Upgrade to 7.18.3 fail to start. Java mysql driver error.

[Diego Villagra]

Hello, after upgrade to 7.18.3 the starting log:

NOTE: Picked up JDK_JAVA_OPTIONS: --add-opens=java.base/java.lang=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens=java.base/java.io=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens=java.base/java.util=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens=java.base/java.util.concurrent=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens=java.rmi/sun.rmi.transport=ALL-UNNAMED
[0.000s][warning][gc] -Xloggc is deprecated. Will use -Xlog:gc:/opt/atlassian/confluence/logs/gc-2022-07-18_21-19-49.log instead.
18-Jul-2022 21:19:50.061 INFO [main] org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol.init Initializing ProtocolHandler ["http-nio-8090"]
18-Jul-2022 21:19:50.083 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load Server initialization in [463] milliseconds
18-Jul-2022 21:19:50.088 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.startInternal Starting service [Tomcat-Standalone]
18-Jul-2022 21:19:50.089 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.startInternal Starting Servlet engine: [Apache Tomcat/9.0.63]
18-Jul-2022 21:19:51.102 INFO [Catalina-utility-2] org.apache.jasper.servlet.TldScanner.scanJars At least one JAR was scanned for TLDs yet contained no TLDs. Enable debug logging for this logger for a complete list of JARs that were scanned but no TLDs were found in them. Skipping unneeded JARs during scanning can improve startup time and JSP compilation time.
18-Jul-2022 21:19:51.297 INFO [Catalina-utility-2] org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext.log 1 Spring WebApplicationInitializers detected on classpath
18-Jul-2022 21:19:51.459 INFO [Catalina-utility-2] org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext.log Initializing Spring DispatcherServlet 'dispatcher'
21:19:51 [Catalina-utility-2] o.a.c.c.C.[.[.[/synchrony-proxy][INFO] log - Initializing Spring DispatcherServlet 'dispatcher'
2022-07-18 21:19:51,832 INFO [Catalina-utility-1] [com.atlassian.confluence.lifecycle] contextInitialized Starting Confluence 7.18.3 [build 8804 based on commit hash 8aa9917e1c4021c0b260708b5b793e53b1c270dc] - synchrony version 4.1.0
Loading class `com.mysql.jdbc.Driver'. This is deprecated. The new driver class is `com.mysql.cj.jdbc.Driver'. The driver is automatically registered via the SPI and manual loading of the driver class is generally unnecessary.
WARNING: An illegal reflective access operation has occurred
WARNING: Illegal reflective access by org.apache.felix.framework.ext.ClassPathExtenderFactory$DefaultClassLoaderExtender (file:/opt/atlassian/confluence/confluence/WEB-INF/lib/org.apache.felix.framework-5.6.12.jar) to method java.net.URLClassLoader.addURL(java.net.URL)
WARNING: Please consider reporting this to the maintainers of org.apache.felix.framework.ext.ClassPathExtenderFactory$DefaultClassLoaderExtender
WARNING: Use --illegal-access=warn to enable warnings of further illegal reflective access operations
WARNING: All illegal access operations will be denied in a future release

[Florian Bonniec]

Hi,

You may need to copy paste the MySQL driver as explained in this documentation (step 5).

https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/database-setup-for-mysql-128747.html