NoSuchMethodError when Upgrading to Confluence 3.5 with Crowd Due to Invalid Crowd JAR File

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Symptoms

The upgrade to Confluence 3.5 with Crowd integration fails.

The following appears in the atlassian-confluence.log:


Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: com.atlassian.crowd.embedded.api.CrowdDirectoryService.synchroniseDirectory(JZ)V
	at com.atlassian.confluence.upgrade.upgradetask.EmbeddedCrowdSynchronisationUpgradeTask.doUpgrade(EmbeddedCrowdSynchronisationUpgradeTask.java:37)

Cause

The incorrect Crowd JAR file is in use.

Resolution

  1. Remove any crowd JAR files that may have been added from the /lib directory.

Last modified on Mar 30, 2016

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