingleParameterMethodListenerInvoker.java:42)
	at com.atlassian.event.internal.AsynchronousAbleEventDispatcher.lambda$null$0(AsynchronousAbleEventDispatcher.java:37)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.utils.BambooRunnables$1.run(BambooRunnables.java:48)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.security.ImpersonationHelper.runWith(ImpersonationHelper.java:26)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.security.ImpersonationHelper.runWithSystemAuthority(ImpersonationHelper.java:17)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.security.ImpersonationHelper$1.run(ImpersonationHelper.java:41)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: File '<bamboo-home>/xml-data/configuration/administration.xml' cannot be written to


Cause

Bamboo user does not have write permissions on <bamboo-home>/xml-data/configuration/administration.xml file.

Solution

  1. Stop Bamboo;
  2. Grant write permissions to <bamboo-home>/xml-data/configuration/administration.xml file and make sure that Bamboo user is able to edit this file;
  3. Copy the administration.xml file from a Bamboo backup and paste in <bamboo-home>/xml-data/configuration/administration.xml;
  4. Start Bamboo


Last modified on Mar 31, 2021

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