Failed HornetQ start up stalls JBoss start up

Issue

• HornetQ start up does not appear to complete and JBoss start up appears to hang as a result.
• A CLI service dump shows things waiting for HornetQ to start, which is not found.
• Typically, log messages like the following would indicate a complete HornetQ start up, but these are not found:

INFO  [org.hornetq.core.server] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 57) HQ221007: Server is now live
INFO  [org.hornetq.core.server] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 57) HQ221001: HornetQ Server version 2.3.12.Final (2.3.12, 123) [570610e1-cb34-11e3-95ac-7b7a6c9a8ab4]

• JBoss managed server start up is timing out and thread dumps are as following:

"Controller Boot Thread" prio=10 tid=0x00007fc750242000 nid=0x4a4 in Object.wait() [0x00007fc73bffe000]
   java.lang.Thread.State: WAITING (on object monitor)
    at java.lang.Object.wait(Native Method)
    - waiting on <0x00000007f5c222f0> (a org.jboss.as.server.BootstrapImpl$ShutdownHook)
    at java.lang.Thread.join(Thread.java:1284)
    - locked <0x00000007f5c222f0> (a org.jboss.as.server.BootstrapImpl$ShutdownHook)
    at java.lang.Thread.join(Thread.java:1358)
    at java.lang.ApplicationShutdownHooks.runHooks(ApplicationShutdownHooks.java:106)
    at java.lang.ApplicationShutdownHooks$1.run(ApplicationShutdownHooks.java:46)
    at java.lang.Shutdown.runHooks(Shutdown.java:123)
    at java.lang.Shutdown.sequence(Shutdown.java:167)
    at java.lang.Shutdown.exit(Shutdown.java:212)
    - locked <0x00000007f5c22628> (a java.lang.Class for java.lang.Shutdown)
    at java.lang.Runtime.exit(Runtime.java:109)
    at java.lang.System.exit(System.java:962)
    at org.jboss.as.server.SystemExiter$DefaultExiter.exit(SystemExiter.java:114)
    at org.jboss.as.server.SystemExiter.logAndExit(SystemExiter.java:96)
    at org.jboss.as.server.ServerService.boot(ServerService.java:360)
    at org.jboss.as.controller.AbstractControllerService$1.run(AbstractControllerService.java:265)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)

   Locked ownable synchronizers:
    - None

"ServerService Thread Pool -- 66" prio=10 tid=0x00007fc75c08d800 nid=0x527 in Object.wait() [0x00007fc65653d000]
   java.lang.Thread.State: WAITING (on object monitor)
    at java.lang.Object.wait(Native Method)
    - waiting on <0x00000007e5273290> (a java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean)
    at java.lang.Object.wait(Object.java:503)
    at org.jboss.as.messaging.HornetQActivationService.waitForActivation(HornetQActivationService.java:139)
    - locked <0x00000007e5273290> (a java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean)
    at org.jboss.as.messaging.HornetQActivationService.access$000(HornetQActivationService.java:56)
    at org.jboss.as.messaging.HornetQActivationService$1.run(HornetQActivationService.java:129)
    at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:473)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:262)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1152)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:622)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
    at org.jboss.threads.JBossThread.run(JBossThread.java:122)

   Locked ownable synchronizers:
    - <0x00000007e47621f0> (a java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker)