I cannot access the admin-console on my newly installed JBoss instance

Issue

• I am unable to access the admin-console, but can access web console and jmx-console.

• The following message can be seen in the browser when you try to hit the admin-console and also in the server.log:

  WARN  [org.jboss.seam.Component] (http-0.0.0.0-8080-2) Component class should be serializable: sessionInfoAction
  WARN  [org.jboss.seam.security.permission.PersistentPermissionResolver] (http-0.0.0.0-8080-2) no permission store available - please install a PermissionStore with the name 'org.jboss.seam.security.jpaPermissionStore' if persistent permissions are required.
  INFO  [org.jboss.virtual.plugins.context.AbstractVirtualFileHandler] (http-0.0.0.0-8080-2) VFS force copy (NestedJarHandler) is enabled.
  SEVERE [facelets.viewhandler] (http-0.0.0.0-8080-2) Error Rendering View[/index.xhtml]
  java.lang.RuntimeException: Failed to initialize ZipWrapper: /var/lib/jbossas/lib/wstx.jar/META-INF/
      at org.jboss.virtual.plugins.context.zip.ZipEntryContext.getZipSource(ZipEntryContext.java:286)
      at org.jboss.virtual.plugins.context.zip.ZipEntryContext.ensureEntries(ZipEntryContext.java:638)
      at org.jboss.virtual.plugins.context.zip.ZipEntryContext.checkIfModified(ZipEntryContext.java:786)
      at org.jboss.virtual.plugins.context.zip.ZipEntryContext.getChildren(ZipEntryContext.java:858)
      at org.jboss.virtual.plugins.context.AbstractVFSContext.visit(AbstractVFSContext.java:337)
      at org.jboss.virtual.plugins.context.AbstractVFSContext.visit(AbstractVFSContext.java:307)
      at org.jboss.virtual.VFS.visit(VFS.java:468)
      ....
  Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot find entry: java.io.FileInputStream@49d76fc4, META-INF
      at org.jboss.virtual.plugins.context.zip.ZipEntryContext.findEntry(ZipEntryContext.java:429)
      at org.jboss.virtual.plugins.context.zip.ZipEntryContext.createZipSource(ZipEntryContext.java:362)
      at org.jboss.virtual.plugins.context.zip.ZipEntryContext.getZipSource(ZipEntryContext.java:282)
      ... 66 more