JIRA won't start after upgrade to 5.2
Symptoms
JIRA will not start
The following appears in the catalina.out log file
:
Nov 23, 2012 3:07:04 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
WARNING: Catalina.start using conf/server.xml: Error at (34, 79) : org.apache.catalina.mbeans.ServerLifecycleListener
Nov 23, 2012 3:07:04 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
SEVERE: Cannot start server. Server instance is not configured.
Diagnosis
Upgrade must have been done using an installer. Affects both Windows and Linux systems. Try to use a clean server.xml which shipped with JIRA 5.2 to try and start JIRA. If it starts without any issues, then you have confirmed this issue.
For reference, this is the content of an standard server.xml
file of JIRA 5.2:
Cause
The server.xml from Tomcat 6 is not compatible with Tomcat 7.
Resolution
Once you have confirmed the issue per the Diagnosis, migrate your server.xml customizations by hand to the new server.xml.