Over the weekend, I was playing around with JBoss Application Server on CentOS 7. I installed 7.1.1, and when I tried to start, it was hung at starting.
[root@localhost bin]# ./standalone.sh
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JBoss Bootstrap Environment
JBOSS_HOME: /home/chandan/Downloads/jboss-as-7.1.1.Final
JAVA: java
JAVA_OPTS: -server -XX:+UseCompressedOops -XX:+TieredCompilation -Xms64m -Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Dorg.jboss.resolver.warning=true -Dsun.rmi.dgc.client.gcInterval=3600000 -Dsun.rmi.dgc.server.gcInterval=3600000 -Djboss.modules.system.pkgs=org.jboss.byteman -Djava.awt.headless=true -Djboss.server.default.config=standalone.xml
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OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM warning: ignoring option MaxPermSize=256m; support was removed in 8.0
13:39:15,689 INFO [org.jboss.modules] JBoss Modules version 1.1.1.GA
13:39:16,236 INFO [org.jboss.msc] JBoss MSC version 1.0.2.GA
13:39:16,346 INFO [org.jboss.as] JBAS015899: JBoss AS 7.1.1.Final "Brontes" starting
I waited for few minutes but no luck.
Are you in the same situation? Don’t panic!
It seems there is known issue with JBoss 7 with Java 8 and solution is to use Java 7. The first thing you want to verify if you are using Java 8.
[root@localhost bin]# java -version openjdk version "1.8.0_111" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_111-b15) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.111-b15, mixed mode) [root@localhost bin]#
As you can see above, I am having Java 8 and need to use Java 7.
If you are on CentOS, then you can use the lower version of Java with the following command.
update-alternatives --config java
It will give you the option to select the java version
[root@localhost bin]# update-alternatives --config java There are 2 programs which provide 'java'. Selection Command ----------------------------------------------- 1 java-1.7.0-openjdk.x86_64 (/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.121-2.6.8.0.el7_3.x86_64/jre/bin/java) *+ 2 java-1.8.0-openjdk.x86_64 (/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.111-2.b15.el7_3.x86_64/jre/bin/java) Enter to keep the current selection[+], or type selection number:
Enter 1, and you are all set.
If you are using RHEL or don’t have Java 7 then first you got to install and set in the PATH.
Once I set Java 7, JBoss 7 could start successfully.
[root@localhost bin]# ./standalone.sh ========================================================================= JBoss Bootstrap Environment JBOSS_HOME: /home/chandan/Downloads/jboss-as-7.1.1.Final JAVA: java JAVA_OPTS: -server -XX:+UseCompressedOops -XX:+TieredCompilation -Xms64m -Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Dorg.jboss.resolver.warning=true -Dsun.rmi.dgc.client.gcInterval=3600000 -Dsun.rmi.dgc.server.gcInterval=3600000 -Djboss.modules.system.pkgs=org.jboss.byteman -Djava.awt.headless=true -Djboss.server.default.config=standalone.xml ======================================================================== 13:46:04,337 INFO [org.jboss.modules] JBoss Modules version 1.1.1.GA 13:46:04,622 INFO [org.jboss.msc] JBoss MSC version 1.0.2.GA 13:46:04,661 INFO [org.jboss.as] JBAS015899: JBoss AS 7.1.1.Final "Brontes" starting 13:46:05,552 INFO [org.xnio] XNIO Version 3.0.3.GA 13:46:05,568 INFO [org.jboss.as.server] JBAS015888: Creating http management service using socket-binding (management-http) 13:46:05,584 INFO [org.xnio.nio] XNIO NIO Implementation Version 3.0.3.GA 13:46:05,621 INFO [org.jboss.as.logging] JBAS011502: Removing bootstrap log handlers 13:46:05,643 INFO [org.jboss.remoting] (MSC service thread 1-3) JBoss Remoting version 3.2.3.GA 13:46:05,651 INFO [org.jboss.as.clustering.infinispan] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 31) JBAS010280: Activating Infinispan subsystem. 13:46:05,722 INFO [org.jboss.as.configadmin] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 26) JBAS016200: Activating ConfigAdmin Subsystem 13:46:05,734 INFO [org.jboss.as.naming] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 38) JBAS011800: Activating Naming Subsystem 13:46:05,778 INFO [org.jboss.as.osgi] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 39) JBAS011940: Activating OSGi Subsystem 13:46:05,871 INFO [org.jboss.as.security] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 44) JBAS013101: Activating Security Subsystem 13:46:05,884 INFO [org.jboss.as.naming] (MSC service thread 1-1) JBAS011802: Starting Naming Service 13:46:05,901 INFO [org.jboss.as.webservices] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 48) JBAS015537: Activating WebServices Extension 13:46:05,983 INFO [org.jboss.as.mail.extension] (MSC service thread 1-1) JBAS015400: Bound mail session [java:jboss/mail/Default] 13:46:06,001 INFO [org.jboss.as.connector] (MSC service thread 1-2) JBAS010408: Starting JCA Subsystem (JBoss IronJacamar 1.0.9.Final) 13:46:06,002 INFO [org.jboss.as.security] (MSC service thread 1-2) JBAS013100: Current PicketBox version=4.0.7.Final 13:46:06,104 INFO [org.jboss.as.connector.subsystems.datasources] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 27) JBAS010403: Deploying JDBC-compliant driver class org.h2.Driver (version 1.3) 13:46:06,440 INFO [org.jboss.ws.common.management.AbstractServerConfig] (MSC service thread 1-3) JBoss Web Services - Stack CXF Server 4.0.2.GA 13:46:06,522 INFO [org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol] (MSC service thread 1-4) Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http--127.0.0.1-8080 13:46:06,746 INFO [org.jboss.as.server.deployment.scanner] (MSC service thread 1-4) JBAS015012: Started FileSystemDeploymentService for directory /home/chandan/Downloads/jboss-as-7.1.1.Final/standalone/deployments 13:46:06,747 INFO [org.jboss.as.remoting] (MSC service thread 1-1) JBAS017100: Listening on /127.0.0.1:9999 13:46:06,796 INFO [org.jboss.as.remoting] (MSC service thread 1-3) JBAS017100: Listening on /127.0.0.1:4447 13:46:06,883 INFO [org.jboss.as.connector.subsystems.datasources] (MSC service thread 1-3) JBAS010400: Bound data source [java:jboss/datasources/ExampleDS] 13:46:07,003 INFO [org.jboss.as] (Controller Boot Thread) JBAS015951: Admin console listening on http://127.0.0.1:9990 13:46:07,004 INFO [org.jboss.as] (Controller Boot Thread) JBAS015874: JBoss AS 7.1.1.Final "Brontes" started in 3468ms - Started 133 of 208 services (74 services are passive or on-demand)
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