Unable to deploy application: "Could not create directory for original name 'content' after 10 attempts"

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Issue

  • Similar errors to the following are observed in the server.log:

    INFO  [org.jboss.as.server.deployment] (MSC service thread 1-8) JBAS015876: Starting deployment of "ExampleWAR.war"
    ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC service thread 1-8) MSC000001: Failed to start service jboss.deployment.unit."ExampleWAR.war".STRUCTURE: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit."ExampleWAR.war".STRUCTURE: JBAS018733: Failed to process phase STRUCTURE of deployment "ExampleWAR.war"
        at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:123) [jboss-as-server-7.1.2.Final-redhat-1.jar:7.1.2.Final-redhat-1]
        at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.startService(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1811) [jboss-msc-1.0.2.GA-redhat-1.jar:1.0.2.GA-redhat-1]
        at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1746) [jboss-msc-1.0.2.GA-redhat-1.jar:1.0.2.GA-redhat-1]
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110) [rt.jar:1.7.0_05]
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603) [rt.jar:1.7.0_05]
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722) [rt.jar:1.7.0_05]
    Caused by: org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitProcessingException: JBAS018740: Failed to mount deployment content
        at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.module.DeploymentRootMountProcessor.deploy(DeploymentRootMountProcessor.java:92) [jboss-as-server-7.1.2.Final-redhat-1.jar:7.1.2.Final-redhat-1]
        at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:116) [jboss-as-server-7.1.2.Final-redhat-1.jar:7.1.2.Final-redhat-1]
        ... 5 more
    Caused by: java.io.IOException: Could not create directory for original name 'content' after 10 attempts
        at org.jboss.vfs.TempFileProvider.createTempDir(TempFileProvider.java:103)
        at org.jboss.vfs.VFS.mountZipExpanded(VFS.java:521)
        at org.jboss.vfs.VFS.mountZipExpanded(VFS.java:567)
        at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentMountProvider$Factory$ServerDeploymentRepositoryImpl.mountDeploymentContent(DeploymentMountProvider.java:97) [jboss-as-server-7.1.2.Final-redhat-1.jar:7.1.2.Final-redhat-1]
        at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.module.DeploymentRootMountProcessor.deploy(DeploymentRootMountProcessor.java:88) [jboss-as-server-7.1.2.Final-redhat-1.jar:7.1.2.Final-redhat-1]
        ... 6 more
    

Environment

  • JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 6.x

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