Cannot disable Usage Statistics Plugin Via the User Interface after Upgrading
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*Except Fisheye and Crucible
Symptoms
After upgrading Confluence, the following appears in the atlassian-confluence.log:
2010-08-16 22:46:24,071 ERROR [main] [atlassian.plugin.manager.DefaultPluginManager] enableConfiguredPluginModule There was an error loading the descriptor 'Check Confluence is not Clustered' of plugin 'com.atlassian.confluence.ext.usage'. Disabling.
com.atlassian.spring.container.ComponentNotFoundException: Failed to find component: Error creating bean with name 'unclusteredOnly' defined in class path resource [x]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.RuntimeException: This plugin cannot be used in a cluster.
at com.atlassian.spring.container.SpringContainerContext.getComponent(SpringContainerContext.java:79)
and there is no UI option to disable the plugin via the UI.
Cause
This plugin is not Data Center compatible, so it is automatically disabled on startup.
Resolution
To clear the error from the logs, delete the plugin from the database as in the following document: