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Content Server Startup Hangs Indefinitely with No Errors (Doc ID 1256264.1)

Last updated on APRIL 11, 2024

Applies to:

Oracle WebCenter Content - Version 10.0 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

Upon attempt to start Content Server, the process just hangs indefinitely with no errors reported.

A forced Java thread dump produces output (similar to the below) showing that the there is only one Content Server "main" thread (when there should be other threads as well) and that one "main" thread is simply awaiting data to be returned from the database:

"main" prio=1 tid=0x09b43c98 nid=0x4fd8 runnable [0xbf9b3000..0xbf9b3f38]
at java.net.SocketInputStream.socketRead0(Native Method)
at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:129)
at oracle.net.ns.Packet.receive(Packet.java:240)
at oracle.net.ns.DataPacket.receive(DataPacket.java:92)
at oracle.net.ns.NetInputStream.getNextPacket(NetInputStream.java:172)
at oracle.net.ns.NetInputStream.read(NetInputStream.java:117)
at oracle.net.ns.NetInputStream.read(NetInputStream.java:92)
at oracle.net.ns.NetInputStream.read(NetInputStream.java:77)
at racle.jdbc.driver.T4CMAREngine.unmarshalUB1(T4CMAREngine.java:1034)
at racle.jdbc.driver.T4CMAREngine.unmarshalSB1(T4CMAREngine.java:1010)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4C8Oall.receive(T4C8Oall.java:588)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CStatement.doOall8(T4CStatement.java:183)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CStatement.executeForDescribe(T4CStatement.java:780)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CStatement.executeMaybeDescribe(T4CStatement.java:855)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleStatement.doExecuteWithTimeout(OracleStatement.java:1186)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleStatement.executeQuery(OracleStatement.java:1377)
- locked <0xaa6db5a0> (a oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CConnection)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleStatementWrapper.executeQuery(OracleStatementWrapper.java:387)
at intradoc.jdbc.JdbcManager.checkUnicodeColumns(JdbcManager.java:804)
at intradoc.jdbc.JdbcManager.checkGetDatabaseProperties(JdbcManager.java:686)
at intradoc.jdbc.JdbcManager.isPostgreSQL(JdbcManager.java:537)
at intradoc.jdbc.JdbcWorkspace.init(JdbcWorkspace.java:102)
at intradoc.provider.Provider.init(Provider.java:68)
at intradoc.server.IdcSystemLoader.loadProviders(IdcSystemLoader.java:1937)
at intradoc.server.IdcSystemLoader.initProviders(IdcSystemLoader.java:1729)
at intradoc.server.IdcSystemLoader.finishInit(IdcSystemLoader.java:221)
at intradoc.server.IdcSystemLoader.init(IdcSystemLoader.java:185)
at intradoc.server.IdcServerManager.init(IdcServerManager.java:75)
at IdcServer.init(IdcServer.java:64)
at IdcServer.main(IdcServer.java:37)

Cause

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