Failed to instantiate processEngine due to existing table after spring-boot upgrade

1

After upgrading spring-boot from 2.6.9 to 2.7.4 we’re getting following error:

Caused by: org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Failed to instantiate [org.flowable.engine.ProcessEngine]: Factory method ‘processEngine’ threw exception; nested exception is org.flowable.common.engine.api.FlowableE
xception: Error initialising eventregistry data model
Caused by: org.flowable.common.engine.api.FlowableException: Error initialising eventregistry data model
Caused by: org.flowable.common.engine.api.FlowableException:
couldn’t create db schema: create table ACT_GE_PROPERTY (
NAME_ varchar(64),
VALUE_ varchar(300),
REV_ integer,
primary key (NAME_)
)
Caused by: org.h2.jdbc.JdbcSQLSyntaxErrorException:
Table “act_ge_property” already exists; SQL statement:
create table ACT_GE_PROPERTY (
NAME_ varchar(64),
VALUE_ varchar(300),
REV_ integer,
primary key (NAME_)
) [42101-214]

2

The spring boot upgrade is the only thing that was done?

The exception indicates it tries to create the ACT_GE_PROPERTY, however, if you have database-schema-update set to ‘true’ this should be done automatically. How did you configure the schema update?

3

the spring boot upgrade is the only change.
database-schema-update is set to ‘true’

4

any help with this would be much appreciated