Upgrading to JIRA 6.1 Fails Due To Duplicate Project Keys

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Symptoms

When upgrading to JIRA 6.1 or later process stops and the following appears in the atlassian-jira.log:

INFO      [atlassian.jira.upgrade.UpgradeManagerImpl] Performing Upgrade Task: Create table tracking historical Project keys
...
ERROR      [atlassian.jira.upgrade.UpgradeManagerImpl] Exception thrown during upgrade: org.ofbiz.core.entity.GenericEntityException: while inserting: [GenericEntity:ProjectKey]... (SQL Exception while executing the following:INSERT INTO PUBLIC.project_key (ID, PROJECT_ID, PROJECT_KEY) VALUES (?, ?, ?) (Violation of unique index: IDX_ALL_PROJECT_KEYS in statement [INSERT INTO PUBLIC.project_key (ID, PROJECT_ID, PROJECT_KEY) VALUES (?, ?, ?)]))

Cause

There is more than one project in PROJECT table with the same project key. Following sql will return list of offending project keys.

SELECT pkey, COUNT(*) FROM project GROUP BY pkey HAVING COUNT(*) > 1;

 

Resolution

Always back up your data before performing any modification to the database. If possible, try your modifications on a test server.

  1. Find offending projects. You can use following sql to find those projects. Replace TEST with duplicated project key.

    SELECT * FROM project WHERE pkey = 'TEST';
  2. Resolve key conflicts. You can either remove unused project or change one of project keys.
  3. Repeat steps 2-3 for all duplicated keys.
Last modified on Mar 30, 2016

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