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Published Sep. 10, 2025

Server unable to start after upgrading to latest fixpack

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Prarthana Jadhav

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Issue

  • After upgrading from the previous fixpack to the latest fixpack, the server is not getting started or the below error is thrown while starting the server.
SEVERE [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class [com.liferay.portal.spring.context.PortalContextLoaderListener] 
java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.RuntimeException: Error initializing storage.

Environment

  • Liferay DXP 7.0
  • Tomcat Application Server
  • Wildfly Application Server

Resolution

  • Clearing the state, temp, work folder resolved the error.
    • For Tomcat Application Server
      1. Delete "$Liferay-home/osgi/state”,
      2. Delete “$Liferay-home/work”, 
      3. Delete “$Tomcat-home/temp”, 
      4. Delete “$Tomcat-home/work” folders
    • For Wildfly Application Server
      1. Delete "$JBoss-home/standalone/tmp" folder
      2. Delete “$Liferay-home/work” folder
  • After deleting these folders, the server started successfully.

Additional Information

  • Liferay always recommends deleting the above folders after installing fix pack and then only to start the server.
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