NoSuchMethodError: setDebtSubCharacteristic

SonarQube Server / Community Build
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Hi,

Getting this error on sonar start in local.

Exception encountered during context initialization - cancelling refresh attempt: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader@5ffd2b27-org.sonar.server.rule.RegisterRules': Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: 'org.sonar.api.server.rule.RulesDefinition$NewRule org.sonar.api.server.rule.RulesDefinition$NewRule.setDebtSubCharacteristic(java.lang.String)'
2023.03.21 17:34:29 ERROR web[][o.s.s.p.Platform] Background initialization failed. Stopping SonarQube
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader@5ffd2b27-org.sonar.server.rule.RegisterRules': Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: 'org.sonar.api.server.rule.RulesDefinition$NewRule org.sonar.api.server.rule.RulesDefinition$NewRule.setDebtSubCharacteristic(java.lang.String)'
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:628)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:542)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.lambda$doGetBean$0(AbstractBeanFactory.java:335)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:234)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:333)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:208)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:955)
    at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:918)
    at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:583)
    at org.sonar.core.platform.SpringComponentContainer.startComponents(SpringComponentContainer.java:187)
    at org.sonar.server.platform.platformlevel.PlatformLevel.start(PlatformLevel.java:80)
    at org.sonar.server.platform.platformlevel.PlatformLevelStartup.access$001(PlatformLevelStartup.java:55)
    at org.sonar.server.platform.platformlevel.PlatformLevelStartup$1.doPrivileged(PlatformLevelStartup.java:127)
    at org.sonar.server.user.DoPrivileged.execute(DoPrivileged.java:45)
    at org.sonar.server.platform.platformlevel.PlatformLevelStartup.start(PlatformLevelStartup.java:124)
    at org.sonar.server.platform.PlatformImpl.executeStartupTasks(PlatformImpl.java:183)
    at org.sonar.server.platform.PlatformImpl$AutoStarterRunnable.runIfNotAborted(PlatformImpl.java:344)
    at org.sonar.server.platform.PlatformImpl$1.doRun(PlatformImpl.java:107)
    at org.sonar.server.platform.PlatformImpl$AutoStarterRunnable.run(PlatformImpl.java:328)
    at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:833)
Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: 'org.sonar.api.server.rule.RulesDefinition$NewRule org.sonar.api.server.rule.RulesDefinition$NewRule.setDebtSubCharacteristic(java.lang.String)'
    at org.sonar.squidbridge.rules.SqaleXmlLoader.processRule(SqaleXmlLoader.java:124)
    at org.sonar.squidbridge.rules.SqaleXmlLoader.processSubChar(SqaleXmlLoader.java:92)
    at org.sonar.squidbridge.rules.SqaleXmlLoader.processRoot(SqaleXmlLoader.java:78)
    at org.sonar.squidbridge.rules.SqaleXmlLoader.loadXmlResource(SqaleXmlLoader.java:65)
    at org.sonar.squidbridge.rules.SqaleXmlLoader.load(SqaleXmlLoader.java:52)
    at com.backelite.sonarqube.swift.issues.swiftlint.SwiftLintRulesDefinition.define(SwiftLintRulesDefinition.java:61)
    at org.sonar.server.rule.RuleDefinitionsLoader.load(RuleDefinitionsLoader.java:56)
    at org.sonar.server.rule.RegisterRules.start(RegisterRules.java:125)
    at org.sonar.core.platform.StartableBeanPostProcessor.postProcessBeforeInitialization(StartableBeanPostProcessor.java:33)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyBeanPostProcessorsBeforeInitialization(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:440)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1796)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:620)
... 19 common frames omitted
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It looks like your issue is with the third-party GitHub - Idean/sonar-swift: Open source Swift plugin for SonarQube (also supports Objective-C) plugin.

You may want to make sure you’re using the latest version, or raise an issue on their Github repository.