JBoss ON Server fails to start after upgrade from update 05 to 08

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Issue

  • Server fails to start after upgrade from update 05 to 08

  • After update 08 from 3.3.5 server fails to start with the message:

      ERROR [org.jboss.as.ejb3] (pool-6-thread-1) JBAS014268: Failure in caller transaction.: java.lang.NullPointerException
  at org.rhq.enterprise.server.system.SystemManagerBean.transformSystemConfigurationPropertyFromDb(SystemManagerBean.java:523) [rhq-server.jar:4.12.0.JON330GA-redhat-8]
  at org.rhq.enterprise.server.system.SystemManagerBean.fillCache(SystemManagerBean.java:956) [rhq-server.jar:4.12.0.JON330GA-redhat-8]
  at org.rhq.enterprise.server.system.SystemManagerBean.loadSystemConfigurationCache(SystemManagerBean.java:482) [rhq-server.jar:4.12.0.JON330GA-redhat-8]
  at org.rhq.enterprise.server.system.SystemManagerBean.getCachedObfuscatedSettings(SystemManagerBean.java:927) [rhq-server.jar:4.12.0.JON330GA-redhat-8]
  at org.rhq.enterprise.server.system.SystemManagerBean.getObfuscatedSystemSettings(SystemManagerBean.java:252) [rhq-server.jar:4.12.0.JON330GA-redhat-8]
  ...

Resolution

This issue is resolved in JBoss ON 3.3 Update-09 (3.3.9) and later.

Root Cause

When JBoss ON 3.3 Update-05 (3.3.5) was released, two new configuration properties, PARTITION_EVENT_PURGE and RESOURCE_CONFIG_HISTORY_PURGE, were added to the System Configuration page in JBoss ON by mistake. These invalid configuration properties prevented other changes in the system configuration page from being saved. The issue was resolved with the steps given in Red Hat Knowledge Solution 2165051: It is not possible to save changes in the system settings of JBoss ON UI. However, because the invalid properties were still in the JBoss ON back-end database, the removal of them from the UI in JBoss ON 3.3 Update-08 (3.3.8) resulted in an unknown system property value being loaded form the database and causing a NullPointerException on startup.

For more details, please see This content is not included.Red Hat Bugzilla 1446072: JBoss ON Server fails to start after upgrade from update 05 to 08 due to deprecated system config fields: PARTITION_EVENT_PURGE and RESOURCE_CONFIG_HISTORY_PURGE.

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