Confluence Fails to Start After Crowd Integration
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*Except Fisheye and Crucible
Symptoms
An error similar to below is found in atlassian-confluence.log:
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2009-12-22 11:59:09,408 ERROR [main] [springframework.web.context.ContextLoader] initWebApplicationContext
Context initialization failed org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean
with name 'pluginResourceLocator' defined in class path resource [services/pluginServiceContext.xml]:
Cannot resolve reference to bean 'webResourceIntegration' while setting constructor argument with index 0;
nested exception is
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: <massive caused by clauses>
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Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Cannot specify repository without a key
at com.atlassian.user.configuration.xml.XMLConfigurationParser.parseRepositoryIdentifier(XMLConfigurationParser.java:159)
at com.atlassian.user.configuration.xml.XMLConfigurationParser.parseRepositories(XMLConfigurationParser.java:112)
at com.atlassian.user.configuration.xml.XMLConfigurationParser.parse(XMLConfigurationParser.java:79)
at com.atlassian.user.configuration.xml.XMLConfiguration.init(XMLConfiguration.java:91)
Cause
Confluence Atlassian User component failed to parse the configuration set in <confluence install>/confluence/WEB-INF/classes/atlassian-user.xml. A wrong configuration used in the file can cause this. For example, you may have duplicate <atlassian-user> and <repositories> as a result of copy and paste:
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<atlassian-user>
<repositories>
<atlassian-user>
<repositories>
<crowd key="crowd" name="Crowd Repository"/>
</repositories>
</atlassian-user>
</repositories>
</atlassian-user>
Resolution
Make sure that your atlassian-user.xmlonly contains the following:
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<atlassian-user>
<repositories>
<crowd key="crowd" name="Crowd Repository"/>
</repositories>
</atlassian-user>
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