Setup Database Failed - Postgres 9.3 with evaluation license
Asked by Steve Nyhof:

I have installed the latest Confluence and set up a postgres database as per the doco. I have used all the default ports, etc., as well as the database \& user names in the doco examples. At the moment I am trying to get this working on a Win7 x64 laptop in preparation for full production deployment on a Win Server 2008 VM.

Everything goes fine until configuration of the database. When I get to the Setup Database I use the 'Direct JDBC' option and enter the parameters exactly as shown in the examples, except of course with the password that I specified when creating db user 'confluenceuser'.

Note: I had an issue trying to buy the production license so while that is being resolved I have entered an evaluation license. The doco does not say specifically that the eval license cannot be used with an external database, but is this possibly the issue?

When I click 'Next' I get the following error:

```
Setup Database FailedThe following error(s) occurred:Configuring the database failed. Couldn't create the database schema.Error creating bean with name 'cacheStatisticsManager' defined in class path resource [services/cacheServiceContext.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'ehCacheStatisticsManager' defined in URL [jar:file:/C:/confluence/atlassian-confluence-5.5.3/confluence/WEB-INF/lib/confluence-cache-ehcache-5.5.3.jar!/cacheProviderContext.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'userI18NBeanFactory' while setting constructor argument; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'userI18NBeanFactory' defined in class path resource [i18NContext.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'localeManager' while setting bean property 'localeManager'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'localeManager' defined in class path resource [i18NContext.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'settingsManager' while setting bean property 'settingsManager'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'settingsManager' defined in class path resource [applicationContext.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'upgradeManager' while setting bean property 'upgradeManager'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'upgradeManager' defined in class path resource [upgradeSubsystemContext.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'personalSpaceCreatorCheckUpgradeTask' while setting bean property 'upgradeTasks' with key [20]; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'personalSpaceCreatorCheckUpgradeTask' defined in class path resource [upgradeSubsystemContext.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'userAccessor' while setting constructor argument; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'userAccessor' defined in class path resource [applicationContext.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'userAccessorTarget' while setting bean property 'target'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'userAccessorTarget' defined in class path resource [applicationContext.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'repositoryAccessor' while setting constructor argument; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'repositoryAccessor' defined in class path resource [atlassianUserContext.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'userManager' while setting bean property 'userManager'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'userManager' defined in class path resource [atlassianUserContext.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'backingUserManager' while setting constructor argument; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'backingUserManager' defined in class path resource [atlassianUserContext.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'crowdService' while setting constructor argument; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'crowdService' defined in class path resource [importedEmbeddedCrowdContext.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'crowdServiceTarget' while setting bean property 'target'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'crowdServiceTarget': FactoryBean threw exception on object creation; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'unfilteredCrowdServiceTarget' defined in class path resource [importedEmbeddedCrowdContext.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'crowdApplicationService' while setting constructor argument; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'crowdApplicationService' defined in class path resource [importedEmbeddedCrowdContext.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'crowdDirectoryManager' while setting constructor argument; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'crowdDirectoryManager' defined in class path resource [importedEmbeddedCrowdContext.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'directoryInstanceLoader' while setting constructor argument; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'directoryInstanceLoader' defined in class path resource [importedEmbeddedCrowdContext.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'crowdInternalDirectoryLoader' while setting constructor argument with key [0]; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'crowdInternalDirectoryLoader' defined in class path resource [importedEmbeddedCrowdContext.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'instanceFactory' while setting constructor argument; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'instanceFactory' defined in class path resource [embeddedCrowdContext.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.String cannot be cast to java.lang.ClassContext initialization failed: Error creating bean with name 'cacheStatisticsManager' defined in class path resource [services/cacheServiceContext.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'ehCacheStatisticsManager' defined in URL [jar:file:/C:/confluence/atlassian-confluence-5.5.3/confluence/WEB-INF/lib/confluence-cache-ehcache-5.5.3.jar!/cacheProviderContext.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'userI18NBeanFactory' while setting constructor argument; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'userI18NBeanFactory' defined in class path resource [i18NContext.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'localeManager' while setting bean property 'localeManager'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'localeManager' defined in class path resource [i18NContext.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'settingsManager' while setting bean property 'settingsManager'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'settingsManager' defined in class path resource [applicationContext.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'upgradeManager' while setting bean property 'upgradeManager'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'upgradeManager' defined in class path resource [upgradeSubsystemContext.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'personalSpaceCreatorCheckUpgradeTask' while setting bean property 'upgradeTasks' with key [20]; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'personalSpaceCreatorCheckUpgradeTask' defined in class path resource [upgradeSubsystemContext.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'userAccessor' while setting constructor argument; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'userAccessor' defined in class path resource [applicationContext.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'userAccessorTarget' while setting bean property 'target'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'userAccessorTarget' defined in class path resource [applicationContext.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'repositoryAccessor' while setting constructor argument; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'repositoryAccessor' defined in class path resource [atlassianUserContext.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'userManager' while setting bean property 'userManager'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'userManager' defined in class path resource [atlassianUserContext.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'backingUserManager' while setting constructor argument; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'backingUserManager' defined in class path resource [atlassianUserContext.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'crowdService' while setting constructor argument; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'crowdService' defined in class path resource [importedEmbeddedCrowdContext.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'crowdServiceTarget' while setting bean property 'target'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'crowdServiceTarget': FactoryBean threw exception on object creation; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'unfilteredCrowdServiceTarget' defined in class path resource [importedEmbeddedCrowdContext.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'crowdApplicationService' while setting constructor argument; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'crowdApplicationService' defined in class path resource [importedEmbeddedCrowdContext.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'crowdDirectoryManager' while setting constructor argument; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'crowdDirectoryManager' defined in class path resource [importedEmbeddedCrowdContext.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'directoryInstanceLoader' while setting constructor argument; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'directoryInstanceLoader' defined in class path resource [importedEmbeddedCrowdContext.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'crowdInternalDirectoryLoader' while setting constructor argument with key [0]; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'crowdInternalDirectoryLoader' defined in class path resource [importedEmbeddedCrowdContext.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'instanceFactory' while setting constructor argument; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'instanceFactory' defined in class path resource [embeddedCrowdContext.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.String cannot be cast to java.lang.ClassSetting up database instance failed. You can either try it again or or go back to the database selection page:
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Answers:
author: Xavier Masson
body: I can confirm this is a jdk 7 /jdk 8 issue.

going back to JDK 7 solved the problem


author: Branno
body: Howdy Steve!

What version of Java is installed on the server? I've seen these database errors crop up when Java 8 (JRE 1.8) is installed, as Java 8 is not supported currently in Confluence.

Cheers,

Stephen Brannen \| Confluence Support


author: salehparsa
body: Hi Steve,

First of all, I'd like to mention that you can use **external database**even with evaluation license.

According to the above mentioned error, please ensure that your **database user** has **sufficient (Full) permissions**in your database.

Apart from that, please make sure that you have full permissions in ***\<confluence-home\>*** and ***\<confluence-installation\>***directories.

However, if you have sufficient permissiosn in above mentioned directories and your database user , please create a [support ticket](http://support.atlassian.com) and attach the content of following directories for further investigation:

* ***\<confluence-home\>\\logs***
* ***\<confluence-installation\>\\logs***

Cheers,

Saleh

comments: author: Steve Nyhof
body: Hi Saleh

Thanks for your suggestions.

Permissions do not seem to be the issue. I have tried making the db user a super user - same errors. Also yes the user has full permissions on the directories.

I have opened a support ticket and provided the log.

Regards Steve


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