Fail to start up JBoss EAP due to the error "java.lang.Error: IP Helper Library GetIpAddrTable function failed" on Windows

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Issue

  • Fail to start JBoss EAP with the error message java.lang.Error: IP Helper Library GetIpAddrTable function failed
java.lang.Error: IP Helper Library GetIpAddrTable function failed
    at java.net.NetworkInterface.getAll(Native Method)
    at java.net.NetworkInterface.getNetworkInterfaces(NetworkInterface.java:343)
    at org.jgroups.util.Util.getAllAvailableAddresses(Util.java:3788)
    at org.jgroups.util.Util.isStackAvailable(Util.java:3765)
    at org.jgroups.util.Util._getIpStackType(Util.java:3742)
    at org.jgroups.util.Util.<clinit>(Util.java:99)
    at org.jboss.as.clustering.jgroups.subsystem.ProtocolMetricsHandler$MethodAttribute.getName(ProtocolMetricsHandler.java:158)
    at org.jboss.as.clustering.jgroups.subsystem.ProtocolMetricsHandler.putIfAbsent(ProtocolMetricsHandler.java:300)
    at org.jboss.as.clustering.jgroups.subsystem.ProtocolMetricsHandler.findProtocolAttributes(ProtocolMetricsHandler.java:284)
    at org.jboss.as.clustering.jgroups.subsystem.ProtocolResourceRegistrationHandler.createProtocolResourceDefinition(ProtocolResourceRegistrationHandler.java:160)
    at org.jboss.as.clustering.jgroups.subsystem.ProtocolResourceRegistrationHandler.execute(ProtocolResourceRegistrationHandler.java:136)
    at org.jboss.as.controller.AbstractOperationContext.executeStep(AbstractOperationContext.java:890)
    at org.jboss.as.controller.AbstractOperationContext.processStages(AbstractOperationContext.java:659)
    at org.jboss.as.controller.AbstractOperationContext.executeOperation(AbstractOperationContext.java:370)
    at org.jboss.as.controller.ParallelBootOperationStepHandler$ParallelBootTask.run(ParallelBootOperationStepHandler.java:359)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
    at org.jboss.threads.JBossThread.run(JBossThread.java:320)
  • How can we solve this issue?

Environment

  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.x
  • Windows

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