Could not restore timer from ... java.io.EOFException: Read past end of file in JBoss EAP 6/EAP 7

Issue

• Our JBoss instance had to be forcible shutdown, when trying to restart we are seeing this error on JBoss EAP6:

ERROR [org.jboss.as.ejb3] (MSC service thread 1-3) JBAS014129: Could not restore timer from /home/jboss/jboss-eap/standalone/data/timer-service-data/org.jboss.examples.timers.ExampleTimer/db3c6e45-726d-1338-8ea7-1e2bf6fabc94: java.io.EOFException: Read past end of file
    at org.jboss.marshalling.SimpleDataInput.eofOnRead(SimpleDataInput.java:126) [jboss-marshalling-1.3.16.GA-redhat-1.jar:1.3.16.GA-redhat-1]
    at org.jboss.marshalling.SimpleDataInput.readUnsignedByteDirect(SimpleDataInput.java:263) [jboss-marshalling-1.3.16.GA-redhat-1.jar:1.3.16.GA-redhat-1]
    at org.jboss.marshalling.SimpleDataInput.readUnsignedByte(SimpleDataInput.java:224) [jboss-marshalling-1.3.16.GA-redhat-1.jar:1.3.16.GA-redhat-1]
    at org.jboss.marshalling.river.RiverUnmarshaller.start(RiverUnmarshaller.java:1187) [jboss-marshalling-river-1.3.16.GA-redhat-1.jar:1.3.16.GA-redhat-1]
    at org.jboss.as.ejb3.timerservice.persistence.filestore.FileTimerPersistence.loadTimersFromFile(FileTimerPersistence.java:331) [jboss-as-ejb3-7.2.0.Final-redhat-8.jar:7.2.0.Final-redhat-8]
    at org.jboss.as.ejb3.timerservice.persistence.filestore.FileTimerPersistence.getTimers(FileTimerPersistence.java:309) [jboss-as-ejb3-7.2.0.Final-redhat-8.jar:7.2.0.Final-redhat-8]
    at org.jboss.as.ejb3.timerservice.persistence.filestore.FileTimerPersistence.loadActiveTimers(FileTimerPersistence.java:249) [jboss-as-ejb3-7.2.0.Final-redhat-8.jar:7.2.0.Final-redhat-8]
    at org.jboss.as.ejb3.timerservice.persistence.filestore.FileTimerPersistence.loadActiveTimers(FileTimerPersistence.java:266) [jboss-as-ejb3-7.2.0.Final-redhat-8.jar:7.2.0.Final-redhat-8]
    at org.jboss.as.ejb3.timerservice.TimerServiceImpl.getActivePersistentTimers(TimerServiceImpl.java:894) [jboss-as-ejb3-7.2.0.Final-redhat-8.jar:7.2.0.Final-redhat-8]
    at org.jboss.as.ejb3.timerservice.TimerServiceImpl.restoreTimers(TimerServiceImpl.java:633) [jboss-as-ejb3-7.2.0.Final-redhat-8.jar:7.2.0.Final-redhat-8]
    at org.jboss.as.ejb3.timerservice.TimerServiceImpl.start(TimerServiceImpl.java:190) [jboss-as-ejb3-7.2.0.Final-redhat-8.jar:7.2.0.Final-redhat-8]
    at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.startService(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1811) [jboss-msc-1.0.4.GA-redhat-1.jar:1.0.4.GA-redhat-1]
    at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1746) [jboss-msc-1.0.4.GA-redhat-1.jar:1.0.4.GA-redhat-1]
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) [rt.jar:1.7.0_17]
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) [rt.jar:1.7.0_17]
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722) [rt.jar:1.7.0_17]

• The error in JBoss EAP 7 is like:

ERROR [org.jboss.as.ejb3.timer] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 71) WFLYEJB0029: Could not restore timer from /home/jboss/jboss-eap/standalone/data/timer-service-data/org.jboss.examples.timers.ExampleTimer/40df2015-d627-1234-5678-1a2b3c4d5e6f: java.io.EOFException: Read past end of file at [row,col {unknown-source}]: [1,0]
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