Enabling the JIRA Agile plugin gives the error "The call to the JIRA server did not complete within the timeout period. We are unsure of the result of this operation."
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Symptoms
This problem may occur after upgrading the JIRA Agile plugin and will prevent it from being enabled.
Enabling the JIRA Agile plugin shows the following error:
The call to the JIRA server did not complete within the timeout period. We are unsure of the result of this operation.
The following appears in the atlassian-jira.log:
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Can only register services while bundle is active or activating.
at org.apache.felix.framework.Felix.registerService(Felix.java:2817)
at org.apache.felix.framework.BundleContextImpl.registerService(BundleContextImpl.java:251)
or:
/rest/plugins/1.0/com.pyxis.greenhopper.jira-key [atlassian.plugin.manager.DefaultPluginManager] There was an error loading the descriptor 'JIRA Agile Help' of plugin 'com.pyxis.greenhopper.jira'. Disabling.
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to enable web fragment
at com.atlassian.plugin.web.descriptors.AbstractWebFragmentModuleDescriptor.enabled(AbstractWebFragmentModuleDescriptor.java:133)
at com.atlassian.plugin.web.descriptors.DefaultWebItemModuleDescriptor.enabled(DefaultWebItemModuleDescriptor.java:72)
at com.atlassian.plugin.web.descriptors.DefaultAbstractWebFragmentModuleDescriptor.enabled(DefaultAbstractWebFragmentModuleDescriptor.java:34)
...
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Cannot create object because the plugin container is unavailable for bundle 'com.pyxis.greenhopper.jira'
at com.atlassian.plugin.osgi.factory.OsgiPluginInstalledHelper.getRequiredContainerAccessor(OsgiPluginInstalledHelper.java:219)
at com.atlassian.plugin.osgi.factory.OsgiPlugin.autowire(OsgiPlugin.java:372)
at com.atlassian.plugin.osgi.factory.OsgiPlugin.autowire(OsgiPlugin.java:362)Cause
There are two known causes for this issue:
- The inconsistency of OSGI plugin caches triggered from inappropriate shutdown of Tomcat.
- The Tomcat user not have the correct permissions to access the directory.
Resolution
Option #1
- Stop JIRA;
Remove the below directories, that hold plug-in caches:
<JIRA_HOME>/plugins/.osgi-plugins/ <JIRA_HOME>/plugins/.bundled-plugins/
Those directories will be recreated upon JIRA's next startup.- Ensure that the user which runs JIRA has the correct permissions on these directories (recursively);
- Start JIRA;
We have a bug that is being tracked for this behaviour under JRASERVER-27438 - JIRA fails to start if it can't delete the Felix OSGI cache - please vote and watch it for future updates from our developers on a permanent solution.Option #2
If the above solution does not work, then you're probably facing a timeout problem that is impeding JIRA Agile to completely startup with JIRA. To resolve that, you'll have to increase the timeout JIRA imposes in the plugin loading process.
- Stop JIRA;
Following these instructions, add the below argument to JIRA's startup parameters:
-Datlassian.plugins.enable.wait=300- Start JIRA;
JIRA Agile should now be enabled during startup.