Error occurred while starting Plugin Manager. Duplicate plugin found (installed version is the same or older) and could not be unloaded

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Symptoms

The following appears in atlassian-jira.log:

2013-07-02 11:02:37,320 localhost-startStop-1 FATAL      [atlassian.jira.upgrade.PluginSystemLauncher] A fatal error occurred during initialisation. JIRA has been locked.
com.atlassian.jira.InfrastructureException: Error occurred while starting Plugin Manager. Duplicate plugin found (installed version is the same or older) and could not be unloaded: 'com.atlassian.jira.plugin.ext.subversion'
	at com.atlassian.jira.ComponentManager$PluginSystem.start(ComponentManager.java:681)
	at com.atlassian.jira.ComponentManager.startJIRA(ComponentManager.java:220)

...
Caused by: com.atlassian.plugin.PluginParseException: Duplicate plugin found (installed version is the same or older) and could not be unloaded: 'com.atlassian.jira.plugin.ext.subversion'
	at com.atlassian.plugin.manager.DefaultPluginManager.addPlugins(DefaultPluginManager.java:689)
	at com.atlassian.plugin.manager.DefaultPluginManager.init(DefaultPluginManager.java:178)

Cause

Duplicate JIRA Subversion Plugin installed.

Resolution

  • Shutdown JIRA instance
  • Navigate to the JIRA Home Directory\plugins\installed-plugins directory
  • From there, locate the Subversion plugin(s) and remove the duplicate .jar plugin from the directory
  • Restart JIRA instance
  • Perform re indexing process

 

If upgrading JIRA Subversion Plugin to version 0.10.12 or later :

  • Shutdown JIRA instance
  • Remove the following file in the folder "<JIRA instance>/atlassian-jira/WEB-INF/lib
    • atlassian-subversion-plugin-*.jar
    • javasvn-*.jar (if any)
    • svnkit-*.jar (if any)
    • ganymed-*.jar (if any)
    • trilead-*.jar (if any)
  • Restart JIRA.
Last modified on Mar 30, 2016

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