I am running into a problem with rundeck community version 5.16.0 where I start the service and after about a minute the service stops itself.

It looks like an error when trying to connect to the postgresql database but I cannot figure out where I am going wrong and what is causing the problem.

Environment Setup

• Debian 12
• java 17
• postgres version 15
• rundeck community 5.16.0

Installation

** Note: The rundeck package itself was downloaded on an apt-mirror server and the package was copied over to the VM where rundeck will live

Prerequisites

sudo apt install openjdk-17-jre-headless postgresql libpostgresql-jdbc-java uuid-runtime 

Database Setup

sudo -u postgresql psql CREATE DATABASE rundeckdb; CREATE USER rundeckuser WITH PASSWORD 'strongpasswordhere'; GRANT ALL PIRVILEGES ON DATABASE rundeckdb TO rundeckuser; \q 

Rundeck Installation

sudo dpkg -i rundeck_5.16.0-*.deb sudo apt -f install 

Rundeck Configuration

• in rundeck-config.properties

dataSource.driverClassName = org.postgresql.Driver dataSource.url = jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/rundeckdb dataSource.username = rundeckuser dataSource.password = strongpassword 

Error

 ERROR pool.ConnectionPool - Unable to create initial connections of pool. │ java.sql.SQLException: Unable to load class: org.postgresql.Driver from ClassLoader:org.springframewor│ k.boot.loader.LaunchedURLClassLoader@6576fe71;ClassLoader:org.springframework.boot.loader.LaunchedURLClas│ sLoader@6576fe71 │ Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Unable to load class: org.postgresql.Driver from ClassLoa│ der:org.springframework.boot.loader.LaunchedURLClassLoader@6576fe71;ClassLoader:org.springframework.boot.│ loader.LaunchedURLClassLoader@6576fe71 │ Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.postgresql.Driver 

What I have Tried

• I have tried installing the psotgres.jar file directly in libext and bootstrap and have tried to restart the rundeck service still with the same error

sudo install -o rundeck -g rundeck -m 0644 /usr/share/java/postgresql.jar /var/lib/rundeck/libext/postgresql.jar sudo install -d -o rundeck -g rundeck /var/lib/rundeck/bootstrap/lib sudo install -o rundeck -g rundeck -m 0644 /usr/share/java/postgresql.jar /var/lib/rundeck/bootstrap/lib/postgresql.jar 

Any help would be appreciated as I have been trying to troubleshoot this now for a couple of days

Cheers