Unable to start spring boot server

Question

I am new to spring boot and when I try to start my server , I get the following Exception. I understand that this has something to do with dependency conflict, but still unable to figure it out.I am using maven to manage my dependencies.Please help

 Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException:
 LoggerFactory is not a Logback LoggerContext but Logback is on the
 classpath. Either remove Logback or the competing implementation
 (class org.slf4j.impl.Log4jLoggerFactory) Object of class
 [org.slf4j.impl.Log4jLoggerFactory] must be an instance of class
 ch.qos.logback.classic.LoggerContext   at
 org.springframework.util.Assert.isInstanceOf(Assert.java:339)  at
 org.springframework.boot.logging.logback.LogbackLoggingSystem.initialize(LogbackLoggingSystem.java:93)
        at
org.springframework.boot.logging.AbstractLoggingSystem.initializeWithSensibleDefaults(AbstractLoggingSystem.java:62)
        at

 org.springframework.boot.logging.AbstractLoggingSystem.beforeInitialize(AbstractLoggingSystem.java:45)
    at

org.springframework.boot.logging.logback.LogbackLoggingSystem.beforeInitialize(LogbackLoggingSystem.java:69)
    at

 org.springframework.boot.logging.LoggingApplicationListener.onApplicationEvent(LoggingApplicationListener.java:135)
    at

 org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.multicastEvent(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:98)
    at

 org.springframework.boot.context.event.EventPublishingRunListener.publishEvent(EventPublishingRunListener.java:100)
    at

 org.springframework.boot.context.event.EventPublishingRunListener.started(EventPublishingRunListener.java:54)
    at

 org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:276)
    at

 org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:952)
    at

 org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:941)
    at org.magnum.mobilecloud.video.Application.main(Application.java:30)

Resolved:Add the following to the POM.xml

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
        <exclusions>
            <exclusion>
                <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
            </exclusion>
            <exclusion>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-logging</artifactId>
            </exclusion>
    </exclusions>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-log4j</artifactId>
    </dependency>

Answer 1

I would recommend you to try removing any dependency that contains the Logback, the most common one is:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-log4j2</artifactId>
</dependency>

It worked for me.

Answer 2

Spring Boot supports Log4j 2 for logging configuration if it is on the classpath. If you use the starters for assembling dependencies, you have to exclude Logback and then include log4j 2 instead.

Answer 3

Repeat answer but you can use Eclipse to exclude the spring-boot-starter-logging dependency

1. Select dependency hierarchy
2. Search for logging top right
3. Select spring-boot-starter-logging
4. Right click exclude maven artifact

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