Confluence Doesn't Start Due to Whiteboard Plugin

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Symptoms

Confluence refuses to start. The following appears in the atlassian-confluence.log:

2009-03-11 02:49:52,910 INFO [SpringOsgiExtenderThread-6] [osgi.context.support.OsgiBundleXmlApplicationContext] publishContextAsOsgiServiceIfNecessary Publishing application context as OSGi service with properties {org.springframework.context.service.name=confluence.extra.dynamictasklist2, Bundle-SymbolicName=confluence.extra.dynamictasklist2, Bundle-Version=3.1.1}
2009-03-11 02:50:04,676 ERROR [main] [atlassian.confluence.event.ConfluenceEventManager] publishEvent An exception was encountered while processing the event: com.atlassian.confluence.event.events.admin.ConfluenceReadyEvent[source=com.atlassian.confluence.upgrade.impl.DefaultUpgradeManager@dc942b]
java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1
	at java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1938)
	at org.codehaus.classworlds.uberjar.protocol.jar.NonLockingJarUrlConnection.<init>(NonLockingJarUrlConnection.java:104)
	at org.codehaus.classworlds.uberjar.protocol.jar.NonLockingJarHandler.openConnection(NonLockingJarHandler.java:110)
	at java.net.URL.openConnection(URL.java:945)
	at java.net.URL.openStream(URL.java:1009)
        ........
	at $Proxy6.loadAllPlugins(Unknown Source)
	at com.atlassian.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.init(DefaultPluginManager.java:101)

Cause

Confluence is run with an incompatible Whiteboard plugin.

Resolution

Delete the plugin from Confluence by purging it from the plugindata table:


DELETE FROM plugindata where filename like '%whiteboard%';

Last modified on Mar 30, 2016

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