Jenkins Upgrade from 2.319 to 2.374

Hello All,

While upgrading Jenkins from 2.319 to 2.374 we are getting issue.
We have successfully upgrade till 2.373 , now when we are going to upgrade 2.374 and trying to restart the jenkins portal using safe restart option in jenkins portal it showing white screen and portal is not getting up.
Caught exception: org.apache.commons.jelly.JellyException: Unable to create expression: Pipeline builds may prevent Jenkins
from restarting for a short period of time in some cases
org.apache.commons.jelly.JellyException: Unable to create expression: Pipeline builds may prevent Jenkins from restarting for
a short period of time in some cases
at hudson.ExpressionFactory2.createExpression(ExpressionFactory2.java:31)
at org.kohsuke.stapler.jelly.InternationalizedStringExpression.(InternationalizedStringExpression.java:79)
at org.kohsuke.stapler.jelly.CustomJellyContext$CustomXMLParser.createI18nExp(CustomJellyContext.java:170)
at org.kohsuke.stapler.jelly.CustomJellyContext$CustomXMLParser.createExpression(CustomJellyContext.java:138)
at org.apache.commons.jelly.expression.CompositeExpression.parse(CompositeExpression.java:166)
at org.apache.commons.jelly.parser.XMLParser.addTextScript(XMLParser.java:1214)
at org.apache.commons.jelly.parser.XMLParser.startElement(XMLParser.java:704)
at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.startElement(AbstractSAXParser.java:510)
at
java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractXMLDocumentParser.emptyElement(AbstractXMLDocumentParser.java:183
)
at
java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.java:351)
at
java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDriver.next(XMLDocumentFragmenjava.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDriver.next(XMLDocumentFragmen
tScannerImpl.java:2710)
at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:605)
at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.java:112)
at
java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.j
ava:534)
at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:888)
at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:824)
at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:141)
at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1141)
at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(SAXParserImpl.java:647)
at org.apache.commons.jelly.parser.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:368)
at org.apache.commons.jelly.JellyContext.compileScript(JellyContext.java:531)
Any suggestion for the same.

You’re not alone: [JENKINS-69904] Safe Restart is throwing an exception on version 2.374 - Jenkins Jira
You should be fine when updating to 2.375.

Hello Bruno,
I read that but not able to find the solution.
Also when we tried to 2.374 even that part its not safe restarting .

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