[atlassian.jira.startup.ClusteringChecklistLauncher] Clustering startup check failed
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Symptoms
One or more of the nodes fail to start up, the web UI for the node says either or both of the following:
- JIRA is configured with a cluster.properties file, but the node ID is not set.
- JIRA is configured with a cluster.properties file, but the shared home directory is not set.
The following appears in the atlassian-jira.log:
2014-06-17 15:20:32,925 localhost-startStop-1 FATAL [atlassian.jira.startup.JiraStartupLogger]
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JIRA is configured with a cluster.properties file, but the shared home directory is not set.
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2014-06-17 15:20:32,925 localhost-startStop-1 FATAL [atlassian.jira.startup.JiraStartupLogger]
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JIRA is configured with a cluster.properties file, but the node ID is not set.
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2014-06-17 15:20:33,138 localhost-startStop-1 FATAL [atlassian.jira.startup.ClusteringChecklistLauncher] JIRA Cluster Shared Home Check failed: JIRA is configured with a cluster.properties file, but the shared home directory is not set.
2014-06-17 15:20:33,138 localhost-startStop-1 FATAL [atlassian.jira.startup.ClusteringChecklistLauncher] Clustering startup check failed.
2014-06-17 15:20:33,138 localhost-startStop-1 FATAL [atlassian.jira.startup.ClusteringChecklistLauncher] JIRA Cluster Node ID Check failed: JIRA is configured with a cluster.properties file, but the node ID is not set.
2014-06-17 15:20:33,138 localhost-startStop-1 FATAL [atlassian.jira.startup.ClusteringChecklistLauncher] Clustering startup check failed.
Cause
The cluster.properties file under the local <JIRA-HOME> is missing or not readable by the user running JIRA.
Resolution
- Make sure the
cluster.propertiesfile is readable by the user running JIRA on the cluster node. - Make sure it has the node id and the shared home properly defined.