JBoss EAP 6 will not start with IBM JDK Health Center enabled (-Xhealthcenter)

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Environment

  • JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 6
  • IBM JDK

Issue

  • JBoss will not start with the IBM Health Center (-Xhealthcenter) enabled. JBoss exits with the following output to standard out:
org.jboss.as.controller.AbstractOperationContext executeStep
ERROR: JBAS014612: Operation ("parallel-extension-add") failed - address: ([])
java.lang.RuntimeException: JBAS014670: Failed initializing module org.jboss.as.logging
	at org.jboss.as.controller.extension.ParallelExtensionAddHandler$1.execute(ParallelExtensionAddHandler.java:111)
	at org.jboss.as.controller.AbstractOperationContext.executeStep(AbstractOperationContext.java:702)
	at org.jboss.as.controller.AbstractOperationContext.doCompleteStep(AbstractOperationContext.java:537)
	at org.jboss.as.controller.AbstractOperationContext.completeStepInternal(AbstractOperationContext.java:338)
	at org.jboss.as.controller.AbstractOperationContext.executeOperation(AbstractOperationContext.java:314)
	at org.jboss.as.controller.OperationContextImpl.executeOperation(OperationContextImpl.java:1144)
	at org.jboss.as.controller.ModelControllerImpl.boot(ModelControllerImpl.java:393)
	at org.jboss.as.controller.AbstractControllerService.boot(AbstractControllerService.java:301)
	at org.jboss.as.server.ServerService.boot(ServerService.java:361)
	at org.jboss.as.server.ServerService.boot(ServerService.java:336)
	at org.jboss.as.controller.AbstractControllerService$1.run(AbstractControllerService.java:263)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:785)
Caused by: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: java.lang.IllegalStateException: JBAS011592: The logging subsystem requires the log manager to be org.jboss.logmanager.LogManager. The subsystem has not be initialized and cannot be used. To use JBoss Log Manager you must add the system property "java.util.logging.manager" and set it to "org.jboss.logmanager.LogManager"
	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.report(FutureTask.java:133)
	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.get(FutureTask.java:203)
	at org.jboss.as.controller.extension.ParallelExtensionAddHandler$1.execute(ParallelExtensionAddHandler.java:103)
	... 11 more
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: JBAS011592: The logging subsystem requires the log manager to be org.jboss.logmanager.LogManager. The subsystem has not be initialized and cannot be used. To use JBoss Log Manager you must add the system property "java.util.logging.manager" and set it to "org.jboss.logmanager.LogManager"
	at org.jboss.as.logging.LoggingExtension.initialize(LoggingExtension.java:136)
	at org.jboss.as.controller.extension.ExtensionAddHandler.initializeExtension(ExtensionAddHandler.java:97)
	at org.jboss.as.controller.extension.ParallelExtensionAddHandler$ExtensionInitializeTask.call(ParallelExtensionAddHandler.java:139)
	at org.jboss.as.controller.extension.ParallelExtensionAddHandler$ExtensionInitializeTask.call(ParallelExtensionAddHandler.java:125)
	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:277)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1153)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:628)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:785)
	at org.jboss.threads.JBossThread.run(JBossThread.java:122)
  • Trying to start JBoss with the IBM Health Center (-Xhealthcenter) enabled results in jvm crashing at startup (with errorcode 1).

Resolution

Please refer to JBoss EAP 6.x fails to initialize with log message.

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