OK folks, so I’m a dummy who tried to upgrade OpenFire from 3.6.x to 3.7 without a backup. Now the server won’'t start and I get this error when I try to start the console:
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log4j:ERROR Could not instantiate class [org.jivesoftware.openfire.gateway.util.Log4JToOpenfireAppender].
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.jivesoftware.openfire.gateway.util.Log4JToOpenfireAppender
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.log4j.helpers.Loader.loadClass(Loader.java:179)
at org.apache.log4j.helpers.OptionConverter.instantiateByClassName(OptionConverter .java:320)
at org.apache.log4j.helpers.OptionConverter.instantiateByKey(OptionConverter.java: 121)
at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.parseAppender(PropertyConfigurator.java:6 64)
at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.parseCategory(PropertyConfigurator.java:6 47)
at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.configureRootCategory(PropertyConfigurato r.java:544)
at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.doConfigure(PropertyConfigurator.java:440 )
at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.configure(PropertyConfigurator.java:367)
at org.jivesoftware.openfire.gateway.GatewayPlugin.setLoggerProperty(GatewayPlugin .java:251)
at org.jivesoftware.openfire.gateway.GatewayPlugin.(GatewayPlugin.java:58)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at org.jivesoftware.openfire.container.PluginManager.loadPlugin(PluginManager.java :420)
at org.jivesoftware.openfire.container.PluginManager.access$300(PluginManager.java :80)
at org.jivesoftware.openfire.container.PluginManager$PluginMonitor.run(PluginManag er.java:1067)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRunAndReset(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.runAndReset(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.access$101 (Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.runPeriodi c(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(Unknow n Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
log4j:ERROR Could not instantiate appender named “openfire”.
log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.jivesoftware.openfire.ldap.LdapManager).
log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
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I know, my own fault - but can anyone point me in the right direction to BEGIN to fix this? Or should I punt and start from scratch? (Might be easier…)