Data Server processes failing to start after upgrading Tableau Server to v2022.3 and newer

Issue

When Tableau Server starts, the data server process fails to start.

The data server logs reported something errors similar to the following:
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2023-05-25 16:38:58.519 +0900 (,,,) Curator-Framework-0 : ERROR org.apache.curator.framework.imps.CuratorFrameworkImpl - Background operation retry gave uporg.apache.zookeeper.KeeperException$ConnectionLossException: KeeperErrorCode = ConnectionLoss
at org.apache.zookeeper.KeeperException.create(KeeperException.java:102)
...
2023-05-25 16:38:58.529 +0900 (,,,) Curator-Framework-0 : ERROR org.apache.curator.framework.imps.CuratorFrameworkImpl - Background retry gave up
org.apache.curator.CuratorConnectionLossException: KeeperErrorCode = ConnectionLoss
...
2023-05-25 16:40:58.519 +0900 (,,,) Curator-ConnectionStateManager-0 : WARN org.apache.curator.framework.state.ConnectionStateManager - Session timeout has elapsed while SUSPENDED. Injecting a session expiration. Elapsed ms: 120000. Adjusted session timeout ms: 120000
2023-05-25 16:40:58.524 +0900 (,,,) discovery-1-EventThread : WARN org.apache.curator.ConnectionState - Session expired event received
2023-05-25 16:40:58.524 +0900 (,,,) Curator-ConnectionStateManager-0 : ERROR org.apache.curator.framework.state.ConnectionStateManager - Could not inject session expiration
java.lang.NullPointerException: null
at org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxnSocketNetty.onClosing(ClientCnxnSocketNetty.java:251)
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Environment

Tableau Server 2022.3
Linux

Resolution

As a workaround, manually start the data server process which failed by the following command:

sudo su -l tableau -c "systemctl --user restart dataserver_<instance number>"

Cause

This issue with Tableau Data Server failing to start is caused by a known issue with the Zookeeper software, which is used by Tableau to manage the process status.
This issue is being addressed by Tableau development team with the issue W-12900190.