Cannot Delete Issue Due to File Permission

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Symptoms

The following appears in the atlassian-jira.log:

2012-12-06 17:18:36,549 http-bio-8443-exec-87 ERROR user1 1038x5652x1 w1ttgm 10.32.4.66 /secure/DeleteIssue.jspa [jira.bc.issue.DefaultIssueService]There was an exception while trying to delete the issue 'TPP-1'.
com.atlassian.jira.exception.RemoveException: Attachment path '/var/atlassian/application-data/jira/data/attachments/TPP/TPP-1' is not a directory
at com.atlassian.jira.issue.managers.DefaultAttachmentManager.deleteAttachmentDirectory(DefaultAttachmentManager.java:241)
at com.atlassian.jira.issue.managers.DefaultAttachmentManager.deleteAttachmentDirectory(DefaultAttachmentManager.java:228)
at com.atlassian.jira.issue.managers.DefaultIssueDeleteHelper.removeAttachments(DefaultIssueDeleteHelper.java:176)
at com.atlassian.jira.issue.managers.DefaultIssueDeleteHelper.deleteIssue(DefaultIssueDeleteHelper.java:109)
at com.atlassian.jira.issue.managers.DefaultIssueManager.deleteIssue(DefaultIssueManager.java:634)
at com.atlassian.jira.bc.issue.DefaultIssueService.delete(DefaultIssueService.java:348)
at com.atlassian.jira.bc.issue.DefaultIssueService.delete(DefaultIssueService.java:318)
at com.atlassian.jira.web.action.issue.DeleteIssue.doExecute(DeleteIssue.java:27) <+1> (ActionSupport.java:165)
at com.atlassian.jira.action.JiraActionSupport.execute(JiraActionSupport.java:82) <+7> (DefaultInterceptorChain.java:39) (NestedInterceptorChain.java:31) (ChainedInterceptor.java:16) (DefaultInterceptorChain.java:35) (GenericDispatcher.java:221) (GenericDispatcher.java:150) (JiraWebworkActionDispatcher.java:153)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722) <+14> (ApplicationFilterChain.java:305) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) (ChainedFilterStepRunner.java:78) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) (XContentTypeOptionsNoSniffFilter.java:22) (AbstractHttpFilter.java:31) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) (HeaderSanitisingFilter.java:44) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) (ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) (IteratingFilterChain.java:46) (DelegatingPluginFilter.java:66)
at com.atlassian.labs.botkiller.BotKillerFilter.doFilter(BotKillerFilter.java:36) <+3> (DelegatingPluginFilter.java:74) (IteratingFilterChain.java:42) (DelegatingPluginFilter.java:66)

Cause

The permissions to the attachment path has been changed, which prevents JIRA from deleting the issue and accompanied attachments.  

Resolution

  1. Stop JIRA
  2. Navigate to the file path listed in the Attachment Path error
  3. Update the permission to the path to allow read/write access for the user starting JIRA
  4. Start JIRA
Last modified on Mar 30, 2016

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