StringUtils Error creating page

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Whenever I try and create a page I get:
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils

Any idea how I can resolve this?

WARN  c.x.x.w.XWikiAction            - Uncaught exception: Error number 0 in 11: Uncaught exception
xwiki  | com.xpn.xwiki.XWikiException: Error number 0 in 11: Uncaught exception
xwiki  |        at com.xpn.xwiki.web.XWikiAction.execute(XWikiAction.java:662)
xwiki  |        at com.xpn.xwiki.web.XWikiAction.execute(XWikiAction.java:339)
xwiki  |        at com.xpn.xwiki.web.LegacyActionServlet.service(LegacyActionServlet.java:111)
xwiki  |        at jakarta.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:658)
xwiki  |        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193)
xwiki  |        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:138)
xwiki  |        at com.xpn.xwiki.web.ActionFilter.doFilter(ActionFilter.java:123)
xwiki  |        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:162)
xwiki  |        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:138)
xwiki  |        at org.xwiki.wysiwyg.filter.ConversionFilter.doFilter(ConversionFilter.java:71)
xwiki  |        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:162)
xwiki  |        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:138)
xwiki  |        at org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsFilter.doFilter(WsFilter.java:51)
xwiki  |        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:162)
xwiki  |        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:138)
xwiki  |        at org.xwiki.container.servlet.filters.internal.SetHTTPHeaderFilter.doFilter(SetHTTPHeaderFilter.java:66)
xwiki  |        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:162)
xwiki  |        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:138)
xwiki  |        at org.xwiki.resource.servlet.RoutingFilter.doFilter(RoutingFilter.java:135)
xwiki  |        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:162)
xwiki  |        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:138)
xwiki  |        at org.xwiki.container.servlet.filters.internal.SavedRequestRestorerFilter.doFilter(SavedRequestRestorerFilter.java:212)
xwiki  |        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:162)
xwiki  |        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:138)
xwiki  |        at org.xwiki.container.servlet.filters.internal.SafeRedirectFilter.doFilter(SafeRedirectFilter.java:106)
xwiki  |        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:162)
xwiki  |        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:138)
xwiki  |        at org.xwiki.container.servlet.filters.internal.ResolveRelativeRedirectFilter.doFilter(ResolveRelativeRedirectFilter.java:129)
xwiki  |        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:162)
xwiki  |        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:138)
xwiki  |        at org.xwiki.container.servlet.filters.internal.SourceURLResolverFilter.doFilter(SourceURLResolverFilter.java:177)
xwiki  |        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:162)
xwiki  |        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:138)
xwiki  |        at org.xwiki.container.servlet.filters.internal.SetCharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(SetCharacterEncodingFilter.java:120)
xwiki  |        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:162)
xwiki  |        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:138)
xwiki  |        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:165)
xwiki  |        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:88)
xwiki  |        at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:482)
xwiki  |        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:113)
xwiki  |        at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:90)
xwiki  |        at org.apache.catalina.valves.AbstractAccessLogValve.invoke(AbstractAccessLogValve.java:664)
xwiki  |        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:72)
xwiki  |        at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:342)
xwiki  |        at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.service(Http11Processor.java:399)
xwiki  |        at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProcessorLight.process(AbstractProcessorLight.java:63)
xwiki  |        at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$ConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:903)
xwiki  |        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1776)
xwiki  |        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.SocketProcessorBase.run(SocketProcessorBase.java:52)
xwiki  |        at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:975)
xwiki  |        at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:493)
xwiki  |        at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:63)
xwiki  |        at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
xwiki  | Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/lang/StringUtils
xwiki  |        at org.xwiki.realtime.internal.DefaultRealtimeEditorManager.getSelectedEditor(DefaultRealtimeEditorManager.java:85)
xwiki  |        at org.xwiki.realtime.internal.XWikiRealtimeDocumentLockEditConfirmationChecker.check(XWikiRealtimeDocumentLockEditConfirmationChecker.java:68)
xwiki  |        at org.xwiki.model.validation.edit.internal.DefaultEditConfirmationCheckersManager.lambda$check$3(DefaultEditConfirmationCheckersManager.java:92)
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See https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ReleaseNotes/Data/XWiki/17.6.0/#HStopbundlingCommonsLang2.x

What version of XWiki are you using?

It’s weird because you seems to not have commons lang 2 jar in WEB-INF/lib but at the same time your version of XWiki seems to require it. Maybe some bad upgrade?

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I had the same error yesterday after a Debian Linux system upgrade. Among other things, the following versions were upgraded. Packages that I suspect may be responsible for the error

apache2-utils/oldstable,oldstable 2.4.65-1~deb12u1 amd64 [upgradable from: 2.4.62-1~deb12u2openjdk-17-jre-headless/oldstable,oldstable-security,oldstable,oldstable-security 17.0.16+8-1~deb12u1 amd64 [upgradable from: 17.0.15+6-1~deb12u1]xwiki-common/stable 17.8.0+1 all [upgradable from: 17.4.0] xwiki-pgsql-common/stable 17.8.0+1 all [upgradable from: 17.4.0] xwiki-xjetty-common/stable 17.8.0+1 all [upgradable from: 17.4.0] xwiki-xjetty-pgsql/stable 17.8.0+1 all [upgradable from: 17.4.0

I then reverted to the last backup and am considering excluding the responsible software packages from the upgrade. Does anyone know what packages these are?

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It’s XWiki 17.8.0 and i’m using the xwiki:stable-mariadb-tomcat docker image.

To be honest it’s a pretty new install so i’m going to just try from scratch

Cheers

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Was it an upgrade ? The error in the log mention a class which does not exist in 17.8.0.

I would expect this error to be found in the log until you upgrade the flavor, and then the “bad” extension should be replaced by the new one.