Failed to start service jboss.infinispan.web.global-component-registry: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException

Solution Unverified - Updated 2 Aug 2024

Environment

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.6

Issue

We use jgroup that ship with jboss. Jgroup channel didn't start. Stack Trace -

Caused by: org.infinispan.CacheException: Unable to start JGroups Channel
at org.infinispan.remoting.transport.jgroups.JGroupsTransport.startJGroupsChannelIfNeeded(JGroupsTransport.java:209)
at org.infinispan.remoting.transport.jgroups.JGroupsTransport.start(JGroupsTransport.java:198)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) [rt.jar:1.7.0_95]
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) [rt.jar:1.7.0_95]
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) [rt.jar:1.7.0_95]
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606) [rt.jar:1.7.0_95]
at org.infinispan.util.ReflectionUtil.invokeAccessibly(ReflectionUtil.java:203)
... 11 more
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at java.util.LinkedList$ListItr.next(LinkedList.java:891) [rt.jar:1.7.0_95]
at org.jgroups.protocols.TP.start(TP.java:1062)
at org.jgroups.protocols.UDP.start(UDP.java:226)
at org.jgroups.stack.ProtocolStack.startStack(ProtocolStack.java:948)
at org.jgroups.JChannel.startStack(JChannel.java:827)
at org.jgroups.JChannel._preConnect(JChannel.java:525)
at org.jgroups.JChannel.connect(JChannel.java:277)
at org.jgroups.JChannel.connect(JChannel.java:268)
at org.infinispan.remoting.transport.jgroups.JGroupsTransport.startJGroupsChannelIfNeeded(JGroupsTransport.java:207)
... 17 more

Resolution

There is a patch attached to the associated case.
Otherwise wait for EAP 6.4.9 which will include the fix.

Root Cause

There is the following issue: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JGRP-1869 about this.

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