Unable to restart glassfish 3 server

Question

We have deployed application on glassfish3 server on Windows machine. The server and application were running fine. In the glassfish console, I restarted the server but it didn't start again.

I also tried from the command prompt(as administrator) but getting below error log:

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C:\glassfish3\glassfish\bin> asadmin -p 4841 start-domain domain1 Waiting for domain1 to start ..Error starting domain domain1. The server exited prematurely with exit code 1. Before it died, it produced the following output:

Launching GlassFish on Felix platform ERROR: Error parsing system bundle export statement: org.osgi.framework; version=1.6.0, org.osgi.framework.launch; versi on=1.0.0, org.osgi.framework.wiring; version=1.0.0, org.osgi.framework.startlevel; version=1.0.0, org.osgi.framework.hoo ks.bundle; version=1.0.0, org.osgi.framework.hooks.resolver; version=1.0.0, org.osgi.framework.hooks.service; version=1. 1.0, org.osgi.framework.hooks.weaving; version=1.0.0, org.osgi.service.packageadmin; version=1.2.0, org.osgi.service.sta rtlevel; version=1.1.0, org.osgi.service.url; version=1.0.0, org.osgi.util.tracker; version=1.5.0, , org.glassfish.embed dable;org.glassfish.embeddable.spi;version=3.1.1 (org.osgi.framework.BundleException: Exported package names cannot be z ero length.) ERROR: Unable to re-install file:/C:/glassfish3/glassfish/modules/javax.transaction.jar (org.osgi.framework.BundleExcept ion: Could not create bundle object.) ERROR: Unable to re-install file:/C:/glassfish3/glassfish/modules/webservices-extra-jdk-packages.jar (org.osgi.framework .BundleException: Could not create bundle object.) ERROR: Unable to re-install file:/C:/glassfish3/glassfish/modules/flashlight-extra-jdk-packages.jar (org.osgi.framework. BundleException: Could not create bundle object.) ERROR: Unable to re-install file:/C:/glassfish3/glassfish/modules/glassfish-corba-omgapi.jar (org.osgi.framework.BundleE xception: Could not create bundle object.) ERROR: Unable to re-install file:/C:/glassfish3/glassfish/modules/glassfish-extra-jre-packages.jar (org.osgi.framework.B undleException: Could not create bundle object.) ERROR: Unable to re-install file:/C:/glassfish3/glassfish/modules/glassfish-oracle-jdbc-driver-packages.jar (org.osgi.fr amework.BundleException: Could not create bundle object.) ERROR: Bundle jaxb-api [2] Error starting file:/C:/glassfish3/glassfish/modules/endorsed/jaxb-api-osgi.jar (org.osgi.fra mework.BundleException: Unresolved constraint in bundle jaxb-api [2]: Unable to resolve 2.0: missing requirement [2.0] o sgi.wiring.package; (osgi.wiring.package=javax.activation)) ERROR: Bundle org.glassfish.metro.webservices-api-osgi [3] Error starting file:/C:/glassfish3/glassfish/modules/endorsed /webservices-api-osgi.jar (org.osgi.framework.BundleException: Unresolved constraint in bundle org.glassfish.metro.webse rvices-api-osgi [3]: Unable to resolve 3.0: missing requirement [3.0] osgi.wiring.package; (&(osgi.wiring.package=javax. xml.bind)(version>=2.2.0)) [caused by: Unable to resolve 2.0: missing requirement [2.0] osgi.wiring.package; (osgi.wirin g.package=javax.activation)]) ERROR: Bundle org.glassfish.main.core.glassfish [101] Error starting file:/C:/glassfish3/glassfish/modules/glassfish.jar (org.osgi.framework.BundleException: Activator start error in bundle org.glassfish.main.core.glassfish [101].) ERROR: Bundle org.glassfish.hk2.osgi-adapter [202] Error starting file:/C:/glassfish3/glassfish/modules/osgi-adapter.jar (org.osgi.framework.BundleException: Unresolved constraint in bundle org.glassfish.hk2.osgi-adapter [202]: Unable to re solve 202.0: missing requirement [202.0] osgi.wiring.package; (&(osgi.wiring.package=com.sun.enterprise.module)(version> =1.1.0)) [caused by: Unable to resolve 121.0: missing requirement [121.0] osgi.wiring.package; (&(osgi.wiring.package=or g.jvnet.hk2.config)(version>=1.1.0)) [caused by: Unable to resolve 37.0: missing requirement [37.0] osgi.wiring.package; (osgi.wiring.package=javax.management)]]) .... ....

Answer 1

I had the same issue after separately installing java8 and Glassfish3, chaged the jre-1.6=\ in the /glassfish/config/osgi.properties in (line 205) to jre-1.8=\ voila it worked

Answer 2

I was installing Glassfish 3 (coming with JAVA EE 6) when I have configure JAVA_HOME for Java 8. The solution was to modify ./glassfish/config/asenv.conf and set AS_JAVA to point to Java 7

Answer 3

The issue has been resolved. There are 2 java versions installed on the server. I changed asenv.bat file by adding AS_JAVA option pointing to java 7 and it worked.

Answer 4

It looks like there is an error with your OSGi cache. Go to ${GlassFish_Home}/glassfish/domains/domain1/osgi-cache/ and delete everything in the directory. Alternatively, you could also just delete the directory itself (it will be recreated).