Background initialization failed: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: 'org.sonar.api.server.rule.RulesDefinition$NewRule org.sonar.api.server.rule.RulesDefinition$NewRule.setEffortToFixDescription(java.lang.String)' with SQ 9.1

[readonlyuser1]

After upgrading sonarqube from version 8.9 to version 9.1, sonarqube server does not start with plugin 2.0.5.2867.

021.09.22 05:37:39 INFO  web[][o.s.s.n.NotificationDaemon] Notification service started (delay 60 sec.)
2021.09.22 05:37:39 INFO  web[][o.s.s.a.p.ExpiredSessionsCleaner] Purge of expired session tokens has removed 0 elements
2021.09.22 05:37:39 INFO  web[][o.s.s.a.p.ExpiredSessionsCleaner] Purge of expired SAML message ids has removed 0 elements
2021.09.22 05:37:40 INFO  web[][o.s.s.s.GeneratePluginIndex] Generate scanner plugin index
2021.09.22 05:37:40 INFO  web[][o.s.s.s.RegisterMetrics] Register metrics
2021.09.22 05:37:40 INFO  web[][o.s.s.r.RegisterRules] Register rules
2021.09.22 05:37:41 INFO  web[][o.r.Reflections] Reflections took 14 ms to scan 1 urls, producing 193 keys and 193 values
2021.09.22 05:37:42 ERROR web[][o.s.s.p.Platform] Background initialization failed. Stopping SonarQube
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: 'org.sonar.api.server.rule.RulesDefinition$NewRule org.sonar.api.server.rule.RulesDefinition$NewRule.setEffortToFixDescription(java.lang.String)'
        at org.sonar.cxx.squidbridge.annotations.AnnotationBasedRulesDefinition.setupSqaleModel(AnnotationBasedRulesDefinition.java:184)
        at org.sonar.cxx.squidbridge.annotations.AnnotationBasedRulesDefinition.addRuleClasses(AnnotationBasedRulesDefinition.java:102)
        at org.sonar.cxx.squidbridge.annotations.AnnotationBasedRulesDefinition.addRuleClasses(AnnotationBasedRulesDefinition.java:88)
        at org.sonar.plugins.cxx.CxxRuleRepository.define(CxxRuleRepository.java:34)
        at org.sonar.server.rule.RuleDefinitionsLoader.load(RuleDefinitionsLoader.java:53)
        at org.sonar.server.rule.RegisterRules.start(RegisterRules.java:119)
        at org.sonar.core.platform.StartableCloseableSafeLifecyleStrategy.start(StartableCloseableSafeLifecyleStrategy.java:40)
        at org.picocontainer.injectors.AbstractInjectionFactory$LifecycleAdapter.start(AbstractInjectionFactory.java:84)
        at org.picocontainer.behaviors.AbstractBehavior.start(AbstractBehavior.java:169)
        at org.picocontainer.behaviors.Stored$RealComponentLifecycle.start(Stored.java:132)
        at org.picocontainer.behaviors.Stored.start(Stored.java:110)
        at org.picocontainer.DefaultPicoContainer.potentiallyStartAdapter(DefaultPicoContainer.java:1016)
        at org.picocontainer.DefaultPicoContainer.startAdapters(DefaultPicoContainer.java:1009)
        at org.picocontainer.DefaultPicoContainer.start(DefaultPicoContainer.java:767)
        at org.sonar.core.platform.ComponentContainer.startComponents(ComponentContainer.java:136)
        at org.sonar.server.platform.platformlevel.PlatformLevel.start(PlatformLevel.java:90)
        at org.sonar.server.platform.platformlevel.PlatformLevelStartup.access$001(PlatformLevelStartup.java:51)
        at org.sonar.server.platform.platformlevel.PlatformLevelStartup$1.doPrivileged(PlatformLevelStartup.java:119)
        at org.sonar.server.user.DoPrivileged.execute(DoPrivileged.java:45)
        at org.sonar.server.platform.platformlevel.PlatformLevelStartup.start(PlatformLevelStartup.java:116)
        at org.sonar.server.platform.PlatformImpl.executeStartupTasks(PlatformImpl.java:198)
        at org.sonar.server.platform.PlatformImpl$1.lambda$doRun$1(PlatformImpl.java:122)
        at org.sonar.server.platform.PlatformImpl$AutoStarterRunnable.runIfNotAborted(PlatformImpl.java:370)
        at org.sonar.server.platform.PlatformImpl$1.doRun(PlatformImpl.java:122)
        at org.sonar.server.platform.PlatformImpl$AutoStarterRunnable.run(PlatformImpl.java:354)
        at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:829)
2021.09.22 05:37:42 INFO  web[][o.s.p.ProcessEntryPoint] Hard stopping process
2021.09.22 05:37:42 INFO  web[][o.s.s.n.NotificationDaemon] Notification service stopped

Desktop:

• OS: ubuntu
• SonarQube 9.1 (build 47736)
• sonar-cxx-plugin-2.0.5.2867.jar

[readonlyuser1]

Idean/sonar-swift#295

[guwirth]

Hi @readonlyuser1,

I’m sorry but we are supporting only LTS versions:

• https://github.com/SonarOpenCommunity/sonar-cxx/wiki/Compatibility-Matrix

Regards,