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How to resolve the "Require strangers to verify their email address?" Instance Setting not saving

Issue After initially setting up a clean Liferay bundle (using my own administrator email domain), I am unable to save the "Require strangers to verify their email address?" Instance Setting, as it fails to save with...

CPU activity is high with large number of open sessions

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Issue High CPU activity can have multiple causes. Reviewing heap dumps may show a large number of objects org.apache.catalina.session.StandardSession. Environment Quarterly Release 2023.Q3, 2023.Q4, 2024.Q1...

ORA-00600 error when accessing to Roles Administration

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Issue When accessing to Roles Administration, the following error message appears: ERROR [https-jsse-nio-8443-exec-41][PortletServlet:109] Unable to process portlet...

"Column count doesn't match value count at row 2" error occurs while upgrading to 2024.q1.1 using MariaDB as database

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Issue Upgrading Liferay DXP 7.3 to Quarterly 2024.q1.1 shows the error "Column count doesn't match value count at row 2" in the log. Environment 2024.q1 MariaDB 10.4 Resolution A possible cause is that the...

Can Liferay run using a JRE instead of a JDK?

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Issue I am using a Java JRE and encountering errors such as: A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment Environment Liferay DXP Liferay Portal Resolution Liferay DXP/Portal requires a TCK-certified...

Captcha text null when using a captcha portlet

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Issue CAPTCHA Verification is being failed. This only occurs when using a custom captcha portlet, captcha components from the portal (for example, the "forgot password" page) work properly. Environment Liferay DXP...

Facing a 403 error while accessing the OOTB APIs

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Note: please note that Liferay has renamed its Liferay Experience Could offerings to Liferay SaaS (formerly LXC) and Liferay PaaS (formerly LXC-SM). Issue Facing a 403 error with the OOTB APIs while...

LDAP causing slowness while logging in

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Issue When LDAP is enabled, the login process takes a long time (about 2 to 3 minutes), causing server performance issues. Expected Result: The login should be relatively quick (a few seconds). Actual Result:...

Custom Bag JSP override fails on JBoss

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Issue When deploying a module that contains a CustomJSPBag to override a JSP, the file is created at wrong path. After the deployment the files should be created in the correct path, for example:...

ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR occured in the browser while attempting to access Liferay login page at http://IP:8080/c/portal/login

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Issue While accessing the Liferay login page after hitting http://IP:8080/c/portal/login, it shows the below SSL error on the browser's UI. "This site can’t provide a secure connection IP(10.x.x.x) sent an invalid...

"Elasticsearch node search-1 does not meet the minimum version requirement of 7.16" when updating to u30

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Issue During our recent update to Update 30, the portal experienced an issue and did not start correctly. The logs show the following error: Elasticsearch node search-1 does not meet the minimum version requirement...

Language Override key are not reflecting on other Nodes

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Issue In the clustered environment, when the user creates a new language override key on one node, it is not displayed on other nodes. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start a two-node cluster of Liferay 7.4. 2. In one node,...

Java EL Expression Performance Issue after Upgrade

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Issue I recently updated to Liferay 7.4 and I'm seeing performance issues. I have custom JSP files with EL Expressions (expressions like ${expressionName}) deployed. In thread dumps taken during the performance...

Email notification using incorrect SMTP server in Virtual Instance

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Issue When using virtual instances with separate SMTP server configurations, email notifications are sent using the SMTP server of a different instance instead of the correct instance's SMTP server. Environment...

Non-Productive Nodes can see Productive Nodes after switching to JDBCPing

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Issue In the context of having the Non-Productive environment and the Productive environment within the same network, there are MergeView traces in logs where nodes from non-productive and productive environments...

Getting the error 'no schema has been selected' while setting up the connection between Liferay portal and the PostgreSQL database

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Issue It was observed that as soon as the Liferay portal starts creating tables and populating with default data (in the new PostgreSQL 15.2 database), the below error prevents it from doing so: ERROR: no...

Getting java.lang.StackOverflowError when starting the server after applying patch

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Issue While performing an upgrade to the Liferay 7.0 environment (applying the patch), the server is not starting and the following error is observed: SEVERE [localhost-startStop-1]...

"No JSON web service action with path /assetcategoryproperty/get-category-properties and method null for null" when upgrading to 7.4

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Issue After upgrading Liferay to DXP 7.4, I encountered multiple errors in the logs related to the get-category-properties method: 2024-01-31 00:01:37.016 ERROR...

Encountering LPKGBundleTrackerCustomizer Rollback bundle installation error

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Issue The following error is encountered in the logs after installing fixpack-1 on Liferay DXP 7.2 GA1 ERROR [ModuleFramework-Static-Bundles-1][LPKGBundleTrackerCustomizer:344] Rollback bundle installation for []...

Error upgrading from a Quarterly Release due to a "1_WAR_lcsportlet"

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Issue Our terminal is populating the following errors: ERROR [main][DBUpgrader:70] com.liferay.portal.kernel.upgrade.UpgradeException: java.sql.BatchUpdateException: (conn=574269) Data too long for column 'name' at...

Incorrect time displayed for all-day events

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Issue When the "All Day" checkbox is selected and saved in the Calendar widget, default times are shown when the event details are opened. This behavior is unexpected, as the start and end times should not be...

Upgrading to Quarterly Release 2024.q1.1+ fails with a Duplicate entry in v3_4_1.LayoutFriendlyURLEntryUpgradeProcess#doUpgrade error

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Issue I tried to upgrade to the Quarterly Release 2024.q1.1. However, the upgrade fails with the following error in the log: Duplicate entry in v3_4_1.LayoutFriendlyURLEntryUpgradeProcess#doUpgrade Environment Below...

Glowroot page broken using a custom portal context

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Issue If we define a context other than ROOT in our portal, for example myportal, the Glowroot administration pages are not displayed or are displayed with visual errors. Environment Liferay DXP 2023.Q4...

Custom login page redirection with child page

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Issue The properties: "auth.login.site.url=/sign-in", "auth.login.url=/sign-in" are not working for the custom login page redirection if a user is working with child pages who does not have Guest user’s VIEW...

ORA-38029 during upgrade when statistics tables are locked

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Issue While upgrading from DXP 7.2 to DXP 7.4, the below errors were encountered: ERROR [main][DBUpgrader:70] null com.liferay.portal.kernel.log.LogSanitizerException: com.liferay.portal.kernel.upgrade.Upg...

ConfigurationModelListener runs in both nodes

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Issue I developed a module to track system configuration changes using a model listener that implements ConfigurationModelListener. While everything is functioning correctly, there's an issue where this module executes on...

ORMException buffer increment error when using the multiple files upload feature

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Issue When the users are trying to upload more than one document through multiple files option, they are having a performance issue in their portal. Steps to reproduce: 1. Start Liferay DXP 7.3 DXP 1 2. Navigate to...

Warn message populates when upgrading to Quarterly Release 2023.Q4.6 from 7.4: sun/misc/Cleaner

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Issue The following WARN message populates in the terminal when reindexing: WARN [liferay/background_task-2][IndexerWriterImpl:188] Error reindexing all com.liferay.document.library.kernel.model.DLFileEntry for...

Upgrade process fails with the following ERROR: Failed upgrade process for module com.liferay.search.experiences.service

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Issue When trying to upgrade from 7.4 to Quarterly Release 2023, the upgrade fails with the following error. Failed upgrade process for module com.liferay.search.experiences.service...

PostgreSQL JAR file can be safely removed?

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Issue We are deploying Liferay using the Tomcat bundle and noticed the inclusion of a postgresql.jar file. Since our environment utilizes MySQL, can we safely remove this file from all our deployments? It's being...

Calendar displays incorrect time when creating event in Month view

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Issue The Calendar Widget does not reflect the correct time when creating an event in the "Month" view. After configuring the event time and publishing it, the displayed time in the event window does not match...

No JSON web service action with path /journal.journalarticle/get-articles and method GET for journal and similar JSONWS API errors

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Issue When invoking a JSONWS API method like /journal.journalarticle/get-articles the following error is sometimes thrown: No JSON web service action with path /journal.journalarticle/get-articles and method GET...

PATCH request is not working for custom fields

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Issue Steps to reproduce: 1. Start up Liferay, change the password to 'a' 2. Go to Control Panel >Configuration > Custom Fields 3. Select Organization. 4. Tap the + icon to add a new Custom Field. 5. Select Input...

org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class [com.sun.proxy.$Proxy6] java.lang.reflect.UndeclaredThrowableException

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Issue When setting up Liferay with Oracle 19c, the following errors were encountered during Liferay startup. 2024-02-19 11:39:07.830 INFO [main][ModuleFrameworkImpl:1309] Starting initial bundles 19-Feb-2024...

Audit log files in 7.4 are not created due to outdated portal-log4j-ext.xml file.

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Issue Audit log files are not generated despite following the steps as shown in: https://help.liferay.com/hc/en-us/articles/360029134891-Configuring-Audits#reporting-audit-events-in-liferays-logs-and-console This is due...

Configurations file is not reflecting for Elasticsearch

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Issue When users try to change configurations using .config files, these may not always be reflected. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution The concerns outlined above mostly happen when the configuration is saved...

Service builder upgrade issue related to class: "java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.liferay.portal.kernel.service.PersistedModelLocalServiceRegistry cannot be found by com.mchi.master.service.service_1.0.0"

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Issue ClassNotFoundException error while upgrading the Service builder of DXP 7.2 to DXP 7.4 2023 Q4.0. The error looks like this: 2024-01-18 09:31:22.491 ERROR [Refresh Thread: Equinox Container:...

Glowroot is not working : Connect to localhost:4000 [localhost/127.0.0.1] failed: Connection refused

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Issue Glowrrot is not working and giving these errors: ERROR [http-nio-8080-exec-5][GlowrootProxyServlet:66] null org.apache.http.conn.HttpHostConnectException: Connect to localhost:4000 [localhost/127.0.0.1]...

WARN Unable to add list type when executing the upgrade

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Issue We are executing the upgrade from 7.0 to 2023.Q3 version and we are getting following warning: 2024-02-02 08:28:57.379 INFO [main][UpgradeProcess:119] Upgrading com.liferay.portal.upgrade.v7_4_x.UpgradeListType...

Error "PWC6345: There is an error in invoking javac. A full JDK (not just JRE) is required" presented in the logs

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Issue When trying to open Blogs, WebContens or other Liferay features, the following error is displayed in the Logs: 2024-01-19 15:48:45.179 ERROR...

Error after installing Liferay Reports App

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Issue After installing the Reports App in Marketplace, the bundle starts with the following errors in the logs and the Reports App is not available. 2023-12-22 12:03:06.499 ERROR [Framework Event Dispatcher: Equinox...

Segments API taking more time

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Issue When there are around 230 user segments, it displays content based on the segment when the user logs in. Since there are more segments, the segment API takes more time to get the user segment. long[]...

Theme style is not minified

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Issue While building themes, user has noticed that theme's style files are not being minified. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution Please change NODE_ENV=production by using the environment variable as per your...

Cannot sign in to marketplace

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Issue Steps to reproduce: Go to Control Panel > Marketplace Store Click the Sign In button Expected Behavior: Can sign in to the marketplace Observed Behavior: Clicking the Sign In button doesn’t do anything....

ServletException during Liferay startup caused by a NullPointerException

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Issue You might encounter an issue where you face an error when starting up Liferay which prevents proper functioning: javax.servlet.ServletException: java.lang.NullPointerException at...

LPS-200065 is in the 2023.Q4.1 Quarterly release notes but is missing from the bundle

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Issue LPS-200065 was included in the DXP 7.4 2023.Q4.1 release notes, but it was missing from the bundle Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 2023.Q4.1 bundles and docker images Resolution LPS-200065 has been included in the...

com.liferay.portal.servlet.filters.i18n.I18nFilter has been removed. What do I need to do?

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Issue During startup (or upgrade) we see this error in the logs ERROR [main][VerifyProperties:163] Portal property "com.liferay.portal.servlet.filters.i18n.I18nFilter" is obsolete Why was this removed, and what do we need...

Errors calling an external SOAP web service related to javax.xml.ws.spi.Provider or com.sun.xml.ws.spi.ProviderImpl after upgrading to Java 11

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Issue We have developed a custom login pre-action module where we want to call an external SOAP web service, this module was working on older Liferay versions. After upgrading to Java 11, if we try calling this external...

Service builder does not generate correct class package

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Issue Service Builder does not generate the correct class package when both "com" and "org" are included in the package path. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a service.xml with package-path com.liferay.org and a...

How to rollback to a previous version of Liferay?

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Issue We would like for some guidance on how to revert Liferay 7.3 to 7.1. Environment DXP 7.0+ Resolution If you have a backup copy of your 7.1 database and instance, you should be able to redeploy the pre-upgrade...

Suppressing an InvalidHost Warning

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Issue Is it possible to suppress InvalidHost warnings that are similar to the following: 2023-12-18 18:15:55.485 WARN [https-jsse-nio-8443-exec-5][code_jsp:161] {code="500", msg="", uri=/} java.lang.RuntimeException: Invalid...

"Constraint Violation in UpgradeListTypeType" error in upgrade

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Issue When attempting to upgrade, it has been observed an error when transitioning from a bundle prior to U100 to a bundle between U100 and U103. Any attempt to upgrade beyond U103 results in a failure with the...

Environment becomes unstable after number of file descriptors has steadily increased

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Issue A Liferay environment with a frontal element has become unstable after running for a few days. Checking the system's health, there has been a steady increase of open file descriptors. Environment Liferay DXP...

Is it possible to separate Liferay module jars and custom jars in osgi/modules directory in the Quarterly Release

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Issue After upgrading to Quarterly Release 2023.Q3, Liferay modules are now stored in osgi/modules directory. Is it possible to separate Liferay module jars and custom jars in osgi/modules directory in the Quarterly Release?...

Cache is not alive (STATUS_SHUTDOWN) errors

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Issue I see Cache is not alive (STATUS_SHUTDOWN) errors in the logs of my clustered environment. I have modules that override com.liferay.portal.kernel.dao.orm.EntityCache.com.liferay.portal.model.impl.GroupImpl...

BatchUpdateException when upgrading to Liferay Quarterly Release with SQL Server

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Issue We have received a recent report where a BatchUpdateException was identified while upgrading from an earlier Liferay DXP 7.4 update to Liferay Quarterly Release while using SQL Server You may see an error such as the...

JBoss Datasource Error Causing Production Outages

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Issue We had two production outages today and observed the following error: ERROR [liferay/search_writer/SYSTEM_ENGINE-7][ElasticsearchIndexWriter:143] java.lang.IllegalStateException: Future got interrupted Caused by:...

Audit OSGi Dependency Error Post Upgrade

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Issue We are observing the below error after upgrading: WARN [main][DependencyManagerSyncUtil:73] Declarative Service Unsatisfied Component Checker check result: _Bundle {id: 148, name:...

PortalUtil.getPortalURL() is returning http response

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Issue While trying to fetch some data using PortalUtil.getPortalURL(httpServletRequest) method, it returns http response even on a SSL enabled website. Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution There...

Upgrade to 7.4 Error - DDMFormFieldValue

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Issue When attempting to upgrade to DXP 7.4, users encounter the following error: WARN [main][DDMFieldUpgradeProcess:616] null java.lang.NullPointerException: null at...

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