Error in installing Jira Service Management License.

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Problem

Installing a new Jira Service Management and updating the license results in Connection refused error.

  • Download Jira Service Management 3 and above OBR.
  • Upload the Jira Service Management obr using the Upload an application in Version and licenses.
  • Paste the new license.
  • Updating the license failed with connection refused error.

The following appears in the atlassian-jira.log

2016-04-20 10:00:12,862 Caesium-1-2 INFO ServiceRunner     [c.a.crowd.directory.DbCachingRemoteDirectory] failed synchronisation complete for directory [ 10001 ] in [ 4ms ]
2016-04-20 10:00:12,893 Caesium-1-4 ERROR ServiceRunner     [c.atlassian.scheduler.JobRunnerResponse] Unable to synchronise directory
com.atlassian.crowd.exception.OperationFailedException: org.apache.http.conn.HttpHostConnectException: Connect to localhost:8095 [localhost/127.0.0.1, localhost/0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1] failed: Connection refused
	at com.atlassian.crowd.integration.rest.service.RestExecutor$MethodExecutor.andReceive(RestExecutor.java:493)
	at com.atlassian.crowd.integration.rest.service.RestCrowdClient.searchUsers(RestCrowdClient.java:557)
	at com.atlassian.crowd.directory.RemoteCrowdDirectory.searchUsers(RemoteCrowdDirectory.java:371)
	at com.atlassian.crowd.directory.ldap.cache.RemoteDirectoryCacheRefresher.findAllRemoteUsers(RemoteDirectoryCacheRefresher.java:55)
	at com.atlassian.crowd.directory.ldap.cache.RemoteDirectoryCacheRefresher.synchroniseAllUsers(RemoteDirectoryCacheRefresher.java:90)
..
Caused by: org.apache.http.conn.HttpHostConnectException: Connect to localhost:8095 [localhost/127.0.0.1, localhost/0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1] failed: Connection refused
	at org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultHttpClientConnectionOperator.connect(DefaultHttpClientConnectionOperator.java:151)
	at org.apache.http.impl.conn.PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.connect(PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.java:353)
	at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.MainClientExec.establishRoute(MainClientExec.java:380)
	at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.MainClientExec.execute(MainClientExec.java:236)
	at org.apache.http.impl.client.cache.CachingExec.callBackend(CachingExec.java:592)
..
Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
	at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
	at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:350)
	at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:206)


Diagnosis

Environment

  • This happens in Jira 7 and above.

Cause

The cause is not known at the moment.

Workaround

Please restart the server and try to update the license.

If this workaround does not help, please reach out to Atlassian Support for further troubleshooting.


Last modified on Feb 5, 2025

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