Summary
Confluence 6.1 installed with the installer on Linux cannot start with embedded JRE because neither JAVA_HOME nor JRE_HOME are set by setenv script
Environment
Confluence 6.1.0
Ubuntu 14.04
Steps to Reproduce
- Install Confluence with the installer (x64) on Linux
- Choose Not start
- Go to $CONFLUENCE_INSTALL/bin
- ./start_confluence.sh
Expected Results
Confluence started
root@ip-172-31-33-170:/opt/atlassian/confluence/bin# ./start-confluence.sh
To run Confluence in the foreground, start the server with start-confluence.sh -fg
executing using dedicated user: confluence
If you encounter issues starting up Confluence, please see the Installation guide at http:
Server startup logs are located in /opt/atlassian/confluence/logs/catalina.out
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Using Java: /opt/atlassian/confluence/jre2017-03-21 12:42:10,107 INFO [main] [atlassian.confluence.bootstrap.SynchronyProxyWatchdog] A Context element for ${confluence.context.path}/synchrony-proxy is found in /opt/atlassian/confluence/conf/server.xml. No further action is required
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Using CATALINA_BASE: /opt/atlassian/confluence
Using CATALINA_HOME: /opt/atlassian/confluence
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /opt/atlassian/confluence/temp
Using JRE_HOME: /opt/atlassian/confluence/jre/
Using CLASSPATH: /opt/atlassian/confluence/bin/bootstrap.jar:/opt/atlassian/confluence/bin/tomcat-juli.jar
Using CATALINA_PID: /opt/atlassian/confluence/work/catalina.pid
Tomcat started.
Actual Results
Confluence cannot start, no logs are created in catalina.out or Confluence home.
The console showing the issue
root@ip-172-31-33-170:/opt/atlassian/confluence/bin# ./start-confluence.sh
To run Confluence in the foreground, start the server with start-confluence.sh -fg
executing using dedicated user: confluence
If you encounter issues starting up Confluence, please see the Installation guide at http:
Server startup logs are located in /opt/atlassian/confluence/logs/catalina.out
Checking operation system...
Neither the JAVA_HOME nor the JRE_HOME environment variable is defined
Root Cause
The issue is happening because of incorrect logic in the script setjre.sh :
if [ -z "$JAVA_HOME" -a -z "$JRE_HOME" ]; then
echo "Neither the JAVA_HOME nor the JRE_HOME environment variable is defined"
echo "At least one of these environment variable is needed to run this program"
exit 1
fi
fi
if [ -z "$JAVA_HOME" -a "$1" = "debug" ]; then
echo "JAVA_HOME should point to a JDK in order to run in debug mode."
exit 1
fi
if [ -z "$JRE_HOME" ]; then
JRE_HOME="$JAVA_HOME"
fi
echo "Setting JRE_HOME...."
JRE_HOME="/opt/atlassian/confluence/jre/"; export JRE_HOME
When the execution will got into the condition {{ if [ -z "$JAVA_HOME" -a -z "$JRE_HOME" ]}} it terminates with exit 1; so JRE_HOME="/opt/atlassian/confluence/jre/"; export JRE_HOME will never be executed.
There's a bug in the shell script. If there's a /usr/bin/java file, then JRE_HOME will be temporarily set to /usr and then it will be corrected at the end of the script. So this issue happens on a Linux machine that doesn't have the default JVM installed.
Workaround(s)
- Set JAVA_HOME="/opt/atlassian/confluence/jre/" explicitly before starting Confluence (keep in mind that /opt/atlassian/confluence/jre is the path to Confluence installation direcotry and should be adapted if you are using your own path)
- Use Confluence with external Oracle JDK (recommended)
- Remove the exit 1 lines
- Move JRE_HOME="/opt/atlassian/confluence/jre/"; export JRE_HOME to the top of setjre.sh
Bug
High
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