Why do I get "IllegalStateException: Container is down" and how to avoid it

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Issue

We got some abnormal log messages on EAP startup and we have concerns, are these following actions require human interaction?

16:26:21,818 ERROR [org.jboss.as.controller.management-operation] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 29) JBAS014612: Operation ("add") failed - address: ([
    ("subsystem" => "infinispan"),
    ("cache-container" => "web"),
    ("local-cache" => "local-web")
]): java.lang.IllegalStateException: Container is down

......

16:26:21,851 ERROR [org.jboss.as.controller.management-operation] (Controller Boot Thread) JBAS014612: Operation ("add") failed - address: ([
    ("core-service" => "management"),
    ("security-realm" => "ManagementRealm")
]): java.lang.IllegalStateException: Container is down

......

16:26:29,485 ERROR [org.jboss.as.controller.management-operation] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 45) JBAS014612: Operation ("add") failed - address: ([
    ("subsystem" => "web"),
    ("virtual-server" => "default-host")
]): java.lang.IllegalStateException: Container is down

......

16:26:47,644 ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC service thread 1-8) MSC000001: Failed to start service jboss.deployment.unit."business-central-server.war".PARSE: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit."business-central-server.war".PARSE: JBAS018733: Failed to process phase PARSE of deployment "business-central-server.war"

......

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Container is down

Environment

  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)
    • 6.x

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