JBoss ON server running on Windows takes more then 3 minutes to shutdown due to a failure in the AWT-Windows thread

Issue

• Server does not stop completely with Windows service
• When stopping the server the process hangs at the end of the shutdown process.

• Shutdown hangs with the following error message in the server log:

  INFO  [org.jboss.system.server.Server] JBoss SHUTDOWN: Undeploying all packages
  INFO  [org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.TomcatDeployer] undeploy, ctxPath=/rest, warUrl=.../deploy/rhq.ear/rhq-rest.war/
  INFO  [org.rhq.helpers.rtfilter.filter.RtFilter] -- Filter destroy: 0 requests processed (hashCode=25454583).
  INFO  [org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.TomcatDeployer] undeploy, ctxPath=/, warUrl=.../deploy/rhq.ear/rhq-portal.war/
  INFO  [org.rhq.helpers.rtfilter.filter.RtFilter] -- Filter destroy: 0 requests processed (hashCode=5126077).
  ERROR [STDERR] Exception in thread "AWT-Windows" 
  ERROR [STDERR] java.lang.IllegalStateException: Shutdown in progress
  ERROR [STDERR]  at java.lang.ApplicationShutdownHooks.add(Unknown Source)
  ERROR [STDERR]  at java.lang.Runtime.addShutdownHook(Unknown Source)
  ERROR [STDERR]  at sun.awt.windows.WToolkit$2.run(Unknown Source)
  ERROR [STDERR]  at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
  ERROR [STDERR]  at sun.awt.windows.WToolkit.run(Unknown Source)
  ERROR [STDERR]  at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
  

• Server wrapper logs the following failure in rhq-server-wrapper.log:

  ERROR  | wrapper  | 2012/12/20 03:45:57 | Shutdown failed: Timed out waiting for the JVM to terminate.
  ERROR  | wrapper  | 2012/12/20 03:45:57 | JVM did not exit on request, terminated