Unifi upgrade 2.4.6 to 3.2.10: exception: remove needs a query at src/mongo/shell/collection.js

July 8, 2015

If you try to upgrade Ubiquiti Networks Unifi system from version 2.4.6 to 3.2.10 it is possible that you’ll run into following problem:

Exception in thread "launcher" org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'class.super': Instantiation of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Factory method [public final com.ubnt.A.new.B com.ubnt.A.new$$EnhancerByCGLIB$$ad7756e2.class.super()] threw exception; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'Ø00000': Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is com.mongodb.CommandResult$CommandFailure: command failed [$eval]: { "serverUsed" : "/127.0.0.1:27117" , "errmsg" : "exception: remove needs a query at src/mongo/shell/collection.js:299" , "code" : 16722 , "ok" : 0.0}

when trying to start it like this

/usr/bin/java -jar /opt/UniFi/lib/ace.jar start

Searching through the Internet shows that more people have the problem but a working solution is not posted anywhere. So here is it:

The reason for the problem is quit easily found here. Basically the syntax of the command is not correct. So I started to search through the lib directory for a file that contains this incorrect string. It is within /opt/UniFi/lib/ace.jar so I installed the jar command line utility (on Centos 6)

yum install java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel

and extracted all files to search in which it was. As I found it, its easier for you just type:

jar xf ace.jar com/ubnt/A/ooOO/OOoO.class

Now you need a Java class editor – we use this Java one. Download and extract it and start it like this:

java -jar ce.jar

Now you need to find and change the values:

  1. Click on “Constant Pool”
  2. Type db.cache_device.remove in the search field and find the line 459
  3. Activate the “Modify Mode” and change the values

classeditor

In the end it should look like this (the second one is a link to the fist,  just update):

classeditor2

Now save the file and update the jar file:

jar uf ace.jar com/ubnt/A/ooOO/OOoO.class

Now a restart and migration should work. Hope this helps others .. it took me one hour to find my solution, so I hope its now faster for you. 😉

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  1. OMG!!!

    You ROCK – nice wrote up – NO ONE has put this together in such a coherent way.

    I will be linking to this from the unifi forums.

    Comment by robotech — August 18, 2015 #

  2. Hi,

    thanks a lot for publishing this.

    here’s my contribution. The 3.2.10 ace.jar already modified. Just copy over your existing one and you’re good to go.

    https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10864071/ace.jar

    Comment by Tiago de Aviz — January 21, 2017 #

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