Changing logging handler in standalone.xml only breaks startup of JBoss AS7 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: AS7-6546 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-6546 Project: Application Server 7 Issue Type: Bug Components: Domain Management, Logging Affects Versions: 7.2.0.Alpha1 Reporter: Frank Langelage Assignee: James Perkins Fix For: 7.3.0.Alpha1 Using an unmodified build of JBoss AS 8.0.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT as of today. Starting with --server-config=standalone-full.xml is fine. I made a copy of standalone-full.xml as standalone-langfr.xml and replaced the periodic-rotating-file-handler by a size-rotating-file-handler: <size-rotating-file-handler name="FILE" autoflush="false"> <level name="DEBUG"/> <encoding value="UTF-8"/> <formatter> <pattern-formatter pattern="%d{HH:mm:ss,SSS} %-5p [%c] (%t) %s%E%n"/> </formatter> <file relative-to="jboss.server.log.dir" path="server.log"/> <rotate-size value="1g"/> <append value="true"/> </size-rotating-file-handler> jboss@sb2000:/jboss/8.0/standalone/configuration diff -bw standalone-full.xml standalone-langfr.xml 68c68,70 < <periodic-rotating-file-handler name="FILE" autoflush="true"> --- > <size-rotating-file-handler name="FILE" autoflush="false"> > <level name="DEBUG"/> > <encoding value="UTF-8"/> 73c75 < <suffix value=".yyyy-MM-dd"/> --- > <rotate-size value="1g"/> 75c77 < </periodic-rotating-file-handler> --- > </size-rotating-file-handler> Trying to start the server with this config fails: 12:21:57,916 INFO [org.jboss.modules] (main) JBoss Modules version 1.2.0.CR1 12:21:58,458 INFO [org.jboss.msc] (main) JBoss MSC version 1.0.4.GA 12:21:58,752 INFO [org.jboss.as] (MSC service thread 1-3) JBAS015899: JBoss AS 8.0.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT "TBD" starting 12:22:03,232 INFO [org.xnio] (MSC service thread 1-2) XNIO Version 3.0.7.GA 12:22:03,280 INFO [org.jboss.as.server] (Controller Boot Thread) JBAS015888: Creating http management service using socket-binding (management-http) 12:22:03,285 INFO [org.xnio.nio] (MSC service thread 1-2) XNIO NIO Implementation Version 3.0.7.GA 12:22:03,359 INFO [org.jboss.remoting] (MSC service thread 1-2) JBoss Remoting version 3.2.14.GA 12:22:03,486 ERROR [org.jboss.as.controller.management-operation] (Controller Boot Thread) JBAS014612: Operation ("add") failed - address: ([ ("subsystem" => "logging"), ("size-rotating-file-handler" => "FILE") ]): java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No property "maxBackupIndex" setter found for handler "FILE" at org.jboss.logmanager.config.AbstractPropertyConfiguration.setPropertyValueExpression(AbstractPropertyConfiguration.java:195) [jboss-logmanager-1.4.0.Final.jar:1.4.0.Final] at org.jboss.logmanager.config.AbstractPropertyConfiguration.setPropertyValueString(AbstractPropertyConfiguration.java:156) [jboss-logmanager-1.4.0.Final.jar:1.4.0.Final] at org.jboss.as.logging.PropertyAttributeDefinition.setPropertyValue(PropertyAttributeDefinition.java:62) [jboss-as-logging-8.0.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT.jar:8.0.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT] at org.jboss.as.logging.HandlerOperations.handleProperty(HandlerOperations.java:504) [jboss-as-logging-8.0.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT.jar:8.0.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT] at org.jboss.as.logging.HandlerOperations.handleProperty(HandlerOperations.java:433) [jboss-as-logging-8.0.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT.jar:8.0.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT] at org.jboss.as.logging.HandlerOperations.access$000(HandlerOperations.java:72) [jboss-as-logging-8.0.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT.jar:8.0.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT] at org.jboss.as.logging.HandlerOperations$HandlerAddOperationStepHandler.performRuntime(HandlerOperations.java:196) [jboss-as-logging-8.0.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT.jar:8.0.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT] at org.jboss.as.logging.LoggingOperations$LoggingAddOperationStepHandler$1.execute(LoggingOperations.java:204) [jboss-as-logging-8.0.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT.jar:8.0.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT] at org.jboss.as.controller.AbstractOperationContext.executeStep(AbstractOperationContext.java:440) [jboss-as-controller-8.0.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT.jar:8.0.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT] at org.jboss.as.controller.AbstractOperationContext.doCompleteStep(AbstractOperationContext.java:322) [jboss-as-controller-8.0.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT.jar:8.0.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT] at org.jboss.as.controller.AbstractOperationContext.completeStepInternal(AbstractOperationContext.java:229) [jboss-as-controller-8.0.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT.jar:8.0.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT] at org.jboss.as.controller.AbstractOperationContext.executeOperation(AbstractOperationContext.java:224) [jboss-as-controller-8.0.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT.jar:8.0.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT] at org.jboss.as.controller.ModelControllerImpl.boot(ModelControllerImpl.java:191) [jboss-as-controller-8.0.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT.jar:8.0.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT] at org.jboss.as.controller.AbstractControllerService.boot(AbstractControllerService.java:225) [jboss-as-controller-8.0.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT.jar:8.0.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT] at org.jboss.as.server.ServerService.boot(ServerService.java:333) [jboss-as-server-8.0.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT.jar:8.0.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT] at org.jboss.as.server.ServerService.boot(ServerService.java:308) [jboss-as-server-8.0.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT.jar:8.0.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT] at org.jboss.as.controller.AbstractControllerService$1.run(AbstractControllerService.java:188) [jboss-as-controller-8.0.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT.jar:8.0.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662) [rt.jar:1.6.0_39] This seem to be cause by the fact, that logging.properties is outdated and does not get updated on start. In logging.properties there still is the old config: handler.FILE=org.jboss.logmanager.handlers.PeriodicRotatingFileHandler handler.FILE.level=ALL handler.FILE.formatter=FILE handler.FILE.properties=autoFlush,append,fileName,suffix,enabled handler.FILE.constructorProperties=fileName,append handler.FILE.autoFlush=true handler.FILE.append=true handler.FILE.fileName=/mbi/tools/jboss/8.0/standalone/log/server.log handler.FILE.suffix=.yyyy-MM-dd handler.FILE.enabled=true An now the is some mixture in place which causes this failure. When changing the logging handler via web-console or possibly also when using jboss-cli both files are changed, standalone.xml and logging.properties. I think on startup logging.properties should be newly created by what's defined in the current config file.