Confluence giving weird exception "Invalid file name for use with -Xloggc" while running on ubuntu EC2

Question

I have installed atlassian-confluence-5.6.3.tar.gz on my Ubuntu server hosted on Amazon EC2. Whenever I am trying to start confluence after un-tarring the above mentioned file it is showing like: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ To run Confluence in the foreground, start the server with start-confluence.sh -fg executing as current user If you encounter issues starting up Confluence, please see the Installation guide at http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Installation+Guide

Server startup logs are located in /home/ubuntu/atlassian-confluence-5.6.4/logs/catalina.out Using CATALINA_BASE: /home/ubuntu/atlassian-confluence-5.6.4 Using CATALINA_HOME: /home/ubuntu/atlassian-confluence-5.6.4 Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /home/ubuntu/atlassian-confluence-5.6.4/temp Using JRE_HOME: /usr Using CLASSPATH: /home/ubuntu/atlassian-confluence-5.6.4/bin/bootstrap.jar:/home/ubuntu/atlassian-confluence-5.6.4/bin/tomcat-juli.jar Using CATALINA_PID: /home/ubuntu/atlassian-confluence-5.6.4/work/catalina.pid Tomcat started. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ But on checking I can see that Confluence have not started. On checking the file /home/ubuntu/atlassian-confluence-5.6.4/logs/catalina.out I can see the following error: ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM warning: ignoring option MaxPermSize=256m; support was removed in 8.0 Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine. Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit. Invalid file name for use with -Xloggc: Filename can only contain the characters [A-Z][a-z][0-9]-_.%[p|t] but it has been /home/ubuntu/atlassian-confluence-5.6.4/logs/gc-2014-11-04_20:26:52.log Note %p or %t can only be used once ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Thanks in advance for your help.

Answer 1

Same problem on Debian 7/JDK8 - Workaround would be to edit setenv.sh: change the date call in -Xloggc section from date +%F_%T to date +%F. Afterwards run touch <CONFLUENCE_HOME>/logs/gc-2014-11-05.log (substitute the date). Confluence should start now.