Confluence fails to start
Asked by Joshua Hintze:

I've been running confluence server for approximately 2 years. I'm currently running version 6.6.0. The other night I restarted my server and not confluence will not start. I have confluence running on a VM so I even tried restoring the VM from a week ago and it still doesn't start. Catalina output log shows the following:

10-Jul-2019 23:20:19.242 WARNING \[main\] org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.SetPropertiesRule.begin \[SetPropertiesRule\]{Server} Setting property 'debug' to '0' did not find amatching property.  
10-Jul-2019 23:20:19.360 WARNING \[main\] org.apache.catalina.startup.SetAllPropertiesRule.begin \[SetAllPropertiesRule\]{Server/Service/Connector} Setting property 'debug' to '0' did not find a matching property.  
10-Jul-2019 23:20:19.411 WARNING \[main\] org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.SetPropertiesRule.begin \[SetPropertiesRule\]{Server/Service/Engine} Setting property 'debug' to '0'did not find a matching property.  
10-Jul-2019 23:20:19.414 WARNING \[main\] org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.SetPropertiesRule.begin \[SetPropertiesRule\]{Server/Service/Engine/Host} Setting property 'debug' to '0' did not find a matching property.  
10-Jul-2019 23:20:19.485 WARNING \[main\] org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.SetPropertiesRule.begin \[SetPropertiesRule\]{Server/Service/Engine/Host/Context} Setting property 'debug' to '0' did not find a matching property.  
10-Jul-2019 23:20:19.549 WARNING \[main\] org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.SetPropertiesRule.begin \[SetPropertiesRule\]{Server/Service/Engine/Host/Context} Setting property 'debug' to '0' did not find a matching property.  
10-Jul-2019 23:20:20.034 INFO \[main\] org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol.init Initializing ProtocolHandler \["http-nio-8090"\]  
10-Jul-2019 23:20:20.062 INFO \[main\] org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioSelectorPool.getSharedSelector Using a shared selector for servlet write/read  
10-Jul-2019 23:20:20.065 INFO \[main\] org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load Initialization processed in 942 ms  
10-Jul-2019 23:20:20.070 INFO \[main\] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.startInternal Starting service Tomcat-Standalone  
10-Jul-2019 23:20:20.070 INFO \[main\] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.startInternal Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/8.0.47  
10-Jul-2019 23:20:22.810 INFO \[localhost-startStop-2\] org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext.log Spring WebApplicationInitializers detected on classpath: \[com.atlassian.synchrony.proxy.SynchronyDispatcherServletInitializer@55263da7\]  
2019-07-10 23:20:24,031 INFO \[localhost-startStop-1\] \[com.atlassian.confluence.lifecycle\] contextInitialized Starting Confluence 6.6.0 \[build 7502 based on commit hash 177212298c6461c885dbbafed4e632d4bbbd984f\] - synchrony version 2.1.0-release-confluence_6.5-1a01ab2d

Killed

I even tried to update to 6.15.X and it has the exact same problem.

Any suggestions? Thank you in advance!


Answers:
author: Joshua Hintze
body: It turns out I had this virus....

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-security-advisory-2019-03-20-966660264.html?_ga=2.74508817.2001367805.1562817689-888461918.1546727566>

Awesome! Not. Now trying to fix and repair if possible.


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