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Published Sep. 10, 2025

DB Upgrade to a Q2 release using JDK 21 results in an error

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Issue

  • The following error is being encountered when trying to upgrade to a Q2 release running ./db_upgrade_client.sh and using JDK 21
JVM arguments: [-Dfile.encoding=UTF8, -Duser.country=US, -Duser.language=en, -Duser.timezone=GMT, -Xmx2048m, -Dexternal-properties=portal-upgrade.properties, -Dliferay.shielded.container.lib.portal.dir=/home/me/Downloads/liferay-dxp-tomcat-2024.q2.1-1718608609/liferay-dxp/tomcat/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/shielded-container-lib, -Dserver.detector.server.id=tomcat]
NOTE: Picked up JDK_JAVA_OPTIONS: --add-opens=java.base/java.lang=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens=java.base/java.lang.reflect=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens=java.base/java.net=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens=java.base/sun.net.www.protocol.http=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens=java.base/sun.util.calendar=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens=jdk.zipfs/jdk.nio.zipfs=ALL-UNNAMED
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
at com.liferay.petra.string.StringBundler$StringConcatenator.<clinit>(StringBundler.java:470)
at com.liferay.petra.string.StringBundler._toStringStringConcatenator(StringBundler.java:304)
at com.liferay.petra.string.StringBundler._toString(StringBundler.java:276)
at com.liferay.petra.string.StringBundler.toString(StringBundler.java:242)
at com.liferay.portal.kernel.util.SystemProperties._load(SystemProperties.java:238)
at com.liferay.portal.kernel.util.SystemProperties.load(SystemProperties.java:119)
at com.liferay.portal.kernel.util.SystemProperties.<clinit>(SystemProperties.java:304)
at com.liferay.portal.kernel.log.SanitizerLogWrapper.<clinit>(SanitizerLogWrapper.java:293)
at com.liferay.portal.kernel.log.LogFactoryUtil.getLog(LogFactoryUtil.java:35)
at com.liferay.portal.kernel.log.LogFactoryUtil.getLog(LogFactoryUtil.java:20)
at com.liferay.portal.tools.DBUpgrader.<clinit>(DBUpgrader.java:433)
at java.base/jdk.internal.misc.Unsafe.ensureClassInitialized0(Native Method)
at java.base/jdk.internal.misc.Unsafe.ensureClassInitialized(Unsafe.java:1160)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.MethodHandleAccessorFactory.ensureClassInitialized(MethodHandleAccessorFactory.java:300)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.MethodHandleAccessorFactory.newMethodAccessor(MethodHandleAccessorFactory.java:71)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.ReflectionFactory.newMethodAccessor(ReflectionFactory.java:159)
at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.acquireMethodAccessor(Method.java:726)
at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:577)
at com.liferay.portal.tools.db.upgrade.client.DBUpgraderLauncher.main(DBUpgraderLauncher.java:45)
Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InaccessibleObjectException: Unable to make field static final java.lang.invoke.MethodHandles$Lookup java.lang.invoke.MethodHandles$Lookup.IMPL_LOOKUP accessible: module java.base does not "opens java.lang.invoke" to unnamed module @1de0aca6
at java.base/java.lang.reflect.AccessibleObject.throwInaccessibleObjectException(AccessibleObject.java:391)
at java.base/java.lang.reflect.AccessibleObject.checkCanSetAccessible(AccessibleObject.java:367)
at java.base/java.lang.reflect.AccessibleObject.checkCanSetAccessible(AccessibleObject.java:315)
at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Field.checkCanSetAccessible(Field.java:183)
at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Field.setAccessible(Field.java:177)
at com.liferay.petra.string.StringBundler$ByteArrayStringConcatenator.<clinit>(StringBundler.java:370)
... 19 more

Environment

  • Any previous version upgraded to a Q2 release using JDK 21

Resolution

  • Please open a Support Ticket requesting a hotfix with the fix LPD-29270
  • You should also replace the JAR file named com.liferay.portal.tools.db.upgrade.client.jar with the one attached here.
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