Issue

After EAP has been running for 30 minutes or more, the username and password fields on the login page of the admin console disappear. This is accompanied by a stack trace like the following in the logs:

java.lang.RuntimeException: Failed to initialize ZipWrapper: /opt/jboss/jboss-as/servers/myconfig/deployers/jbossws.deployer/spring-core.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)
     at org.jboss.virtual.VirtualFile.visit(VirtualFile.java:448)
     at com.sun.facelets.util.VFSClasspath.search(VFSClasspath.java:49)
     at com.sun.facelets.util.Classpath.search(Classpath.java:63)
     at com.sun.facelets.compiler.TagLibraryConfig.loadImplicit(TagLibraryConfig.java:428)
     at com.sun.facelets.compiler.Compiler.initialize(Compiler.java:87)
     at com.sun.facelets.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:104)

We are seeing this error in JBoss Enterprise Portal 5.2.1 :

SEVERE [facelets.viewhandler] (ajp-host-127.0.0.1-8009-1) Error Rendering View[/index.xhtml]
java.lang.RuntimeException: Failed to initialize ZipWrapper: /var/jboss/jboss-epp-5.1/server/deploy/application.ear/lib/asm-3.3.1.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.VirtualFile.visit(VirtualFile.java:448)
        at com.sun.facelets.util.VFSClasspath.search(VFSClasspath.java:49)
...
        at com.sun.facelets.FaceletViewHandler.renderView(FaceletViewHandler.java:567)
        at org.ajax4jsf.application.ViewHandlerWrapper.renderView(ViewHandlerWrapper.java:100)
...
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
        at org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:83)
...
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot find entry: java.io.FileInputStream@4ac2a314, 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