Both old and new directory exist

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Symptoms

After starting Stash, you see the following error:

A fatal error has occurred
The following problem occurred which prevents Atlassian Stash from starting correctly:

  • The Stash home directory could not be upgraded automatically.
    • Both old '/data/stash-home/config' and new '/data/stash-home/shared/config' exist.
    • Both old '/data/stash-home/data' and new '/data/stash-home/shared/data' exist.
    • Both old '/data/stash-home/plugins/installed-plugins' and new '/data/stash-home/shared/plugins/installed-plugins' exist. 
    • Both old '/data/stash-home/data/repositories' and new '/data/stash-home/shared/data/repositories' exist.

Please refer to Both old and new directory exist for more information

Cause

In Stash 3.2, the following file and directories originally located in the root directory of STASH_HOME were moved to a new directory shared:

Before Stash 3.2Stash 3.2
configshared/config
datashared/data
plugins/installed-pluginsshared/plugins/installed-plugins
stash-config.propertiesshared/stash-config.properties

 

If you encounter this message it means:

  • A version of Stash older than 3.2 (doesn't matter which version) pointing to STASH_HOME with the "old" directory structure was running in the server.
  • A new version of Stash (3.2+) was installed which used the existing STASH_HOME. The instance started correctly and the STASH_HOME directory structure was upgraded.
  • Stash was re-started but the older binary (before 3.2) was used. This older version of Stash was unable to find the expected directory structure in STASH_HOME and so it recreated it. Stash looked like a fresh / blank installation.
  • Stash 3.2+ was started and if found both the old and the new directory structure in STASH_HOME. An error page was displayed to inform that the STASH_HOME needs to be fixed.

Last modified on Feb 23, 2016

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