Issue comment, creation, and mail notifications stop working

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Symptoms

The creation and of issues, comments, and automatic mail notifications stop functioning correctly in Jira.

Similar errors appear in the: atlassian-jira.log:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 2016-02-29 22:19:53,532 Caesium-1-1 ERROR anonymous Mail handler used by Jira Service Desk. Do not modify or delete. 10,300 [c.a.jira.service.ServiceRunner] An error occurred while trying to run service with ID '11000'. This method is not supported in an UnloadableJiraServiceContainer java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: This method is not supported in an UnloadableJiraServiceContainer at com.atlassian.jira.service.UnloadableJiraServiceContainer.setLastRun(UnloadableJiraServiceContainer.java:107) at com.atlassian.jira.service.ServiceRunner.runService(ServiceRunner.java:91) at com.atlassian.jira.service.ServiceRunner.runServiceId(ServiceRunner.java:54) at com.atlassian.jira.service.ServiceRunner.runJob(ServiceRunner.java:37) at com.atlassian.scheduler.core.JobLauncher.runJob(JobLauncher.java:153) at com.atlassian.scheduler.core.JobLauncher.launchAndBuildResponse(JobLauncher.java:118) at com.atlassian.scheduler.core.JobLauncher.launch(JobLauncher.java:97) at com.atlassian.scheduler.caesium.impl.CaesiumSchedulerService.launchJob(CaesiumSchedulerService.java:453) at com.atlassian.scheduler.caesium.impl.CaesiumSchedulerService.executeClusteredJob(CaesiumSchedulerService.java:447) at com.atlassian.scheduler.caesium.impl.CaesiumSchedulerService.executeQueuedJob(CaesiumSchedulerService.java:394) at com.atlassian.scheduler.caesium.impl.CaesiumSchedulerService$1.consume(CaesiumSchedulerService.java:279) at com.atlassian.scheduler.caesium.impl.CaesiumSchedulerService$1.consume(CaesiumSchedulerService.java:275) at com.atlassian.scheduler.caesium.impl.SchedulerQueueWorker.executeJob(SchedulerQueueWorker.java:78) at com.atlassian.scheduler.caesium.impl.SchedulerQueueWorker.executeNextJob(SchedulerQueueWorker.java:70) at com.atlassian.scheduler.caesium.impl.SchedulerQueueWorker.run(SchedulerQueueWorker.java:40) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

Cause

This mostly happens after upgrade and plugins are not present to provide the working classes with their associated services. When the service is then called, it enters an error state and stops the entire services queue from processing. All mail handlers are controlled by services and all errors will need to be addressed. Examples of the services are:

1 2 3 Git Revision Indexing Service : com.xiplink.jira.git.revisions.RevisionIndexService Service Delay : 3600000ms Exception getting Service information : java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: This method is not supported in an UnloadableJiraServiceContainer
1 2 3 Comments from emails : com.atlassian.studio.jira.service.services.file.StudioFileService Service Delay : 60000ms Exception getting Service information : java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: This method is not supported in an UnloadableJiraServiceContainer
1 2 3 Subversion Revision Indexing Service : com.atlassian.jira.plugin.ext.subversion.revisions.RevisionIndexService Service Delay : 3600000ms Exception getting Service information : java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: This method is not supported in an UnloadableJiraServiceContainer

Resolution

ℹ️ If you have items in the Mail Queue, you should manually flush all items before shutting Jira down

  • Navigate to'Administration' > 'System' > 'Advanced' > 'Services' (tab) to open the 'Services' page.

    • OR Keyboard shortcut: 'g' + 'g' + type 'Services'

  • Check for any grayed out services

  • If there are any grayed services, remove them

  • Restart Jira

Updated on April 8, 2025

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