JBoss ON fails updating or installing agent plug-in due to transaction timeout

Issue

• Unable to update the JBoss AS or Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) plug-in

• rhq-server-log4j.log contains transaction errors:

  WARN  [com.arjuna.ats.arjuna.logging.arjLoggerI18N] [com.arjuna.ats.arjuna.coordinator.BasicAction_58] - Abort of action id a0301e5:f3da:4ffd9ec3:17c invoked while multiple threads active within it.
  INFO  [org.rhq.enterprise.server.common.TransactionInterruptInterceptor] Transaction [a0301e5:f3da:4ffd9ec3:17c] is aborting with active thread [Latched Service Processor: JBossAS5]. interrupting=[false]
  java.lang.Throwable: STACK TRACE OF ACTIVE THREAD IN TERMINATING TRANSACTION
          at org.apache.log4j.Category.getEffectiveLevel(Category.java:439)
          at org.apache.log4j.Category.isEnabledFor(Category.java:748)
          at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor16.invoke(Unknown Source)
  

• Failing to register an updated agent plug-in

  ERROR [org.rhq.enterprise.server.core.plugin.ProductPluginDeployer] Failed to register RHQ plugin file [file:/opt/jboss/jon-server-2.4.2.GA/jbossas/server/default/deploy/rhq.ear/rhq-downloads/rhq-plugins/jopr-jboss-as-5-plugin-3.0.1.JON242.GA.jar]
  java.lang.IllegalStateException: [com.arjuna.ats.internal.jta.transaction.arjunacore.inactive] [com.arjuna.ats.internal.jta.transaction.arjunacore.inactive] The transaction is not active!
          at com.arjuna.ats.internal.jta.transaction.arjunacore.TransactionImple.commitAndDisassociate(TransactionImple.java:1379)