Glassfish domain fails to start with error: 'java.lang.RuntimeException: EMBEDDED Broker start failure:code = 1'

Last updated on MARCH 13, 2018

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Symptoms

Glassfish domain fails to start with the following error in server.log.

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[#|2010-08-25T08:23:19.671-0700|SEVERE|sun-appserver2.1|javax.enterprise.system.core|_ThreadID=10;_ThreadName=main;_RequestID=0649dea5-5310-4fd1-91a7-63a0ba80a57b;|CORE5071: An error occured during initialization
com.sun.appserv.server.ServerLifecycleException: Failed to start JMS RA
    at com.sun.enterprise.jms.JmsProviderLifecycle.onStartup(JmsProviderLifecycle.java:433)
    at com.sun.enterprise.server.ApplicationServer.onStartup(ApplicationServer.java:446)
    at com.sun.enterprise.server.ondemand.OnDemandServer.onStartup(OnDemandServer.java:134)
    at com.sun.enterprise.server.PEMain.run(PEMain.java:409)
    at com.sun.enterprise.server.PEMain.main(PEMain.java:336)
    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 com.sun.enterprise.server.PELaunch.main(PELaunch.java:415)
Caused by: com.sun.enterprise.connectors.ConnectorRuntimeException: Failed to start resource adapter : MQJMSRA_RA4001: start:Aborting:Exception starting EMBEDDED broker=EMBEDDED Broker start failure:code = 1
    at com.sun.enterprise.connectors.ActiveInboundResourceAdapter.<init>(ActiveInboundResourceAdapter.java:148)
    at com.sun.enterprise.connectors.system.ActiveJmsResourceAdapter.<init>(ActiveJmsResourceAdapter.java:234)
    at com.sun.enterprise.connectors.ActiveRAFactory.createActiveResourceAdapter(ActiveRAFactory.java:107)
    at com.sun.enterprise.connectors.ResourceAdapterAdminServiceImpl.createActiveResourceAdapter(ResourceAdapterAdminServiceImpl.java:300)
    at com.sun.enterprise.connectors.ResourceAdapterAdminServiceImpl.createActiveResourceAdapter(ResourceAdapterAdminServiceImpl.java:445)
    at com.sun.enterprise.connectors.ConnectorRuntime.createActiveResourceAdapter(ConnectorRuntime.java:230)
    at com.sun.enterprise.jms.JmsProviderLifecycle.onStartup(JmsProviderLifecycle.java:428)
    ... 9 more
Caused by: javax.resource.spi.ResourceAdapterInternalException: MQJMSRA_RA4001: start:Aborting:Exception starting EMBEDDED broker=EMBEDDED Broker start failure:code = 1
    at com.sun.messaging.jms.ra.ResourceAdapter.start(ResourceAdapter.java:476)
    at com.sun.enterprise.connectors.ActiveInboundResourceAdapter$1.run(ActiveInboundResourceAdapter.java:178)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at com.sun.enterprise.connectors.ActiveInboundResourceAdapter.startResourceAdapter(ActiveInboundResourceAdapter.java:174)
    at com.sun.enterprise.connectors.ActiveInboundResourceAdapter.<init>(ActiveInboundResourceAdapter.java:132)
    ... 15 more
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: EMBEDDED Broker start failure:code = 1
    at com.sun.messaging.jms.ra.EmbeddedBrokerRunner.start(EmbeddedBrokerRunner.java:268)
    at com.sun.messaging.jms.ra.ResourceAdapter.start(ResourceAdapter.java:472)
    ... 19 more
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The glassfish/domains/domain1/imq/instances/imqbroker/log/log.txt log, contains errors similar to the the following:

[25/Aug/2010:08:23:19 PDT] ERROR Could not start the Broker's portmapper service on port 7676.
This port is already in use by another application -- possibly another
instance of the Broker. Please quit that other application, or use a
different port number for this instance of the Broker.

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