JBoss ON Server fails to start with a "Failure in initialisation: java.nio.BufferUnderflowException" error in the server.log

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Issue

  • Had a full filesystem and after cleaning up files, the JBoss ON server will not start, see the below HornetQ error in the log:
02:33:45,515 ERROR [org.hornetq.core.server] (MSC service thread 1-7) HQ224000: Failure in initialisation: java.nio.BufferUnderflowException
    at java.nio.Buffer.nextGetIndex(Buffer.java:498) [rt.jar:1.7.0_45]
    at java.nio.HeapByteBuffer.getInt(HeapByteBuffer.java:355) [rt.jar:1.7.0_45]
    at org.hornetq.core.journal.impl.JournalImpl.readFileHeader(JournalImpl.java:2666) [hornetq-journal-2.3.5.Final-redhat-2.jar:2.3.5.Final-redhat-2]
    at org.hornetq.core.journal.impl.JournalImpl.orderFiles(JournalImpl.java:384) [hornetq-journal-2.3.5.Final-redhat-2.jar:2.3.5.Final-redhat-2]
    at org.hornetq.core.journal.impl.JournalImpl.load(JournalImpl.java:1728) [hornetq-journal-2.3.5.Final-redhat-2.jar:2.3.5.Final-redhat-2]
    at org.hornetq.core.journal.impl.JournalImpl.load(JournalImpl.java:1322) [hornetq-journal-2.3.5.Final-redhat-2.jar:2.3.5.Final-redhat-2]
    at org.hornetq.core.journal.impl.JournalImpl.load(JournalImpl.java:1306) [hornetq-journal-2.3.5.Final-redhat-2.jar:2.3.5.Final-redhat-2]
    at org.hornetq.core.persistence.impl.journal.JournalStorageManager.loadMessageJournal(JournalStorageManager.java:1530) [hornetq-server-2.3.5.Final-redhat-2.jar:2.3.5.Final-redhat-2]
    at org.hornetq.core.server.impl.HornetQServerImpl.loadJournals(HornetQServerImpl.java:1732) [hornetq-server-2.3.5.Final-redhat-2.jar:2.3.5.Final-redhat-2]
    at org.hornetq.core.server.impl.HornetQServerImpl.initialisePart2(HornetQServerImpl.java:1556) [hornetq-server-2.3.5.Final-redhat-2.jar:2.3.5.Final-redhat-2]
    at org.hornetq.core.server.impl.HornetQServerImpl.access$1400(HornetQServerImpl.java:169) [hornetq-server-2.3.5.Final-redhat-2.jar:2.3.5.Final-redhat-2]
    at org.hornetq.core.server.impl.HornetQServerImpl$SharedStoreLiveActivation.run(HornetQServerImpl.java:2071) [hornetq-server-2.3.5.Final-redhat-2.jar:2.3.5.Final-redhat-2]
    at org.hornetq.core.server.impl.HornetQServerImpl.start(HornetQServerImpl.java:425) [hornetq-server-2.3.5.Final-redhat-2.jar:2.3.5.Final-redhat-2]
    at org.hornetq.jms.server.impl.JMSServerManagerImpl.start(JMSServerManagerImpl.java:483) [hornetq-jms-server-2.3.5.Final-redhat-2.jar:2.3.5.Final-redhat-2]
    at org.jboss.as.messaging.jms.JMSService.start(JMSService.java:112) [jboss-as-messaging-7.2.1.Final-redhat-10.jar:7.2.1.Final-redhat-10]
    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_45]
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) [rt.jar:1.7.0_45]
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744) [rt.jar:1.7.0_45]

Environment

  • Red Hat JBoss Operations Network (ON) 3.2

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