HTTP 500 error when accessing and or editing Jira filter - write.lock: Input/output error
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Summary
Error HTTP 500 will be displayed on the UI, related error will be registered on atlassian-jira.log:
2023-02-28 09:29:26,932-0800 http-nio-8080-exec-4 ERROR [c.a.j.web.servlet.InternalServerErrorServlet] {errorId=, interpretedMsg=, cause=com.atlassian.jira.util.RuntimeIOException: java.nio.file.FileSystemException: /var/atlassian/application-data/jira/caches/indexesV1/entities/searchrequest/write.lock: Input/output error, stacktrace=com.atlassian.jira.util.RuntimeIOException: java.nio.file.FileSystemException: /var/atlassian/application-data/jira/caches/indexesV1/entities/searchrequest/write.lock: Input/output error
at com.atlassian.jira.index.WriterWrapper$1.get(WriterWrapper.java:88)
at com.atlassian.jira.index.WriterWrapper$1.get(WriterWrapper.java:79)
at com.atlassian.jira.index.WriterWrapper.<init>(WriterWrapper.java:73)
at com.atlassian.jira.index.WriterWrapper.<init>(WriterWrapper.java:79)
[...]Cause
Jira fails to acquire the Index lock, most commonly, this happens when the filesystem has become corrupted, or permissions are incorrect.
Solution
- Stop your Jira instance (or if Data Center, the affected node)
- If still present, delete the write.lock file on the path mentioned in the error (you may need to enforce root/administrator permission to do so)
- Restart the Jira instance
Should you not be able to delete the file with Jira stopped, then verify if the system is able to list it's metadata (ls -la in Linux, dir in Windows). If this fails, or presents inconsistent results (such as "?" instead of file owner), reach out for your infrastructure team to verify possible hardware failure scenarios, then restore a Jira backup.