Wildfly Stops right after it is started

Question

I have followed this link to install Wildfly on EC2 Linux instance. After it was installed I tried to run the server using

service wildfly start

After a while it threw an error.

It says wildfly server started with errors but the server was not started infact stopped right after it was started. This is my Log file.

2016-07-20 09:18:10,571 INFO  [org.jboss.modules] (main) JBoss Modules version 1.5.1.Final
2016-07-20 09:18:11,255 INFO  [org.jboss.msc] (main) JBoss MSC version 1.2.6.Final
2016-07-20 09:18:11,499 INFO  [org.jboss.as] (MSC service thread 1-2) WFLYSRV0049: WildFly Full 10.0.0.Final (WildFly Core 2.0.10.Final) starting
2016-07-20 09:18:11,502 DEBUG [org.jboss.as.config] (MSC service thread 1-2) Configured system properties:
    [Standalone] = 
    awt.toolkit = sun.awt.X11.XToolkit
    file.encoding = UTF-8
    file.encoding.pkg = sun.io
    file.separator = /
    java.awt.graphicsenv = sun.awt.X11GraphicsEnvironment
    java.awt.headless = true
    java.awt.printerjob = sun.print.PSPrinterJob
    java.class.path = /opt/wildfly/jboss-modules.jar
    java.class.version = 52.0
    java.endorsed.dirs = /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.91-0.b14.10.amzn1.x86_64/jre/lib/endorsed
    java.ext.dirs = /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.91-0.b14.10.amzn1.x86_64/jre/lib/ext:/usr/java/packages/lib/ext
    java.home = /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.91-0.b14.10.amzn1.x86_64/jre
    java.io.tmpdir = /tmp
    java.library.path = /usr/java/packages/lib/amd64:/usr/lib64:/lib64:/lib:/usr/lib
    java.net.preferIPv4Stack = true
    java.runtime.name = OpenJDK Runtime Environment
    java.runtime.version = 1.8.0_91-b14
    java.specification.name = Java Platform API Specification
    java.specification.vendor = Oracle Corporation
    java.specification.version = 1.8
    java.util.logging.manager = org.jboss.logmanager.LogManager
    java.vendor = Oracle Corporation
    java.vendor.url = http://java.oracle.com/
    java.vendor.url.bug = http://bugreport.sun.com/bugreport/
    java.version = 1.8.0_91
    java.vm.info = mixed mode
    java.vm.name = OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM
    java.vm.specification.name = Java Virtual Machine Specification
    java.vm.specification.vendor = Oracle Corporation
    java.vm.specification.version = 1.8
    java.vm.vendor = Oracle Corporation
    java.vm.version = 25.91-b14
    javax.management.builder.initial = org.jboss.as.jmx.PluggableMBeanServerBuilder
    javax.xml.datatype.DatatypeFactory = __redirected.__DatatypeFactory
    javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory = __redirected.__DocumentBuilderFactory
    javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory = __redirected.__SAXParserFactory
    javax.xml.stream.XMLEventFactory = __redirected.__XMLEventFactory
    javax.xml.stream.XMLInputFactory = __redirected.__XMLInputFactory
    javax.xml.stream.XMLOutputFactory = __redirected.__XMLOutputFactory
    javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory = __redirected.__TransformerFactory
    javax.xml.validation.SchemaFactory:http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema = __redirected.__SchemaFactory
    javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory:http://java.sun.com/jaxp/xpath/dom = __redirected.__XPathFactory
    jboss.home.dir = /opt/wildfly
    jboss.host.name = ip-172-31-25-47
    jboss.modules.dir = /opt/wildfly/modules
    jboss.modules.system.pkgs = org.jboss.byteman
    jboss.node.name = ip-172-31-25-47
    jboss.qualified.host.name = ip-172-31-25-47
    jboss.server.base.dir = /opt/wildfly/standalone
    jboss.server.config.dir = /opt/wildfly/standalone/configuration
    jboss.server.data.dir = /opt/wildfly/standalone/data
    jboss.server.deploy.dir = /opt/wildfly/standalone/data/content
    jboss.server.log.dir = /opt/wildfly/standalone/log
    jboss.server.name = ip-172-31-25-47
    jboss.server.persist.config = true
    jboss.server.temp.dir = /opt/wildfly/standalone/tmp
    line.separator = 

    logging.configuration = file:/opt/wildfly/standalone/configuration/logging.properties
    module.path = /opt/wildfly/modules
    org.jboss.boot.log.file = /opt/wildfly/standalone/log/server.log
    org.jboss.resolver.warning = true
    org.xml.sax.driver = __redirected.__XMLReaderFactory
    os.arch = amd64
    os.name = Linux
    os.version = 4.4.11-23.53.amzn1.x86_64
    path.separator = :
    sun.arch.data.model = 64
    sun.boot.class.path = /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.91-0.b14.10.amzn1.x86_64/jre/lib/resources.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.91-0.b14.10.amzn1.x86_64/jre/lib/rt.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.91-0.b14.10.amzn1.x86_64/jre/lib/sunrsasign.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.91-0.b14.10.amzn1.x86_64/jre/lib/jsse.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.91-0.b14.10.amzn1.x86_64/jre/lib/jce.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.91-0.b14.10.amzn1.x86_64/jre/lib/charsets.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.91-0.b14.10.amzn1.x86_64/jre/lib/jfr.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.91-0.b14.10.amzn1.x86_64/jre/classes
    sun.boot.library.path = /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.91-0.b14.10.amzn1.x86_64/jre/lib/amd64
    sun.cpu.endian = little
    sun.cpu.isalist = 
    sun.io.unicode.encoding = UnicodeLittle
    sun.java.command = /opt/wildfly/jboss-modules.jar -mp /opt/wildfly/modules org.jboss.as.standalone -Djboss.home.dir=/opt/wildfly -Djboss.server.base.dir=/opt/wildfly/standalone
    sun.java.launcher = SUN_STANDARD
    sun.jnu.encoding = UTF-8
    sun.management.compiler = HotSpot 64-Bit Tiered Compilers
    sun.os.patch.level = unknown
    user.country = US
    user.dir = /opt/wildfly-10.0.0.Final/bin
    user.home = /root
    user.language = en
    user.name = root
    user.timezone = Etc/UTC
2016-07-20 09:18:11,502 DEBUG [org.jboss.as.config] (MSC service thread 1-2) VM Arguments: -D[Standalone] -Xms2048m -Xmx2048m -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Djboss.modules.system.pkgs=org.jboss.byteman -Djava.awt.headless=true -Dorg.jboss.boot.log.file=/opt/wildfly/standalone/log/server.log -Dlogging.configuration=file:/opt/wildfly/standalone/configuration/logging.properties 
2016-07-20 09:18:16,598 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server] (Controller Boot Thread) WFLYSRV0039: Creating http management service using socket-binding (management-http)
2016-07-20 09:18:16,664 INFO  [org.xnio] (MSC service thread 1-2) XNIO version 3.3.4.Final
2016-07-20 09:18:16,708 INFO  [org.xnio.nio] (MSC service thread 1-2) XNIO NIO Implementation Version 3.3.4.Final
2016-07-20 09:18:16,919 INFO  [org.jboss.remoting] (MSC service thread 1-2) JBoss Remoting version 4.0.18.Final
2016-07-20 09:18:17,066 INFO  [org.jboss.as.naming] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 46) WFLYNAM0001: Activating Naming Subsystem
2016-07-20 09:18:16,992 INFO  [org.jboss.as.clustering.infinispan] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 38) WFLYCLINF0001: Activating Infinispan subsystem.
2016-07-20 09:18:17,085 INFO  [org.jboss.as.security] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 53) WFLYSEC0002: Activating Security Subsystem
2016-07-20 09:18:17,104 INFO  [org.jboss.as.webservices] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 56) WFLYWS0002: Activating WebServices Extension
2016-07-20 09:18:16,975 INFO  [org.jboss.as.jsf] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 44) WFLYJSF0007: Activated the following JSF Implementations: [main]
2016-07-20 09:18:17,087 WARN  [org.jboss.as.txn] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 54) WFLYTX0013: Node identifier property is set to the default value. Please make sure it is unique.
2016-07-20 09:18:17,363 INFO  [org.wildfly.extension.io] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 37) WFLYIO001: Worker 'default' has auto-configured to 2 core threads with 16 task threads based on your 1 available processors
2016-07-20 09:18:17,433 INFO  [org.wildfly.extension.undertow] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 55) WFLYUT0003: Undertow 1.3.15.Final starting
2016-07-20 09:18:17,849 INFO  [org.wildfly.extension.undertow] (MSC service thread 1-2) WFLYUT0003: Undertow 1.3.15.Final starting
2016-07-20 09:18:17,861 INFO  [org.jboss.as.security] (MSC service thread 1-1) WFLYSEC0001: Current PicketBox version=4.9.4.Final
2016-07-20 09:18:17,850 INFO  [org.jboss.as.connector] (MSC service thread 1-2) WFLYJCA0009: Starting JCA Subsystem (WildFly/IronJacamar 1.3.2.Final)
2016-07-20 09:18:18,081 INFO  [org.jboss.as.connector.subsystems.datasources] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 33) WFLYJCA0004: Deploying JDBC-compliant driver class org.h2.Driver (version 1.3)
2016-07-20 09:18:18,162 INFO  [org.jboss.as.naming] (MSC service thread 1-1) WFLYNAM0003: Starting Naming Service
2016-07-20 09:18:18,173 INFO  [org.jboss.as.mail.extension] (MSC service thread 1-2) WFLYMAIL0001: Bound mail session [java:jboss/mail/Default]
2016-07-20 09:18:18,708 INFO  [org.jboss.as.connector.deployers.jdbc] (MSC service thread 1-2) WFLYJCA0018: Started Driver service with driver-name = h2
2016-07-20 09:18:19,244 INFO  [org.wildfly.extension.undertow] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 55) WFLYUT0014: Creating file handler for path '/opt/wildfly/welcome-content' with options [directory-listing: 'false', follow-symlink: 'false', case-sensitive: 'true', safe-symlink-paths: '[]']
2016-07-20 09:18:19,731 INFO  [org.jboss.as.ejb3] (MSC service thread 1-1) WFLYEJB0482: Strict pool mdb-strict-max-pool is using a max instance size of 4 (per class), which is derived from the number of CPUs on this host.
2016-07-20 09:18:19,733 INFO  [org.jboss.as.ejb3] (MSC service thread 1-2) WFLYEJB0481: Strict pool slsb-strict-max-pool is using a max instance size of 16 (per class), which is derived from thread worker pool sizing.
2016-07-20 09:18:19,943 INFO  [org.wildfly.extension.undertow] (MSC service thread 1-1) WFLYUT0012: Started server default-server.
2016-07-20 09:18:20,327 INFO  [org.wildfly.extension.undertow] (MSC service thread 1-1) WFLYUT0006: Undertow HTTP listener default listening on 0.0.0.0:28080
2016-07-20 09:18:20,328 INFO  [org.wildfly.extension.undertow] (MSC service thread 1-1) WFLYUT0018: Host default-host starting
2016-07-20 09:18:21,779 INFO  [org.jboss.ws.common.management] (MSC service thread 1-1) JBWS022052: Starting JBossWS 5.1.3.Final (Apache CXF 3.1.4) 
2016-07-20 09:18:22,045 INFO  [org.infinispan.factories.GlobalComponentRegistry] (MSC service thread 1-1) ISPN000128: Infinispan version: Infinispan 'Mahou' 8.1.0.Final
2016-07-20 09:18:22,208 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server.deployment.scanner] (MSC service thread 1-1) WFLYDS0013: Started FileSystemDeploymentService for directory /opt/wildfly/standalone/deployments
2016-07-20 09:18:22,208 INFO  [org.jboss.as.connector.subsystems.datasources] (MSC service thread 1-2) WFLYJCA0001: Bound data source [java:jboss/datasources/ExampleDS]
2016-07-20 09:18:23,028 INFO  [org.jboss.as] (Controller Boot Thread) WFLYSRV0060: Http management interface listening on http://127.0.0.1:9990/management
2016-07-20 09:18:23,028 INFO  [org.jboss.as] (Controller Boot Thread) WFLYSRV0051: Admin console listening on http://127.0.0.1:9990
2016-07-20 09:18:23,029 INFO  [org.jboss.as] (Controller Boot Thread) WFLYSRV0025: WildFly Full 10.0.0.Final (WildFly Core 2.0.10.Final) started in 13530ms - Started 267 of 553 services (371 services are lazy, passive or on-demand)
2016-07-20 09:20:40,572 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server] (Thread-2) WFLYSRV0220: Server shutdown has been requested.
2016-07-20 09:20:40,617 INFO  [org.jboss.as.connector.subsystems.datasources] (MSC service thread 1-1) WFLYJCA0010: Unbound data source [java:jboss/datasources/ExampleDS]
2016-07-20 09:20:40,762 INFO  [org.wildfly.extension.undertow] (MSC service thread 1-2) WFLYUT0019: Host default-host stopping
2016-07-20 09:20:40,780 INFO  [org.wildfly.extension.undertow] (MSC service thread 1-2) WFLYUT0008: Undertow HTTP listener default suspending
2016-07-20 09:20:40,781 INFO  [org.wildfly.extension.undertow] (MSC service thread 1-2) WFLYUT0007: Undertow HTTP listener default stopped, was bound to 0.0.0.0:28080
2016-07-20 09:20:40,781 INFO  [org.jboss.as.connector.deployers.jdbc] (MSC service thread 1-1) WFLYJCA0019: Stopped Driver service with driver-name = h2
2016-07-20 09:20:40,785 INFO  [org.wildfly.extension.undertow] (MSC service thread 1-2) WFLYUT0004: Undertow 1.3.15.Final stopping
2016-07-20 09:20:40,815 INFO  [org.jboss.as] (MSC service thread 1-1) WFLYSRV0050: WildFly Full 10.0.0.Final (WildFly Core 2.0.10.Final) stopped in 206ms

Looking at this log file I am unable to comprehend the issue which causing the server to stop.

Update-1:

Thanks to @James R. Perkins I looked at /var/log/wildfly/console.log and the issue is wildfly was unable to write to its child files. Like

Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /opt/wildfly/standalone/log/server.log (Permission denied)

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: WFLYDR0006: Directory /opt/wildfly/standalone/data/content is not writable

Even though wildfly is owner of wildfly parent folder

Do I have to make it the owner of all of its sub folders?

Answer 1

The solution to my particular problem was the issue of permissions. Only root had permissions but all the children didn't had wildfly as owner. Applying

chown -R

did the job. Thanks to @James R. Perkins I checked my console logs that were in /var/logs/wildfly/console.log i found the issue.