Confluence automatic indexing fails

Symptoms:

Any operation that relies on Quartz scheduling fail to start. eg. automatic indexing, mail queue flush, etc.

We have not gotten to the root cause of the issue yet, but I have created this issue so we can track the number of people affected by this and have one area to put down the set of instructions.

Workaround

The issue appears to be related to the quartz library we include with confluence. This was upgrade to 1.6.1 in Confluence 3.2. Please try the latest version of quartz where we believe the issue is resolved. To do so:

1) Shutdown confluence
2) Make a backup of your <CONFLUENCE_INSTALL>/confluence/WEB-INF/lib/quartz-1.6.1.jar
3) Delete your <CONFLUENCE_INSTALL>/confluence/WEB-INF/lib/quartz-1.6.1.jar and copy into your <CONFLUENCE_INSTALL>/confluence/WEB-INF/lib the attached quartz-1.8.0.jar.
4) Restart confluence

Wait to see if the problem can be reproduced. If it can, please raise an issue in http://support.atlassian.com (or comment in your existing one).