Initial state transfer timed out by non-serializable object when starting up a node

Issue

Following exception can be seen in the server log when starting up.

ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 56) MSC000001: Failed to start service jboss.infinispan.web.<host-name>/context-root/: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.infinispan.web.<host-name>/context-root/: org.infinispan.CacheException: Unable to invoke method public void org.infinispan.statetransfer.StateTransferManagerImpl.waitForInitialStateTransferToComplete() throws java.lang.InterruptedException on object of type StateTransferManagerImpl
    at org.jboss.as.clustering.msc.AsynchronousService$1.run(AsynchronousService.java:93) 
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) [rt.jar:1.8.0_131]
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) [rt.jar:1.8.0_131]
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) [rt.jar:1.8.0_131]
    at org.jboss.threads.JBossThread.run(JBossThread.java:122) 
Caused by: org.infinispan.CacheException: Unable to invoke method public void org.infinispan.statetransfer.StateTransferManagerImpl.waitForInitialStateTransferToComplete() throws java.lang.InterruptedException on object of type StateTransferManagerImpl
    at org.infinispan.util.ReflectionUtil.invokeAccessibly(ReflectionUtil.java:205) 
    at org.infinispan.factories.AbstractComponentRegistry$PrioritizedMethod.invoke(AbstractComponentRegistry.java:886)
    at org.infinispan.factories.AbstractComponentRegistry.invokeStartMethods(AbstractComponentRegistry.java:657)
    at org.infinispan.factories.AbstractComponentRegistry.internalStart(AbstractComponentRegistry.java:646) 
    at org.infinispan.factories.AbstractComponentRegistry.start(AbstractComponentRegistry.java:549) 
    at org.infinispan.factories.ComponentRegistry.start(ComponentRegistry.java:217)
    at org.infinispan.CacheImpl.start(CacheImpl.java:582)
    at org.infinispan.manager.DefaultCacheManager.wireAndStartCache(DefaultCacheManager.java:686)
    at org.infinispan.manager.DefaultCacheManager.createCache(DefaultCacheManager.java:649)
    at org.infinispan.manager.DefaultCacheManager.getCache(DefaultCacheManager.java:545)
    at org.infinispan.manager.DefaultCacheManager.getCache(DefaultCacheManager.java:559) 
    at org.jboss.as.clustering.infinispan.DefaultCacheContainer.getCache(DefaultCacheContainer.java:113)
    at org.jboss.as.clustering.infinispan.DefaultCacheContainer.getCache(DefaultCacheContainer.java:104)
    at org.jboss.as.clustering.infinispan.subsystem.CacheService.start(CacheService.java:78)
    at org.jboss.as.clustering.msc.AsynchronousService$1.run(AsynchronousService.java:88)
    ... 4 more
Caused by: org.infinispan.CacheException: Initial state transfer timed out for <host-name>/context-root/ on jboss_node2/web
    at org.infinispan.statetransfer.StateTransferManagerImpl.waitForInitialStateTransferToComplete(StateTransferManagerImpl.java:225)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) [rt.jar:1.8.0_131]
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) [rt.jar:1.8.0_131]
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) [rt.jar:1.8.0_131]
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) [rt.jar:1.8.0_131]
    at org.infinispan.util.ReflectionUtil.invokeAccessibly(ReflectionUtil.java:203)
    ... 18 more

And the following exception can be seen also in another server that has already started.

ERROR [org.infinispan.statetransfer.OutboundTransferTask] (transport-thread-9) Failed to send entries to node <node-name>/web : java.lang.RuntimeException: Failure to marshal argument(s): org.infinispan.CacheException: java.lang.RuntimeException: Failure to marshal argument(s)
    at org.infinispan.util.Util.rewrapAsCacheException(Util.java:542) 
    at org.infinispan.remoting.transport.jgroups.CommandAwareRpcDispatcher.invokeRemoteCommand(CommandAwareRpcDispatcher.java:187) 
    at org.infinispan.remoting.transport.jgroups.JGroupsTransport.invokeRemotely(JGroupsTransport.java:515) 
    at org.infinispan.remoting.rpc.RpcManagerImpl.invokeRemotely(RpcManagerImpl.java:173) 
    at org.infinispan.remoting.rpc.RpcManagerImpl.invokeRemotely(RpcManagerImpl.java:194)
    at org.infinispan.statetransfer.OutboundTransferTask.sendEntries(OutboundTransferTask.java:257)
    at org.infinispan.statetransfer.OutboundTransferTask.run(OutboundTransferTask.java:187)
    at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511) [rt.jar:1.8.0_131]
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266) [rt.jar:1.8.0_131]
    at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511) [rt.jar:1.8.0_131]
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266) [rt.jar:1.8.0_131]
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) [rt.jar:1.8.0_131]
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) [rt.jar:1.8.0_131]
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) [rt.jar:1.8.0_131]
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Failure to marshal argument(s)
    at org.infinispan.remoting.transport.jgroups.CommandAwareRpcDispatcher.marshallCall(CommandAwareRpcDispatcher.java:282) 
    at org.infinispan.remoting.transport.jgroups.CommandAwareRpcDispatcher.processSingleCall(CommandAwareRpcDispatcher.java:301)
    at org.infinispan.remoting.transport.jgroups.CommandAwareRpcDispatcher.invokeRemoteCommand(CommandAwareRpcDispatcher.java:180)
    ... 12 more
Caused by: org.infinispan.marshall.NotSerializableException: com.example.SessionObject
Caused by: an exception which occurred:
    in field myHolder
    in field myHolder2
    in object java.util.HashMap@61f6d05a
    in object org.jboss.as.clustering.SimpleMarshalledValue@61f6d05a
    in object org.infinispan.util.FastCopyHashMap@1b389757
    in object org.infinispan.atomic.AtomicHashMap@5baf6392
    in object org.infinispan.container.entries.ImmortalCacheEntry@926174ad
    in object java.util.ArrayList@926174cc
    in object org.infinispan.statetransfer.StateChunk@3e15e1be
    in object java.util.ArrayList@3e15e1dd
    in object org.infinispan.statetransfer.StateResponseCommand@34ed8ace