Getting "org.xml.sax.SAXException: Premature end of file. @ *unknown*[-1,-1]" when starting farming service at JBoss start-up

Issue

JBoss start-up failed with the following ERROR message:

ERROR [ScopedProfileServiceController] Error installing to Create: name=ProfileKey@3d882ea9[domain=default, server=default, name=farm] state=Configured mode=On Demand requiredState=Installed
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
    at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.AbstractProfileLifeCycleAction.invoke(AbstractProfileLifeCycleAction.java:97)
    at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.AbstractProfileLifeCycleAction.invoke(AbstractProfileLifeCycleAction.java:77)
    at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.AbstractProfileLifeCycleAction.install(AbstractProfileLifeCycleAction.java:49)
    at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.AbstractProfileAction.install(AbstractProfileAction.java:53)
    at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.AbstractProfileService.install(AbstractProfileService.java:403)
    at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractControllerContext.install(AbstractControllerContext.java:348)
    at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.install(AbstractController.java:1652)
    at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.incrementState(AbstractController.java:938)
    at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:1082)
    at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.resolveContexts(AbstractController.java:988)
    at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.install(AbstractController.java:778)
    at org.jboss.dependency.plugins.AbstractController.install(AbstractController.java:543)
    at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.AbstractProfileService.registerProfile(AbstractProfileService.java:308)
    at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.ProfileServiceBootstrap.start(ProfileServiceBootstrap.java:256)
    at org.jboss.bootstrap.AbstractServerImpl.start(AbstractServerImpl.java:461)
    at org.jboss.Main.boot(Main.java:221)
    at org.jboss.Main$1.run(Main.java:556)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: org.jboss.xb.binding.JBossXBException: Failed to parse source: Premature end of file. @ *unknown*[-1,-1]
    at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.clustered.local.AbstractContentMetadataPersister.load(AbstractContentMetadataPersister.java:76)
    at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.clustered.local.AbstractLocalContentManager.<init>(AbstractLocalContentManager.java:136)
    at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.clustered.local.file.FilesystemLocalContentManager.<init>(FilesystemLocalContentManager.java:64)
    at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.clustered.local.file.FilesystemLocalContentManagerFactory.getLocalContentManager(FilesystemLocalContentManagerFactory.java:98)
    at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.clustered.ClusteredDeploymentRepository.create(ClusteredDeploymentRepository.java:206)
    at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.clustered.ClusteredDeploymentRepository.load(ClusteredDeploymentRepository.java:226)
    at org.jboss.system.server.profile.repository.AbstractProfile.create(AbstractProfile.java:158)
    ... 22 more
Caused by: org.jboss.xb.binding.JBossXBException: Failed to parse source: Premature end of file. @ *unknown*[-1,-1]
    at org.jboss.xb.binding.parser.sax.SaxJBossXBParser.parse(SaxJBossXBParser.java:203)
    at org.jboss.xb.binding.parser.sax.SaxJBossXBParser.parse(SaxJBossXBParser.java:183)
    at org.jboss.xb.binding.UnmarshallerImpl.unmarshal(UnmarshallerImpl.java:161)
    at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.clustered.local.JAXBRepositoryContentMetadataPersister.loadMetadata(JAXBRepositoryContentMetadataPersister.java:85)
    at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.clustered.local.AbstractContentMetadataPersister.load(AbstractContentMetadataPersister.java:68)
    ... 28 more
Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXException: Premature end of file. @ *unknown*[-1,-1]
    at org.jboss.xb.binding.parser.sax.SaxJBossXBParser$MetaDataErrorHandler.fatalError(SaxJBossXBParser.java:432)
    at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.fatalError(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLVersionDetector.determineDocVersion(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
    at org.jboss.xb.binding.parser.sax.SaxJBossXBParser.parse(SaxJBossXBParser.java:199)
    ... 32 more