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Published Jul. 2, 2025

DocumentException in UpgradeMVCCVersion when running upgrades from Gogo Shell

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Cristina Rodriguez

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Issue

  • When running certain upgrade processes from the Gogo Shell using upgrade:execute, a DocumentException is observed:

    com.liferay.portal.kernel.upgrade.UpgradeException: com.liferay.portal.kernel.xml.DocumentException
{...}
Caused by: com.liferay.portal.kernel.xml.DocumentException
at com.liferay.portal.xml.SAXReaderImpl.read(SAXReaderImpl.java:372)
at com.liferay.portal.xml.SAXReaderImpl.read(SAXReaderImpl.java:346)
at com.liferay.portal.kernel.xml.UnsecureSAXReaderUtil.read(UnsecureSAXReaderUtil.java:46)
at com.liferay.portal.kernel.upgrade.UpgradeMVCCVersion.getClassElements(UpgradeMVCCVersion.java:98)

Environment

  • Liferay DXP upgrades using the Gogo shell

Resolution

  1. (Optional) Use the upgrade:check Gogo shell command to identify which module(s) upgrade is pending. You can attempt upgrading it individually using upgrade:execute[module_name].
  2. If the error persists, you must stop your Liferay server and perform the pending upgrade processes using the bundle's Database Upgrade Tool.

Once the pending processes complete, the DocumentException no longer appears.

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