Bundled Elasticsearch/OpenSearch does not start after installing or upgrading Bitbucket Data Center using binaries

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Summary

Bundled Elasticsearch/OpenSearch does not start after installing or upgrading Bitbucket Data Center using Linux binaries.

Environment

  • Bitbucket Data Center
  • Linux
  • Embedded Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

Diagnosis

Running the ps command below shows only one java process running for Bitbucket and no java process is shown for Elasticsearch/OpenSearch:

> ps aux | grep java 
user        6113 10.2 25.4 4450132 1036100 ?     Sl   13:57   2:09 /opt/atlassian/bitbucket/7.4.0/jre/bin/java -classpath /opt/atlassian/bitbucket/7.4.0/app -Datlassian.standalone=BITBUCKET -Dbitbucket.home=/var/atlassian/application-data/bitbucket -Dbitbucket.install=/opt/atlassian/bitbucket/7.4.0 -Xms512m -Xmx1g -XX:+UseG1GC -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Dsun.jnu.encoding=UTF-8 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/var/atlassian/application-data/bitbucket/tmp -Djava.library.path=/opt/atlassian/bitbucket/7.4.0/lib/native;/var/atlassian/application-data/bitbucket/lib/native com.atlassian.bitbucket.internal.launcher.BitbucketServerLauncher start
user    6580  0.0  0.0  17676   660 pts/0    S+   14:18   0:00 grep --color=auto java


The output above only shows the Bitbucket process, but it is expected to have a second java process for Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, such as in the example below:

For ElasticSearch

user    7441  115 30.5 4096488 1247196 pts/0 Sl   14:35   0:12 /opt/atlassian/bitbucket/7.4.0/jre/bin/java -Des.networkaddress.cache.ttl=60 -Des.networkaddress.cache.negative.ttl=10 -XX:+AlwaysPreTouch -Xss1m -Djava.awt.headless=true -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Djna.nosys=true -XX:-OmitStackTraceInFastThrow -Dio.netty.noUnsafe=true -Dio.netty.noKeySetOptimization=true -Dio.netty.recycler.maxCapacityPerThread=0 -Dio.netty.allocator.numDirectArenas=0 -Dlog4j.shutdownHookEnabled=false -Dlog4j2.disable.jmx=true -Djava.locale.providers=COMPAT -Xms1g -Xmx1g -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=75 -XX:+UseCMSInitiatingOccupancyOnly -XX:+AlwaysPreTouch -Xss1m -Djava.awt.headless=true -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Djna.nosys=true -XX:-OmitStackTraceInFastThrow -Dio.netty.noUnsafe=true -Dio.netty.noKeySetOptimization=true -Dio.netty.recycler.maxCapacityPerThread=0 -Dlog4j.shutdownHookEnabled=false -Dlog4j2.disable.jmx=true -Djava.io.tmpdir=/var/atlassian/application-data/bitbucket/tmp/search -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -XX:HeapDumpPath=data -XX:ErrorFile=logs/hs_err_pid%p.log -XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+PrintGCDateStamps -XX:+PrintTenuringDistribution -XX:+PrintGCApplicationStoppedTime -Xloggc:logs/gc.log -XX:+UseGCLogFileRotation -XX:NumberOfGCLogFiles=32 -XX:GCLogFileSize=64m -XX:MaxDirectMemorySize=536870912 -Des.path.home=/opt/atlassian/bitbucket/7.4.0/elasticsearch -Des.path.conf=/var/atlassian/application-data/bitbucket/shared/search -Des.distribution.flavor=oss -Des.distribution.type=zip -Des.bundled_jdk=true -cp /opt/atlassian/bitbucket/7.4.0/elasticsearch/lib/* org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch -d -p /var/atlassian/application-data/bitbucket/log/search/elasticsearch.pid

For Opensearch

atlbitb+ 13091     1 93 11:25 pts/1    00:00:02 /opt/atlassian/bitbucket/7.21.3/jre/bin/java -Xshare:auto -Dopensearch.networkaddress.cache.ttl=60 -Dopensearch.networkaddress.cache.negative.ttl=10 -XX:+AlwaysPreTouch -Xss1m -Djava.awt.headless=true -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Djna.nosys=true -XX:-OmitStackTraceInFastThrow -Dio.netty.noUnsafe=true -Dio.netty.noKeySetOptimization=true -Dio.netty.recycler.maxCapacityPerThread=0 -Dio.netty.allocator.numDirectArenas=0 -Dlog4j.shutdownHookEnabled=false -Dlog4j2.disable.jmx=true -Djava.locale.providers=SPI,JRE -Xms1g -Xmx1g -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=75 -XX:+UseCMSInitiatingOccupancyOnly -Djava.io.tmpdir=/var/atlassian/application-data/bitbucket_new/tmp/search -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -XX:HeapDumpPath=data -XX:ErrorFile=logs/hs_err_pid%p.log -XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+PrintGCDateStamps -XX:+PrintTenuringDistribution -XX:+PrintGCApplicationStoppedTime -Xloggc:logs/gc.log -XX:+UseGCLogFileRotation -XX:NumberOfGCLogFiles=32 -XX:GCLogFileSize=64m -XX:MaxDirectMemorySize=536870912 -Dopensearch.path.home=/opt/atlassian/bitbucket/7.21.3/opensearch -Dopensearch.path.conf=/var/atlassian/application-data/bitbucket_new/shared/search/config -Dopensearch.distribution.type=tar -Dopensearch.bundled_jdk=true -cp /opt/atlassian/bitbucket/7.21.3/opensearch/lib/* org.opensearch.bootstrap.OpenSearch -d -p /var/atlassian/application-data/bitbucket_new/log/search/opensearch.pid


During the installation or the upgrade to Bitbucket data center either the Data Center instance or Upgrade an existing Data Center instance and Install Bitbucket as a service options were chosen

Cause

When selecting Data Center instance or Upgrade an existing Data Center instance options during the installation process, the --no-search switch will be added to the service startup script, causing only Bitbucket to start.

Workaround

  1. Edit /etc/init.d/atlbitbucket script and remove the --no-search from the following line:

    atlbitbucket service
    start() {
        /<bitbucket_install-path>/bin/start-bitbucket.sh --no-search
    }

    To:

    atlbitbucket service
    start() {
        /<bitbucket_install-path>/bin/start-bitbucket.sh
    }
  2. Save the atlbitbucket file.
  3. Restart Bitbucket service.

Solution

Bitbucket data center requires an external Elasticsearch/OpenSearch instance, as detailed in the Install Bitbucket Data Center guide:


Last modified on Aug 9, 2022

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