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Problem

CSS / Styles not loading in Atlassian Crowd.  Crowd looks like:

See here for JIRA bug report.

Cause

Newer version of zlib library causes gzip reponse corruption.

Solution / Workaround:

See here for workaround.

Turn off compression in crowd's /opt/atlassian/crowd/apache-tomcat/conf/server.xml file.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Server port="8020" shutdown="SHUTDOWN">

    <Service name="Catalina">

        <Connector
...
                   compression="off"
...