Servers failing to start due to a corrupt or invalid Infinispan __global.state file.

Issue

We are trying to determine what is causing the console to show the server in an error state:

[Server:slim] 2025-08-19 07:22:33,997 ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 73) MSC000001: Failed to start service org.wildfly.clustering.infinispan.cache-container.switchyard: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service org.wildfly.clustering.infinispan.cache-container.switchyard: org.infinispan.manager.EmbeddedCacheManagerStartupException: ISPN000516: The state file for '___global' is invalid. Startup halted to prevent further corruption of persistent state
[Server:slim]   at org.wildfly.clustering.service@8.0.9.GA-redhat-00004//org.wildfly.clustering.service.FunctionalService.start(FunctionalService.java:66)
[Server:slim]   at org.wildfly.clustering.service@8.0.9.GA-redhat-00004//org.wildfly.clustering.service.AsyncServiceConfigurator$AsyncService.lambda$start$0(AsyncServiceConfigurator.java:117)
[Server:slim]   at org.jboss.threads@2.4.0.Final-redhat-00001//org.jboss.threads.ContextClassLoaderSavingRunnable.run(ContextClassLoaderSavingRunnable.java:35)
[Server:slim]   at org.jboss.threads@2.4.0.Final-redhat-00001//org.jboss.threads.EnhancedQueueExecutor.safeRun(EnhancedQueueExecutor.java:1990)
[Server:slim]   at org.jboss.threads@2.4.0.Final-redhat-00001//org.jboss.threads.EnhancedQueueExecutor$ThreadBody.doRunTask(EnhancedQueueExecutor.java:1486)
[Server:slim]   at org.jboss.threads@2.4.0.Final-redhat-00001//org.jboss.threads.EnhancedQueueExecutor$ThreadBody.run(EnhancedQueueExecutor.java:1348)
[Server:slim]   at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1583)
[Server:slim]   at org.jboss.threads@2.4.0.Final-redhat-00001//org.jboss.threads.JBossThread.run(JBossThread.java:513) 
[Server:slim] Caused by: org.infinispan.manager.EmbeddedCacheManagerStartupException: ISPN000516: The state file for '___global' is invalid. Startup halted to prevent further corruption of persistent state
[Server:slim]   at org.infinispan.core@14.0.30.Final-redhat-00001//org.infinispan.manager.DefaultCacheManager.internalStart(DefaultCacheManager.java:781)
[Server:slim]   at org.infinispan.core@14.0.30.Final-redhat-00001//org.infinispan.manager.DefaultCacheManager.start(DefaultCacheManager.java:746)
[Server:slim]   at org.jboss.as.clustering.infinispan@8.0.9.GA-redhat-00004//org.jboss.as.clustering.infinispan.subsystem.CacheContainerServiceConfigurator.get(CacheContainerServiceConfigurator.java:119)
[Server:slim]   at org.jboss.as.clustering.infinispan@8.0.9.GA-redhat-00004//org.jboss.as.clustering.infinispan.subsystem.CacheContainerServiceConfigurator.get(CacheContainerServiceConfigurator.java:77)
[Server:slim]   at org.wildfly.clustering.service@8.0.9.GA-redhat-00004//org.wildfly.clustering.service.FunctionalService.start(FunctionalService.java:63)
[Server:slim]   ... 7 more
[Server:slim] Caused by: org.infinispan.commons.CacheConfigurationException: ISPN000516: The state file for '___global' is invalid. Startup halted to prevent further corruption of persistent state
[Server:slim]   at org.infinispan.core@14.0.30.Final-redhat-00001//org.infinispan.globalstate.impl.GlobalStateManagerImpl.loadGlobalState(GlobalStateManagerImpl.java:104)
[Server:slim]   at org.infinispan.core@14.0.30.Final-redhat-00001//org.infinispan.globalstate.impl.GlobalStateManagerImpl.start(GlobalStateManagerImpl.java:65)
[Server:slim]   at org.infinispan.core@14.0.30.Final-redhat-00001//org.infinispan.globalstate.impl.CorePackageImpl$1.start(CorePackageImpl.java:34)
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