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Published Sep. 10, 2025

DXP 7.0 start up fails with error ORA-00942 on empty Oracle database

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Gustavo Vasconcelos

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Issue

  • When trying to start up a DXP 7.0 portal on an empty Oracle database it fails. On the logs the following messages can be seen:
2020-02-20 20:16:01.209 INFO [localhost-startStop-1][VerifyProcess:81] Completed verification process com.liferay.portal.verify.VerifyProcessSuite in 3289ms
2020-02-20 20:16:01.216 ERROR [localhost-startStop-1][DBUpgrader:255] Unable to execute verify process: com.liferay.portal.verify.VerifyException: java.sql.SQLSyntaxErrorException: ORA-00942: a tabela ou view não existe_ [Sanitized]
com.liferay.portal.verify.VerifyException: com.liferay.portal.verify.VerifyException: java.sql.SQLSyntaxErrorException: ORA-00942: a tabela ou view não existe_ [Sanitized]
at com.liferay.portal.verify.VerifyProcess.verify(VerifyProcess.java:75)
at com.liferay.portal.verify.VerifyProcessUtil._verifyProcess(VerifyProcessUtil.java:113)
at com.liferay.portal.verify.VerifyProcessUtil._verifyProcess(VerifyProcessUtil.java:78)
at com.liferay.portal.verify.VerifyProcessUtil.verifyProcess(VerifyProcessUtil.java:47)
at com.liferay.portal.events.StartupHelper.verifyProcess(StartupHelper.java:182)
at com.liferay.portal.events.StartupHelperUtil.verifyProcess(StartupHelperUtil.java:87)
at com.liferay.portal.tools.DBUpgrader.verify(DBUpgrader.java:249)
at com.liferay.portal.events.StartupAction.doRun(StartupAction.java:243)
at com.liferay.portal.ee.license.StartupAction.doRun(Unknown Source)
at com.liferay.portal.events.StartupAction.run(StartupAction.java:85)
at com.liferay.portal.servlet.MainServlet.processStartupEvents(MainServlet.java:1355)
at com.liferay.portal.servlet.MainServlet.init(MainServlet.java:273)
at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:158)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.initServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1238)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1151)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:1038)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:4997)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5289)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:147)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:725)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:701)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:717)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:585)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployDescriptor.run(HostConfig.java:1794)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
Caused by: com.liferay.portal.verify.VerifyException: java.sql.SQLSyntaxErrorException: ORA-00942: a tabela ou view não existe_ [Sanitized]
at com.liferay.portal.verify.VerifyProcess.verify(VerifyProcess.java:75)
at com.liferay.portal.verify.VerifyProcess.verify(VerifyProcess.java:92)
at com.liferay.portal.verify.VerifyProcessSuite.doVerify(VerifyProcessSuite.java:48)
at com.liferay.portal.verify.VerifyProcess.verify(VerifyProcess.java:72)
... 28 more

Environment

  • Liferay DXP 7.0
  • Oracle 12 database

Resolution

  • This is a known issue with Oracle JDBC driver ojdbc6.jar.
  • Download and use the ojdbc7.jar instead.

Additional Information

  • LPS-77975: Start portal fail with second database in oracle if one liferay database also existed in oracle
  • Oracle Downloads: JDBC Drivers

 

 

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