Symptoms

Bamboo cannot start up. The Bamboo log shows errors like:

Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Factory method [public com.atlassian.bamboo.configuration.AdministrationConfiguration com.atlassian.bamboo.persister.file.FileBasedPersister.getAdministrationConfiguration()] threw exception; nested exception is com.thoughtworks.xstream.io.StreamException: : input contained no data
...
Caused by: com.thoughtworks.xstream.io.StreamException: : input contained no data
at com.thoughtworks.xstream.io.xml.XppReader.pullNextEvent(XppReader.java:80)
....
Caused by: java.io.EOFException: input contained no data
at org.xmlpull.mxp1.MXParser.fillBuf(MXParser.java:2982)

Cause

Bamboo has been shut down improperly. Possible causes are:

• Ran out of disk space on the Bamboo server
• Power outage on the Bamboo server

Resolution

Check all files in <BAMBOO_HOME>/xml-data/configuration/*.xml and see if they are ok.
If not please restore these files from a Bamboo backup zip. You can simply unzip the backup and copy the administration.xml file from the <backup-zip>/configuration directory.

If you don't have a backup you can:

• change bamboo.home in <bamboo-install>/atlassian-bamboo/WEB-INF/classes/bamboo-init.properties to a temporary location <temp-bamboo-home>.
• if you are using an external database - create a new temporary database for this procedure.
• start Bamboo, run through the setup wizard entering the data as if in your production instance (except for db name). File <temp-bamboo-home>/xml-data/configuration/administration.xml will be created.
• copy the above file into <bamboo-home>/xml-data/configuration/.
• Double check the copied files for correctness regarding paths and URLs.

This should restore the missing files for your production instance.