Troubleshooting

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Last updated: Feb 28, 2023 by Deborah Scott
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JSU for Jira Server/Data Center

This is the documentation of JSU for Jira Server/Data Center. If you are using JSU on Jira Cloud, see our JSU Cloud documentation.

This page provides general troubleshooting tips for the JSU app. If you encounter problems using a particular module, please refer to the documentation or search our knowledge base. We recommend you test your workflows in a test project or separate test instance before committing your rules in production.
If you have read our documentation, analyzed your log files, and tried different configurations, yet continue to have issues, get in touch with our Support team.

Some or all functionality not working

In rare cases, Jira may have difficulty enabling JSU. Usually, this can be solved by uninstalling/re-installing, reset, or reload.

We recommend checking the following:

  • Manage add-ons: is JSU enabled, and all modules enabled?

  • Check your log files, serious problems usually leave a stacktrace. Do you see a reference to a class com.googlecode.jsu.* (to determine which module cannot be loaded)?

  • Re-install the app

Reinstall JSU 

Have you tried to remove the JSU app and reinstall it in the Jira administration? (Without restarting Jira)
See also Atlassian's guidance on uninstalling add-ons.

If reinstalling JSU in Jira administration does not work, try it with a restart of Jira: 

  • Uninstall JSU

  • Stop Jira

  • Perform a backup of your Jira installation and database

  • If you could not uninstall JSU before, delete the file $JIRA_HOME/plugins/installed-plugins/*jira-suite-utilities*.jar

  • Delete the following two directories: $JIRA_HOME/plugins/.bundled-plugins and $JIRA_HOME/plugins/.osgi-plugins (they will be recreated)

  • Start Jira

  • Install JSU

No configurations (for example workflow or customer field related) will be removed when reinstalling, however, it's always a good idea to perform a backup.

Install an older version of JSU

Follow the steps to reinstall the app, but install an older version.

You might lose some functionality or potentially re-introduce some bugs that have been fixed in a newer version. Generally, it is not a good idea to downgrade JSU.

Configurations saved with a newer version of JSU, might not be compatible with an older version of JSU. We provide only compatibility for updates of JSU.

Bean dependency problems with messages in the log file

In rare cases, we have had reports that users received a 404 error message in the browser. Check the log file for messages similar to the following:

Error creating bean with name 'com.googlecode.jsu.actions.ConfigurationAction': Unsatisfied dependency expressed through constructor argument with index 0 of type

This issue was due to a conflict with another add-on. We resolved this issue in JSU version 2.5.2. We recommend updating to the latest version of JSU.

Debug the JSU app

To enable JSU debug messages:

Temporarily (until the next Jira restart)

  1. Log in as a Jira administrator and go to System > Troubleshooting and Support > Logging & Profiling.

  2. Locate and select Configure logging level for another package.

  3. Enter:

com.googlecode.jsu

as Package name and select DEBUG as Logging Level


Repeat for

ch.beecom.jira.jsu

Permanently

Add the following lines to the file WEB-INF/classes/log4j.properties:

log4j.category.com.googlecode.jsu = DEBUG, filelog log4j.additivity.com.googlecode.jsu = false log4j.category.ch.beecom.jira.jsu = DEBUG, filelog log4j.additivity.ch.beecom.jira.jsu = false

Debug log messages are very detailed. Your log file will grow very quickly, and the performance of the whole system can be affected. We recommend enabling the logging only for a very short time on debug log level.