18.2.0 on Debain 13.4 with xwiki-tomcat11-mariadb crashes with Error 500

Hello everyone,

yesterday I tried to install xwiki on a new debian 13.4 virtual machine.
After accessing xwiki in the browser I see an immediately Error 500.

I see no error during installation.

I followed this guide:
Installation using Debian/Ubuntu (.DEB) packages (XWiki.org)

I tried
xwiki-tomcat11-mariadb and xwiki-tomcat10-mariadb

After switching from stable to lts, the installation works just fine.
After trying to figuring out what’s the problem is, I found this post. I looks pretty similar to the behaviour I am seeing.
15.9 on Debain 12.2 with xjetty package, crashes with Error 500 - Help / Discuss - XWiki Forum

A few weeks ago I installed stable xwiki-tomcat10-mariad (also an Debian 13.4 vm). This worked without any problems (xwiki version18.0.1)

So I guess it has to do something with the updated packages for 18.2?

Errors:
jakarta.servlet.ServletException: Failed to execute the action with name [view]
com.xpn.xwiki.XWikiException: Error number 11007 in 0: Failed to extract Entity Resource Reference from URL
java.lang.RuntimeException: Failed to locate wiki descriptor for alias
java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke “java.net.URL.openStream()” because “url” is null
org.xwiki.wiki.manager.WikiManagerException: Failed to locate XWiki.XWikiServerClass document for wiki alias

Since I just started play around with xwiki, it’s not a big deal for me. I just wanted to let you know.

Best regards Christoph

Yes, bad timing. It seems the new 18.2.0 version has serious problems with the Debian packages. See for Xwiki won't start after upgrade 17.10.4 -> 17.10.5 - #6 by vmassol for more details.

When will this problem resolved? Had ugraded my system this morning and xwiki stuck at 50%…

After a quick search I found out, that there is a database issue or whatever… Did a full rollback:

”apt install xwiki-mariadb-common=18.1.0 xwiki-common=18.1.0 xwiki-tomcat10-common=18.1.0 xwiki-tomcat10-mariadb=18.1.0”

And xwiki starts again. Fine.