circular reference of dspace.dir

[Sharath T]

I am struck by this error, tried various options of checking application.properties, local.cfg, pom.xml, etc. but no luck so far. 

The error message goes as follows:

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time:  10.338 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2025-05-02T00:09:54+05:30
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-maven-plugin:3.4.5:run (default-cli) on project dspace-server-webapp: Process terminated with exit code: 1 -> [Help 1]
[ERROR]
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR]
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MojoExecutionException

Some of the earlier messages pointed to some circular reference to dspace.dir, details below:

  10:30:48.602 [main] ERROR org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication - Application run failed java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Circular placeholder reference 'dspace.dir' in property definitions at org.springframework.util.PropertyPlaceholderHelper.parseStringValue(PropertyPlaceholderHelper.java:147) ~[spring-core-5.3.39.jar:5.3.39] at org.springframework.util.PropertyPlaceholderHelper.parseStringValue(PropertyPlaceholderHelper.java:168) ~[spring-core-5.3.39.jar:5.3.39] at org.springframework.util.PropertyPlaceholderHelper.replacePlaceholders(PropertyPlaceholderHelper.java:126) ~[spring-core-5.3.39.jar:5.3.39] at org.springframework.core.env.AbstractPropertyResolver.doResolvePlaceholders(AbstractPropertyResolver.java:239) ~[spring-core-5.3.39.jar:5.3.39]

Please advise on getting these resolved.