It's also odd that the remote node would throw a "Received cache view prepare request after the local node has already shut down" exception while it's joining

but if it's a race condition I believe waiting for a few seconds between stop and start should work around the problem.

View installation loop when restarting cache on multiple nodes -------------------------------------------------------------- Key: ISPN-2892 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-2892 Project: Infinispan Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: 5.1.7.Final Reporter: Dennis Reed Assignee: Mircea Markus Restarting a cache on multiple nodes at the same time can cause the following error: ERROR [org.infinispan.cacheviews.CacheViewsManagerImpl] (CacheViewInstaller-19,node1/web) ISPN000172: Failed to prepare view CacheView{viewId=18, members=[node2/web]} for cache default-host/test, rolling back to view CacheView{viewId=17, members=[node1/web, node2/web]}: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: org.infinispan.CacheException: java.lang.IllegalStateException: default-host/test: Received cache view prepare request after the local node has already shut down After the initial error, the following error began repeating every second for a few minutes until BaseStateTransferManagerImpl.waitForJoinToComplete() timed out and the cache failed to start: ERROR [org.infinispan.cacheviews.CacheViewsManagerImpl] (CacheViewInstaller-19,node1/web) ISPN000172: Failed to prepare view CacheView{viewId=21, members=[node2/web]} for cache default-host/test, rolling back to view CacheView{viewId=20, members=[]}: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: org.infinispan.CacheException: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Cannot prepare new view CacheView{viewId=21, members=[node2/web]} on cache default-host/test, we are currently preparing view CacheView{viewId=18, members=[node2/web]}