E-WL: Cannot Logon to PIA After Doing Silent PIA Install – PIA_weblogic.log Shows Error - <BEA-2156200> <Unable to load descriptor in web.xml of module PORTAL.war. The error is weblogic.descriptor.DescriptorException: VALIDATION PROBLEMS WERE FOUND (Doc ID 2858474.1)

Last updated on MARCH 25, 2022

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Symptoms

Installing a PIA domain using the silent install method using a response file results in the error below after booting the PIA domain in the <PS_CFG_HOME>/webserv/<DOMAIN-NAME>/servers/PIA/logs/PIA_weblogic.log: 

<BEA-2156200> <Unable to load descriptor /psoft/app/pt/pscfg/webserv/peoplesoft/applications/peoplesoft/PORTAL.war/WEB-INF/web.xml of module PORTAL.war. The error is weblogic.descriptor.DescriptorException: VALIDATION PROBLEMS WERE FOUND
<8:7> problem: cvc-complex-type.2.3: Element 'filter@http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee' with element-only content type cannot have text content.
<17:7> problem: cvc-complex-type.2.3: Element 'filter@http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee' with element-only content type cannot have text content.
<185:11> problem: cvc-complex-type.2.3: Element 'servlet@http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee' with element-only content type cannot have text content.
at weblogic.descriptor.internal.MarshallerFactory$1.evaluateResults(MarshallerFactory.java:249)
at weblogic.descriptor.internal.MarshallerFactory$1.evaluateResults(MarshallerFactory.java:235)
at weblogic.descriptor.internal.MarshallerFactory$1.createDescriptor(MarshallerFactory.java:159)
at weblogic.descriptor.BasicDescriptorManager.createDescriptor(BasicDescriptorManager.java:345)
at weblogic.descriptor.BasicDescriptorManager.createDescriptor(BasicDescriptorManager.java:307)
at weblogic.application.descriptor.AbstractDescriptorLoader2.getDescriptorBeanFromReader(AbstractDescriptorLoader2.java:877)
at weblogic.application.descriptor.AbstractDescriptorLoader2.createDescriptorBean(AbstractDescriptorLoader2.java:452)
at weblogic.application.descriptor.AbstractDescriptorLoader2.loadDescriptorBeanWithoutPlan(AbstractDescriptorLoader2.java:839)
at weblogic.application.descriptor.AbstractDescriptorLoader2.loadDescriptorBean(AbstractDescriptorLoader2.java:848)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppDescriptor.getWebAppBean(WebAppDescriptor.java:145)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppModule.loadDescriptor(WebAppModule.java:1665)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppModule.init(WebAppModule.java:281)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppModule.init(WebAppModule.java:732)
at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ScopedModuleDriver.init(ScopedModuleDriver.java:162)
at weblogic.application.internal.ExtensibleModuleWrapper.init(ExtensibleModuleWrapper.java:98)
at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleListenerInvoker.init(ModuleListenerInvoker.java:84)
at weblogic.application.internal.flow.InitModulesFlow.initModule(InitModulesFlow.java:311)
at weblogic.application.internal.flow.InitModulesFlow.initModules(InitModulesFlow.java:532)
at weblogic.application.internal.flow.InitModulesFlow.prepare(InitModulesFlow.java:558)
at weblogic.application.internal.BaseDeployment$1.next(BaseDeployment.java:729)
at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineDriver.java:45)
at weblogic.application.internal.BaseDeployment.prepare(BaseDeployment.java:241)
at weblogic.application.internal.EarDeployment.prepare(EarDeployment.java:66)
at weblogic.application.internal.DeploymentStateChecker.prepare(DeploymentStateChecker.java:158)
at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.AppContainerInvoker.prepare(AppContainerInvoker.java:65)
at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.AppDeployment.prepare(AppDeployment.java:166)
at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.DeploymentAdapter$1.doPrepare(DeploymentAdapter.java:41)
at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.DeploymentAdapter.prepare(DeploymentAdapter.java:193)
at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.AppTransition$1.transitionAppInternal(AppTransition.java:32)
at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.AppTransition.transitionApp(AppTransition.java:138)
at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.ConfiguredDeployments$2.doItem(ConfiguredDeployments.java:741)
at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.parallel.BucketInvoker.invoke(BucketInvoker.java:138)
at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.ConfiguredDeployments.transitionAppsParallel(ConfiguredDeployments.java:749)
at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.ConfiguredDeployments.prepare(ConfiguredDeployments.java:363)
at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.ConfiguredDeployments.deploy(ConfiguredDeployments.java:232)
at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.DeploymentServerService.resume(DeploymentServerService.java:219)
at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.DeploymentServerService.start(DeploymentServerService.java:133)
at weblogic.server.AbstractServerService.postConstruct(AbstractServerService.java:76)
at jdk.internal.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor5.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:566)
at org.glassfish.hk2.utilities.reflection.ReflectionHelper.invoke(ReflectionHelper.java:1268)
at org.jvnet.hk2.internal.ClazzCreator.postConstructMe(ClazzCreator.java:309)
at org.jvnet.hk2.internal.ClazzCreator.create(ClazzCreator.java:351)
at org.jvnet.hk2.internal.SystemDescriptor.create(SystemDescriptor.java:463)
at org.glassfish.hk2.runlevel.internal.AsyncRunLevelContext.findOrCreate(AsyncRunLevelContext.java:281)
at org.glassfish.hk2.runlevel.RunLevelContext.findOrCreate(RunLevelContext.java:65)
at org.jvnet.hk2.internal.Utilities.createService(Utilities.java:2102)
at org.jvnet.hk2.internal.ServiceHandleImpl.getService(ServiceHandleImpl.java:93)
at org.jvnet.hk2.internal.ServiceHandleImpl.getService(ServiceHandleImpl.java:67)
at org.glassfish.hk2.runlevel.internal.CurrentTaskFuture$QueueRunner.oneJob(CurrentTaskFuture.java:1213)
at org.glassfish.hk2.runlevel.internal.CurrentTaskFuture$QueueRunner.run(CurrentTaskFuture.java:1144)
at weblogic.work.SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl$WorkAdapterImpl.run(SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl.java:677)
at weblogic.invocation.ComponentInvocationContextManager._runAs(ComponentInvocationContextManager.java:352)
at weblogic.invocation.ComponentInvocationContextManager.runAs(ComponentInvocationContextManager.java:337)
at weblogic.work.LivePartitionUtility.doRunWorkUnderContext(LivePartitionUtility.java:57)
at weblogic.work.PartitionUtility.runWorkUnderContext(PartitionUtility.java:41)
at weblogic.work.SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl.runWorkUnderContext(SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl.java:651)
at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:420)
at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:360)

Cause

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